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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · Feb 10

eric adams is a fucking scumbag.

this is a message to all NYers: there is not a single person or group this man won't feed to the fascist maw if it means saving his own ass. act accordingly.

Reuven Blau @reuvenblau.bsky.social · Feb 10

“Mayor Eric Adams gathered his top commissioners and officials early Monday to give marching orders under the new Trump administration: don’t criticize President Trump, don’t interfere with immigration enforcement and trust the mayor.” — via @katiehonan.bsky.social
www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/10/e...

Mayor Adams to Top Commissioners: Don’t Criticize Trump, Don’t Interfere with Immigration Enforcement

After weeks of confusing messaging on ICE raids, the mayor ordered his staff to stifle criticism of the feds and that he alone will make sure NYC doesn’t lose funding.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15h

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 15h

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 18h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 2d

"Israel expects us to feel grateful for obtaining our basic rights to life and liberty — as if they were favors, not ordinary human rights."

I Have Hope for This Ceasefire, But It Can’t Undo Two Years of Genocide

U.S. President Donald Trump said the ceasefire deal marked “a wonderful day for everybody.” Why did it take two years to arrive?

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Zuri Linetsky @zurilinetsky.bsky.social · 14h

Important @attackerman.bsky.social piece for @foreverwars.bsky.social.

And remember:

“even should Trump's 20-point plan take hold, another October 7 will happen. It is foretold by the conditions of Palestinian oppression that the plan leaves intact.

www.forever-wars.com/the-barbaris...

‘The Barbarism of The Enemy’

Notes on the third ceasefire, and prayers that there won't have to be a fourth. Free Marwan Barghouti. Free Palestine

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the trailer for the film:

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Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink – Official Trailer

YouTube video by Stripped for Parts

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 18h

Spring 2025, a Brown freshman "used AI" to list 'bullshit staff jobs' in the univ administration and sent harassing emails to individual employees demanding they justify their jobs to him.

Kid dropped out and now has $5M and climbing to do "anti-fraud journalism"

turnto10.com/news/local/b...

Brown University sophomore exits Ivy League to launch fraud-busting startup

A Brown University sophomore who made national headlines for sending a DOGE like email to faculty has dropped out.

turnto10.com

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Nick Rhodes 🇵🇸 @nickrhodes.bsky.social · 21h

This bit is key, too.
No land border with Egypt means Israel controls everything that enters or leaves.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 20h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19h

US President Donald Trump told Israel’s parliament that PM Benjamin Netanyahu had often asked him for weapons during the Gaza war, including “some I’d never heard of.”

More than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 19h

Donald Trump asks Israel's president to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu

In a speech to Israel's parliament, Donald Trump asked for Benjamin Netanyahu to be pardoned.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18h

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 prisoners and detainees – including about 1,700 people seized from Gaza and held without charge – set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 17h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Secret Third Thing @gochujung.bsky.social · 17h

Not only does this add another layer of protest & free speech repression at Broadview but it also protects the identities & vehicles of ICE, CBP, & DHS agents who use the 25th & Harvard driveway as a primary entry / exit point for abduction operations. Local & state gov’ts continue their complicity.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

Protests at the Chicago area ICE detention center are now being limited only to Beach Street going forward, according to a new executive order that Mayor Katrina Thompson has signed in consultation with the state and county, she says at a press conference this morning.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

Why is this a story? Why is this a bad story for Mamdani as opposed to the cops in the NYPD who shirk at democratic accountability, which seems like a more pressing problem? Why not interview cops excited about Mamdani? Why is CBS running slanted Free Press content w spelling errors already?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 18h

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

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.

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Emilie Munson @emiliemunson.bsky.social · 1d

We heard immigrants held at Border Patrol stations across northern NY often cannot be located or reached by their attorneys, with CBP refusing to confirm their custody. More on these “legal black holes” in @timesunion.com

Emilie Munson @emiliemunson.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: Immigration authorities are increasingly detaining migrants including kids in temporary holding rooms at ICE and Border Patrol offices around NY for 3 days or more. These spots have no beds, showers, hot meals and were never meant for overnight detentions

www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Migrants languish in ICE, Border Patrol hold rooms across New York

In Buffalo, Albany, New York City, and along the Canadian border, detained migrants are waiting longer and longer in temporary holding facilities.

www.timesunion.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

hope that failure to challenge the call at home plate doesn't come back to haunt the mariners. seems like it could loom large in a low-scoring game.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

This really highlights how negotiations between Israel and Palestine are negotiations between an occupier and an occupied people.

Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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