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Mom2YellowLabs @mom2yellowlabs.bsky.social · 1d

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 9h

These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Analysis: DHS leans into propaganda with militaristic action videos | CNN Politics

When helicopters descended on a Chicago apartment building last week with federal agents kitted out in military gear, locals saw a terrifying escalation in the federal government’s incursion into Chic...

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Jennifer Shin @jennifershin.bsky.social · 17h

Shame them back under the rock they crawled out from, every single time. If you allow it, they will take that as proof that it's ok. It's not, and it never will be.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 6h

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Bob @definitelyjustbob.bsky.social · 16h

He only wants a Nobel because the Black guy got one.

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says oh yeah

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says oh yeah

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Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 5h

If you all would have included truthful Black History as part of American History, you wouldn't be so "shocked" by what is happening right now. In fact, what is happening now likely wouldn't be happening because you would have been able to see it coming with knowledge of history.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 28m

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Enter the Dragon, fr fr

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Left Of Center Orange Hater @henshinhal.bsky.social · 37m

Military families lining up at a local food pantry due to the government shutdown

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 33m

State school guy here and not somebody who pursued the additional phD pathway, but this MF did all that to embrace some wack job SEAL mysticism and go antivax? Do you, but not when it leads to a grip of folks catching hell due to your philosophical change, yo.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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777NoComment @777nocomment.bsky.social · 1h

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 2h

Monsters. They are monsters. 👇

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 50m

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 9h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5h

I love this image.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 2h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 6h

'I’ve never seen anything like this before': US-bound packages pile up amid tariff nightmare

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'I’ve never seen anything like this before': US bound packages pile up amid tariff nightmare

NBC News reports President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs are pushing UPS to toss U.S.-bound packages with customs paperwork issues.“Thousands of U.S.-bound packages shipped by UPS are trapped at hubs...

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 6h

My mom

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 1d

19. What is something from your childhood that you wish could come back?

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8h

I love it.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceRoots
#NationalHispanicHeritageMonth

Albert Báez was Mexican American physicist who co-invented the X-ray reflection microscope for examining living cells. He was also the father of Pauline, Mimi and Joan Baez, all of whom became musicians and activists. /1

Left to right, Pauline, Mimi and Joan Báez.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 8h

The Third Avenue elevated train in the New York rain, 1951, by Esther Bubley.

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