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Douglas Main
@dmain.bsky.social
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Writer, environmental journalist, artist, naturalist. Bylines: NYT, Tech Review, The Atlantic, The Guardian, SciAm. Former sr writer/editor at Nat Geo.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 13h
This is fascism. This is a police state. Masked men with guns in unmarked cars are driving through residential neighborhoods during the daytime looking to kidnap women and children.

Resist this. Never normalize this or else these fascists thugs will some day be used against you and your family.
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 12h
Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h
This is what ice is doing
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h
George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 16h
he’s gonna lose so bad
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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 21h
I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20h
there's a secret domestic terrorism watchlist if anyone cares
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/senator-wa...
Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans
NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention
www.kenklippenstein.com
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 21h
Ah, this explains that Qatari air base comment from Hegseth.
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Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social · 22h
Not really. This is a US air base that will host a facility where Qatari pilots are trained to fly F-15. The US also trains pilots from Singapore there www.spokesman.com/stories/2022...
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 20h
Should have headlined this "Bat vs. Robin"

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Bats Catch Migratory Birds and Eat Them in Midair
www.nytimes.com
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 1d
what the fuck!
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
fucking WOOF
Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official
Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.
www.axios.com
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 1d
New bat discovery just dropped

Got a weird one for you here in the @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Bats Catch Migratory Birds and Eat Them in Midair
www.nytimes.com
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 1d
he just… tweeted it out
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 1d
lol, fair
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 1d
oh noooo. man
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 1d
New bat discovery just dropped

Got a weird one for you here in the @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
Bats Catch Migratory Birds and Eat Them in Midair
www.nytimes.com
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 2d
Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d
Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 2d
how many people actually believe there are appreciable (or many) “leftist terror cells” in TX? goddam wild
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 2d
plz just post here, not into the screenshot game
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 2d
Annoying post but I’m not here to read screenshots of tweets … especially from high level politicians who should have the staff to post natively here
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d
Here’s video of the incident
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 3d
Amazing, thank you!!
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