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Ben Elgin
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Axios @axios.com · 2h
Dozens of Democrats running for U.S. House seats across the country told Axios they either wouldn't vote for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as party leader or declined to commit to doing so.
Scoop: Dozens of Democratic House candidates won't commit to backing Hakeem Jeffries
"If there's a contingency of 10 to 12 of them and they're sticking together, I think it's going to really shake things up."
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 2d
This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 2d
Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.
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Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 5d
For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
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Barton Gellman @bartongellman.bsky.social · 6d
Correct. This headline and others, similar, entirely miss the meaning of the event.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d
The prosecutor put in office after the president who wants vengeance against his enemies told his AG that a WH lawyer was the person for the job — despite no prosecution experience — successfully sought an indictment against one of the named enemies, the second such indictment.

And you push this?
Notification Center 22 NBC NEWS Breaking news Federal grand jury in Virginia charges Letitia James, the New York attorney general who investigated Trump's business practices, with bank fraud
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 7d
Nestle stuck it out less than 2 years with the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, and never actually reported its dairy methane emissions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact
The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 7d
Two years ago, many of the world's biggest dairy and food companies formed a coalition to cut the methane emissions from their suppliers' herds.

Nestlé has quietly exited the effort, @benelgin.bsky.social reports [gift link]
Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact
The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 10d
Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
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April Henry @aprilhenry.bsky.social · 10d
My neighborhood today.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10d
"Burning to the ground," I tell ya...
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 11d
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Ben Elgin @benelgin.bsky.social · 13d
Meanwhile, four decades ago....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwS...
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404 Media @404media.co · 13d
New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16d
The ICE officer who was recorded shoving a woman outside an immigration court in NYC was suspended on Friday. And he was returned to duty already today, one business day later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...
ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty
An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19d
NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.

What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

By @tilleckert.com
I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.
I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
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jkes805.bsky.social @jkes805.bsky.social · 23d
I don’t understand why the student who recorded the video gets to stay anonymous? If her conviction is that strong, put your name to it.
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 26d
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27d
These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 28d
We will all mourn eventually. Even the long list of those who murdered our foundational freedom.
R.I.P. the First Amendment, Killed by Cowardice and Greed
We will all mourn eventually. Even the long list of those who murdered our foundational freedom.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 28d
WSJ editorial: "Using Charlie's murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it."

www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
Opinion | ‘They’ Didn’t Kill Charlie Kirk
It insults his memory to blame political opponents for one man’s heinous act.
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 29d
The @nytimes.com responds to Trump's #lawfare defamation lawsuit.
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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · Sep 15
In the Energy Institute blog, Meredith Fowlie is out today with an important analysis of California's legislative accomplishments on electricity affordability as the session wrapped up last week.
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Reining in California’s Runaway Electricity Rates
We’ve led the nation in rate hikes. Now we’re test-driving some affordability fixes. National headlines are warning of an energy affordability crisis, with electricity rates cast as a primary culpr…
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Ben Elgin @benelgin.bsky.social · Sep 14
What happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco

Gut-wrenching tale by Griffin Gaffney:
sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...
Griffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco
The Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed.
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M. Tullius Cicero 🇺🇦 @tulliuscicero43.bsky.social · Sep 11
@willbunch.bsky.social is the number one reason why I am an Inky subscriber and why I can gift you this essay. Read it. He is right.
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Charlie Kirk’s murder is wakeup call for both left and right: We need college free speech | Will Bunch
The Utah campus assassination of a right-wing radical should spark a new movement for free speech...for everyone.
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