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@withease.bsky.social
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Native Californian. Focused on keeping The Blue Coast Blue.

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Alina Pete @alinapete.bsky.social · 6h
Every decision these bastards make is so deliberately anti Indigenous It makes a wound in all of us I mourn for every saguaro. I mourn for Grandmother Tree. For beings that take centuries to stand where they are and are deliberately destroyed to sate hatred www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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'Grandmother' tree uprooted for border wall construction
Border agents dispersed a camp of protestors along the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday. The activists in Southern Arizona were protecting the last tree in a stand of towering cottonwood trees.
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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 3h
The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h
I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 5h
Happening now! Border Patrol amassing forces after land defenders re-established a tree sit on the Mexican side of the border in La Noria, Sonora, this morning, stopping wall construction the day after DHS killed the Grandmother Tree.
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 7h
"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 4h
As a Catholic, like Alito, I think it's so important for you to know how little—how absolutely not at all—your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) impacts my religious liberty. In fact, refusing to acknowledge your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) is a grave affront to your innate human dignity.
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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3h
"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 22h
This is being passed around as a total misrepresentation of what he said. Trump was saying - as he often does - that costs for Americans are a small price to pay for preventing Iran from getting nuclear missiles. He was saying ‘let them take out LA or SD’ as an example of what could happen then…
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Memo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There’s a new ICE surge happening in the Greater Los Angeles Area now. At least 20 people have been taken by noon in Southern California, numbers we haven’t seen in a long time. @lataco.bsky.social
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h
LET'S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

REAGAN '80
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 23h
How nice for them. Next question: which act of Congress authorized this expenditure of federal funds? Quaint it may be, but our constitution forbids drawing funds from the treasury except pursuant to acts of congress.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
It’s not just one billionaire. It’s a full-blown cult of billionaires who believe dictatorship should replace democracy—and that technology (crypto and AI) will make this inevitable. They say it loud. Some guy just wrote a book about it (That guy is me!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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The Nerd Reich
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires ...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Every day the weird pro-Ai people are like everyone who doesn’t love getting their work stolen is deranged.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Roses are red Men are lonely A possible solution
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Had the BEST conversation with Florida Senate Candidate Angie Nixon. I’m telling you, we can flip that seat and actually get a senator who puts the people, not the president first. Let’s go!! AngieNixon.com FULL INTERVIEW HERE--- youtu.be/tM51JFEAPQI
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Empire of Grift” by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more. Unlike their predecessors, these people do not talk about spreading democracy, and don’t want to build long-term relationships. They don’t care about America’s reputation. They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes, to promote their own business interests or their own ideological goals, because, suddenly, they can.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
vivek’s a republican, shouldn’t he be better at grabbing kids
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fascists don't believe in peace. Peace doesn't help them. No authoritarian regime ever wants peace. Liberal democracies want peace. Peace helps them. Every liberal democracy wants peace.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck
RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026
Georgia won’t let anyone give a voter standing in line water no matter how hot it is or how non-political they are. But 5 large from the president for voting his way? No prob!
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just about everything this administration does makes me incandescent with rage. But their fucking with special education takes me to a whole new level. progressive.org/latest/scape...
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Scapegoating Special Ed
As the Trump Administration kneecaps federal agencies for sport, special education takes the latest hit.
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the risk of aging myself, I'm going to start this with... Back in my day... This brand of blatant, up-front corruption would have been a major news story. He's literally buying votes. Where have you gone, Woodward and Bernstein?
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Bridges in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, that are used by many commuters are the latest target in a broad Russian bombing campaign against infrastructure.
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Russia Turns to Striking Kyiv’s Bridges, Threatening a Vital Lifeline
The bridges, used by many commuters in the Ukrainian capital, are the latest target in a broad Russian bombing campaign against infrastructure.
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, Russia bombed another bridge in Kyiv today that connects left and right banks . It’s the 5th attack on bridges in Kyiv in these 4 days . People left stranded , can’t get to work or get back home . Nothing military about it . only Russia trying to terrorise us into submission .
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
hollywoodreporter.com
Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Team Angie is hitting fifteen counties across the state for SUPER SATURDAY weekend and all we’re missing is YOU!  Visit Angie4US.com/knock to sign up and hit the streets with us. #AngieforFlorida
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 02/10/2026
wtf kind of state is he in if no filters could provide adequate image
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wrote this for anyone who has been triggered by the recent attempts to doxx Jane Doe after the Cornell rape case was re-opened. Let's hold hands. shero.substack.com/p/dear-sister
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Dear Sister...
For anyone being triggered by the attacks on Jane Doe in the Cornell University rape case, I wrote this for you.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Wes Siler @wessiler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sure looks like the Secretary of the Interior is about to invoke emergency wartime powers to use taxpayer funds to build a bunch of data centers on public land, without any public input: wessiler.substack.com/p/whats-doug...
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What’s Doug Burgum Doing With Defense Production Act Authority?
It sure looks like things are adding up for widespread data center construction on public lands, without public input
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
94%)
3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
250,000
VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
2,600+
287(G)
AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
DOWN
75%
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519
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If this woman has ever expressed an opinion that wasn’t both extremely stupid and extremely evil, I’ve never seen it.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ms Brown is entirely right here Every word of this 👇🏻❤️👇🏻
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026
This is a good thread and for some reason it unlocked something that's been brewing in the back of my head for a while.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Black text on white page that reads as follows:

New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"
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