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8647th Aerial Sandwich Brigade
@mrstorage.bsky.social
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Optimist, exiled Masshole, Cal Bear, Air Force brat, family guy and retired IT geek. Been fighting the good fight since VISTA days in Kansas City.
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shimanti.bsky.social
It's 25 days past the deadline to release the Epstein files.
January 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
The only thing that can stop Trump are free and fair elections in 2026. In the last two weeks he has suggested they be canceled and the ballot boxes seized.

As a lawyer, I will fight this in court. Just as importantly, I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
January 17, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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womenriseup2026.bsky.social
#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
January 17, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
I want Democratic politicians who sound like Mamdani, not like Newsom.
brian-goldstone.bsky.social Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 7h
This isn't housing policy per se, but in a city where infant care averages $26k a year, universal child care would function as a massive, de facto housing subsidy—freeing up roughly $2,100 a month for rent.

More politicians need to grasp this: when it comes to "affordability," it's all connected.
Why universal child care is closer than ever in New York
One of Zohran Mamdani’s most expensive ideas has surprising early momentum.
www.vox.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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reptedlieu.bsky.social
The statute of limitations for violations of federal law is 5 years.

Your photographs, videos, and livestreams can be used as evidence in future cases.

So while this Administration may not hold anyone accountable, a future Administration will.
January 16, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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marianherra.bsky.social
a picture of two men with the words release the epstein files below them
ALT: a picture of two men with the words release the epstein files below them
media.tenor.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
CBS is now the go-to media outlet for the Trump regime to launder their propaganda.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
January 16, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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womenriseup2026.bsky.social
#Epstein
January 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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mrjoncryer.bsky.social
Absolutely impeachable corruption.
January 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Useful idiots learn their usefulness was temporary and conditional.
michaelcaley.bsky.social Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 10h
this is a rollicking great read

it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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jeisinger.bsky.social
Tired: Committing fraud, getting a Trump pardon

Wired: Committing fraud again, getting a Trump pardon again

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
January 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
The Trump Administration treats its supporters and donors as above the law, able to violate your rights with impunity.

Treat them accordingly.
January 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
Trump has:

- Illegally & unconstitutionally attacked Venezuela

- Provided Netanyahu with $12B in arms sales

- Given Argentina's president a $40B bailout

- Approved the sale of jets & tanks to Saudi Arabia

- Given Qatar an Air Force facility in Idaho

America first? Really?
January 10, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
August 20, 1939

Cartoonist Clifford Berryman

"It's a good act but it's hard on the spectators..."
January 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
Weiss is much like Trump in that she's both consistent in character yet somehow always tripping upstairs to her next, bigger grift.
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 11h
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 16, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“There is a lesson here about dealing with autocrats and it is a simple one: Live not by lies.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-nob...
Trump's Nobel Peace Lies
María Corina Machado was given the choice between dictatorship and dishonor. In the end, she will get both.
www.thebulwark.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
ICE has shot a mother in the face, put a 16-year-old in a chokehold, and permanently blinded at least two protestors — and that’s just some of what we know.

And now this. Despicable.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
This is an occupation.
anamariecox.bsky.social Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 10h
"A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas... around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night."

They were driving home from a son’s basketball game.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas and stun grenades around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night. Shawn Jackson and his wife, Destiny, both 26, said they were driving home from a son’s basketball game when the family found themselves caught in a clash between protesters and federal agents in North Minneapolis. The couple sensed the encounter could quickly spiral out of control, they said, but when they tried to turn their car around to exit the blocked-off street, they were surrounded by federal agents. “From the side, the front and from behind me, it was nothing but ICE,” Mr. Jackson said in an interview on Thursday. One agent told the couple that they needed to get out of the area. Ms. Jackson said she and her husband responded that they were trying to do exactly that, but their path was blocked by agents coming up the street. Then, agents let loose on the crowd, the couple said. The crowd-control grenades went off around them and one tear gas canister rolled beneath the car, Ms. Jackson said. A concussive blast — from the tear gas canister or another device, she wasn’t sure — rocked the vehicle, she said, setting off the airbags and trapping the family as acrid smoke billowed around.
January 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
In this week’s newsletter, I discuss my own despair at the political fecklessness of the opposition party, but take solace in the fact that the people are leading.
In @thenation.com
It’s Official: The People, Not the Politicians, Are Leading
In this week’s Elie V. US, our justice correspondent explores the fecklessness of the Democratic Party, MAGA racism, and fighting despite unwinnable odds.
www.thenation.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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strictlychristo.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped 4 members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, released one, and now "can’t locate" the other three.

America is at a legally impossible state where Native Americans aren't even considered Americans by ICE anymore.
January 16, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
The law is pretty clear that though the ICE officer could make whatever demands he wished, Renee Nicole Good was under no legal obligation to comply with them. This flows from several considerations, most prominently that US citizens are beyond the jurisdiction of ICE agents.
Was Renee Good Obligated to Comply With an ICE Agent’s Orders?
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Reporters need to ask Trump at every press availability why he's breaking the law and covering up child rape by not releasing the Epstein files.
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM