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kim hébert @kimberlyhebert.bsky.social · Oct 14

“She was not an outcast as much as a cast out, a been-gone, a far-away, a woman with a will to be outside of society, a fantasy.

High or low, she could be something she could make up on her own.”

— Thulani Davis, “The Blues Talk Back”

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Encyclopedia Brown @laconicicon.bsky.social · 22h

D’Angelo was only 51. That’s why I don’t trip about being called old. Each year we get is a blessing. No telling how many we get.

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Edm_Dantes @emchi85.bsky.social · 13h

So you feel your rights are better protected by trump? That’s the crux of the discussion b/c there were exclusively 2 candidates.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 16h

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1979: As many as 125,000 LGBTQ+ people and straight allies converge on Washington, D.C. to demand equal civil rights. The National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was the combined effort of a coalition of local and national LGBTQ+ organizations. /1

Activists hold a banner for the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, 1979. Photo credit: Ted Sahl / San José State University Special Collections & Archives.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Edm_Dantes @emchi85.bsky.social · 14h

They were not, to the extent they’re under attack right now.The previous administration never engaged in sweeping raids, disappearing people from immigration court or at work,w/o due process.I’m an immigration atty & what is happening now is absolutely unprecedented.You’d have to go back 80 years :/

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CNN @cnn.com · 12h

New car buyers can expect to shell out an average of more than $50,000 for the first time, according to a report from Kelley Blue Book. https://cnn.it/4odLnaO

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13h

“We have entire families who are destitute because their fathers or mothers have been taken from their work places and they have no way to pay their rent or put food on their table.”

#Pinks

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

LA to declare state of emergency over Ice raids to assist affected families

Move will allow county board of supervisors to provide rent relief for tenants amid immigration crack down on city

www.theguardian.com

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · Jan 22

Yeah, the people who aren't worried are very privileged.

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Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · Jan 22

Also, what's with all the people saying "people say this every election" or "we survived Trump before, we will again". Lots of people did not survive Trump before. Just because you were fine, does not mean that everyone was fine. Like, I'm glad *you're* fine, but other people won't be and need help.

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 16h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 21h

This is the country in which we live, every bit as much as the country that loves the Bill of Rights & their neighbors.

Please stop calling it "un-American." It's contrary to our highest ideals & values, to the narrative we may have been taught, & to what we may want.

But it's very American.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

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
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 4d

Judges order more immigrants freed from #ICE clutches, including 13-year-old boy now locked up with men at ICE's office prison in Burlington
www.universalhub.com/2025/judges-...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

Institutional cowardice.

They didn’t have to fire him, but they could have said this nonsense was wrong.

Instead, they promoted and enabled him.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Let. It. Go. Twitter 2009-2012 is never coming back.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 4d

New Orleans public transit is free all day (Saturday)

Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 4d

New Orleanians, RTA is free tomorrow

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

In plain English:

Troops remain federalized for now, but cannot be deployed in Illinois.

Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/the-trials...

The trials of litigating against Trump

As Trump troop deployments are blocked in Chicago, Trump appellate appointees push back on the order blocking deployments in Portland. And, another Trump target indicted.

www.lawdork.com

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Thad Ochocinco, Active Listener @thadochocinco.bsky.social · 3d

From the people that repeatedly shoot at the Emmitt Till Memorial Marker comes Brent Jones, who was arrested for pissing in the reflecting pool and destroying the eternal flame at Martin Luther King's burial site www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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CNN @cnn.com · 3d

Federal appeals court rules National Guard troops in Illinois can remain federalized but can't be deployed as the appeals process continues.
https://cnn.it/3KIZEOl

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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 3d

‘Bloodbath’: Journalists Report Trump Administration’s Massive CDC Firings Will Be Felt Worldwide

Journalists reported that the Trump administration's massive CDC layoffs would be felt worldwide as "potentially important outbreaks" could go undetected. The post ‘Bloodbath’: Journalists Report Trump Administration’s Massive CDC Firings Will Be Felt Worldwide first appeared on Mediaite.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 3d

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 3d

"For centuries, we have named the vice in which we are held captive. The ? is whether others are willing to know what we know, whether the formations of knowledge and power that enabled this capture can be expected to produce something else-or whether we must rethink existence, world and Earth."

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