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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 26d

New release for ICE Detention Facilities scraper v 1.1.0-alpha1, a python script greatly enhanced. Now can collect prisoner data on each facility, carefully matched addresses & more. new contributor overhauled everything in detail. Volunteers tested!
Release notes:
github.com/Open-Securit...

Release 1.1.0-alpha1 · Open-Security-Mapping-Project/ice_detention_scraper

Large rewrite of the ice_detention_scraper, many thanks to @johnseekins and a couple volunteers who tested the many new refinements and additions. This brings us up to more than 190 facilities, man...

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 23h

You might think Ryan is exaggerating but I used to go to a regular dinner that gradually got taken over by young Republican staffers and I promise you he is not.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

We're told at least one person was arrested—and later released with a citation for disorderly—by Broadview police for simply being on the Maywood side of 25th at Harvard St outside the ICE facility this morning.

They were documenting agents coming and going as electeds have told people to do.

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 23h

Nationwide Backlash Brewing Against Big Tech's Energy-Devouring AI Data Centers

America's biggest tech firms face backlash over energy-devouring data centers for AI. Opposition grows as communities push back on environmental impact.

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Richard @darklighter.bsky.social · 23h

Every photo in this article:

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h

it is funny but also makes some sense. racism is going to have obvious appeal to hideous losers who otherwise lack any sense of self worth bsky.app/profile/dark...

Richard @darklighter.bsky.social · 23h

Every photo in this article:

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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 23h

the martial law segment in Patlabor 2 is an all timer

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 1d

Mamoru Oshii planned it. A young Satoshi Kon took the lead on its layouts. The result: a stunning moment from Patlabor 2.

We're looking inside the film's martial law sequence, including storyboards and production art:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/life-under...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 1d

every time protecting a handful of jillionaire bond holders and sticking the taxpayers

🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

I never regret the time I spend reading.

Free link: archive.ph/AXByl

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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 1d

all these weird old laws, including the insurrection act, and the one that bans communists in general, really need to be repealed. leaving these things around for the most unhinged executive branches to beat people over the head with is negligence

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 1d

keep an eye to see if any of these other remunerated influencers besides pakman are going to peddle this kind of left punch nonsense www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 1d

ACAB except for the crusader knight that arrested Christopher Columbus lol

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 1d

I know this is only one man in this clip but Ive spoken to him when ive been otg and he said he’s from the area. i also talked to many young Black and Brown folks at Broadview, many of whom rode bikes/skateboards. These folks arent riding in from far away.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPvB9ox...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, AI bros are pushing outrageousness (“casting” beloved dead performers, inventing AI actors) because they are hemorrhaging cash and need the buzz. Ignore.

a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

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marjtroyer.bsky.social @marjtroyer.bsky.social · 2d

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

I posted about this on X, and Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, QTed me to say the kid was actually a hardened criminal arrested with a knife and a gun.

So far she has provided no evidence of this. I share this to give DHS's response, and for the possibility she is telling the truth.

My original post on X: "This makes NO SENSE. A 13-year-old was arrested by local police for unknown reasons, and then turned over to ICE, which is detaining him far away from his mother — who is going through immigration court, has an asylum application on file, and is legally authorized to work." Underneath that I posted a link to the opening paragraphs of the article and the headline.

In response, DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, @TriciaOhio, wrote: "Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested."

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 4d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 2d

also this style of imagery is stealing from Dees Illustrations, the late conspiracy artist lol

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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 2d

andy ngo is very mad about this development, which is, as usual, menacing and violence in the making .. a dreadful escalation, propagation of tactics (going to spirit halloween) across the underground radical militant antifa network, and so on

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