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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/07/2026
The SAVE Act is part of Trump's "larger drive to make government interactions as frustrating, time-consuming, and clunky as possible—with the end goal of netting financial or political gain for him, his family, his friends, and his enablers."
lnk.thebulwark.com
Trump Is Making Government Worse on Purpose
Instead of seeking to simplify and improve citizens’ lives, this administration keeps creating new obstacles and burdens.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"A filmmaker funded by a Putin fund. A director who worked for Russian state TV. A production financed and distributed through pro-Kremlin channels. And in the middle of it…cashing a check…the man who now runs American counterintelligence." www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-fbi-di...
jackhopkinsnow.com
The FBI Director Just Booked a Flight to Moscow–and the KGB’s Grandchildren Are Picking Him Up at the Airport
Read this slowly. Then ask yourself one question: who does the FBI actually work for?
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Mexican man who was killed by an 18-wheeler as he ran from the masked thugs of ICE in #Florida has now been ID’D -- he was tourist with a valid visa. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
yahoo.com
Mexican man killed by truck as he ran from ICE in Florida ID’D as tourist with valid visa
The Mexican man who officials say was killed by a truck last week in St. Augustine while running from immigration officers was identified by a farmworkers’ advocacy group as a father of two on vacatio...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.
ksat.com
Records: Ex-SAPD officer fired for giving feces sandwich to homeless man promoted to South Texas police chief
A former San Antonio police officer fired for giving a homeless man a feces sandwich was promoted to serve as the chief of a South Texas police department, according to records reviewed by KSAT Invest...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Trump National Golf Club in Northern Virginia has a pest control problem and a litany of health violations. That includes swarms of small flies observed in a storage room, several perishable food items stored above 41 degrees, and improper storage of raw steak, fish and burgers.
notus.org
Trump National Golf Club in Virginia Has a Pest Control Problem, Records Show
Various Trump properties have recently found themselves tripped up by health violations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
HOMAN: Vehicle attacks are up 3,400% COLLINS: But DHS didn't say he was trying to hit them with their vehicle. They said he was fleeing the scene and they feared for public safety HOMAN: Look, I can't speak to what DHS says
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Writing headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me.
Two headlines:
As published. ( By NYT.)
Opportunities Narrow for Women as 
Hegseth Blocks More Promotions

Would exactly fit the same space. (By me)
Hegseth Narrows Opportunities for
Women, Blocking More Promotions
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If you're under 50 you have no idea how big the Bicentennial was, and how massive this flop is. But Trump knows.
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Studies: Tylenol Doesn't Cause Autism, MRNA Vaccines Are Perfectly Safe, And RFK Jr. Is A Ridiculous Person www.wonkette.com/p/studies-ty... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social
wonkette.com
Studies: Tylenol Doesn't Cause Autism, MRNA Vaccines Are Perfectly Safe, And RFK Jr. Is A Ridiculous Person
... who believes ridiculous things.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“.. The next day, Trump posted that it was a ‘GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!’ before announcing a partial tariff retreat that helped send the S&P 500 up roughly 9.5% in one of its best days on record.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/t...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
So ICE waited more than a week to disclose a 85-year-old German man died in ICE custody.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/07/2026
"Un-American" is overused and often meaningless, but the Trump administration's conception of America truly is un-American.
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This July 4th, Ignore Trump. Listen to Gerald Ford.
Our past Republican presidents understood that we are proudly a nation of immigrants.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Amidst all the vacuous chatter about Democratic Socialists being "communists" because they seek universal healthcare, the man with the real communist agenda is Donald Trump—who is securing state-control of major businesses—as he simultaneously turns the state into a vehicle for private enrichment.
ft.com
OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake
Sam Altman’s start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Remember that throughout 2024, Trump insisted that Biden was a failure because of the price of eggs? Now, for the third time, we have judicial determinations that the price of eggs in 2024 was artificially inflated as a result of collusion between the country's three larger egg producers.
apnews.com
Egg producers will pay $3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price-fixing claims
The U.S. Justice Department and 17 states have reached settlement agreements with three major egg producers over allegations of that the companies illegally colluded in a multiyear scheme to raises pr...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/07/2026
🎉 USPS has been ordered to stop implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. A previous ruling blocked USPS from refusing to deliver mail ballots if voter lists weren't given to the Trump administration, but only applied to select states. This new ruling covers the entire nation.
democracydocket.com
Court blocks USPS from implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting order
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan dismissed USPS’s arguments to the contrary as “without merit.”
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“This is how Trump hijacked 🇺🇸’s birthday.” @rephuffman explains Trump turned a nonpartisan 250th celebration into a way to steal hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars + take bribes from corporations & foreign governments. Endless corruption. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DaTu82G...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/07/2026
Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 02/07/2026
UPDATE 3: I mean we knew Jared had gone full-maga after deciding to turn election terrorist Tina Peters loose on the population. but firing officials who *said mean things* is taking the bit way too far 🧢 @drjackbrown.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/demo...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is on Squawk Box sounding like a complete lunatic once again
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
They are arresting U.S. Air Force Officers for free speech and U.S. Olympians for curiosity—but not rich men for raping children with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
WSJ takes a deep look at Trump's reported trade and says that it's clear that Trump used his advance knowledge on tariffs that were put into effect on "Liberation Day" in order to score huge profits by playing the market. It clearly violates government ethics rules, and is likely criminal as well.
wsj.com
Trump’s Brokerage Accounts Made Big Trades Around ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
Like most of the president’s 21,000 trades in 2025, the activity was kept hidden until this week
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Column: #Florida International U is threatening to withhold diplomas from students who staged a SILENT protest against ICE unless they make a two-minute “video reflection” swearing they now understand what they did wrong.. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/07/02/f... via @scottmaxwell.bsky.social
orlandosentinel.com
Maxwell: Free speech? Florida students have diplomas threatened for silent ICE protest
Maxwell: Free speech? Florida university threatens students’ diplomas for participating in a silent protest where they stood up wearing anti-ICE T-shirts.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“You can breathe in outer space if you ignore the need for oxygen.”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Sometimes it feels like we are living through a Christopher Guest mockumentary.
Trump with his insane pool is bigger than skyscrapers chart.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/06/2026
Amazon sets the routes, the quotas, the uniforms, the cameras — and then tells workers they don't actually work for Amazon. Every delivery worker in this city should be able to afford to live here and have their rights respected. Workers deserve better.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
At a certain point you just have to conclude sinister motives.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/05/2026
The research that led to this miracle drug started more than five decades (!) ago. Basic science research has massive payoffs but they are often very long-term. As a society, we invest in basic research for our kids and grandkids.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
You know where nobody got pepper sprayed?
en.wikipedia.org
Brooks Brothers riot - Wikipedia
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/05/2026
BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior." Hoffman is the Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/05/2026
Trump passed the largest cuts to Medicaid in history. Hospitals are laying off staff and closing because of him. Right now, in several states like mine, he's using AI to deny seniors on Medicare the treatments their doctors are recommending. These are just facts.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We amended the Constitution so the people instead of state legislatures elect senators because the old system resulted in corruption and dysfunction, and now we have a system where state legislatures functionally decide the composition of their House delegations before a single vote is cast.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The verdict of a prominent conservative website and magazine: "A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those...
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sorry, he's saying it "weakens our warfighting capabilities" to ensure our soldiers don't get the flu all at once—taking them off the battlefield? Make this make sense. It seems reality is the *opposite* of what he describes. Sounds to me like he just wants anti-vaxxer troops to flood our military.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/04/2026
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.
politico.com
Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under Justice Department investigation
The nonprofit on Tuesday said it is “the latest organization targeted by this administration.”
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Bizzle @bizzlemcdizzle.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
well... THAT's pretty eye opening, actually, Mike, to just say it out loud like that. Did that sound different in your head?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
www.pennlive.com/news/2026/04...
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‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility
A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In the 70's the Government owned Energy, it built houses, it owned Public Services and it employed people. Now billionaires own it all, and they pay you too. So every year prices go up more than wages. It's not complicated why things are only getting worse. It's billionaires
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/04/2026
The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is just stealing 10 billion of our dollars. Trump is the most corrupt president in US history.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Note the sudden explosion of false statements by Trump just before markets were closing for the week. You can count on it that someone was investing in reliance on these tweets, and made a killing. The question is: who?
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Images of food being served to sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli, published by USA Today.

Supplies "are going to get really low" and "morale is going to be at an all-time low," one sailor messaged his mother
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Andrea Basso @a4xrbj1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, was the single largest identifiable buyer of the angular stainless-steel pickup in the quarter, with other Musk-controlled ventures acquiring an additional 60 units. /1
eletric-vehicles.com
SpaceX Bought 18% of Tesla Cybertrucks Sold in US During Q4 2025, Data Shows | EV
SpaceX acquired 1,279 Cybertrucks in the fourth quarter of 2025, absorbing more than 18% of Tesla's entire US pickup volume for the period, according to registration data from S&P Global Mobility repo...
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