Robyn Swirling
@rswirling.bsky.social
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Abortion, abolition, those sorts of things. Free DC.
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rswirling.bsky.social
There is a LOT of filming going on and reporting out where feds and ICE are in DC. I know everyone means to be helpful when sharing that information, so I encourage everyone to get up to speed on the SALUTE method, which allows us to share info that is precise and doesn’t sow more fear.
S.A.L.U.T.E DOCUMENTATION
S size: How many agents/ officers/vehicles?
A Activity: What are the agents doing? Knocking on doors? Detaining someone? Attempting to enter private property?
L Location: Give an exact address, intersection and/or landmark.
U- Units: What letters, details, or patches are visible on the uniforms/jackets/vests/vehicles? Plainclothes? Masked?
Pretending to be police? Refused to identify themselves? 
T -Time: What is the date and time? This info should be shared quickly.
E-Equipment: What did agents have with them? Any weapons, flexicuffs, dogs, door breakers, LAD sound cannon, vans, SUVs, etc. Document vehicle details especially plates!

For a template go to salute.kyr.digital/en OR scan the QR code.
The generated message is what you can use when communicating with the hotlines!
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waldo.net
The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.
brianlyman.bsky.social
“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”
Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?
www.nytimes.com
rswirling.bsky.social
Oh I definitely think there’s this, but you still have to have basic conversations in person in between the arguments
rswirling.bsky.social
When men use LLMs to write all their texts, how do they think it’s gonna go when they actually have to talk to those women face to face on a date? I also wonder how they’ll be able to navigate the complexities of long term relationships, but that doesn’t seem like it comes up often for these guys.
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kashana.blacksky.app
So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you
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criminalerin.bsky.social
The New York Times, seeing increasing numbers of youth-led national revolutions happening: Not very orderly stuff going on here, quite distasteful if you ask me
The New York Damn Times, 2 hours ago: how Nepal's Gen z revolution spiraled out of control
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."
The Assault on Children
MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io
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carlbergstrom.com
Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.
helenbranswell.bsky.social
100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded
The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...
www.statnews.com
rswirling.bsky.social
“Do you have a sec?” is, alas, 5 words
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dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social
Big Thanks to everyone who donated books to DC Books to Prisons over the last week! The Banned Books Bookdrive was by far our most successful ever, and coupled with the matching cash donation for every book bought from our partner bookstores we’ll be able to keep up and perhaps expand our work.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
rswirling.bsky.social
“Quick chat later today?”

4 words to give anyone in HR, people + culture, COO, or chief of staff jobs hives
jenbren.bsky.social
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Teams Message "Hi Jeni"
soapachu.bsky.social
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I've added some notes"
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”
joycewhitevance.bsky.social
That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
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crampell.bsky.social
An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
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yasharali.bsky.social
“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?
Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT
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cmgiulini.bsky.social
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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phillipanderson.bsky.social
There has to be a reckoning for this, for all of it. No more “look forward, not back” nonsense. Not this time. Those who ordered this evil shit, and those who carried those orders out *must* be held to account.
longtimehistory.bsky.social
ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois
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alandettlaff.com
Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.
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atherton.bsky.social
If SCOTUS were not also simply an organ of Trumpist rule, Voughts entire vast papertail of "I hate the government and will break laws to destroy it" would make these layoffs illegal & the workers could rightfully expect court to rule in their favor. Unfortunately, SCOTUS

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...
Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics
More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...
www.cnn.com
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sherylnyt.bsky.social
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
www.nytimes.com
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mattortega.com
They really don’t give a shit. If they think it helps people or costs big business money, they don’t want it. They are ideologically opposed to the mere concept of collective action. Meanwhile the technofascists who want to head their own Network State fiefdoms are fully ob board.
scott.hanselman.com
WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone
sherylnyt.bsky.social
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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drewharwell.com
Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank