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David Roberts

@volts.wtf

An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.

Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.

ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.

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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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Aaron Parnas

@aaronparnas.bsky.social

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM

Rachel Clifton

@saintsgirl.bsky.social

Dinner and the new Adam Binder book. Perfect Friday evening @drslayton.bsky.social

October 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM

Rachel Clifton

@saintsgirl.bsky.social

Such wisdom and grace

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

May 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM

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Chris A

@alsikkan.bsky.social

February 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM

Rachel Clifton

@saintsgirl.bsky.social

Oh please let this be true

Adam Schefter - Mirror @adamschefter-mirror.bluesky.bot · Jan 14

Deion Sanders and Jerry Jones have spoken about the Cowboys’ head coaching job, as @Schultz_Report reported. Their talks will continue.

January 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM

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Michael

@fleerultra.bsky.social

“we need AI to avoid eating dinner in the pouring rain” is inadvertently a great example of how it is in most practical contexts a solution in search of a problem. i have never been sat in the pouring rain nor seen anyone, because restaurants don’t do that.

January 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM

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SFGATE

@sfgate.com

Bill Belichick is going to coach ... in college? At North Carolina?!? SFGATE columnist @drewmagary.bsky.social knows a forthcoming disaster when he sees one.