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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 34m
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "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."
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We're losing guardrails on the BLS, Census, and BEA numbers. I'm not alarmed yet, but if they give us reasons to not trust them, then the US joins a club with Russia, Argentina, and Venezuela. Great crowd platypuseconomics.substack.com/p/th…
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just to be clear, Barack Obama’s last day in office was over a decade ago. Since then, Donald Trump has been in the WH for six of those ten years. But Republicans know how much their audience hates a very specific type of person so here we are.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
At least some of this was public in real time. But consider -- what has Bessent demanded from the other countries he has intervened with, like Argentina and Japan?
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 13/08/2026
i feel like this post and the hed really miss the most important part of this which is that the United States Federal Government convened a grand jury and presented a complete hoax to them, complete with graphic illustrating a wide-ranging conspiracy involving every liberal organization.
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Emily Bregel @emilybregel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Immigrants confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after the U.S. deported them there without notice/due process, report worsening, dangerous conditions: "We’re living a nightmare." tucson.com/news/local/s...
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U.S. deportees assaulted, threatened at gunpoint in Equatorial Guinea, three say
Immigrants deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea say they have been threatened at gunpoint and fear for their lives while detained at a former hotel.
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Matt Davies @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Watt? Newsday.com/matt
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Alexander Hamilton in 1788: “This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” Us today: “LOL.” Image: National Gallery of Art.
This color portrait shows a clean-shaven man with gray hair—Alexander Hamilton—wearing a gray coat and white shirt with a lace cravat.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This couple came legally. They applied for asylum before their visas expired, wanting to do it all by the books. After six months, they applied for work permits to stay afloat, passing background checks. They worked legally and paid taxes while government delay dragged on. Then ICE came for them.
The couple quickly became key to Chicago’s nightlife, curating events and performing in some of Chicago’s most popular venues. They were getting ready for their biggest venture yet: following Karol G’s tour across the country, hosting unofficial afterparties.
But on Sunday morning, as the couple walked out of their rideshare outside of Midway Airport, they were apprehended by federal immigration agents. The two were on their way to take a flight to Washington, D.C., the first stop of the tour. They never made it through the door.
The Department of Homeland Security said it had arrested Panqueva, 26, and Paez, 27, for overstaying their visas, which both expired in 2022. But their attorney, Enrique Espinoza, said the pair had applied for asylum within the required time frame before their visas expired. The two both have asylum cases, Social Security numbers, work permits and the documents required for their ongoing legal process, Espinoza said.
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 30/07/2026
Ethan Jacobs E @ethanjacobslaw
The challenge was that most of the conservative ideals don't have mass appeal.
So their fans rode a tiger. Eventually it became clear the tiger—not them—decided on the direction it was heading, and the riders became tiger fans or were replaced.
10:52 PM • 8/20/20 From Earth
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/07/2026
Mark this well. A public servant who performed admirably in a crisis is being publicly persecuted, maybe prosecuted. Govt websites are being given over to propaganda. Fake medicines are being praised while lifesaving vaccines are lied about. Slanderous grifters cackle their triumph. Despicable.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.
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Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate
A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.
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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Selling access to Trump's tweets to businesses held hostage by the mad king (and thus worried about what he'll do/say and how it'll affect their bottom line). Just endless grifting.
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wolffski @wolffski.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
France star trashes the French press. "Our plan was to press them high so they could not install their rhythm." www.espn.com/soccer/story...
image of the French press (wikipedia)
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is footage of ICE handcuffing a 26 year old father after murdering him in broad daylight. We cannot look away. Abolish ICE. Abolish qualified immunity. Hold these murderous thugs accountable.
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Today is a good day to (re-)read Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Go on. It isn't that long.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Too many of us forget how much Jesus hated foreigners and the meek and the persecuted.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Two DHS agents on a doorbell camera.“You are a monstrous human being and will go down in history as America’s Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher.

“The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall. Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.

“You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you vote for the guys who lie viciously about immigrants and tell you mass removals are needed to purify the nation and its heartland towns, what you’re actually going to get is social turmoil, violent ethnic purges, and serious economic disruption. newrepublic.com/article/2124...
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sounds like the kind of people you wouldn’t want to get yourself into a position where you have to lift all sanctions and hand them $300 billion.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Now here is a grand juror doing the 5th Amendment proud www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Okay. I'm feeling the 09:29:526 skepticism already. Are you going to be able to7 listen with an open mind? Tell me the truth.8 GRAND JUROR: I -- no.9 MS. MECKLENBURG: Okay. Then you have to10 go -- 09:30:0411 GRAND JUROR: I heard this case like last12 week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I13 still think it is
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
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Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026
This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
Every webpage you load is making phone calls.
Not to people, but to servers around the internet, dozens per second, all invisible to you.
When I opened TrumpRx, I right-clicked the page, opened the browser's built-in inspector, and started reading the list. Mixed in with the routine traffic was a name I recognized:
PostHog. PostHog is a Silicon Valley analytics company whose entire business model is recording what visitors do on a website and reporting it back to whoever owns the site.
Mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, keystrokes. I had not typed anything. I had not clicked anything. I had just opened the page, and it was already on the phone with PostHog telling them about me.The recordings are not anonymized. IP addresses are not stripped. And the way it is configured, the data looks to your browser like it is going back to TrumpRx, but it is actually being forwarded behind the scenes to PostHog.
That is a technique used to slip past ad blockers by disguising where the data is really going, and it is not something I expected to find on a federal health website. So I went and looked at the other sites the studio had built. Real Food, the federal food policy site. Trump Accounts, the children's savings program. The studio's own homepage, ndstudio. gov. All of them had the same vendor, the same setup, IP addresses not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And onnot stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on ndstudio. gov alone, running alongside PostHog, was something someone had built entirely by hand. Five hundred and forty lines of custom JavaScript with a name embedded directly in the code: AutoMonitor. What it appears to do is rewire the part of the browser that handles how a page talks to the outside world, so that every conversation the page has with any server gets copied and forwarded to a private backend with no public presence. The studio has the structural ability to keep a copy of every recording as it passes through their infrastructure. I cannot prove they are keeping one. The pipe is built that way on purpose, and that is the part that matters.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It speaks so badly of our attention economy that John Fetterman is the topic of endless conversation for being an unhinged jerk, while Andy Kim from right next door gets such little hype for being a decent human being
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
My colleague Nora Freeman Engstrom has put together a guide for bringing tort suits against ICE law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/05/2026
The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.
dailykos.com
Missing in Action: Women Service Members “Delisted” from Arlington National Cemetery Website
When visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won’t find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it’s website despite being interred there and…
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
They” didn’t leak Trump’s tax returns. An IRS contractor did - along with thousands of other tax returns - during Trump’s first term. Biden’s DOJ prosecuted the contractor, who got the max: 5 years in prison. This is shameful spin from SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/05/2026
Simply doesn't make sense as a reconsideration of justice. This is a person who actively attempted to undermine democracy, to subvert the will of Colorado voters.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/05/2026
NEW: U.S. citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas appeared before Congress after he was held twice by immigration agents. Even though his story went viral, and top immigration officials have claimed citizens are not being arrested, he was detained a third time.
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Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he say...
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Jessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
NEW from me. My cover story in today's @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social steps back and provides a basic primer on why soaring federal debt matters for the economy and the federal budget. 🧵 thedispatch.com/article/debt...
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Why Surging Federal Debt Matters
It’s an existential threat to the long-term American economy.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Alabama’s AG announces he’s launched his own investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center, following the federal criminal indictment. But it looks an awful lot like a witch hunt for donors. www.alabamaag.gov/wp-content/u...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Love this! www.notus.org/perspectives... (The suggestions from the 15 other WaPo veterans fall well short of the moment.)
Treat lies like obscenities.
Kate Cohen
Former Post contributing columnist
My dream new journalistic standard would make it unacceptable to quote a lie in a news story. In the deep-fake, bot-infested Trump era, it’s no longer enough for news organizations to seek truth; we need them to protect the public from lies. Lies should be treated like obscenities, graphic violence or sexual content. That means literally refusing to repeat a transparent lie — not quoting it early and then offering corrective facts two paragraphs or 30 seconds later. Sure, sometimes it’s a judgment call whether a statement falls just to the spin side of the mendacity line. But sometimes it’s obvious. You know how news stories avoid quoting profanity by saying things like “he said, adding an expletive for emphasis”? That’s how reporters should deal with lies: e.g., “he said, before repeatedly lying about …” As for lying on live TV? Bring on the bleeps!
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So you're telling me that cutting tariffs leads to lower prices? Fascinating.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Your tax dollars at work newrepublic.com/post/210185/...
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ICE Beat Teen at Gunpoint Before Realizing They Had Wrong Person
ICE then dropped the teenager off at a completely random location.
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