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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 11h

Even more outrageous is the indifference of news media and the supposed opposition party.

America is at war the sooner we actually accept that the better we fare

Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely insane that the President of the United States has sent militarized secret police to attack multiple American cities, all at the same time.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

they do this all of the time. They beat people and arrest them for celebrating.

Samhain Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 18h

Anyone who celebrates the release of a prisoner will be considered a target for "punishment and arrest" by Israel. Are you fucking kidding me?

Israel warns West Bank Palestinians against celebrating prisoners’ releases

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www.timesofisrael.com

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 9h

Minneapolis / St Paul let's rise to the occasion

Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 14h

So much of what this country is... is contained in this story.

Read it, be angry, and donate.

(via @releasemn8.bsky.social over on IG)

Donate to Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!, organized by MN8 Team

Calling for support towards a Hmong community leader and his famil… MN8 Team needs your support for Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!

www.gofundme.com

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 8h

Probably best for everyone.

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 9h

There are obvious issues here, but the buried one is how cops react and everyone is just “oh yeah don’t make these jokes” not “holy 💩 that’s an overreaction”.

Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 9h

Uh can we talk about houseless people in peoples homes “causing a SWAT response”? Like I dunno, maybe the issue is law enforcement?

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

www.theverge.com

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Desert Johnny Resists ✊ @desertwolf.bsky.social · 9h

This is the way

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 9h

State crafts come equipped with thermal imaging. Don’t. There are better options.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 17h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

A reason why we got here is that the media stopped reporting facts and replaced reporting with making everything a reality tv show where contestants fight one another. It turned lying from a liability into an advantage since it would no longer be punished

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

There's actually no real legal justification for DHS aircraft flying around without their ADS-B transmitters on. The exception for national security affairs is explicit in that there must be a genuine, actual threat to the aircraft/mission to permit it

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 9h

OK, but what if we did though?

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 18h

It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 14h

All these changes don’t improve store operations, decrease wait times, improve staffing, or bring customers back… they just make baristas’ lives harder.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 13h

i wonder if it will pop off when normies realize police were never actually accountable to elected officials or if everyone will just shrug all the way to extinction

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 13h

People need to understand that protesters are risking their lives and personal safety for the good of their communities, societies and their own country.

What is happening in the US is absolutely brutal.

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 9h

Uh can we talk about houseless people in peoples homes “causing a SWAT response”? Like I dunno, maybe the issue is law enforcement?

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

www.theverge.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10h

The replies to this thread prove that people of all walks of life find science fascinating

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 11h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 12h

I just block anything questionable from time to time, but I might be odd.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12h

Ribbit.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 14h

There are cases where you get to do good, and then there are cases where you get to mitigate harm, and then there are the cases where the law and system are so racist that your client has nothing but bad and/or insulting options and you wonder just how damned you are for even being a part of it.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.

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Franca (Ph.D.) 🇨🇦 @francaqc.bsky.social · 13h

USians, you won't be alone on October 18th.
There are "No Tyrants" demonstrations in various Canadian cities as well: Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver, etc.

It can't be "No King", since Canada is a Constitutional Monarchy: meaning would thus be different. Our king doesn't intervene in politics.

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 19h

This is my most anticipated book release literally ever if I'm honest.

We need these gifts and wisdom so much right now.

Order it for your neighbors.
Do they also need a copy of Let This Radicalize You?

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 14h

So much of what this country is... is contained in this story.

Read it, be angry, and donate.

(via @releasemn8.bsky.social over on IG)

Donate to Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!, organized by MN8 Team

Calling for support towards a Hmong community leader and his famil… MN8 Team needs your support for Urgent Support Needed for a Hmong Family in Threat of ICE!

www.gofundme.com

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 19h

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

ICE hit our area hard again today. I spent the morning and afternoon on patrol, and then came home for Understory, the emotional and spiritual support group for activists I co-facilitate. @tanuja.bsky.social was going to cover for me, but I decided I needed to be there, for my sake. I was right.

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