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molly taft
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disaster lesbian on the apocalypse beat @wired.com . very tall with a very short dog. pitch me: [email protected], signal: @mollytaft.76. mollytaft.com
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · Aug 20
SCOOP: FEMA is now requiring disaster survivors to sign up to receive aid using an email address - a move that is already putting some of the country’s most vulnerable people at risk of missing out on federal help, employees told me:
FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It
The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 1d
And on that note--I am moving into covering immigration more as part of my beat. So if you're a lawyer/advocate/government worker/etc and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82. We can speak anonymously.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 1d
My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...
Where ICE Has Taken The Most People | On The Grid | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 21h
UPDATE: Emily Wilder was deported to Istanbul today, alongside many of the other flotilla participants, and is safe and hopefully heading home to LA shortly. Thank you so much for your advocacy. More coverage soon!
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d
The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d
thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

heatmap.news/politics/doe...
Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana
A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 3d
no no not at all! i logged off because AI slop is bad, i don't like getting constantly monetized, and we're all getting surveilled all the time lmao
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 3d
the addendum here is that someone at a climate week event the other day said they used to love my tweets and i got a nostalgic dopamine rush from the time when i was a Slightly Bigger Poster. miss that high sometimes
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 3d
it's probably not great for my career (i'm so sorry if you followed me for my Takes! i do miss posting those!) but honestly it's great for my brain. log off!!! you don't have to post anything, really!!!!!!!
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 3d
truly the one saving grace of [waves hands] All This is that i just post less. why would i? what use does it do
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 3d
as a lifelong internet addict it is remarkable how much the past nine months have compelled me to log off
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 4d
Boston Globe follows up on my reporting last Friday, which placed the formation of a new ICE surveillance unit in Vermont.

The Globe asks and answers the question: "Why the hell Vermont?"

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/m...
The department’s outsize presence in Vermont is attributable to one man: former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. For nearly half a century, Leahy steered a tsunami of federal funding to the state, particularly after he became the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee and then the Senate Appropriations Committee. In 1991, according to the Burlington Free Press, Leahy helped bring a branch of what was then known as the US Immigration and Naturalization Service to Vermont. Over the next few years, he brought precursors of the National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center and the Law Enforcement Support Center to the state. “If it can be anywhere, why not have it in Vermont?” the senator said at the time, according to the Free Press.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 8d
the coolest guy in the movie is benicio del toro who gets stressed out not by feds raiding his home but by leo dicaprio wearing shoes on his dojo mat
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 8d
haven’t been able to stop thinking about this movie and all the ways it captures how powerful christofascists are just total fucking losers
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 9d
ok so one battle after another fucking RIPPED
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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 9d
My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 8d
the way open ai is trying to hype its ai slop tiktok actually gives me some hope that users will get sicker of ai generated content than they would if it wasn’t being continually pushed on them
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 9d
i would bet money maya rudolph helped pta write those white supremacist clubhouse scenes
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 9d
ok so one battle after another fucking RIPPED
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 9d
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10d
new @heatmap.news exclusive data shows more than a quarter of americans say they’re currently experiencing rapid electricity price increases that are having “a lot” of impact on their personal finances
More Than Half of Americans Are Already Feeling Squeezed by Power Prices
More than a quarter say they’re being hit hard, according to a Heatmap Pro poll.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 10d
one thing that gives me hope is that judging from tiktok comments sections, reaction imagery meme culture is alive and well even when ai can make you a middling picture of anything you want
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 10d
it’s a great question!! A month would be an ABSOLUTE BLESSING but one week i think is very reasonable. the more time the better basically!
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