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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 18h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

Smh, can’t believe we’re still having to have this argument when we’ve all got a better social network now, one where people bother to click articles and read through to the second tweet in threads.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 9h

Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 10h

Working on a theory that, thanks to what Silicon Valley has done to the bay, Portland now exemplifies the imaginary of lefty metropolis that San Francisco did in the last century, the Oberlin of Cities

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10h

Emergency naked bike ride is just a really funny idea

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 17h

Effing goons

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 12h

More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak.

From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.

buff.ly/Ls2m7mv

Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues

Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14h

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12h

Priest Michael Pfelger calls out Trump: “We got a dictator in the White House. He's a fascist who works on bullying, threatening, and intimidating Pope Leo’s hometown.”

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Morm @mormjustmorm.bsky.social · 12h

How is it fake if they got footage of the exchange?

www.aol.com/articles/van...

Vance says ABC anchor focusing on ‘fake scandal involving Tom Homan’

Vice President Vance accused ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos of caring about a “fake scandal” regarding White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday. Stephanopoulos, during Sunday morning’s editi...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

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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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"The Trump administration is planning to detain immigrants at a Georgia jail that became known for allegations that women detained there were subjected to non-consensual gynecological procedures."
#Georgia #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

ICE Will Hold Immigrants in Jail Accused of “Excessive, Invasive” Gynecological Procedures

The Georgia facility gained notoriety for allegations that women received “unnecessary” gynecological treatment, at times lacking informed consent.

theintercept.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

Despite Shutdown Partisanship, Bipartisan Support for a Bloated Pentagon jonathancohn.medium.com/despite-shut...

Despite Shutdown Partisanship, Bipartisan Support for a Bloated Pentagon

The news out of DC over the past two weeks has focused on the government shutdown, as Trump and Congressional Republicans refuse to take…

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13h

Spotted in Oakland

Wrong Way street sign with a crossed-out swastika

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 12h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 12h

Bluesky look at this gift I found for you

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 12h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

As we all know, real activists who achieve real things talk about doing federal crimes on public social media all the time

(do not trust anyone who talks about how cool doing federal crimes is on public social media)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

Police union leaders defending jan 6 after watching what those cops went through should have been the clarifying moment if nothing else (and there had been plenty before) bsky.app/profile/nota...

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

they are not "trying" to exert influence, they ARE influencing elections already.

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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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Matteo S. @matteosmaldone.bsky.social · 13h

Utter trash narratives here, like 7th grade level shit. No wonder you think Bari Weiss is an intellectual.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 17h

The #49ers fascinate me. Nobody draws guys open better than Kyle Shanahan, and their defense plays so headlong. But they lead the league in hurt and heartbreak.

Matteo S. @matteosmaldone.bsky.social · 13h

This is kind of trash person and trash views that @sallyjenx.bsky.social is busy extolling today. No wonder she was assigned to the sports section when she worked at the Washington Post.

Fascist editor at CBS News publishes smear article against NY gubernatorial candidate Mamdani. Says he is hated by police and that NYPD will quit if he is elected.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Matteo S. @matteosmaldone.bsky.social · 14h

Liberals are OK with mass deportations as long as they are done “legally”.

Liberals are OK with repression of antifascist, anti-capitalist protesters as long as it is local or state para-military police forces and not Feds.

The entire system is rotten.