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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
David Brooks doesn't even know what they do at a goddamn Applebee's. He can kindly shut the fuck up about "what we do here in America."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS Rob Bonta (California AG): “We think it’s limitless what he (Trump) will try and what he is capable of. So, if you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.” Every attorney general should be planning for this.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/09/2026
Colin Kaepernick says some fellow NFL players “wanted to be out there protesting and wanted to be supportive,” yet feared retaliation from their organizations. “This isn't a one-player or one-team thing. This was across the NFL,” he tells Jemele Hill. #TAF26
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/08/2026
Austin Tice has been missing 14 years today. I have met repeatedly with his parents. They deserve answers — from this Administration, the Syrian government, and others. We must keep working to bring Austin home.
Photograph of Austin Tice
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As an American, I just don’t know who to trust when it comes to my young child’s wellbeing, a pedophile or their pediatrician?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I watch this every few months as a reminder of what we sounded like before devolving into an idiocracy.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Every word of this story is a gut punch. This should win a Pulitzer, whether or not the photo does
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wlmcl.bsky.social @wlmcl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Abolish Ice!!
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wlmcl.bsky.social @wlmcl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)
At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I merely find it "sus" for a grown man to let others know it is his birthday. Much less throw a birthday party. Much less have it be a gladiatorial event sponsored by a dick pill website
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So much of what Democratic politicians do and say, that makes you go "what the fuck is wrong with them?" is just downstream of the fact that they want a millionaire's money more than they want your vote, because they believe they can buy the latter with the former
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
BREAKING: Kuwait Acquits Prominent Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. The Kuwaiti-American journalist, who has spent 52 days in a Kuwait prison, is expected to be released imminently.
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BREAKING: Kuwait Acquits Prominent Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
The Kuwaiti-American journalist, who has spent 52 days in a Kuwait prison, is expected to be released imminently.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification
The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’
Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.
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wlmcl.bsky.social @wlmcl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Terrible. Journalism is not a crime. Ahmed Shihab -Eldin is a great Kuwaiti-American journalist. Please call your representative and senators to demand his immediate release.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me.

In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. 

On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. 

Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. 

"It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do.

Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go.

It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"The bombs are constantly dropping on their cities...Every building in the neighborhood of where this bomb was dropped in the proximity of it was shaking." -Protester discusses what his family is going through in Iran during the Trump conflict LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026
The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Former President Barack Obama on Rev. Jesse Jackson: "He was talking about everyone who was left out, everyone who was forgotten, everyone who was unseen, everyone who was unheard, and in that sense, he was expressing the very essence of what our democracy should be." Preach!
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Man, I wish some lefty did a five-part podcast series on the modern history of Iran: thedigradio.com/History%20of...
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Amras, Scéal Faoladh θ∆ @amras.me · 05/03/2026
A couple things… The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war. It is a war of choice. It is warfare without conscious. It was unprovoked. And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 02/03/2026
"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next. What a disgrace.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
Today should be your 38th birthday..
When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Being Iraqi I can tell you that I know for sure how TERRIFIED the Iranian people especially in Tehran must be right now. It's breaking my heart😭💔 We don't deserve to live like this.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Paul asked us to wait to publish this until he was out of Cuba and safe from harm Well, he’s safe from harm now forever, god love him
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Opening Arguments Podcast @openargs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@annabower.bsky.social is doing one of the most important jobs in American journalism right now: showing up to federal courts and telling us exactly what is being said and done in there in our names as it happens 🫡
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Touching to see U2 and Ed Sheeran remember this terrible anniversary in Ukraine and the men and women who are doing what they have to do. youtu.be/p92NzxFmseo?...
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U2 - Yours Eternally ft. Ed Sheeran and Taras Topolia (Documentary Short Film)
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Risto 🇫🇮 @ristox.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I would say, she was star of these Olympics. One of the most watched athlete. She is unique talent, congratulations. 2 gold medals.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
the pope telling jd vance to fuck off must be a religion unto itself because i’m devout
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
also one of the craziest evolutions of rapid response is how a month ago you'd be trying to get a plate check and you'd be like "VBZ 2552" and then have to repeat it 12 times and now 90% of us know the NATO alphabet and you'll get these girls going "Victor! Bravo! Zulu!" like they're fighter pilots
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I can think of several dozen historians who would be happy to lecture @jaketapper.bsky.social about why "concentration camp" is, in fact, an apt term.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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