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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 9h

So much for the "military will refuse illegal orders" Hail Mary...

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12h

The president keeps telling the military to murder people in boats and the military keeps doing it. Crimes, just straight-up crimes internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Trump’s Wag The Dog Moment - CIP

If you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that, unless you believe cartels only own one boat.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15h

"All it took was an international terror campaign run by the government to prove it's natural to be cis"

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 17h

Frying brains online

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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 15h

*UIC* FFS? Institutions can never be trusted.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 16h

UIC advisory to students about immigration threats include carry a student ID at all times and avoid risks like attending protests or gatherings. 🫠

Staying informed and supported during uncertain times | UIC today

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Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social · 16h

you gotta hear him say it. really good stuff here

OsoPeligroso @oso-peligroso.bsky.social · 16h

Actual quote from Johnson:

"I think the most frightening thing I've seen yet are the naked bicyclists."

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I cannot believe we have to take these disingenuous bags of dicks seriously

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 16h

Democratic Party Leadership reading this article and immediately redoubling their efforts to try and win these guys votes while scolding socialists for being Too Extreme.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Puppius Caledonius @skanedog.bsky.social · 16h

Every single word of this was written with the intent of taking the world further down the road to darkness.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 17h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 20h

What unimaginable cruelty to hold out hope then slice it away

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 20h

Israel said it will halve the number of aid trucks entering Gaza to 300 after what it called a “violation” of the ceasefire deal following delays in the return of deceased hostages. No fuel or gas will enter except for essential humanitarian needs.-Reuters

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

We're up to a lot @interruptcrim.bsky.social and our latest newsletter is out: mailchi.mp/interrupting...

Upcoming Opportunities for Community, New Resources & More 🍁

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Fred Beukema @beukema.bsky.social · 16h

Been talking to some neighbors who don't like Frey, but can't get there on ranking Fateh, citing the questions/attacks on his ethics. Other than sharing my distrust of Martha Holton Dimick (author of a recent Strib opinion on the subject), what's a good 3rd party resource for addressing this?

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 17h

Nope. public 'ai' still has all the harms

Aspen Digital @aspendigital.bsky.social · 19h

The public AI movement advocates for AI systems to be publicly accountable and accessible. We've grown the #PublicAINetwork from a small group of academics to an international nexus. How did we get here? @b-cavello.bsky.social and Eleanor Truman tell our story: www.aspendigital.org/blog/two-yea...

Miniature diorama of construction workers at work on a computer board (PCB).

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 18h

“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.“

Lawyer Joseph Margulies on Trump’s weaponization of the law:

The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public - Boston Review

Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.

www.bostonreview.net

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 19h

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 18h

And if you try to exonerate them "for their time," you expose the fact that you don't consider their victims people.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 18h

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4d

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
@TriciaOhio
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She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 18h

Look at the so-called "centrists" who insist on clinging to some long gone strategy of compromise? There is no compromise with fascists.

The American Prospect @prospect.org · 19h

In red states where the Democratic brand is fractured, pro-worker parties may have a better chance of winning running as independent populists. From Robert Kuttner:
trib.al/d7hPeqa

The Damaged Democratic Brand

Could the cure be more economic populists running as independents?

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 18h

This sentence alone is bone chilling. America, you are in big trouble. And it’s not the kind of trouble that a simple election can fix.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

A press conference with the Mayor Everett, Mass. about the ICE abduction of a 13-year-old boy is about to begin. You can watch here: www.facebook.com/cityofeveret...

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 20h

Black Gen X is not ok today...again

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JUCIFER🗑 @jucifer.blacksky.app · 23h

'when you're sick do what you can to avoid infecting other ppl' literally REQUIRES a mask, baseline, once you understand the prevalence of asymptomatic infections and how transmissible they are.

i hope we can get this realitybased/science-based message out in our communities instead of misinfo.

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JUCIFER🗑 @jucifer.blacksky.app · 23h

huge publichealth failure how folx dont know that covid, like other 😷-prevented airborne viruses

▪︎is transmitted by ppl who don't feel sick (accounts for 1/2 to 2/3 of infections)

▪︎damages body each time u get it even if you're vaccinated

▪︎isn't reliably prevented by vax

▪︎stays in air for hours

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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Eileen @eileenart.bsky.social · 1d

Curious what data you are using to make your rational assessment of the threat environment, because all of the actual scientific data shows that this SARS virus remains extremely dangerous to every organ system in the body, regardless of vac status, and more than 50% of spread is asymptomatic.

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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 22h

19 doctors!

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22h

At least 19 Palestinian doctors are still being held in Israeli detention without charge.

Free Dr. Abu Safiya: Calls Grow for Israel to Release Imprisoned Gaza Healthcare Workers

Pressure is mounting for Israel to release many more detainees as part of the U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been he...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

The one thing I can ask of everyone is to go back and listen to old SyFy Sistas episodes and subscribe to their podcast/youtube channels where I know the remaining Sistas are going to keep her spirit with us. You can follow @syfysistas.bsky.social on here.

You should also join their Patreon:

Creating a SyFy Sista Community

www.patreon.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

Today I want to write some appreciation of the one and only Subrina Wood, our Afronaut who is now far beyond the stars.

I met Subrina because she is 1/4 of @syfysistas.bsky.social, which is a barrier-breaking podcast/production company featuring Black women and friends celebrating sci fi.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I’ve spent a lot of this evening in tears because my friend Subrina has joined the ancestors.

May she rest in power. I’ll be writing more later. But for now, my thoughts are with her family, her SyFy Sistas, and all my fellow #Trekkies who were impacted by her brilliant presence.

Two smiling women standing next to a poster in a convention settings

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