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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 1h

Crazy how becoming an adult means learning so many things you believed in, like skeletons, just aren't real.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4h

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 6h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 7h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez

www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...

Chicago ICE crackdown's first casualty, a father of two, had built a quiet life in the US

An agent shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, father of two, during a massive immigration sweep.

www.reuters.com

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 10h

“F**k ICE forever.”

— Chappell Roan at her show in Pasadena

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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, that pretty much sums us up, unfortunately.

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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 8h

"No" is a three letter word.

Ah, AI, always and confidently wrong.

An AI Overview for a Google search for three letter song titles listing No by Kendrick Lamar as a three letter song title.

E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 9h

Someone's not getting a big enough cut of the grift.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 10h

And failed 2010s project with a cancelled cartoon.

I mean, I like Tron, but they should either stop trying to make it work or try to make it work on a smaller budget. Maybe not cast Jared Leto? I dunno.

At least creative people got a paycheck. That's super cool.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13h

The child-kidnapping secret police would appreciate it if you stopped calling them fascists.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 15h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 15h

They could go to the weekly farmers market *two blocks* from the ICE building.

Or check out Kerns, recently named the coolest neighborhood in the country... or any other neighborhood where people walk the streets, go to restaurants, shop, etc, with no fear of violence.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

All they got to do is send one correspondent to Portland and have them drive around the city.

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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 13h

The idea of 'City is on fire depends on your point of view' is so god damn ridiculous. It is or it isn't. We need to get back to reporting facts, not vibes.

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 13h

That’s such a fluffy, sleepy pumpkin 🧡

#art #cozyart #caturday

Watercolor illustration of a bunch of colorful pumpkins, with a beige striped cat sleeping on top of them curled up into a ball, slightly resembling the round pumpkins itself.

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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 13h

If you see that 'rat runs across news reporter's desk' video (not going to link it) it's clearly AI. The most obvious way to tell is the chair changes shape as it spins and it's backward when she sits back down in it.
Sadly we all have to really analyze video before we share it anymore.

E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 13h

Agreed. Though I'm gonna go with if someone is fooled into posting AI shit and then doesn't take it down when it's pointed out I'm going to block them.

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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 13h

But, but think of the clicks!

(But yeah, agreed)

E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 13h

Going to have to give this @vivaldi.com browser a try. So tired of the AI enshitification of Chrome and other browsers. Vavaldi seems to currently have no plans to add AI to their browser. And if they ever do I'll just move on.

vivaldi.com/blog/keep-ex...

Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser

Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of…

vivaldi.com

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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 13h

Never heard of them. I'll give them a look.

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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you for this.

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E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 15h

Well, Sherman is part of America. The lady is the rest of us who have to save them from themselves. Though at this point I vote we just leave them the hole.