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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 4h

The 15 y/o detained by CBP today in the East Side neighborhood has been released per a statement from his attorneys.

Story tk in the morning.

CHICAGO (October 14, 2025) – A 15-year-old American citizen was detained by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents today in a manner reminiscent of authoritarian regimes, holding him incommunicado in a federal building garage for five hours without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney. The teenager, who is Hispanic and African American, was grabbed off a Chicago East Side street at approximately 12:30 p.m. CST slammed to the ground, kneed in the back, and zip-tied by CBP agents. He was then transported to a federal law enforcement facility not affiliated with CBP or ICE, where CBP agents held him, handcuffed, in the back of a vehicle in a garage—never booking him, never reading him his rights, never stating why he was detained, and never allowing him to contact his mother.

For five hours, his mother had no idea where her son was or whether he safe. Federal agents provided no information about his whereabouts, no phone call, no explanation for the arrest. His mother’s terror was amplified by her son’s heart condition and the complete absence of any information from authorities.

"This is how people disappear in autocracies—grabbed off streets, held in unmarked locations, no calls to family, no stated charges, no due process," said Founding Partner Antonio M. Romanucci of Romanucci & Blandin, the firm that obtained his release this evening. "A 15-year-old American citizen was effectively 'disappeared' for five hours in Chicago. This is not law enforcement; this is the playbook of authoritarian regimes."

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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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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 8h

I always say that everyone who attends a protest is marching for 10 people who can't.

Are you one of those 10 people? Can you spread the word? Pack lunches for friends who are going? Donate? Make zines? It's all The Work!

AND! There are a lot of things to do that AREN'T specific to this Saturday ⬇️

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

If you can’t attend a protest, there are many other ways to resist:

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 11h

The CDC's union estimates that a quarter of the agency been gutted under the Trump administration. Here's our story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 8h

www.dailymotion.com/video/x3l5vv

Vic Chesnutt | Sponge | A Take Away Show

Dailymotion video by La Blogothèque

www.dailymotion.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h

Everybody in my mentions over the weekend pretending that Mills was just running in a primary and not that she isn't a party-backed spoiler: GFYS

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 13h

With friends or desire the laugh etc. the Buddhist angle on it was that wrestling with desire and want is huge part of Buddhist practice- what do you do when medicine just takes that desire away?

Now- of course I thought it was a great article but I had questions- like I wanted to check in on-

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 13h

I saw a really great article on Buddhism and all the ozempic drugs and it brought up some great questions I’ve been thinking about since- mainly that some ozempic users are reporting that it’s not just desire for food that’s going away- desire for anything is going away too. Like desire to be out-

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 10h

Which is to say- when they talk about ‘religious freedom’ they don’t even mean religious freedom for all Christians. They mean religious freedom for *christian nationalists*.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)

Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

buttondown.com

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 14h

Please keep in mind this is a developing story. We're working on updating with more info as we get it.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 14h

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

thetriibe.com

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 14h

During the shutdown, I've watched as Republicans pushed through new rules to weaken climate, environmental, and Indigenous peoples protections in Alaska, while CNN now reports that Predictions for the deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

www.cnn.com

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Winnie Madikizela’s boo @dre-withwithout.blacksky.app · 14h

Blue Lives Matter origin argument:

Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 17h

"We cant defund the slave patrols because who's gonna catch the bad slaves?!"

K (Any prns) ♿ @halakal.bsky.social · 18h

Every day people prove to me that they would've demonized slaves for revolting against their oppressors

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14h

“The crowd’s shouts of ‘let them in, let them in’ quickly turned to ‘shame, shame’ as folks realized that ICE would not let Jesus, present in the Eucharist, into the facility,” Father Inczauskis wrote. “Jesus was knocking at the federal agents’ door, and they would not let him in.”

James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 1d

From Kevin Clarke at America: "Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility"
www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility

Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill.

www.americamagazine.org

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You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 15h

Amanda Shires had Black Messiah on repeat while recording Nobody’s Girl.

I know what I’ll be listening to this week/end.

Sending heart to this grieving community. 🕊️

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Evan Minsker + see-saw.fun @see-saw.fun · 17h

Honestly a pretty formative Pitchfork staff memory for me was when D'Angelo returned and started playing shows. I probably watched him cover "Space Oddity" 50 times when it happened. Black Messiah is a masterpiece. His cover of "Sometimes It Snows in April" still makes me cry. We didn't deserve him.

D'angelo - Space Oddity (David Bowie cover) - Paris 29.01.12

YouTube video by Cream Fresh

www.youtube.com

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You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 18h

I am so tired of Texans With Money ruining things for everybody

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 18h

This is where the term "user" dies.

The user experience has no boundaries when you're wearing cameras and microphones in public

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

Today in luxury surveillance.

“They’ll [ai wearables] be embedded in what we already wear: glasses, jewellery, clothing. Fashion will play a critical role in normalizing them.”

Style Meets Surveillance as Agentic AI Redefines Wearables

Are we seeing the rise of smarter accessories—or sleepwalking into a future where data privacy is out of style?

threemagazine.com

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You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 18h

Let alone yr misogyny and ableism
Like, God forbid a female-presenting person have special interests

You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 18h

But you’d rather name-call and mock than dig deeper, and that just bums me out when I see how many people respect you and think that’s okay

You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 18h

Like yr so caught up in dunking on ppl that you don’t understand **some of their proposals** are things that **have been tried before and WORKED**

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You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 18h

But you’d rather name-call and mock than dig deeper, and that just bums me out when I see how many people respect you and think that’s okay

You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 18h

Like yr so caught up in dunking on ppl that you don’t understand **some of their proposals** are things that **have been tried before and WORKED**

You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 20h

Some of y’all believe your own hype and it’s fucking gross

You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 18h

Like yr so caught up in dunking on ppl that you don’t understand **some of their proposals** are things that **have been tried before and WORKED**

You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 20h

Some of y’all believe your own hype and it’s fucking gross

You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 19h

Once I get out from under the shadow of Pluto in retrograde, it is OVER for you losers. Do you understand? OVER

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You’ve Goth Ishmael (they/them) @poisonedpenuche.bsky.social · 20h

Some of y’all believe your own hype and it’s fucking gross

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

they have been trying to do meme authoritarianism, and that means generating the right kinds of content--the forces of Order vs the forces of Chaos, riots and violence and burning shit and ""antifa supersoldiers""

the kind of imagery to justify the kind of powers they aspire to

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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