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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/10/2026

If you haven't listened to the exceptional @apmreports.org podcast IN THE DARK, which played a significant part in vindicating Curtis Flowers—thanks to an incredible woman-led reporting team—I can't recommend it enough

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In the Dark, Season 2 (Curtis Flowers) | Podcast | APM Reports

We investigate the case of Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, who was tried six times for the same crime. Flowers spent more than 20 years fighting for his life while a white prosec...

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Victoria Gonzalez Maltes @vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Stunning that this is not the Pélicot case but a separate instance of a man drugging his wife and orchestrating her mass rape for decades www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting woman drugged by her husband

Sean Peers admits offence against woman who was drugged and attacked for more than two decades

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Illustration of state violence and the state of violence unleashed when pupils demand acceptable conditions of learning. A 15 y/o lost his hand to police brutality in France. l’IGPN est saisie à Lens, après qu’un adolescent a vu « sa main arrachée » - www.lavoixdunord.fr/1743261/arti...

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DIRECT. Blocus des lycées : l’IGPN est saisie à Lens, après qu’un adolescent a vu « sa main arrachée »

Plusieurs centaines d’élèves occupent ce lundi les alentours du lycée Béhal à ...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.

The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give

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Victoria Gonzalez Maltes @vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s so bizarre to have people characterize this as letting Republicans win, when the op-ed says “I must repeat and emphasize: I implore you to vote for James Talarico. Talarico winning means Paxton losing… And I so, so badly want Ken Paxton to lose. Ken Paxton has blood on his hands. Our blood.”

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Victoria Gonzalez Maltes @vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She’s not helping by writing “I must repeat and emphasize: I implore you to vote for James Talarico. Talarico winning means Paxton losing. Talarico winning is in fact the only way Paxton can lose.(…) Ken Paxton has blood on his hands. Our blood.” ?

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Victoria Gonzalez Maltes @vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did you read the article? It says: “I must repeat and emphasize: I implore you to vote for James Talarico. Talarico winning means Paxton losing. Talarico winning is in fact the only way Paxton can lose.(…) Ken Paxton has blood on his hands. Our blood.” It’s worth reading!

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Victoria Gonzalez Maltes @vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The article says: “I must repeat and emphasize: I implore you to vote for James Talarico. Talarico winning means Paxton losing. Talarico winning is in fact the only way Paxton can lose.(…) Ken Paxton has blood on his hands. Our blood.” It’s a good, thought-provoking op-ed and worth reading!

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 21/09/2026

Bet you didn't know hundreds of thousands of immigrants are forced to file FOIA requests with DHS every year just to get access to documents they need to maintain/apply for legal status.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026

This is what Ahmed Soliman's attorney wants from you:

"Everything about the way Ahmed and his fellows have been treated, from the time they were -- in Ahmed's case physically picked up off the ground when he was asking for his fear interview, invoking his rights under international and domestic law -- everything that has happened to them has been in violation of the rights that Ahmed and others and all of us grow up believing that we have," she said.

She said she hoped every American would feel "deep outrage" about the way Soliman and the others sent to Equatorial Guinea were being treated and demand their elected officials uphold their rights.

"This is the line," she said. "This is beyond the pale."

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Lucas Poy @lucaspoy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nothing good has ever come from old people complaining about the youth :) lucaspoy.substack.com/p/the-ai-con...

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The AI conversation should be with students, not about them

Image: Cuban literacy campaign 1960-61Thanks for reading Tomorrow Never Knows!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The U.S. has AGAIN sent people to a foreign country where they get imprisoned. This time, it’s to get around laws barring the deportation of people who face persecution/torture in their home countries. The U.S. gets paper-thin assurances that the below won't happen, which it knows will be ignored.

Three people deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea - including a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt when he was 4 - told the Arizona Daily Star their lives are in danger at the hotel. All agreed to have their full names published, despite the risks to their safety in speaking out.
In a recent late-night incident, all three say they were dragged from their rooms at gunpoint, handcuffed, assaulted and threatened by armed men guarding the decommissioned Hotel Bamy.
"They said if we leave the hotel grounds, they will shoot us and bury us across the street," said Peta-Gaye Chambers, 35, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Jamaica when she was 5. A U.S. immigration judge granted Chambers "withholding of removal" to her home country of Jamaica in 2013, agreeing she'd face persecution there.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.

