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Mistress of Public Policy I am renowned for my rational exuberance.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked
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Oversight Dems
about 2 hours ago
Since Trump created DOGE, we have had over 317,000 federal workers leave the government. DOGE has saved no money, but has cost taxpayers $135 billion. Investigating how DOGE harmed the government and taxpayers is a top priority for
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑
about 21 hours ago
I'm just going to say a thing. What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.
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Brandon Bishop
about 2 hours ago
*So* much noise making in this thread about how Science is really neutral. My dudes, RFK Jr. is busily declaring the Real Science is that it's perfectly health to snort cocaine off a toilet seat and that vaccines are poison. The hour is far too late for your silliness.
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🦋 Betsy 1776 🦋 📎
about 13 hours ago
Now is the time to prepare for the next election. Verify your voter registration status. Get your real id, get a new birth certificate. Ladies get a new certified copy of your marriage license if you have your spouse’s name. Help your family members, neighbors & friends. 💙💙💙
go.bsky.app/JusVyFK
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Bodhi Boo🕊️🩵🤘
about 1 hour ago
RNC Research confirms Trump is a pedophile. That’s my interpretation.
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Sean Casten
about 5 hours ago
There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people.
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-uses-usaid-funds-budget-director-voughts-security-documents-show-2026-02-13/
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Ty Young
about 5 hours ago
And yet, it still makes sense.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
about 4 hours ago
We must never normalize these ongoing attacks by DHS agents on the people they supposedly protect. Trump, Vance, Miller, & Noem have created a culture of impunity that has led to rampant abuse and killings. Not one more dime for this lawlessness.
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did you know any Kulats?
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
1 day ago
This whole thread (from a didn’t-used-to-be-immigration lawyer in Minnesota) is worth reading, but I’m specifically sharing the posts surrounding the one for my many health folks. This is what the resistance against ICE is fighting to save people from.
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Guardian US
2 days ago
An Irish man who has been held in the US by ICE for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.
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Ashton Pittman
2 days ago
This would kill people, and they know that.
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Will Stancil
2 days ago
Just discovered yet another severe harm ICE is causing: huge cutbacks at our hospitals, because patients won't come in, because ICE hangs out inside the building or by the doors and abducts people. Crushing our medical system alongside our schools and our businesses.
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Radley Balko
2 days ago
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
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Chicago Tribune
2 days ago
An immigration judge on Wednesday denied bond to a Chicago man acquitted last month of charges he offered money for the killing of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
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Immigration judge denies bond for Chicago man acquitted in Bovino murder-for-hire plot
An immigration judge on Wednesday denied bond to a Chicago man acquitted last month of charges he offered money for the killing of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
https://trib.al/UJ7DfCU
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Christopher Wiggins
2 days ago
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.
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2 days ago
@chuckschumer.com
You better not lose this one. Fight it with every tool you can.
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Kristi Payne
2 days ago
I certainly have no real idea, but I'm assuming the victim looked gruesome enough, alive or not, that they didn't want anyone seeing/photographing/filming the reality of it.
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Andrew Karre
2 days ago
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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Karl Bode
2 days ago
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."
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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos
3 days ago
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss.
#txlege
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Andrea Pitzer
3 days ago
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-the-camps
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COURIER
2 days ago
"If the Trump administration announced it was gutting the workplace protections of the Civil Rights Act, there would be outrage. And yet that’s exactly what’s been happening, but quietly, piece by piece," writes Noreen Farrell, Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates, for COURIER.
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Noreen Farrell: The Quiet Repeal of Women’s Workplace Rights
The Trump Administration is gutting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act without changing a single law and we must bolster our last powerful lines of defense
https://couriernewsroom.com/news/noreen-farrell-the-quiet-repeal-of-womens-workplace-rights/
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Jeff Fecke
2 days ago
The best part of this lie is that "computer" was a grunt-work position for women that involved hand-calculating a *lot* numbers. When computers became machines, women suddenly couldn't math because math jobs paid actual money. Weird how that happened.
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Dave Vetter
3 days ago
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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Craig Harrington
2 days ago
The economy produced roughly the same number of jobs in Joe Biden’s last full month in office as it produced in Donald Trump’s first full year in office.
