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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/10/2026

Hundreds of protestors march from the site where an ICE agent shot a father in the Bronx on 10/8 to the hospital where he was being held. Defund and abolish ICE. Chinga la migra. 🧵 of photos...

A big crowd of protestors march in protest of an ICE agent shooting a father in the Bronx. Banner up front reads "JUSTICE FOR LORENZO, JOAN AND ALL VICTIMS OF ICE / Party for Socialism & Liberation." Signs read "Chinga la Migra" and "ICE OUT OF NYC"

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Something ppl need to realize is that almost everyone in Israel--and a good chunk of Jews outside of Israel--knew someone who was seriously hurt or killed by Hamas during the Oct 7 Massacre. It's like if 9/11 killed multiple orders of magnitude more people per capita.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

california has a double whammy here with prop 13 my wife and I bought our house in 2013, and not only is our rate (3.625%) much lower than any new mortgage we could get, our house has ~doubled in value and thus any similar house we bought would double our property taxes we aren't moving

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s neither a sudden renunciation nor a clear story of any other kind. The public seems evenly distributed in its willingness to tolerate it all, but unresponsive to specific events. This ought to seem weird, I think. Explanations?

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I also can’t find an inflection point when Renee Good was murdered, when the boat strikes started, or really anywhere. *Maybe* for Kilmer Abrego Garcia in March ‘25. More plausibly it’s just a slow, gradual disillusionment, not a recoil in horror from anything. (Ugh! I am ashamed of this!)

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can anyone point out on the graph where fuel prices spiked? But then again…

Screenshot from Nate Silver. Trump’s approval numbers have declined steadily throughout his term, not really precipitously at any point unless we count the first few weeks. Even that’s iffy.

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You might have heard it: “Americans didn’t turn against Trump when he did [any of the bad stuff]. They ONLY turned against him when fuel prices went up.” This is false. The real picture isn’t necessarily redeeming, but it’s not like that.

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How popular is Donald Trump?

Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The dot com bubble but bigger. Or for an older analogy, railroads. Bubbles bursting did not mean no more internet or no more trains. But it did mean many investments in those sectors going bad, and problems for the larger economy.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Said it before, but: I think an ugly shakeout is inevitable even on very optimistic assumptions about the economic value of "AI" in the abstract. Like, The Internet really was a hugely transformative technology—but a lot of the specific 90s investments in dot-coms still didn't pan out.

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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Your 1,384th reminder that the Supreme Court's grant of criminal immunity to sitting presidents was an epochal dereliction of duty. It needs to be wiped from the books as soon as possible.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is why neoliberals since the Washington Consensus have understood that free trade is economically good, not just because of comparative advantage, but also because it improves the political economy by removing one avenue for clientelism, forcing companies to instead make better products.

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Camerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If instead of envisioning a secular rapture, you just begin with the basic assumption that people are born free and work out all the ways we can be free together from there, you’ll very naturally arrive at stunningly elegant solutions like “trans rights” and “freedom of movement.”

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

if there's a decision value to you for information, the news you read will tend to be closer to that of an industry trade journal, all technical and precise and analytical. if much of what you do is simply consume things you cannot directly act on, what you get becomes narrative

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The woman version of Mr PB but don't write it like that @wh0sthatd0g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It sure makes you more inclined to take an interest in society!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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The woman version of Mr PB but don't write it like that @wh0sthatd0g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If the government has control over you, you need to be able to influence the government; that's the social contract of democracy Fwiw I hold this to be true for non-citizens too. If you live in the US you should be able to vote.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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

Dug into this and her name seems to be Zhao Jing. She’s being held at Adelanto. A habeas lawsuit was filed at 11:05 AM Pacific today. On X, a user said Ms. Zhao had taught her son. As to why ICE arrested her, no idea. Most likely she’s a pending asylum applicant who got stuck in backlogs for years.

ICE detainee locator screenshot

Search Results: 1
JING ZHAO
Country of Birth : China, Peoples Republic of Status: In ICE Custody
State: CA
Current Detention Facility: ADELANTO ICE
PROCESSING CENTER

Screenshot of PACER filing:

Notice of Electronic Filing
The following transaction was entered by Bayburtski, Hohannes on 10/4/2026 at 11:05 AM PDT

Case Name:
Case Number:
Filer:
Document Number: 1
Zhao v. janecha et al
5:26-cv-05854
Jing Zhao
Docket Text:
PETITION for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in Federal Custody by Petitioner Jing Zhao.

