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rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 6h

This hooker:

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 10h

““I’m not going back, I refuse to go back, and if he thinks we’re going back, fuck him,” Griffin-Gracy said at the time.”

Windy City Times @windycitytimes.com · 12h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was born on the South Side of Chicago in 1946 and moved to New York City in 1962. There she became involved in the city’s drag and ballroom scenes and later participated in the 1969 Stonewall Riots.

Miss Major, Chicago-born trailblazer for trans liberation, dies at 78 - Windy City Times

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the revolutionary transgender activist who participated in the Stonewall Riots, died at 78 years old on Oct. 13. Her death was announced by the House of gg, the Arkansas-base...

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

I hope she ends up getting everything he ever owned.

All of these fuckers should be held personally responsible and be taken for everything, right down to their burial plots.

Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 1d

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Some CDC layoffs from last week have been reversed. But not for the analysts responsible for monitoring and protecting the United States from biological, chemical and nuclear threats www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 1d

“I know what impunity looks like,” he said. “I know what it looks like when people in authority are not held to account for anything they do. … They’re doing it right now here, it’s no different. This is Nazi s- - -. When the state is failing, this is what they do.”

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rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 1d

“An immigrant from the Philippines, he said he had lived through two presidents being overthrown there before moving to the U.S. — and the actions of federal agents reminded him of what he saw as the government there grasped to maintain power.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Knotabot @qbits4u.bsky.social · 1d

If CONSTRUCTION workers have to use portable toilets at there job sites, then I think it's only fitting that DESTRUCTION workers should have to take porta-potties to theirs.

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rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 1d

My kind of town

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents on Sept. 12 during what authorities initially described as a routine traffic stop that Villegas Gonzalez tried to flee. A few weeks later, the state of Idaho took custody of his two kids, according to his family and Mexican officials.

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

My periodic shout into the void:

The only reason why anyone cares about anyone's gender is cuz the whole of society is based around assigning human rights based on gender (&societal privileges to the "better" genders)*

*terms and conditions apply,worse in some societies than others,but all do this

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rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno

a cartoon of a woman sitting at a receptionist desk talking to a blue robot

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rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost as if they’ve had a well (documented) thought out plan.

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ALT: a black and white photo of a woman wearing a turtleneck sweater and a dress .

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rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll stand with him when he stands with the trans community.

rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Trump can release the Americans he’s taken hostage.

rebeccab312.bsky.social @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 1d

Out and about with the kiddo in the best neighborhood in Chicago, Edgewater

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

Among the reasons Americans risked it all to get rid of a tyrannical king:
“He has obstructed the Admin of Justice…made Judges dependent on his Will…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…kept among us Standing Armies w/o legislatures’ Consent” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose

Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice

www.americaamerica.news

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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists Think Climate Change Is Causing Alzheimer’s-Like Brain Damage in Dolphins vice.com/en/article/s...

#Alzheimers #dementia #climate #environment #pollution

Scientists Think Climate Change Is Causing Alzheimer’s-Like Brain Damage in Dolphins

Well, here’s a bummer of a story: dolphins are getting Alzheimer’s, and climate change might be the one driving them senile.

vice.com

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 1d

When history writes about the resistance, it will begin with the Transgender Americans who refused to disappear. And those who stood with them through thick and thin. 🏳️‍⚧️💪

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

www.fox32chicago.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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