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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/02/2026

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

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Kim Dyes Yarn @knitterkim.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

In yarn news, I received a call from Melissa at @lovelyarns.bsky.social asking for red yarn. I dyed them up yesterday and will drive to Baltimore tomorrow to deliver them. They are hosting a Melt The Ice hat MAL if you’re looking for a place to hang out and feel community. 🧶🧶🧶

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/12/2025

Weiss herself is now enjoying the fruits of one such assault, assuming a leadership role at a television network bullied and extorted into adjusting its political orientation to the president’s liking because of a frivolous lawsuit.

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Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance

The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.

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The Purled Bird (aka vickievet) @vickievet.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Hi #knitting friends, It’s been a minute! I’ve been working on a YouTube Channel to share my knitting tips and journeys - like Ladderback jacquard feat. @knitterkim.bsky.social beautiful colors 😍 youtube.com/shorts/YvASk...

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Long floats and Ladderback Jacquard: a tip for continuous ladder shifting

YouTube video by Vickie Bird

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WIRED @wired.com · 24/04/2025

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

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Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy:

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
By Gillian Brockell
When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 07/04/2025

The Supreme Court has granted an adminsitrative stay of Judge Xinis's order requiring the government to return Abrego Garcia to the United States from an El Salvador prison. Find the Supreme Court's docket and lower court proceedings on Lawfare's litigation tracker.

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Tracking Trump Administration Litigation

Find legal challenges to executive orders and actions from the Trump administration.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Yep

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Doris F.🐶💙🌺🇺🇦🇩🇪 @lovedogs8.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Why not bring the kids along??? This administration is a National Security disaster waiting to happen.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/03/2025

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

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Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online

Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/03/2025

"'Skadden,' Musk posted, 'this needs to stop now.' This could be an idle threat from Musk. It could also become official U.S. policy in the blink of an eye." How Dinesh D’Souza illustrates the inversion of law under Trump 2.0:

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Stop Making Excuses for Not Fighting Trump

The capitulations and acquiescence we’ve seen so far will only make opposition more difficult down the road.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Marco Rubio, who used the Pulse mass shooting as an excuse to flip-flop on his promise to not run for reelection in 2016, is slashing LGBTQ+ people from annual human rights report: www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...

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Marco Rubio removes LGBTQ+ people & women from annual human rights report - LGBTQ Nation

He also removed sections on women, people with disabilities, and government corruption.

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

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Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges

Amid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2025

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/03/2025

oh this is a big mystery

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Marisol @livingthevida.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

@dmvaugha.bsky.social Cariño, did you see this?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Republican Party is more or less built on reactionary opposition to the Democrats policies rather than their own actual policy ideas, and unfortunately the Democrats’ most recent policy was “having a strong economy”

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

You're going to be tempted to engage in discourse focused on what Mahmoud Khalil said--was it actually antisemitic? Did he endorse Hamas?--and I cannot encourage you enough not to do that. It just doesn't matter what he said because you should not be detained and deported over what you say, period.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured ignorance that did it.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Good morning! I am starting to host "Harry Hours" thru substack (probably will switch to zoom) This was a clip from the first one. Not only do we talk about everything thats going on and what we can do to fight back, but we try to have fun!! Join if you can!!! Lol ofcourse I love dad jokes.

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NPR @npr.org · 04/03/2025

A Public Citizen report obtained exclusively by NPR shows the new administration has halted or tried to dismiss cases or investigations against at least 89 companies in the last month.

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Trump agencies drop dozens of Biden-era cases against crypto, other companies

A Public Citizen report obtained exclusively by NPR shows the new administration has halted or tried to dismiss cases or investigations against at least 89 companies in the last month.

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WIRED @wired.com · 04/03/2025

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

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People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…

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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.”
Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself.
Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."

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Eedeedee @edyieeiyde.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Even Russia, says it was Russia.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Another alarming indicator of eroding free speech culture as well as editorial independence at VOA. A longtime reporter is on leave and under investigation, called “treasonous” by a rep for the administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

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Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Comments About Trump

The broadcaster placed a longtime journalist on leave amid growing concerns about its editorial independence.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

FRIDAY NIGHT FOLLIES: OPM revises Privacy Impact Assessment for server sending resignation/5-things emails to millions of fed employees, deleting earlier assurances that responses are 'voluntary.' Feb. 5: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Now: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

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Ami Berger @amiberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I know everyone is busy and crazy and the world is falling apart at the seams but if you are in a place where you can reach out to a friend and find a time get together in person for coffee or a walk or whatever, I really really really REALLY encourage you to do that

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 28/02/2025

Trump's 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 to our ally in the Oval Office is a DAMN SHAME. Denigrating a democratic world leader while sitting next to him has not only jeopardized our work with global allies. Once again, Trump's ego just put our national security at risk.

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"You're either going to make a deal or we're out."

President Trump to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy : "The problem is I've empowered you to be a tough guy. I don't think you'd be a tough guy without the U.S. You're people are very brave. But, you're e...

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Martin Matishak @martinmatishak.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

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Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning

The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If transgender service members don't voluntarily agree to resign, they'll be forced by the Defense Department to repay the signing bonuses they received at enlistment. Not only will they be fired, they'll be punished with thousands of dollars in debt. All for attempting to serve their country.

10. Service members choosing voluntary separation will not have to repay any bonuses received prior to the date of this memorandum, even if they have a remaining service obligation, pursuant to 37 U.S.C. § 373(b)(l). The Military Departments may recoup any bonuses received prior to the date of this memorandum for Service members choosing to be involuntarily separated.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🤔

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Bezos emails WaPo staff: "We are going to be writing every day in support & defense of two pillars: personal liberties & free markets." Adds "opposing" viewpoints won't be published. The WaPo is now a Trump propaganda outlet for contrived culture wars & unregulated oligarch-orientated capitalism.

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WIRED @wired.com · 26/02/2025

It’s been a busy few weeks at WIRED, and we’re just getting started. Many of you have asked how you can support our journalism in a bigger way, so we’ve introduced a new option for WIRED Superfans: $100 a year, because you really love us.

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WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIRED

<strong>Power up with unlimited access to WIRED. </strong>| Best-in-class reporting that's too important to ignore - plus gear reviews, podcasts, and more

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

If you work for the Washington Post and would like to anonymously share your thoughts about Bezos’ announcement this morning, please contact me on signal: juddlegum.47

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 24/02/2025

Coeur d’Alene Press seems to be one of the few publications in the area that is not siding with the GOP on this. Today they released a spectacular piece detailing what happened. Please consider reading it in full. We need to support the good publications. cdapress.com/news/2025/fe... 4/4

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UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed

A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/02/2025

Definitely sounds like an AI phishing expedition.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/02/2025

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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Reuters @reuters.com · 19/02/2025

BREAKING: The US Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 6,700 employees on Thursday, in a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency's resources during the critical tax-filing season, a person familiar with the matter said reut.rs/4gI5Ss4

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IRS to lay off 6,700 employees on Thursday, source says

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 6,700 employees on Thursday, in a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency's resources during the critical tax-filing season, a person familiar with the matter said.

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