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Librarian. Find deleted government data: https://infoguides.gmu.edu/govdata
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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d
A cargo plane flying from Dubai skidded off the runway into the sea while landing at Hong Kong International Airport, the city's airport operator said, with local media reporting the deaths of two people.
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 14h
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
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Politico @politico.com · 23h
ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits and deaths in custody mount.

Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.
ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount
Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h
A man who appeared to be planning a large-scale attack at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was arrested on Monday after his family alerted law enforcement officials that he was on his way there to “shoot it up,” the authorities said.
Man Is Arrested After Threatening to Open Fire at Atlanta Airport, Police Say
The man, Billy Cagle, 49, was arrested after family members told the police that he was headed to the airport, “in their words, ‘to shoot it up,’” Atlanta’s police chief said.
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 15h
Love that they left in the “Jesus Christ” reply 😂
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Politico @politico.com · 18h
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d
BREAKING: The Israeli army says it carried out an air attack on Nabatieh in southern Lebanon. It claimed, without evidence, that it targeted Hezbollah personnel and infrastructure.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x0ak3z
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 17h
Imagine that call to insurance…
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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
drugmonkey.bsky.social Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
melodyschreiber.com HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 6d
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 17h
BREAKING: U.S. appeals court allows Trump to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 17h
Not Jesus…
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d
This is sick. Several of the MS13 gang members Trump traded to Bukele so he could have access to CECOT prison for deportees were actually COOPERATORS with law enforcement. He betrayed them. wapo.st/4nbNiM4
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 1d
The New York Times has been complicit for a long while now, but this goes beyond complicity to intentional disinformation.
Front page of the NYT, with two pictures of the biggest protests in American history below the fold and with a story page 23.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh
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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info · 2d
Unfrickin believable.

She demands to sign off on every expenditure over $100K that goes to helping people before, during and after disasters but spends almost $200M on private jets for her and her boyfriend?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d
hey this seems bad
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 2d
Smokey the Bear indeed.
Flyer from USDA with Smokey the Bear where he looks buff as hell.
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 2d
All those baseball players from countries the MLB set up baseball camps in to create pipelines for poor and inner city black and brown kids to come get indentured to the MLB. Definitely come pick em up.
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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 3d
haha oh geez wow what a thing to ask for
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d
BREAKING: Gaza's Media Office says the Israeli army has committed 47 violations after the truce deal entered into force in early October, killing 38 Palestinians and wounding another 143 people.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nuq6mi
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
Ohio’s @RepDaveTaylor now says his office was “targeted”, claiming others were too (nobody backs this up) 🙃

Beyond parody. Couldn’t make it up if we tried. They also claimed it was an optical illusion. 🤔

Boy do they think we are all morons.
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 3d
Oh yeah. Or library card monitoring. Often surprised at how pissed people get about this
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 3d
For the first time since 1995, a federal shutdown has come for the federal courts. By the terms of the Anti-Deficiency Act I'd argue enough staff should be kept on to ensure timely litigation of habeas petitions filed by ICE detainees, but not hopeful about that

www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...
Judiciary Funding Runs Out; Only Limited Operations to Continue
The judicial branch announced that beginning on Monday, Oct. 20, it will no longer have funding to sustain full, paid operations.
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