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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12h

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 18h

Israeli soldiers open fire at Palestinians in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-opened-fire-suspects-gaza

Israeli soldiers open fire at Palestinians in Gaza

<article data-history-node-id="430162" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-opened-fire-suspects-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-opened-fire-suspects-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli soldiers open fire at Palestinians in Gaza </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">The Israeli army issued a statement stating that Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians calling them "several suspects" who came closer to troops stationed in northern Gaza on Tuesday morning.</p> <p>"Attempts were made to distance the suspects. The suspects did not comply and continued approaching the troops, who opened fire to remove the threat," the statement said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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sassmasterjam.bsky.social @sassmasterjam.bsky.social · 1d

This Indigenous People's Day, I'd like to remember Matoaka; Kidnapped from her home and family, held for ransom, forced into spousal duties, forced to convert religions, then stolen away to England to be paraded around as a "savage", until she died at 20/21.
I hope wherever she is, she's happy now.

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sassmasterjam.bsky.social @sassmasterjam.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, cool. This is really good news and I'm glad to see it. I hope they're left alone after this.

Netanyahu and his administration all still need to go to jail though.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Israel frees 1,968 Palestinian captives - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-frees-1968-palestinian-captives

Israel frees 1,968 Palestinian captives

<article data-history-node-id="430140" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-frees-1968-palestinian-captives" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-frees-1968-palestinian-captives" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel frees 1,968 Palestinian captives</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli prison service said Monday it had freed nearly 2,000 largely Palestinian detainees as part of the peace deal, AFP reported.</p> <p>It said it had transferred 1,968 captives - who it described as "terrorists" - from several prisons to the notorious Ofer and Ktziot prisons. </p> <p>It then released Palestinian captives from Ofer prison to the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and from the Ktziot prison to Kerem Shalom crossing.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low.”

Gee, I wonder why?

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 3d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem’s America, folks. That poor dog. That poor family.

Tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “Border Patrol reportedly shot a dog and then the agent fled rather than deal with any kind of accountability whatsoever.”
Below is Keith Edwards’ tweet: “BREAKING: A family in El Paso says ICE shot and killed their dog, Chop. The agent who fired reportedly ran as the family screamed for help. No one came.”

Photo of a large black and brown Rottweiler sitting calmly on a tiled floor next to a white chair and a window with blinds.

A black-background screenshot of text describing an incident: the sender says no Border Patrol agents rendered aid after their dog was shot, and that the responsible agent fled the scene with help from others. They emphasize that the agent’s name was never released and that their family lost a member “for no lawful reason.”

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d

Prominent Palestinian activist Saleh al-Jafarawi killed by armed militia in Gaza City - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-al-jafarawi-prominent-palestinian-activist-killed-militia-gaza-city

Prominent Palestinian activist Saleh al-Jafarawi killed by armed militia in Gaza City

Social media activist was shot dead whilst covering clashes between Israel-backed militia and Hamas fighters, Al Jazeera reports

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sassmasterjam.bsky.social @sassmasterjam.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah that's fair. They have severely distorted numbers, I should have looked at it closer. They reported only 14 deaths as of August 2025. I'm not sure where they're getting their stats but I'm going to have to delete this post and find a better article to represent what I'm trying to say.

sassmasterjam.bsky.social @sassmasterjam.bsky.social · 2d

Fair enough, I'm not sure why there's conflicting data between the two articles.

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sassmasterjam.bsky.social @sassmasterjam.bsky.social · 2d

There haven't been thousands of mass shootings. Thousands of shootings, yes, but only 155 mass shootings, back in August at least.

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sassmasterjam.bsky.social @sassmasterjam.bsky.social · 2d

I can't either. I used to make myself watch Palestine videos, and I mentally damaged myself doing it. I stayed vocal though because I didn't have to keep seeing what was happening to know it's wrong.

It's the same with ICE. Don't torture yourself, we can't fight fascism if we are mentally unwell.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

They’re still offering new ICE recruits a $50,000 signing bonus, yet active duty military were seen today lining up at food banks.

Defend your country and you can’t afford to eat.

Terrorize your country and you become rich.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 3d

Gaza civil defence: 9,500 missing under the rubble - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-civil-defence-9500-missing-under-rubble

Gaza civil defence: 9,500 missing under the rubble

<article data-history-node-id="429989" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-civil-defence-9500-missing-under-rubble" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-civil-defence-9500-missing-under-rubble" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza civil defence: 9,500 missing under the rubble</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza's civil defence has reported that 9,500 people are still missing under the rubble across Gaza.</p> <p>Its teams have already begun rescue operations, recovering the bodies of some 155 people so far.</p> <p>It added that it has received 75 distress calls since dawn today, and called on the Red Cross to coordinate with Israel to locate missing people as it lacks the resources and equipment to retrieve all the bodies from the rubble.</p> <p>According to the agency, 300,000 displaced Palestinians have arrived in Gaza City since the ceasefire took hold on Friday. People have erected makeshift tents on the rubble, but lack adequate shelter as aid is not due to enter the Strip until tomorrow.</p> <p>Some 700,000 people were displaced from Gaza City and the north by intense Israeli bombardment and raids on the area in the weeks before the ceasefire came into force.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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