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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 4h

2. "I worry that when the gritty cities I love are the focus of attack — and let’s be clear, they have already been violated by ICE — they won’t get the same treatment [as Portland] because they’re not “nice,” even though their people are just as deserving of support."

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 4h

This piece contains a number of thoughts well worth pondering. Sharing just 2:
1. "How does one boycott & strike in a country where the government wants the economy to collapse?"

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5h

"About a decade ago, formerly feuding factions decided to overlook their differences in order to ruin the world."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 4h

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Joe English @joe-english.bsky.social · 4h

At least 17 children – 9 girls and 8 boys, including an infant just seven days old – were killed in an attack on the Dar al-Arqam Displacement Centre in Al Fasher, North Darfur, early yesterday morning, according to reports received by UNICEF.

www.unicef.org/press-releas...

At least 17 children reportedly killed in attack on displacement centre in North Darfur's Al Fasher, Sudan

www.unicef.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

In short, the government had two separate grounds when it ordered him deported years ago:

1. The murder conviction
2. The controlled substance trafficking conviction.

The second one may be what dooms him to deportation — despite the 43 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 20h

What a mess. It is inhumane to put these folks through this stress. Who knows how long reversal will last.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 6h

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 5h

#UPDATE Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Sunday that they killed dozens of each other's troops during a night of heavy border clashes between the two countries ➡️ u.afp.com/SmRo

Taliban security personnel patrol in Humvees in the Mazal area of Shorabak district near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on October 12, 2025

Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a press conference in Kabul on October 12, 2025

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 15h

Had dinner tonight with a friend who’s a middle school teacher in the southwest. They told me schools now have trainings for when ICE agents sweep through schools to take children, and it’s worse than active shooter trainings, because it’s the government kidnapping children.

This is where we are.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 20h

More than 1,000 Israelis have joined forces with a Palestinian-American neurosurgeon to fund an orphan village in Gaza, offering education and care to hundreds of children who lost their parents in the war

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Sponsored by Israeli donations, a village is built for Gaza's orphaned children

More Than a Thousand Israelis Donated, a Group of Activists Headed by American Neurosurgeon David Hasan Went Above and Beyond – and Gaza's 'Academy of Hope' Emerged to Provide Education, Healthcare an...

www.haaretz.com

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 21h

None of this is popular, which makes the whole thing even more dangerous

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 20h

What a mess. It is inhumane to put these folks through this stress. Who knows how long reversal will last.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 1d

Ghana for the win

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Ghana’s foreign minister just posted this to X:

“The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US Department of Homeland Security.”

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
@S_OkudzetoAblak
X.com
The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US
Department of Homeland Security.
We have also followed with satisfaction that DHS has today taken the appropriate steps to inform Garcia's lawyers and amend court submissions to reflect the fact that Ghana cannot be an option for Garcia's deportation.
The Mahama Administration will continue to be transparent and truthful to Ghanaians at all times.
For God and Country E
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LAURA ROMERO
Fri, October 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM PDT|
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 1d

#KeepEyesOnSudan

FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 1d

Au Soudan, une attaque de drones attribuée aux FSR fait au moins 60 morts à El-Facher

Selon une organisation locale, une attaque de drones contre un centre de déplacés a fait au moins 60 morts samedi à El-Facher, dernière grande ville du Darfour échappant encore au contrôle total des Forces de soutien rapide, le puissant groupe paramilitaire en guerre contre l'armée soudanaise depuis avril 2023.

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 1d

America First

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Same day that the US announced a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will benefit Trump's political allies and donors.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

““‘We’ve been together for two years, and my partner is very passionate about the protesting,’ the groom told a reporter. ‘... People can be fun loving people and still protest. We wanted to show that this is about love and caring. We’re caring for other human beings.’”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 1d

Ghana for the win

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Ghana’s foreign minister just posted this to X:

“The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US Department of Homeland Security.”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Ghana’s foreign minister just posted this to X:

“The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US Department of Homeland Security.”

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Steve Saidemonster @smsaideman.bsky.social · 1d

Anne Frank, here in the US. FFS.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

New: Judge Perry's ruling against Texas troops in Chicago is a banger.

1. Invokes Hamilton
2. Rips into ICE for lying
3. Says "law enforcement officers who go into an event expecting 'a shitshow' are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the event prepared to de-escalate it.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

Our classrooms are not safe for us or regular students. Our universities canot be relied upon to protect us. You have to keep speaking up about this. Faculty already are, but we need folks who aren’t in academia raising the alarm for everyone else. The End.

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 2d

A brain drain trend that is likely to pick up at enormous cost for the US

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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