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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Very grateful to go on @onthemedia.bsky.social to discuss Chris Rufo, his “Indian Question,” and why Rufo deserves more of the media’s scorn and disdain, and less polite sit-down interviews on New York Times podcasts www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Polarization Is Not Our Biggest Problem | On the Media | WNYC Studios
During an I.C.E. operation in New York City, officers shot a man in a car while a child sat in the back seat. On this week’s On the Media, coverage of I.C.E. has decreased since the s...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
There’s already video of some NYPD helping ICE leave after the shooting and the role of the police in aiding these incidents has to be addressed.
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Kassie Navarro @kassien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A defense contractor CEO + his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. Dive into @propublica.org’s investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I posted in my newsletter about an incarcerated comrade named Kenneth who is running a mobile library in prison. He needed a new cart and some readers generously donated. Here's the new cart! Thanks to those who supported him.
Two men in striped pants and white shirts stand by a cart with books, under a colorful “Perfection” sign on a white brick wall. One holds up two fingers in a peace sign, the other displays a book.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Federal law enforcement agents injured and briefly detained an Evanston man, a U.S. citizen, after they mistook him for another man for whom they said they had an arrest warrant, according to the Evanston Police Department." www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/21/m...
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Man beaten by ICE agents in Evanston in possible case of mistaken identity, per police
The victim, an Evanston resident and U.S. citizen, reported ICE agents injured his head, neck and teeth. He was taken to hospital.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Absolutely incredible reporting from @sallyhayd.bsky.social The details of what happened on the boat trip are deeply harrowing, but everyone should read them and understand the reality of what is happening www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived
A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’
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Deborah Downer @wizardloveslife.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Whats could go wrong
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Craigie 🇵🇸 🇸🇩🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British @craigsmive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Remember if your government calls Israel an ally then your nation owns the genocide too. #FreePalestine palestinewillbefree.substack.com/p/palestinia...
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‘No one calls me mum’: The Palestinian mother who lost all seven of her children in Gaza
“The world must act, not still watch, because we are not numbers and we are not headlines.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/08/2026
In Gary, Indiana, without refrigeration insulin supplies are being spoiled, and people who depend on oxygen cannot pump it from their tanks due to lack of electricity. A public health disaster.
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/08/2026
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said last month that the platform would start removing harassing content. So why are there so many videos of men using Meta's "pervert glasses" to covertly film and shame women? @samleecole.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/meta-ray-ban...
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 19/08/2026
Our team started monitoring the number of people getting loaded on ICE Air flights in November; yesterday we counted our 5,000th. That count doesn’t include children, like Liam, or those who’ve self-deported on their own to avoid shackles, or the thousands loaded before November.
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Deborah Downer @wizardloveslife.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Would b out of character though
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/08/2026
It would be cool if the FBI would actually do something useful for a change and start investigating the lynchings of Black people that are becoming an epidemic across the South. The world's purported preeminent law enforcement agency sitting on its hands as this happens makes me physically ill.
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Deborah Downer @wizardloveslife.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 15/08/2026
"Jobless boom" is such a bullshit term. It means the rich cash in while you suffer.
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/08/2026
Mice can access memories after hibernation, a state that largely shuts their brains off and reduces synapses, suggesting that memories are stored across shifting neural systems.
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Memories Mysteriously Survive After Brain Shutdown, And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Mice can access memories after hibernation, a state that largely shuts their brains off and reduces synapses, suggesting that memories are stored across shifting neural systems.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Gad. Buying books in bulk to scan for AI, for a grim future without books written by humans.
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Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders
Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2026
Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015. (Published May 2025 w/ @tennesseelookout.com)
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This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
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Deborah Downer @wizardloveslife.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Obsessed with this classics berd going on every podcast to talk shit about christopher nolan, YES MOMMA FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT SAVE US ALL
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
David Cross leaning into a mic. "America, should, must, and will blow up the moon."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 28/07/2026
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
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Deborah Downer @wizardloveslife.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Deborah Downer @wizardloveslife.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
AGHHHHHHGGHHGH
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@asadfromnyc.bsky.social is facilitating walking tours that bring the histories of NYC policing to life through November. Looks like the next tour is on Aug 29 crookedideas.org/empirecity/
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Empire City Live - Crooked Ideas
Empire City - The police tell us their job is to “serve and protect” — but what if their original purpose was something else altogether?
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/07/2026
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
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How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Growing up in NYC in the 70s and 80s, we had places we could hang out including roller rinks, boys & girls clubs, teen clubs, and importantly we could spend hours in the parks and in diners and in malls without the constant presence of the cops hassling us.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...
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Person killed in shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, official says
Police closed part of busy Pool Street in Biddeford on Monday morning and there was a significant police presence.
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k II @midnightman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Mapping how the U.S. forcibly took Indigenous lands | National Geographic share.google/2OrDN3oT76dd...
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Mapping how the U.S. forcibly took Indigenous lands
Not long after the Great American Experiment began, the newly established nation set its sights west. Here's how a series of conflicts, forged treaties, and forced migration led to the loss of a major...
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Deborah Downer @wizardloveslife.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
LMFAO this man was scum from the beginning wtf
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 11/07/2026
it's not "detained," it's false imprisonment and kidnapping by an armed terrorist militia which exists explicitly to ethnically cleanse the West Bank of Palestinians.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," said Khanna.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
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How Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From Afar
The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/07/2026
I wrote about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo—who is now the tenth person federal immigration agents have shot and killed during Trump's second term.
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ICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In Texas
The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to: • At least 38 destination vacations; • 26 private jet flights; • 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events; • 2 stays at luxury resorts; • 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club (Published 2023)
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Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel
The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
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Attorney at Leisure @notsonicely.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
No one is emphasizing to nonlawyers enough that the pace ay which this Supreme Court is changing the law has never been seen before in US history, and all of the history of common law for that matter
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/07/2026
Secrecy surrounding executions in Florida has left victims’ families, prisoners and lawyers searching for clues about the governor’s selection process. “He could be deciding who is next to die by throwing darts at a list of names,” one lawyer said. with @nytimes.com
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Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty
Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight ...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I missed this and it is the sign of a profoundly diseased society. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/m...
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Why Is Florida Executing So Many Prisoners?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"regular" people write books every single day. I find it interesting what some say "regular" people can and cannot do. Now, are "regular" people able to PUBLISH those books? That's a totally different question.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The AC is out at ICE's detention facility in Newark, where it currently feels like 107 degrees. Detainees say not even the ventilation is working, and that the water is dirty. Health inspectors recently tried to inspect the facility. They were turned away. www.nj.com/politics/202...
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Delaney Hall’s air conditioning goes out during N.J.’s worst heat wave in 15 years
Air conditioning failed at Delaney Hall during a major heat wave, prompting concerns for detainees as advocates cite ongoing complaints and inspection disputes.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
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A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story
Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was referred to by DHS as a “criminal illegal alien” and a “known Tren de Aragua terrorist.” The agency said he “violently attacked an ICE agent” by slamming her head into the ...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
AI washing of layoffs is real. I was surprised to see a wave of headlines today saying Oracle shrank by 21,000 employees due to replacing them with AI. A few months ago, it was widely reported the layoffs were to pay for data centers they’d committed to building for OpenAI but couldn’t get loans.
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