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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 11h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

we need to abolish this shit

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 10h

Why not just order a bunch from one place?!

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Amir Talai @amirtalai.bsky.social · 10h

whoa

@samhaft.com @vivziepop.bsky.social
#Haztober

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 12h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 13h

Many migrants who agreed to self-deport for a flight and bonus promised by DHS never received tickets or payment, ProPublica found. One Venezuelan mother, whose partner was detained, waited months after giving up her home and pulling her kids from school—only to sink deeper into poverty.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 14h

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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Lila Everywhere All At Once 👀🏳️‍⚧️ @lila-satori.bsky.social · 16h

Special thoughts today to those who can't come out YET.

I know it in my bones. One day every single one of us will be out and free. 💓🏳️‍⚧️

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lynds 🎀 @folktaylore.bsky.social · 18h

even if taylor was 100% straight (lol), there's no way she would hate gaylors bc we're the only subsect of her fandom that's capable of decentering men while interpreting her music

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18h

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 19h

Thinking about her

A black cat staring back at the camera. It's standing on a driveway with a wall of foliage in the background.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 1d

Hey quick question are we doing good as a country or

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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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 20h

I watched a video yesterday that pointed out that Palestinians had to *negotiate* for the end of the genocide they were suffering. How are we to celebrate the victims of a genocide having to *compromise* with the people killing them?

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 1d

"Why aren't the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?"

If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he'll attack the kid again.

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 20h

Look, I unironically listen to what has been classified as "divorced dad rock". Literally nothing could make me embarrassed about being a Taylor Swift fan.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 22h

"Why I left the left" stories are genuinely so funny because it's always "they wouldn't let me be an unabashed bigot towards x minority so I decided that human rights are evil actually"

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 22h

Based?

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 22h

Gaming is Islamophobia but we're not ready for that conversation.

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 23h

I'm wearing a cashmere sweater, laying on a flannel sheet, while my cat rubs and purrs against me

"Soft" doesn't even begin to describe what I'm feeling right now

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

Just found out that my town is apparently doing trick-or-treating on the GODDAMN TWENTY-THIRD?! WHAT IN THE GODDAMN FUCK

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

Okay hear me out: "Wood" is about strap

rachey @factoryfemme.bsky.social · 1d

Love to see Franchesca getting love on this app 💞

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 2d

They should invent a way for women to have gay sex with men

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