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Emilie Munson @emiliemunson.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: Immigration authorities are increasingly detaining migrants including kids in temporary holding rooms at ICE and Border Patrol offices around NY for 3 days or more. These spots have no beds, showers, hot meals and were never meant for overnight detentions

www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Migrants languish in ICE, Border Patrol hold rooms across New York

In Buffalo, Albany, New York City, and along the Canadian border, detained migrants are waiting longer and longer in temporary holding facilities.

www.timesunion.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 2d

Shout out to the Naked Bikeride who today ran hundreds of naked people directly through the line of federal officers and effectively blocked them from assaulting demonstrators. Being naked on a bike goes on the list of effective tactics if you get at least 500 of them and the city loves you.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

The people running our major media institutions are not human beings—they're paid mercenaries.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 7d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 7d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7d

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 7d

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19d

Should this man be in any law enforcement position?

Now ask this: do you believe this man will face any consequences for this violent assault on an unarmed, emotionally distressed woman?

We can call in complaints to the DHS misconduct hotline: 1-800-323-8603

www.oig.dhs.gov/hotline

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19d

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"

Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yeahhhhh these people are not interested in actually preventing school shootings

The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

www.npr.org

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Rabbi Marisa James @marisaelana.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm honored but exhausted!! 😂

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · Sep 5

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📢 HANDS OFF NYC
📍 Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, NYC
📆 Sat. Sept. 13
⏰ 12-1 pm

Trump has threatened to send military troops into New York City!

Join us at Trump Tower and tell Trump:
🪧HANDS OFF NYC!
🪧 NO TROOPS!
🪧NYC WILL NOT BE OCCUPIED!

This is a nonviolent Rise and Resist action.

#HandsOffNYC
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Graphic with white background, text is black. Reads Hands of NYC. Image of the statue of liberty

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mamdani on Nadler: Just read that last sentence. Perfect.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 2

My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.

“For more than thirty years, when New Yorkers needed a champion, we have turned to Jerry Nadler—and he has delivered for us time and again. Jerry stood alongside gay and trans Americans when it was politically unpopular, voted with courage—not calculus—against the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, stood steadfast alongside the first responders and families sickened after 9/11, and led efforts to hold a lawless Trump administration accountable. Few leaders possess his record of principled progressivism, and fewer can claim to have made such an enduring impact on the fabric of our city. Congress will be worse off without his leadership, but our democracy will be better for the selflessness that has defined a legendary career.”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents.

It’s unconscionable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit

www.nytimes.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 1

I called this segregationist way back in February: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Sep 1

When it happens: red, white & blue smoke should come out of the White House chimney.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 27

Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 27

It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.

Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · Aug 27

After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton."

Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · Aug 27

1.2 *million* Americans died from COVID before these vaccines were approved and we had widespread access to them.

Reducing access to vaccines that are effective and have saved so many lives isn’t simply anti-science, it’s anti-American.

And people could die because of it.

CNBC @cnbc.com · Aug 27

The FDA on Wednesday ended its broader authorization of Covid vaccines in the U.S., only clearing shots for people at higher risk of severe illness.

FDA ends broad Covid vaccine authorization as RFK Jr. limits access to immunizations

cnb.cx

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Rabbi Marisa James @marisaelana.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you looked up the word "sepal" today, you'll understand: that one was fun!!

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · Aug 23

reposted this today because the inverse is also true:

if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.

if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · Aug 9

the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time.

it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · Mar 7

Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP

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Rabbi Marisa James @marisaelana.bsky.social · Aug 15

100%!!