More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The OBBBA was signed on July 4th a year ago. This is a great summary of some of the changes it will make. The SNAP changes (4 million lost coverage and counting) are already happening. Medicaid changes were timed to occur after the midterms, but may be even worse.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I could go on and on. Over 500,000 children have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more children lost their parents. Every one of those children had a name. They had futures, and they were loved

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Omran, aged 3, died of a chest infection because all 11 clinics his mother took him to, increasingly frantic, had no medication. All the antibiotics were funded by USAID in Sudan www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal

The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Three women in Afghanistan died when their USAID maternity clinic closed. One bled to death, the other’s baby got stuck inside her. Their midwives were fired when USAID funding ended www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...

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More babies and mothers are dying in Afghanistan after USAID cuts, midwives say

In March, the World Health Organization announced more than 200 health care facilities had shut down, or suspended operationsin Afghanistan as a result of the Trump administration's funding freeze.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

the modern right's two biggest factions are people who are so antisemitic they like islam and people who are so islamophobic they like jews

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“the Green-adjacent trans-lovers that fill his cabinet”?? The Labour Party viciously threw trans people under the bus and is now to the right of where the Tories were just 5 years ago. At least acknowledge this basic fact in your column that you allegedly file as a professional politics-knower

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Victoria Gonzalez Maltes @vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

France! The French revolution abolished slavery, when Napoleon came to power a decade later he reinstated it.

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Victoria Gonzalez Maltes @vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

He reinstated slavery throughout the empire! Repealed abolition, reenslaved people for 40 years! That’s not “better than average” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsta...

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Reinstatement of slavery by Napoleon - Wikipedia

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 19/06/2026

In Louisiana, which has more ICE lockups than almost any state, a crisis of prolonged detention is accelerating. Data suggests that the number of immigrants in ICE custody for more than a year has spiked five-fold since 2024. Our story with The Lens Nola: boltsmag.org/louisia...

The number of people in ICE detention for more than a year grew five-fold from March 2024 to March 2026. The proportion of people who've been detained over a year has also grown, from 1% to over 3% of detainees.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/06/2026

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Trump ran on mass deportation (including of people on parole and TPS) and “remigration” (of people here many years, w/ US born children, refugees!) and no more immigration from “shithole” countries. Focusing asylum “abuse” and “criminal aliens” has always been diversionary. It’s been this!!!

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 24/05/2026

“In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status-quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

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The End of Trans Rights In the UK Is the Start Of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/05/2026

and like the british transphobes can whine all they like about me calling this a "ban on existing in public." but there's a reason i will not travel to the uk, not even to stop over in the airport. can i be assured of my ability to function in public in such a country? no.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/05/2026

and of course the logic is orwellian. "because some people might be uncomfortable with your presence, you must actually be banned from public spaces, or at least yourself made to feel intensely uncomfortable." black is white, there are five lights, and we have always been at way with eastasia

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/05/2026

one of the reasons i am always on about elite persuasion is that i have seen elite persuasion operate in real time. as toby documents here, the radical anti-trans push in the uk didn't come from some "bottom-up backlash," but was orchestrated and organized primarily at the most elite levels

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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Thee Meganox @meganox.myatproto.social · 22/05/2026

in the guidance on trans people, right where they say transphobia is not transphobia, they felt it necessary to add that homophobia is not homophobia just a little glimpse into the future

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Victoria Gonzalez Maltes @vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This is also a really clear explainer of all the different Trump crypto grifts

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/05/2026

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

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Trump destroyed USAID. Now people are dying.

ProPublica’s Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester examine how America’s foreign aid cuts are threatening the survival of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I am just so upset by this. Everyone must read.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

Attorneys representing immigrants held at the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site alleged Friday in federal court that guards beat and pepper-sprayed detainees after a protest over lost phone access — allegations they argue show state and federal officials defying a recent court order protecting detainees’ civil rights. In a court filing in Fort Myers, lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and civil rights groups said officers at the controversial Everglades facility entered a unit earlier this month and physically assaulted detainees. One man was thrown to the ground and “severely beat,” according to his attorney, who submitted photographs to the court showing her client with a black eye. The attorney, Katie Blankenship of the legal-services organization Sanctuary of the South, wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke another detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone in the cage.” The violence, the attorneys say, erupted after site employees abruptly cut off detainees’ access to phones on April 2 — eliminating what they described as their clients’ only connection to legal counsel and their families. The day-long prohibition came less than a week after Middle District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell issued an order expanding Alligator Alcatraz detainees’ access to their lawyers and their ability to use phones at the remote pop-up facility.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health.

When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.”

Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

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What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity

We CAN have nice things - if we want them

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/03/2026

Monstrous racist. Still astounds me, even after more than ten years of relentless repetition. Just the worst person imaginable to be president.

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