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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 6h

I would’ve assumed Uganda and South Sudan first tbh because of earlier so-callled extraordinary rendition by previous US administrations

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 7h

Can’t wait until the music mini lecture where I play sirius by APP

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 7h

he looks like my son and I cannot unsee it

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 8h

FYI: www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/af...

Bundase Training Camp in Ghana

Bundase Training Camp (BTC) Ghana Armed Forces (GAR) Directorate of Public Relations [email protected] + 233302774511

www.globaldetentionproject.org

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 8h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

US immigration: Deportees sue Ghana's government over 'illegal' detention

Despite opposition to the deal, Ghana's president says 40 more deportees will arrive from the US.

www.bbc.com

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 8h

Accra. Accra?!

ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 8h

An ICE deportation flight (OAE3710) just departed Baltimore, MD for Accra, Ghana. It originated from Phoenix, AZ, and stopped in El Paso, TX before landing in Baltimore. ICE Flight Monitor is actively monitoring and will update here.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 8h

why_not_both.gif

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Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 12h

ICE was once again a presence in Evanston and Rogers Park this AM, with masked men taking multiple members of our community off the street. Here are a few things you can do right now to stay safe and help protect your neighbors

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 9h

Yikes?!

Mare @maread.bsky.social · 11h

Evanston? And Rogers Park? What cowards! They’re not even going to where there’s a concentration of criminals who are here illegally.

I hope no one wears the Bulls logo, since they mistake that for MS-13 gang paraphernalia.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 9h

Girlboss fascism

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 10h

If you haven't heard yet, stopice.org is a fake website made BY ice themselves and it would be a shame if they received thousands of submissions under Stephen Miller's name

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 10h

Well, since I’m anthropologist…

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 12h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 10h

really need to do some re-education on what constitutes 'empirically sound' research, or what this even means

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 12h

yeah. so I was going to recommend some duct tape over those vents. Or these: Sellstrom Odyssey II Wildland Fire Safety Goggles, which have no venting.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 17h

I want a functioning government and a strong public sector but a lot of government work is violence work and that part needs to change.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 13h

also: they're not walking away from that paycheck

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 14h

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 13h

there's a version of those goggles that look like sports sunglasses (with UV protection, natch), if you're looking for slightly more inconspicuous eyewear.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19h

Key to understanding Vought’s worldview is the idea that the constitutional order - and with it the “natural” order itself - has been destroyed: The revolution has already happened, “the Left” won. Therefore, conservatives categorically err when they try to preserve what is no more.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

You should read this by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social if you haven't already done so: organizingmythoughts.org/the-emergenc...

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 14h

For some reason, I was moved to do some research on eye protection.

Ophthalmologists
www.aao.org/eye-health/t...

These seem like good goggles, based upon info from specialists, and according to criteria like cost and being 'low-profile':
Dewalt DPG82 Concealer Anti-Fog Dual Mold Safety Goggle.

Eye Safety During Protests

Protesters who take to the streets may come under fire from rubber bullets, projectiles, tear gas, pepper spray or paintball guns. Here is what the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends if your

www.aao.org

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