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Got any tips and/or tea on the Kennedy Center or anything arts and culture related that you think the public needs to know? Tell me! Email soraya [at] lindabrent [dot] media Or you can find me on Signal at SorayaMcDonald.41
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if it seems like affirmative action for abusers, losers, and hacks who canāt compete on merit, thatās b/c it is
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Prisonculture
about 21 hours ago
Had a conversation with a friend earlier in the week strongly suggesting that she should get off Twitter. I usually never say anything but I have noticed that she is progressively less well. I think that platform is exacerbating this.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
about 2 hours ago
This article details places that are letting ICE use them to help do their operations.
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The ICE Contractor Down the Hall
A tour through the Midtown intelligence firms and courier services that help keep the agency running.
https://www.curbed.com/article/ice-nyc-immigrant-detention-facilities-business-contracts.html
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It's disgusting how much Georgia law facilitates this
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about 3 hours ago
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
about 3 hours ago
If HBO was already pressuring the Pitt TV show to make an ICE interfering in the emergency room story line more balanced, just imagine what's going to happen when the Ellison's take full control.
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/hbo...
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HBO Told āThe Pittā to Make ICE Storyline More āBalancedā
The streamerās top-rated show filmed the episode during its parent companyās attempted merger.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/hbo-had-one-note-for-the-pitts-upcoming-ice-storyline/
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Martha S. Jones
about 8 hours ago
« The historiansā brief ā authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur ā centers on the preāCivil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship.Ā Ā»
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Historiansā Amicus Brief inĀ Trump v. Barbara
Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLPĀ have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trumpās executive order purporting to end birthright citi...
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/historians-amicus-brief-trump-v-barbara
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MBS also mad DJT told MBZ he thinks Aaron Samuels is cute
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Mother Jones
about 3 hours ago
"People who were protected by the laws are suddenly subject to arrest and detainment, possibly for a long time. The scaffolding of their rights is collapsing, and they are now subject to the dark underbelly of Trumpās lawless detention regime."
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How Trump will fill his immigrant gulags
DHS is rewriting its detention rules to ignore the lawāand entrap millions.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/trump-refugee-immigant-ice-detention/
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Ah yes. Americans: famous lovers of organ meats.
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Nate Parker spotted wondering how he too can cash in on his violent misogyny by teaming up with a shrieking artistically impaired wannabe
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Brennan Center
about 4 hours ago
There are major concerns with the large number of children in ICE detention, along with the conditions in which theyāre held. The agencyās massive new funding combined with resistance to oversight and transparency is making matters worse.
bit.ly/4qWSVQ4
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How ICEās Budget Boom Is Changing Immigration Detention
Last yearās multibillion-dollar funding package has allowed the government to put more immigrants behind bars, often in worse conditions and with little oversight.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-ices-budget-boom-changing-immigration-detention
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Abuse of Power Watch
about 4 hours ago
š šššššš, šš: 911 logs show repeated ambulance calls from an ICE family detention center for children struggling to breathe, suffering seizures, or burning with high fevers ā including babies and toddlers.
#AbuseOfPowerWatch
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911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center
EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/911-calls-kids-struggling-breathe-ice-detention-texas-immigration-rcna260595
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Extremely important for USian truth-based media to find and create effective ways to reach people and for people to reach us that are not dependent on black box social algorithms, lest they be artificially silenced. Twitter was the pilot project for this sort of manipulation. It's effective.
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about 4 hours ago
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I wouldn't expect anymore Oscars head-to-heads a la Sinners vs One Battle from a Warner Bros captured by Ellison's MAGA Media Skydance Incorporated. That's exactly the kind of work this merger would effectively smother, because green is *not* the only color that matters in Hollywood
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about 5 hours ago
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Marisa Kabas
about 5 hours ago
Evan nails it here. Committing to being an independent journalist is a fundamentally hopeful position that we can build something new from billionairesā scorched earth, having no idea if it will actually work.
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Josh Spero
about 6 hours ago
You can have no idea where this sentence is going
as.ft.com/r/4860d9c4-7...
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Tyler King
about 6 hours ago
If you can sign up in your district to be a poll worker, do. Itās more important than ever. You can help protect someoneās right to vote.
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I stopped watching since reading
@emilynussbaum.bsky.social
's "Cue the Sun!" and it appears things have only gotten worse and likely a lot more unsafe wrt safety conditions around sexual violence!
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WNYC's
@onthemedia.bsky.social
has an excellent series about this: The Divided Dial!
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about 6 hours ago
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Howard French
about 16 hours ago
One family to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok.
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Molly White
about 22 hours ago
The largest single expenditure from the pro-crypto super PAC network was $2Ā million (of a reported $5Ā million planned spend) to back Barry Moore for Senate in Alabama.
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Molly White
about 22 hours ago
The Fairshake network of pro-crypto super PACs has begun spending its $193Ā million war chest on the midterms, dropping $6Ā million into races across Alabama, Texas, Illinois, Arkansas, and North Carolina.
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Molly White
about 22 hours ago
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) has opened an investigation into allegations that the UAE bought a 49% stake in the Trump familyās World Liberty Financial crypto business for $500Ā million in exchange for a White House decision that granted the UAE access to sensitive AI chips.
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Gabe OrtĆz
about 6 hours ago
"In fact, the articles of impeachment drafted for Nixon stated that he had āendeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed (sic) not authorized by law.āā
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Citizen.Coping
about 6 hours ago
This is how USPS, a critical service provided by the US govtāpaid for with taxes AND feesācan be maliciously withheld or weaponized for the purpose of racial harassment & punishment for success.* If Supreme Court says USPS can intentionally NOT DELIVER mail, consider BALLOTS.
@profkori.bsky.social
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Supreme Court rules the Postal Service can't be sued, even when mail is intentionally not delivered
A divided Supreme Court has ruled that Americans canāt sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-postal-service-missing-mail-7ce97a5b7d56373cdeaa6ecc9a9132f5
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šµ This is how you do itšµ
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"Bextel has spent years pushing against housing mitigation fees in Wyoming, and Driskill noted that she distributed the house floor checks just days before a bill she had publicly supported was set to be heard. Bextel was registered as a member of the press, not as a lobbyist.ā
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Political storm in Wyoming as far-right activist caught handing checks to lawmakers
Photograph shows conservative activist handing slip to Darin McCann and Marlene Brady holding a similar paper
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/wyoming-republican-lawmakers-checks-house-floor
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Eric Geller
about 22 hours ago
āThis is a plot to interfere with the will of voters and undermine both the rule of law and public confidence in our elections.ā
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Emissary Of Night | ŁŁŁŁ
about 22 hours ago
Don't really think this is how government should work but if you're a New Yorker it's pretty unequivocally good that Mamdani seems to know how to get what he wants.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 19 hours ago
The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.
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Ethan Freedman
about 19 hours ago
If news of the media rapidly falling into the hands of right-wing billionaires is disturbing to you (it should be!), you need to be thinking not just about individual reporters you like (or places that tell you what you want to hear) but places that are building a better, organized news future
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Prem Thakker ć
about 19 hours ago
āŖHave any tips or info on Columbia, DHS broadly, or anything related?⬠āŖText me on Signal: premthakker.35⬠āŖYou can remain anonymous ā¬
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emily likes cloth
3 days ago
401,000 people moving state to state in fear of having legal documents invalidated (KS), jail time for using restrooms (FL, UT), loss of access to adult care (dozens) or youth care (dozens even in D-led states), & the message from āoppositionā is still largely āyouāre making too big a deal of this.ā
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ProPublica
1 day ago
We obtained the Dilley detention centerās 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICEās Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1772078403&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Laura Jedeed
2 days ago
Seeing some "fuck Kansas" replies/QTs and while I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment behind the statement, I think a better response would be "fuck, we need to help the people of Kansas" If anyone knows a good way to do that, please put it in the comments and I will amplify
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ryan cooper
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this explains a lot. apparently the BBC promised Davidson that they would edit out any swearing, but despite having a 2-hour delay they didn't do that. instead he was miced up from 40 rows back
variety.com/2026/film/aw...
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John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Touretteās Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: āI Felt a Wave of Shameā (EXCLUSIVE)
John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/john-davidson-tourettes-tics-bafta-n-word-interview-1236671850/
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Greg Sargent
2 days ago
"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations,
@leahlitman.bsky.social
explains them clearly on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2070...
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Trumpās Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell
As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learnedāand lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.
https://newrepublic.com/article/207005/trump-epstein-scandal-takes-damning-turn-dem-drops-new-bombshell
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jenn schiffer š·ļøšÆļø
2 days ago
for folks who are active on x, threads, etc and feel bad about it bc of its stewards but have a hard time letting go: sometimes your behaviors overpower your values online because tech companies hire psychologists & sociologists to come up with ways to put you in that position
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Will Bunch
2 days ago
Here's a story about his death
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
2 days ago
Child, BAFTAs edited everything BUT the racial slur.
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The Overseer Class is now available for pre-order
2 days ago
1) In one of the most personal (and, IMO, one of the most important) essays I have ever published, I wrote in
@literaryhub.bsky.social
on Jesse Jackson's LGBTQ legacy and what he meant to me regarding Black manhood, being born "illegitjmate," and practing love in America
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Jesse Jackson Loved UsāSometimes Before We Loved Ourselves
āBefore they came for us, and woke, and us, and power, they came for Jesse Jackson,ā Kiese Laymon, the author of Heavy and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, wrote just hours after ā¦
https://lithub.com/jesse-jackson-loved-us-sometimes-before-we-loved-ourselves/
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Greg Greene (he/him/his)
2 days ago
The thought lodged in my head ā intrusively, as Iād rather not connect the names of these two people, frankly ā is that Claudine Gay is owed _such_ an apology.
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This is a joke
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Tim Onion
2 days ago
We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
2 days ago
shame is back on the menu boys
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 days ago
Sign up for updates:
linktr.ee/powertothepe...
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makena kelly
2 days ago
While the Trump admin works with right-wing creators, a White House staffer moonlighting as an anonymous MAGA influencer makes it nearly impossible to distinguish official government messaging from 'organic' online support. More here:
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
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A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account
A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-white-house-staffer-appears-to-run-massive-pro-trump-meme-page/
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I hope
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@calllmenadira.net
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The BAFTA Touretteās Controversy Isnāt So Simple. A Black Disability Advocate Explains Why.
John Davidson shouted a racial slur at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo at the BAFTAs. The worst kind of social media storm ensued.
https://slate.com/culture/2026/02/bafta-john-davidson-tourettes-michael-b-jordan-delroy-lindo-n-word.html
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