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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

Solidarity is the only way

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

The Atlantic is the latest news organization that refuses to sign the Pentagon's new press pass policy.

Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg says the new restrictions violate the First Amendment and the rights of Americans to know how the taxpayer-funded military is being deployed.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

Authoritarianism isn't coming.

It's already here.

@saletan.bsky.social and @monacharen.bsky.social dive in.

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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 12h

From our archives: May His Like Never Be Seen Again.

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From our archives: May His Like Never Be Seen Again

His type should never be seen again. Born from the dark well of swill and advertising, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was always the apotheosis of politics’ worst tendencies: shallow ...

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 12h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10....

Chalmers wielded the axe on his super tax, but the PM's fingerprints were obvious

The treasurer has never been afraid to venture beyond his prime minister with his tax reform ambitions, but on superannuation, he has been pulled into line.

www.abc.net.au

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Jason Copland @mingalabardreaming.bsky.social · 10h

It is pathetic how afraid Australian and UK Labor governments are of the Greens.

If these parties cannot recognise they will need coalitions or preferences going forward, then any successful rise of nuts on the right, is on them.

Be better.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

You can't put a price on this kind of friendship.
www.cnbc.com/2024/09/03/t...

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 15h

SA is showing leadership and common sense by banning AI in election ads.

The Federal govt should follow their lead and protect our democracy from the misuse of generative AI.
www.innovationaus.com/sa-cracks-do...

SA cracks down on AI deepfakes in political advertising

South Australia has become Australia's first state to ban AI-generated political ads and deepfakes aimed at misleading voters, with the changes coming into effect on Monday. Political parties, MPs and...

www.innovationaus.com

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 11h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 12h

Such insight , analysis and great journalism - much needed in understanding the need for urgent justice for Palestinians to bring peace to this near 80 years of occupation, displacement and now genocide which the world watched, including Australia

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 13h

How Israel lost a war by not deserving to win

It is ultimately futile and probably wicked to calculate winners and losers in a war against civilians, least of all on any sort of balance sheet weighing and measuring the value of dead bodies.

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Jason Copland @mingalabardreaming.bsky.social · 10h

Linda Reynolds pursues bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins after defamation win

Not a monster.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 12h

Families are increasingly choosing to forgo thousands of dollars a year under the Family Tax Benefit rather than have their children immunised. satpa.pe/qYbQ2SV

The rising risks of vaccine reluctance

The latest drop in childhood immunisation rates has raised concerns among medical authorities that some communities are losing herd immunity to diseases such as measles.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18h

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 15h

Amelie Szczecinski's paper to the #UNGA recommends that Australia amend the Online Safety Act 2021 (Cth) to require social media companies to be subject to independent algorithmic auditing as a form of regulatory oversight and transparency. #auspol #GlobalVoices #youthvoices

Disarming extremism in the algorithmic age

Amelie Szczecinski is one of six talented young Australians who will travel to the UN General Assembly in New York next week as part of the Global Voices project.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

True bravery!

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1d

A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical election and voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy. I explain what is on their docket and what cases deserve your attention.

Please watch and share.
youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16h

Reporting this piece drove home the value of generational turnover in politics. There's an energy that a 50-something Congressperson brings -- to jump in a car and track down their missing constituents -- that even an equally-well-meaning octogenarian is unlikely to match:

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 1d

Stay Strong !!!
The People are the Power

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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