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GoBlue
3 days ago
⭐️Fun fact: The King James Authorized Bible has 783,137 WORDS in it. Today we learned that Trump’s name is in the Epstein files at least 1 million times. That’s 200 thousand MORE times than the Total number of words in the Bible.
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Bock Sam
3 days ago
Ring has a relationship with FLOCK SAFETY??? For mass surveillance monitored by private companies? Oh HELL NO!!
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Helen Kennedy
3 days ago
I think maybe the remarkable part is that the US Attorney tried to indict six Democratic elected officials (and veterans) who made a video saying that everyone should follow the law.
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Keaton Peters
3 days ago
A deep dive on Puerto Rico’s power grid and reactions from energy experts who are also part of the Puerto Rican diaspora. For
@san.com
The average Puerto Rican spends two days without electricity despite paying three times more than the mainland.
#energysky
#climatesky
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Why did Bad Bunny climb a utility pole? A deep dive into Puerto Rico’s power grid
When Bad Bunny climbed a utility pole during the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, he reminded us that Puerto Rico’s power grid isn’t fixed.
https://san.com/cc/why-did-bad-bunny-climb-a-utility-pole-a-deep-dive-into-puerto-ricos-power-grid/
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awkword
3 days ago
Donald Trump's name does *not* appear in the Epstein Files 38,000 times. Donald Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files MORE THAN A MILLION times
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Trump is in the unredacted Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin alleges
One document recounts that Trump said he "never" asked Epstein to leave Mar-a-Lago.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/trump-epstein-files-jamie-raskin-unredacted
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected
3 days ago
Don't look away while this is happening.
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Anthony Dean
4 days ago
Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files
www.thewrap.com/culture-life...
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Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files Out of 'Safety of Our Attendees'
DinoCon issued a statement regarding the scientists and more named in the Epstein Files, noting they were officially banned from the event.
https://www.thewrap.com/culture-lifestyle/culture/dinocon-bans-scientists-epstein-files/
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Ranger Matt
4 days ago
This should concern us all. You cannot speak of freedom and liberty and then support this regime’s actions.
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ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/concerns-grow-ice-plans-build-mega-warehouses-immigration-detention-rcna257454?media_id=3829157980944276270_63473789560
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The Canadian Scrabble team
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Jess Piper
3 days ago
The SAVE Act is a literal poll tax for married women who changed their last name.
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Clara Jeffery
4 days ago
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution!
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Erin Arlinghaus
4 days ago
Time to call your Hennepin County Commissioner. Journalists, please get on this Find your commissioner
www.hennepin.us/your-governm...
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈
4 days ago
bonkers by every measure & other people in other countries see this shit and take it seriously as well they should. Bizarre & dangerous for party & media & congress to give a pass on acting like this to someone w/virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority. Congress can end this tomorrow.
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Mark Jacob
4 days ago
Trump, who says he had "no idea" at the time that Epstein sexually molested girls, told the police in 2006 that "everyone has known he’s been doing this.” That's according to an FBI interview with the then-Palm Beach police chief. Here's a gift link to Julie K. Brown's article in the Miami Herald.
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Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’
The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article314631578.html?giftCode=940461bb13ae090e3a4349cbb48eb1237bd2c5b171fbf09f7ac9d4d39bd19659
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Laura Barrón-López
4 days ago
Minnesota SOS Steve Simon tells
@ms.now
states now have to plan for “federal interference with our elections” like fed agents showing up at polls “This now belongs in the same category as a power outage, a bomb threat” New reporting w/
@davidrohde.bsky.social
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‘Trump is showing us the playbook’: Officials scramble to protect against election interference
Election officials across the U.S. are taking Trump’s latest threats seriously, bolstering their defenses against federal efforts to block their constitutionally mandated role running elections.
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-election-interference-2026-midterms-politics
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I feel that this costume may include some minor historic accuracies
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
4 days ago
"President Donald Trump’s name was also redacted “in a number of different places,” Raskin said."
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Rachel Maddow
4 days ago
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Apart from everything else – "everything" doing a lot of work here – I find it offensive that the President of the United States is walking in to Lee Greenwood instead of, you know, Hail to the Chief. Or the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Molly Jong-Fast
4 days ago
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People
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