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Atlas Mugged ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 6h

"Detainees have described a long-neglected facility that was not yet prepared to house them, saying they are contending with mold, dust and 'black' water coming out of showers, court records show."

Atlas Mugged ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 6h

The ACLU lawsuit says detainees at the Louisiana facility "already were 'forced to go on hunger strike' to 'demand basic necessities such as medical care, toilet paper, hygiene products and clean drinking water.' ...

ACLU says ICE is unlawfully punishing immigrants at a notorious Louisiana detention center - WTOP News

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The immigration detainees sent to a notorious Louisiana prison last month are being punished for crimes for which they have already served time, the American Civil Liberties…

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Atlas Mugged ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 6h

According to multiple sources, "at least 20 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office in January, the highest number recorded within a calendar year since tracking began in 2006. By comparison, 26 people died in ICE detention over the four years of the Biden administration."

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant rights advocates are calling for accountability after the death of Huabing Xie, who died while in the custody (ICE) on September 29 at the Imperial Regional Detention Facility. His death marks what groups describe as part of a disturbing trend — a record number of deaths in ICE detention

Advocates mourn death of Chinese national in ICE custody, cite record number of deaths under Trump Administration

IMPERIAL COUNTY — Immigrant rights advocates are calling for accountability after the death of Huabing Xie, who died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on

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Atlas Mugged ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 7h

A pro-Trump Zionist won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Machado has also voiced support for "Netanyahu’s far-right government, and has said that, if elected, she would move Venezuela’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem – a move that would align Venezuela with Washington and signal a clear shift from its historic backing of the Palestinian cause."

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Committee says win is 'for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy'.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Atlas Mugged ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 7h

Since 1980, in my experience. Exhausting.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 7h

Def a bummer the people at the top seem so interested in killing us.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 10h

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Atlas Mugged ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 7h

Machado has also voiced support for "Netanyahu’s far-right government, and has said that, if elected, she would move Venezuela’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem – a move that would align Venezuela with Washington and signal a clear shift from its historic backing of the Palestinian cause."

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Committee says win is 'for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy'.

www.aljazeera.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14h

Cruel and stupid is really the chocolate and peanut butter of authoritarian regimes.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12h

Left Bank Books, if you'd like a signed copy. I sign them here and they ship from St Louis: www.left-bank.com/book/9781250...

Or try Bookshop, they support indie booksellers

www.left-bank.com

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 11h

Then Toad fell asleep.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

okay so if Pepe is chaotic evil and Portland frog is chaotic good, where are our other frogs

Kermit is lawful good obviously

I think Frog and Toad are true neutral. they do them and that’s it

Michigan J. Frog is chaotic neutral

Tiana, Naveen and Keroppi I’m uncertain

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sassycpa.bsky.social @sassycpa.bsky.social · 1d

Today I learned that the collective noun for frogs is "army." Huh.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

I love this image.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 18h

Some folks can't see the fascism, and so they have false optimism that causes them not to act against it.

Other folks see the fascism, and they feel so hopeless that they don't act against it.

What we need is a combination of the ability to see things honestly as well as to be empowered.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 15h

I have the utmost faith we're going to win this and I need to be around when young children start to learn about THIS specific moment in our history.

Go get 'em! ✊🏻🐸

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 18h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 11h

Donald Trump is a fucking liar every time he speaks and posts on social media.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12h

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11h

Trump Sells Out MAGA and His America First Agenda

The America First agenda is on sale to the highest foreign bidder. Qatar receives an air force facility in Idaho, Israel continues its genocide, Trump's son-in-law gets billions, and Putin laughs.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-sell...

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