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Her name is Zhao Jing, and my heart broke when I heard her shout "Jing Zhao." Because I saw terror, helplessness, and despair on her face, which shattered me. I never imagined I'd see her in such a way. I still have her contact information; I have her email records. She was once my eldest son's early intervention teacher, with extremely fluent English close to native speaker level, and a senior staff member at that institution—a team-leading Supervisor. She's even from the same hometown as me. For someone in her situation, do you have any advice?

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Recent Progress:
Last night, a friend of this lady reached out to me, asking for my help. Early this morning, I got in touch with Ms. Zhao by phone. After our conversation, I obtained her specific details. That friend had helped top up her phone credit. Since her father doesn't know how to answer calls from the immigration detention center, I also found a kind-hearted friend to go to her residence, visit her elderly father, and promptly check on his health condition.
I immediately drafted a writ of habeas corpus, handed it to the lawyer for review, and have now uploaded it to the federal court for official filing.
I hope she can redain her freedom soon.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time

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The Vampire LesMak @lesleynope.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love how none of these elderly snowbirds mentioned (or maybe it wasnt included in the article) that with lowering local resident taxes the state will become absolutely unlivable in a few years.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...

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Ineffective Altruist @jddunn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's also just simple institutional self-defense. Does the power of the purse still hold? Does Congress actually get to govern? And so on. They've got to use all of the levers available to them, and probably create some new ones that aren't yet.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.

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The woman version of Mr PB but don't write it like that @wh0sthatd0g.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tax them all down to 3 vacation homes max. Nobody should have so much power as we allow them to have, and particularly when we know they have such evil views, we should do what we can to diminish their power!

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?

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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 02/10/2026

Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...

The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.

For example, a senior director for Bass told the interviewers that the Inside Safe program uses an internal Google spreadsheet to manage its occupancy records and does not have access to the Homeless Management Information System, the countywide database that tracks street contacts with homeless people and housing placements

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spent a chunk of the day reading legal codes and history books about all the ways state and local governments tried to stop enslaved and free Black people from learning to read and write. I might have to skip my "The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945" night reading.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time?" Yes!!! Marry me, Judge Hill.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Or that many blue collar jobs are physically destructive and if you want to support blue collar work you don’t tie healthcare to employment (many blue collar tradespeople are independent contractors)

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Big news in the Senate battle. After pouring $30 million in NC, John Thune's GOP SuperPAC stops spending there, effectively conceding Cooper is likely to win. And they're dumping their first 7-figures in Kansas. (Note: a Dem internal found Hamilton up today.) www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Literal No Kings. Either Article I means something or it doesn't.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 02/10/2026

one skepticism i have right now with the sort of AI agents that are supposed to automate regular-person everyday tasks is that most of the info i can think of that might be useful to aggregate is pretty strictly siloed for good reasons (medical stuff, school stuff, financial stuff, etc)

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Russ Vought should be prosecuted for violating the law with impoundment after this is all over.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the thing about stuff like this is that five biggest changes in american politics have all been partisan projects The Constitution, the Jacksonian Revolution, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Civil Rights were all explicitly partisan projects.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i think redesigning the passport envelopes is, if not helpful, not terribly harmful; but i can't help but notice that there are a bunch of other things going on at the moment that you might normally expect a Secretary of State to be leading that are not envelope-related

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine if we simply left murders by students on college campuses to be punished by colleges, using only the internal punishments they are able to inflict. We would find it insane and intolerable. Rape isn't that far off in terms of severity. Why are we putting utterly unsuited orgs in charge?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is half-baked but I feel like there is a sort of ambient belief out there that holding the richest people in the world accountable for horrifying crimes is sort of unthinkable, meaning impossible to actually achieve. Do not like.

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home

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The woman version of Mr PB but don't write it like that @wh0sthatd0g.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have so many mixed feelings about my wfh/remote job and this is exactly why

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The DoJ is waging war against the law itself

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