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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew

BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Ilhan Omar stuff is grotesque and feels worthy of impeachment by itself

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 10/10/2026

New Yorkers challenged HSI Nazi agents face-to-face—and the agents got scared. They ran away like the cowards they are. This happened near the scene where ICE shot Oscar Belgal while trying to execute him and his child. Community resistance deserves an audience. Repost this everywhere.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This was a choice. Remember this.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Democrats should say Republicans support turning over the keys to the cash registers to the military contractors because if they don't oppose it, that means they support it. That's simple enough even for a Republican politician to understand.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All these elected officials do is go on cable news to blab about problems we know really well because they dedicated decades of their lives to not solving them.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

listen, you're probably reading something depressing or petty so why not dive into a brisk and cheerful account of the 1873 vienna world's fair & its concurrent sandwich buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Notable Sandwiches #151: Pebete

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Once upon a time, Congress had its own in-house think tank that would research and suggest remedies for technical problems politicians might not have a handle on. Might be a good resource now, ay? Here's @maxmoranhi.bsky.social on the long-lost Office of Technology Assessment:

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What Congress Actually Needs to Do About AI: Staff Up - The American Prospect

In 1995, Newt Gingrich lobotomized Congress’s technical brain trust. It should be rebuilt.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You can keep the culture wars. I’m fighting for working people to have a real say in our communities and our economy. That includes LGBTQ+ folks too. Everybody means everybody. Thanks for having me on @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social #AngieForFlorida

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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Republican religious zealots brought you this dystopian reality.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s alarming how much influence Hasan Piker may potentially one day have in the Democratic Party. by Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, David Duke, Thomas Rousseau, James Fishback, and Alex Jones

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 12/09/2026

On Parallel Earth, voters elect a poop-flinging baboon—and his party keeps defending him, even when, as @tomtomorrow.bsky.social illustrates, the mess lands on them. inthesetimes.com/article/poli...

Six-panel “This Modern World” comic by Tom Tomorrow. On “Parallel Earth,” Americans elect a blond, Trump-like, poop-flinging baboon as president. Supporters initially celebrate, then express surprise when he flings feces at them. A politician defends the president after he targets a NATO summit, while members of his base remain loyal because he makes life miserable for immigrants, trans people and others they hate. The final caption teases the president redecorating the Oval Office with poop.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them.”

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A tiny gang of extremists found a flaw in US airline security to commit an atrocity that killed 2,977. Bush and the Epstein class used it as a pretext to weaken civil liberties, establish mass surveillance, put the US on a permanent war footing, and increase wealth inequality to ensure plutocracy

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Instead of lowering flags to half mast for Dolly, they should reinstate vaccine mandates. They should invest in public health. They should walk back discriminatory LGBTQ+ policies. They should stop banning books and fund libraries. That’s how you honour her legacy.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’m the first newsroom employee of the Washington Post’s labor history to win reinstatement in decades. I never should have had to fight this battle, but I’m glad I did—- and WON. (Photo by Ethan Wong)

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 25/11/2024

The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with smiling people telling you to stop overreacting.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

UNIONS FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AND-

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/08/2026

#OtD 24 Aug 1922 radical historian and activist Howard Zinn was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn, NYC. Author of A People's History of the United States, Zinn did much to popularise the history of ordinary people and our struggles workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e69-...

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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 22/08/2026

ALARMING: Polk County’s 287(g) partnership let local deputies act as ICE enforcers inside a hospital. Grace and Giulianna were kidnapped and handed to ICE while seeking medical care. Hospitals cannot become hunting grounds for immigration arrests. Share this.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/08/2026

really enjoyed the NY Times profile of the latest submissive blonde whose energy will be fed to the golden throne that keeps our decaying pedophile emperor alive

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

From The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

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