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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe get that trending? That would remedy the problem! 😆

Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

I have so many bridges to sell anyone who buys whatever crap is coming out of this guy's mouth.

Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure the president insisted on it.

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Legal Storyteller @bohemianslaw.bsky.social · 1d

History will remember the institutions that refused silence.

MIT’s stance was a lesson in intellectual integrity.

#academicsky

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 3d

Don't count on the #CDC for evidence-based information about #vaccines these days. But there still remain plenty of other resources for getting that information. Here's where to start.

Where to find accurate vaccine information amidst the CDC’s ongoing collapse

With the CDC no longer a trustworthy source, use these resources to find reliable, accurate, evidence-based information about vaccines.

healthjournalism.org

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 2d

DHS Federal Protective Service is meant to secure federal property but is a weapon to deploy thousands of DHS agents to counter protestors. (See my next post for how they did this in LA.)

A new legal memo shows how far off the wheels have come.

Cities like Chicago can, must restrict work with FPS.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

I will never unsee the videos of insurrectionists beating police officers. And yet all of them were pardoned.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 2d

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

www.favounicorn.com/inflatable-f...

Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

Best to share this on other social media...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

Is this from today?

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw that and was about to take it down. Annoying.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

Also, these are Chicago cops doing the arresting!!! @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

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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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 2d

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

WGN-TV employee released without charges after arrest by ICE agents in Lincoln Square

An employee of WGN-TV was arrested Friday in the Lincoln Square neighborhood, but there have been conflicting reports on exactly what happened.

www.cbsnews.com

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 2d

Well that answers the questions about what TT will look like under new ownership.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Member of the Chicago press gets arrested by
masked ICE GOONS

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 2d

This is terrible news. And of course they went after HHS. It's the Vought and the Brainworm's combined wet dream.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 2d

Point taken. I will just call her Kristi NoSoul.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 2d

Brava!

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize