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Dana Bash grills Bovino to provide any evidence that Alex Pretti "assaulted law enforcement" and Bovino has absolutely nothing
January 25, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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markgongloff.bsky.social
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.
January 24, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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cortezmasto.senate.gov
January 24, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
This. A handful of Americans have the power to stop this NOW, and they are refusing to.
amdjerz.bsky.social amdjerz.bsky.social @amdjerz.bsky.social · 1d
His death is caused by one man and his Republican collaborators. Republicans in Congress could stop this today. Call your Senators today www.5calls.org #DefundICE
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
www.5calls.org
January 24, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
That’s their line now — “ICE must leave this one city.” And what, move to the next one? The locusts are done with these crops, now to the next field? Go cause violence elsewhere, there’s been enough done in MN?
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d
1. ICE must leave Minneapolis.

2. Congress should not fund this version of ICE - that is seeking confirmation, chaos and dystopia.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
Hannah Arendt
January 24, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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maxkozlov.bsky.social
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.

Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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hesterblum.bsky.social
Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:
Generative A.I. This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of Al in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative Al works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writingwriting that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative-requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. We urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences. One further reason to abjure generative Al, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, Al is enormously environmentally destructive.
January 17, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.

The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.

They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.

Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air

Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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nicolefoy.bsky.social
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year

My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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jperkel.bsky.social
Another gem from @lyz.bsky.social in her latest Dingus of the Week (with a bonus honorable mention!)
Right before Thanksgiving, Duffy also offered a helpful solution to the hell of air travel: Dress nicer, you fucking slobs! That’s right. The problem is not airline safety, pricing, or comfort. (What even happened to the investigation into Boeing? I’m sure Sean Duffy told them, “It’s OK, bros, death happens.” And handed them a kazoo on his way out.) No, the problem with airlines is not being upsold every small convenience while you're shoved into tiny seats on flying tin cans owned by giant companies who are extorting you and their own employees. No, it’s that you, a weary traveler, decided to wear sweatpants on your 6 a.m. flight to see your dying grandma because it was the only flight that day that didn’t cost $800 and come with a free punch in the face from TSA. Sean Duffy literally looked at the hellscape of American infrastructure and said, “OK, but what were you wearing?"
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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samd.bsky.social
pretty remarkable that Costco has more of a spine in fighting for the rule of law than many major universities and fancy law firms
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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📣 REPOST: Grouching Towards Enrollment: My 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Guide:

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Grouching towards Enrollment: My 2026 ACA OEP Guide (Updated w/2 more tips!)
Almost exactly a year ago I began my 2025 ACA Open Enrollment Period guide with the following words: This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies ...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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maddowblog.bsky.social
Jacob Soboroff points out that part of the benefit of the protest training taking place in Charlotte is to defy the narrative that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want to use to smear the protests as violent and unruly.
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Meanwhile, consider this.
A GREAT NUMBER of beltway scribes wasted time last fall obsessing abt Nuzzi's sexting life rather than focusing on dangers of electing a fascist.

And now, Condé Nast has chosen Nuzzi over Tean Vogue's exceptional political reporting (and the 5 journos who stood up for it).
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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mollymckew.bsky.social
As ranking Dem and former chair of the House Armed Services Committee, he usually stays in his lane because you save your powder for the defense fights.

When he lays it out like this, we should listen /2
So that's the second thing that a president has: Article II, the inherent right of self-defense. If somebody is about ready to launch missiles at the U.S. or launch an attack, the president does have the authority to strike those people. Drug runners do not qualify for that. And I know —drugs kill-and they do. They kill tens of thousands of people. But it is not the intention of the drug runners to kill people. They're selling drugs, and drugs are a major problem in this country. I happen to think it's as much of a demand problem as it is a supply problem-but it is not a direct attack to try and kill Americans or seize territory in America. And it sure as hell isn't that on a boat off the coast of Venezuela that is thousands of miles from the U.S. And that's the other thing-they haven't presented a shred of evidence that those boats were even headed to the United States. Smith: Yeah and also understand the other connection, as you've seen the stories about Trump authorizing CIA action in Venezuela. I have no independent confirmation of that other than what I've read in the media. And as you see the rhetoric from him ramp up about the Maduro regime in Venezuela, is this really about stopping drugs or is he engaged in a regime change effort in Venezuela, which certainly hasn't been approved of by Congress and certainly doesn't fall under the Article II designation. Trump has mused about how now maybe they may bo hitting targets on land within Venezuela. So he is asserting the unilateral right to start a war with Venezuela Smith: I've not been briefed. I don't know if I'd go so far as, I expect war. But if we, as a country, don't stand up and say, no, President Trump, you do not have the unilateral power to override the Constitution and do whatever you want whenever you want whenever you want to do it-Trump's just going to keep expanding. And look, I'll tie a little terrifying connection in for you here. You hear what's going on in Chicago—and it's going on in other cities as well—but in Chicago, most blatantly, they are literally stopping people on the street and demanding their papers. If they don't have them-frequently citizens, legal residents— are being detained by your United States federal government without any probable cause, articulable suspicion, or any measure, just because they showed up and they want to say it. They are violating our rights individually, and then Trump is asserting his right to use the United States military in any way that he sees fit— certainly in the Caribbean, but also right here in the United States of America. He's trying to send them to Portland, trying to send them to Chicago. How far are we away from President Trump deciding to use the U.S. military to do a kinetic strike on people within the U.S. because he sees them as a threat, by whatever definition he wants to throw out there? I want to say-and I know there's a lot of people on the left and in the Democratic Party who are all over this— but I want to say to the rest of you who are not: come on. I mean, you could not like the Democrats, you could not like a bunch of our policies. Hell, you can oppose the Affordable Care Act, you can oppose a bunch of other things. If you are an American conservative, do you want the federal government to be able to have that type of power-to take away your liberty-whether it's Trump or anybody else?
October 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The SpEd system in this country is set up in a way that families know they're entitled to certain things but also know they have to fight tooth and nail to get what they deserve.

They're tenacious experienced fighters who'll do anything for their kids. These assholes just sucker punched them all.
October 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
It's grifts all the way down with this administration. I'm telling you once again that an anticorruption rallying cry to wash these motherfuckers out of government would be a very successful vision to offer voters.
September 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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centeronbudget.bsky.social
Data shows us that Black women are disproportionately impacted by federal workforce cuts.

Why is this the case? CBPP Chief Economist @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social provides analysis on the August #JobsReport released this morning. www.youtube.com/shorts/3R8t4...
Black Women Have Been Hit Hard By Federal Workforce Cuts According to August Jobs Report
YouTube video by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM