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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 4h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 11h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 5h

I'm so angry at Fenway Health for capitulating to Trump's threats. I sent them a harsh email yesterday.

I know individuals with far more to lose who are braver than so many privileged people are and will STILL speak out- willing to risk it all by merely doing that.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 3h

Like this “poem” was almost added to the Congressional Record nearly 30 years after it was first circulated because the First Lady hosted a Black woman at a tea party for Congressional wives. This poem was written and circulated in the first place because Booker T Washington visited the WH!

Niggers in the White House - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 5h

one thing white people love is pretending we're going to be The Generation That Ends Racism

clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 14d

every generation treats the social progress of the previous one as the baseline and so every generation thinks they're more progressive than their parents, but we're not, it's always, always been about fifty fifty on whether *more* progress would be either good or the beginning of the end of society

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.

Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Article excerpt: Emily said she made clear the family didn’t have Venezuelan passports but was told that wouldn’t be a problem; the U.S. government would procure any necessary documents for them. They said the operator gave them an Aug. 1 departure date and told them to expect their plane tickets by email.

Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved with their children to Columbus, Ohio, where Deybis’ nephew let them stay in his unfinished basement apartment until their departure. The plane tickets never came.

Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported. Panicked, Emily and Deybis said they called the toll-free number again and again, leaving messages that went unanswered. Emily submitted a new application and sent more emails.

Article excerpt: ...They found travel agencies that offer to procure travel documents at a cost but said they were told the Venezuelan government requires an arrival date and proof that plane tickets have been purchased. Emily and Deybis can’t afford them.

“Thank you so much for your patience and we understand your frustration,” they heard back in another email. “Wait for new instructions from DHS.”

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

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queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 4h

there’s these queers that assembled a little land project in the mountains a few hours away that’s all fragrance free and covid realist. maybe i need to move there.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 7h

Shit, you don't domesticate boars because they're good eating necessarily, you do it because putting them in a pen is basically the only thing that stops them from killing everyone in the tri-barony area.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6h

Feds have got until midnight tonight to take down the fence in front of the Broadview ICE facility, per a recent ruling from district judge LaShonda Hunt.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 7h

Not sure what’s up but this flatbed with what appears like more fence materials has pulled up outside Broadview.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 7h

“The best man is just an average woman” gets proven to me every damn day on these here internets

𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒚 grace @acab4cutie.top · 7h

an angel loses its wings every time a man gets praised for doing something the average woman does every day

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

Remember the Trump administration's unsuccessful Labor Day effort to expel children to Guatemala?

The lawyers filed an amended complaint today, expanding the scope of the litigation — reflecting the long-term goals of the administration to do the same thing with kids from many countries.

INTRODUCTION
1. This is a complaint on behalf of hundreds of children at risk of unlawful removal
from the United States.
2. Plaintiffs are unaccompanied minors in Office of Refugee Resettlement (“ORR”)
custody whom Defendants have sought or are seeking to remove from the United States in clear
violation of the unambiguous protections that Congress has provided them as vulnerable
children. Defendants have unlawfully claimed the power to expel these children, in violation of
the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (“TVPRA”), the Immigration
and Nationality Act (“INA”), and the Constitution. Plaintiffs seek to represent a class of
unaccompanied children who are or will be placed in ORR custody and who do not have a final
order of removal or grant of voluntary departure by an immigration judge

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 16h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 9h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Margaret Manto @margaretmanto.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: Mental health workers supporting CDC employees after the August shooting at the agency's headquarters were among those laid off last week.

Read the story here:

www.notus.org/health-scien...

‘A Kick in the Mouth’: Trump Administration Makes Staffing Cuts to CDC’s Safety Office Months After Shooting

The cuts were made to an office whose role includes providing mental health support for employees affected by the August shooting at CDC headquarters.

www.notus.org

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8h

I checked, and Mercury is not in retrograde. This is just how things are now apparently.

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queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 7h

i’m beyond upset about fenway health ending access to trans care for some folks.

wtffff

they’re the only ones who would see me when i was having a medical crisis. they saved me from a lot of complications and pain.

they’ve done so much for boston’s public health.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

So that was a lie. Fenway health in Boston just eliminated access for trans youth.

Dallas is their Executive Vice President of Donor Engagement and External Relations.

Dallas Ducar @dallasducar.bsky.social · Sep 4

Massachusetts is standing strong. While many states across the country have restricted or even banned access to healthcare, Massachusetts has not backed down.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 8h

Hi hello I am an American citizen with a very intense knowledge of the first amendment.

Apparently people who are not American cannot say Charlie Kirk "devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynist rhetoric."

I fact checked it.

Charlie Kirk devoted his life to that.

Jail me.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

There is well established case law showing the law Newsom vetoed is unconstitutional. The most on point is Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786 (2011) supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

Brown, et al. v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. et al., 564 U.S. 786 (2011)

Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.: The First Amendment extends to video games because they are a form of communication.

supreme.justia.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8h

Gavin Newsom is a shitheel who should never be president, but the legislation he vetoed was unconstitutional, poorly written, both underinclusive and overexclusive, a severe privacy infringement for adults, and would have done nothing but cost California lots of money in court (to lose)

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The Antifa Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 8h

Just waiting for that first DHS agent to quit on the spot during a protest, strip off his gear and join the other side, and become a national hero

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queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 8h

oh man every time any neighbor does laundry i can smell the fragrance.

i really wish i weren’t so sensitive.

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