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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 6h

Every damn day parents of disabled children have to watch this man attack our kids for existing. No provocation, no reason—just hate. He mocks what he’ll never understand and weaponizes their existence for power. We’re past outrage. This is cruelty, and we’re not staying quiet. #Pinks

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 15h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 16h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social · 11h

mean horrible cruel

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11h

Truly chilling story by @jessbravin.bsky.social. As close to “the cruelty is the point” being literally true as we’ve come so far. (Gift link)

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”

www.wsj.com

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Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social · 12h

a legend

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social · 13h

Evil evil evil

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 16h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

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Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry for your loss. 🫂

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 2d

Keep your corrupt, grubby, abusive hands off Tish James, Donald Trump.

Your cowardice is showing — weak men seek revenge on powerful women who hold them to account.

But NY’rs don’t play. Our AG has been a fierce warrior for our rights, time & again. You better believe we’ll be there for hers.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2d

If my "it's bullshit" isn't convincing enough, here's a good @lawfaremedia.org piece explaining... it's bullshit

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Next Up: Letitia James

It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social · 3d

My longtime therapist is leaving the country permanently bc of Trump and he quoted Sheryl Crow in our session today bc he’s in such a good mood about it so yeah, things are going well!

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 3d

“We can’t afford a king”

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social · 4d

One of my faves of all time.

JaneSlainLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 4d

If you've never seen this, do yourself a favor and watch why the old folks gripe about "movies these days"

Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 4d

The opening titles of WORKING GIRL (1988) still give me goosebumps 37 years later.

Mike Nichols' Staten Island Cinderella story is on TCM tonight at 12:45am ET, so grab a disco nap and watch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=83nP... #FilmSky #TCMParty

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 4d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 4d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social · 4d

You don’t get it at all

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Sarah Marian Seltzer @sarahmseltzer.bsky.social · 4d

If you are white and of European Christian origin, today would be a great day to really meditate on how your ancestors’ deep antisemitism and racism created the conditions for both Oct 7 and the genocide in Gaza! K bye

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 6d

You can already see expansion. At first they railed at "illegals" and assured us they loved immigrants who came the "right way." Now they're targeting legal immigrants and Green Card holders and trying to denaturalize people who were born here to undocumented parents.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 6d

Traditionally authoritarians whose violence against an outgroup makes the outgroup too small to sustain just expand their definition of the outgroup to include new people

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 7d

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7d

“”I asked him if he thought Gaza would ever heal.
"It will be very difficult," he replied.
"The wounds are not just physical. They are social, psychological, emotional and spiritual.
"Everything is lost."

"And I think the people will need the support of the world to heal them.””

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7d

“At one point, among doctors and nurses, the only topic of conversation in the hospital was food, and the desperate hunt for it. "Starving doctors were treating malnutrition," he said.
And the injured just kept coming.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gaza doctors are starving while fighting to save lives, evacuated medic tells BBC

Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, who worked in hospitals in Gaza for two years, says Israeli strikes have made conditions "indescribable" for colleagues still there.

www.bbc.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8d

I hope everyone who thinks more law enforcement is the solution to the genuine crisis of rising antisemitism keeps this in mind: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...

Police Accidentally Shot and Killed a Victim During Manchester Terrorist Attack

www.nytimes.com

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Joshfrai @joshfrai.bsky.social · 8d

Don't turn away.

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

"The following day, reports described the building’s hallways as strewn with 'toys, shoes and food,' with doors 'blown off their hinges' and 'holes left in walls.' In one room, per @blockclubchi.bsky.social, zip ties sat on the floor beside blood stains and baby shoes."

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

newrepublic.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 8d

Hell is not hot enough ailatexas.org/news/ice-ope...

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 8d

Terrifying and illegal. Big Brother is not only watching, he's dictating what your emails can say and then getting into your account and changing them if you don't follow orders. Broken by @marisakabas.bsky.social 1/2 www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-omb-...

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown

Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

www.thehandbasket.co

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