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Stephen Petrey @stephen.nyc · Jan 29
mentally I’m here
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the-downballot.com
Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems.

"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."

Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
stephen.nyc
Video: The Real Cost of U.S. Car Batteries
We followed the supply chain for batteries used in millions of U.S. cars to villages in Nigeria where people are being poisoned by lead. Peter S. Goodman, who covers economics and geopolitics for The ...
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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brunodias.bsky.social
I do want to note Mamdani's transition specifically calling attention to like, people applying for city jobs and how many CVs they got in the mail, etc, because when was the last time you saw a politician actually talk about expanding state capacity other than hiring more cops?
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
stephen.nyc
what on earth could go wrong
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
stephen.nyc
👀
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November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d
$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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dell.bsky.social
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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dell.bsky.social
not sure if it’s obvious by now but i’ve got orders to monitor ICE activity and, as usual, i’d appreciate any help bsky has to offer. if you gotta tip, my signal account is in my bio.

i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.
dell.bsky.social dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19d
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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steadystatevets.bsky.social
Nuclear testing isn’t something you greenlight in a post, but turning national security into a fear show is how authoritarians rule.
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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jonmarkhicks.bsky.social
I think about this a lot.
October 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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samd.bsky.social
after Fetterman and Polis, it’s hard to think of a Dem politician who has torched their own career as much as Whitmer has over the past year
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October 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan. Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know. Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect. Halligan: Yes I do. Off record. Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story? Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
stephen.nyc
🙂
Angel by Alice Phoebe Lou on Apple Music
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October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
so much about this case is judges in extreme distress
"I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur. Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer."
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
stephen.nyc
THIS
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29d
it's so fucking gross how trump and his people talk to reporters, as if we work for them. no bitch, you work for us!!!
October 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
stephen.nyc
> The fake video […] shows the plane dropping a brown liquid resembling feces onto the heads of protesters, who appeared to be gathered in a city.

i cant wait for this loser to bite the dust. Im going to take the whole week off and celebrate his death
Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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mckay4senate.bsky.social
I don't know how we're going to be able to share a country with the people who shackle Christian refugees in front of their children and send them to camps in a foreign jungle.
It was Ms. Ghasemzadeh who sent a reporter the text saying “only a miracle can save us.” She said she was an English teacher who, in Iran, had converted to Christianity in an underground church. According to Iran’s Islamic Shariah law, converting from Islam is considered apostasy and is a crime punishable by death. She left Iran in December, she said, hoping to build a new life in the United States. She knew that Mr. Trump was deporting migrants, she added, but thought, “I’m not a criminal, I am educated, I will show them my qualifications, my conversion to Christianity papers.” Ms. Ghasemzadeh took a series of flights to Mexico, she said, and then headed for the southern border, paying a smuggler around $3,000 to help her climb over the border wall. She was soon picked up by border officials. After five days in federal custody, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said, all the deportees except for the children had their hands tied and their feet shackled by U.S. authorities. Her group was placed on a gray military airplane — more than 100 people from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, China and other nations, according to the Panamanian government. Once on board, an Uzbek women who was with her two young children fainted, according to Ms. Ghasemzadeh and a couple who were sitting next to them. The children were crying. A member of the U.S. military who was on board came to Ms. Ghasemzadeh and asked for her help in translating, because she was asking questions in English. He asked why the Uzbek woman was so scared. “I said it was because we had no idea where we were being taken — can you please tell us?” Ms. Ghasemzadeh said. “He hugged me gently,” she continued, “whispered into my ear that we were going to Panama, and asked me not to tell anyone about it.” On Sunday morning, after another deportee attempted suicide at the hotel in Panama, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said, all glass and sharp objects were confiscated from the rooms. A spokesman for the International Organization for Migration said the group was “facilitating returns where safe to do so” and was not involved “in the detention or restriction of movement of individuals.” According to a senior U.N. official who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, the U.N. was providing Panama with humanitarian and technical support, but the Panamanians were tightly managing the deportees and the process they were following was not entirely clear. The deportees at the hotel will soon be sent to a camp at the edge of a jungle called the Darién Gap, according to Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino. Built just a few years ago to house migrants headed north to the United States, the camp will now handle a reverse migration wave. It is unclear how long the migrants will be held there. In the past, the camp, called San Vicente, consisted of just a few shacks in a muddy expanse, and officials often kept migrants penned inside. Dengue fever is a common danger in the region. At the Decapolis hotel, a man in his 50s with the surname Wang wrote “China” on a window. In a phone call, he said he had come to the United States alone, “for freedom.” He’d left behind his wife and children, he said. Just a few days before, he had crossed into the United States, where he was detained, cuffed and put on a plane to Panama. “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.” As far as his home country went, he said, “I would rather jump off a plane than go back to China.” On the military plane ride from California to Panama, Mona, a 32-year-old Iranian Christian convert, said her 8-year-old son cried, terrified to see his parents shackled. To calm him down, she told him that this was like overcoming the challenges in a video game, and that once the plane landed they would be free. Her son asked if she would make his favorite Persian dish after the plane landed. Her husband, Mohammad, 33, said that throughout the flight, when his wife and son cried, he reminded them about a Christian teaching they often recited. “Jesus has said, ‘If you don’t take your eyes off me, I won’t take mine off you.’ So I was constantly signaling that to my wife, saying, keep your eyes on him,” he said.
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
#NOKINGS

New York City, NY
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
A Vermont lawmaker stepped down following revelations regarding his involvement in a racist, pro-Hitler chat associated with the Young Republicans. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Lawmaker resigns after involvement in racist chat
Vermont state Sen. Sam Douglass will resign after intense pressure from top Republicans in the state.
www.politico.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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thebulwark.com
"Media outlets committed to liberal democracy should take the side of liberal democracy against authoritarianism. Period. The end."
The New York Times and Anti-Anti-Fascism
On the burdens of solidarity.
www.thebulwark.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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dearlstephens.bsky.social
📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump
October 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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texasmonthly.bsky.social
Taylor Bruck, a county clerk in upstate New York, has been pulled into a legal battle that will test whether Texas can enforce its abortion laws in other states. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-new-york-abortion-lawsuit/
How a Local New York Official Became Ken Paxton’s Most Wanted
The Ulster County clerk has been pulled into a legal battle that will test whether Texas can enforce its abortion laws in other states.
www.texasmonthly.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
October 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM