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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 6h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Library reorganized by color

Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 14h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Majority decision, Star Athletica.

Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 16h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Supreme Court granted cert

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 13h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 12h

#Ciclavia in Boyle Heights.

At Boyle & 1st in Boyle Heights, looking west towards downtown

Crowd enjoying Ciclavia at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 2d

When we defeat these fascists, ALL OF THEM need to be held accountable. No more of this shit we did with the Confederacy, Nixon, and bankers after the 08 crash, “It’s in the past” bullshit.

Accountability.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 3d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14d

🧵 UPDATE FOR MY BIRTHDAY:
Hi, so AI killed my career(s) and I'm still barely holding on. Some people tried to get me to start a fundraiser, but that felt weird, so I thought maybe if I was contributing something? So I started making shirts. Can you share this and maybe think about grabbing some?

Stuff, from The Internet

tylerfromtheinternet.com

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 2d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 2d

The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.

"I urge you: never sell out your authority"

News agencies deliver a service which “requires competence, courage and a sense of ethics”.

p.a.lapid, phd 🎃👻💀🪦 @palapid.bsky.social · 3d

da pope! first affirming migrant rights and now this

(and yes the headline is clickbait-y by design)

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 3d

#librarians #skybrarians #ALA

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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TheeDemFairy510🍁 @theedemfairy510.bsky.social · 3d

Let's goooooo!!!

Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s pull this thing over the line CA Democrats 😤💪🏾

Vote #YesOnProp50

#YesOn50

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 3d

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups.

My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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TheeDemFairy510🍁 @theedemfairy510.bsky.social · 3d

Let's go Portland!!!!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required license plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates.

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

trib.al

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Two new FTP resources that were shared this evening:

1. Friends of the Library 101 - www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo... - created by FTP volunteers and designed by FTP steering committee member @kruttika.bsky.social - learn about from Friends of the Library groups are and do.

Resources — For The People

www.librariesforthepeople.org

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NotreDale @notredale.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t get over that the Court opens the opinion with: “The penultimate song of this feud, ‘Not Like Us’ by Kendrick Lamar, dealt the metaphorical killing blow.”

Drake lost the feud so bad, it’s law of the case and an adjudicated legal certainty.

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