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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sure she would be thrilled with a high body count.
I think for her, people are things to be used and thrown away.

Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 11h

There is no truth in her world.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 21h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 20h

I don't think the right wing folks ever understood there are other people in the world beyond themselves.
For them, other people are just things to be used and thrown away.
And that's also true of neoliberals.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22h

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 1d

He and the rest of the Republicans have been doing loads of repealing but no replacing.
They want more people to suffer without healthcare.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 2d

The left is not the same as neoliberalism.
The left survives with the powers that be always trying to crush it.
The ultrarich control most things with their massive wealth.
It's the ultrarich who name the song, and we all dance the dance.

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe just maybe none of the ultrarich are good people.

Maybe billions in wealth is too much unaccountable power?

Maybe their greed is so powerful they must get rid of democracy so they can grab even more of the total economy?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

New in PN: He's never "just joking"

"Trump is an aspiring autocrat with obvious physical and mental issues, but Johnson and his Republican cronies are insulting our intelligence about it."

He's never "just joking"

And Republicans know it, even as they play dumb.

www.publicnotice.co

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 5d

Here's an example of it.

globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Facebook amplified Myanmar military propaganda following coup

A month after Myanmar’s military seized power, we found that Facebook’s page recommendation algorithm was amplifying content that violated its own policies

globalwitness.org

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 5d

You left out the owners of the social media sites who make more money by pushing the worst.

That's a huge part of it.

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 6d

He's very aware.
He's lying and acting in bad faith.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's whole world is lies.

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Salon.com @salon.com · 6d

Adelita Grijalva says she’s exploring legal options after Speaker Mike Johnson refused to swear her in, leaving 800,000 Arizonans without representation.

Adelita Grijalva wants to get to work. The GOP won’t let her - Salon.com

Rep.-elect Grijalva tells Salon she's exploring legal action over House Speaker Mike Johnson's refusal to seat her

www.salon.com

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 6d

Also, those folks don't see the lies the ultrarich push to keep themselves in power.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 7d

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Cat Emporium @catemporium.bsky.social · 8d

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 8d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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