Zig

Zig

@taralzig.bsky.social

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Have to be clear just how dangerous this is. If it continues, it effectively removes constitutional rights from an entire class of people. Imagine you had to fear that if you criticize the regime, any error on paperwork filled out by your family decades ago could be used to strip your citizenship.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

KRISTI NOEM: I'm confident Ilhan Omar will finally be held accountable for her crimes? BENNY JOHNSON: What are those crimes? NOEM: When people apply to come to this country, if you go back and find that anything could be wrong or misrepresented, that's when it voids or cancels their citizenship

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I do just want to note as everybody appropriately freaks out about this that Democrats have consistently abandoned Omar as she has faced slander, bigotry, and threats to her life.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

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It's the height of presumptuousness to think you can toss a vulnerable minority overboard in an effort to win, then still feel entitled to their vote. Politics is about making decisions. When you cut loose Muslims or transgender people, they shouldn't vote for you. And you shouldn't cry about it.

Oh, boy. This USS Lincoln story just keeps going.

PBS News@pbsnews.org

The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon fired him, along with the military newspaper’s publisher and a reporter.

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Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick. (Published February)

propublica.orgThe Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention CenterProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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Don’t just scroll LinkedIn. Alan Page used Claude to find company career pages and Claude Code to build his own daily job scraper. #intothemotaverse

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Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov

I got to know Senator Lindsey Graham traveling with him abroad in Afghanistan and Ukraine. We had just met to renew the fight for our Big Tech bill. Even though we disagreed on much, he was always willing to negotiate, with humor and wit. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

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"…as of July 2025, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional, as part of scaling back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried that it could make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks."

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Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

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I hope Americans are prepared for a very violent future. If we do not do something about this President and his threats/actions then we will not have peace. Globally we will be ostracized even after he is long gone. I don’t think people realize how bad this is.

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This is nuts. The only reason to do this is the cruelty and the racism. It will actively harm the U.S. economy. We're not talking about undocumented migrant workers here. These are legal PERMANENT residents.

Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.

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The whole world isn't on fire, but some tankers and Gulf oil infrastructure are. Iran did that, not the New York Times. And it doesn't take much military capability to accomplish. I hesitate to ever say something like this, but... are we confident Fetterman is still capable of recognizing reality?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Fetterman: "Iran doesn't have any military capables left other than just a random drone here and there trying to produce chaos, and have that get amplified and platformed in the New York Times and whatever to make it seem like the world's on fire, and that's just not there"

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HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

ms.nowDark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidateProgressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

Man, this sums the situation up so, so well.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

Greatest thing on Bluesky. It’s not even close.

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

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Counterpoint: Limiting how US troops can be used illegally in unconstitutional wars of the president’s own choosing *IS* supporting “the troops.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops. CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.

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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

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OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

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"Who knew that putting a guy with a Crusades tattoo in charge of the military would lead to an attempt to turn the largest military in the world into an instrument of his own jihad? Besides everybody, I mean?"

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Primer 101 on US-Iranian tensions. How did they start? 🧵 It’s important to know a couple of points: * Iran sits between Iraq and Afghanistan * Iranians are _not_ Arabs (neither Iranians nor Arabs appreciate this confusion)

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This is a result of: 1. The passing of the World War II generation 2. Abandoning the continuous fight against anti-semitism and replacing it with Israel-first advocacy by groups like the ADL

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

antisemitism among young people is: -heavily rewarded on tiktok and other youth-heavy social media -not confined to any one ideology -often directed explicitly at jewish people and jewishness, not israel

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To give you a sense of how Georgia Democrats are doing, North Carolina Democrats are running candidates in all 170 legislative districts and all 14 congressional districts this fall

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