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teachagainstracism.bsky.social @teachagainstracism.bsky.social · Apr 11

It was due to speed ups and a lack of safety.

Speed ups + blind spots = dead workers.

Fuck Bezos and all the billionaires. They profit off of shit like this. More of this will happen if we don’t fight back.

#solidarity
#workerspower
#union

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 8h

This kind of kidnapping, whether it's otherwise law-abiding undocumented workers, or 🇺🇸 citizens, ICE thugs act like they get a bounty per head (they already get a $50K signing bonus), these goons would have been slave catchers back in the day.

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Bynum Demands End to ICE Raids After U.S. Citizen Allegedly Abducted by Masked Agents
Bynum compares ICE’s conduct to U.S. Marshals hunting down Black Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act.
By Anthony Effinger
October 09, 2025 3:34PM PDT

One of the ICE agents who apprehended Frank Miranda, a U.S. citizen, on Oct. 2, 2025 (courtesy of Frank Miranda). (Frank Miranda)

U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.) called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop abducting her constituents, a week after ICE agents apprehended a Milwaukie man born in California on his way to work and detained him for part of the day.

“These ICE raids are reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act, when the U.S. Marshals would hunt down and kidnap Black Americans,” Bynum said in a statement. “That was a dark and shameful time in our nation’s history—we must not allow that to repeat. Masked federal agents aren’t welcome in our state and they can’t keep kidnapping Americans.”

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/10/09/bynum-demands-end-to-ice-raids-after-us-citizen-allegedly-abducted-by-masked-agents/

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12h

#OtD 10 Oct 1971 the men of Bravo Company, 1/12, 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army declared a private unofficial ceasefire with the North Vietnamese. It followed a mutiny shortly before. Authorities instead shipped them out to safety. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 7h

And are the antifa terrorists in the room with us right now?

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12h

It's been 200 days since masked government goons abducted Rümeysa Öztürk for writing an op-ed they didn't like.

She's no longer behind bars, but they're still trying to deport her, and they still don't want the public to know why.

The U.S. government is hiding Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting

If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed

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cassandrahoped.bsky.social @cassandrahoped.bsky.social · 12h

TP-USA defamed a Rutgers professor & caused him to flee US 4 fear of attack - via petition below which accuses him of being part of "antifa" a hate group that does not exist. Please report on the petition site that this violates defamation policy. How to in comments. www.change.org/p/remove-ant...

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 16h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

Somehow I don’t think Duffy’s threats are going to improve morale or staffing of air traffic controllers.

Air traffic controllers who duck unpaid work during the gov't shutdown could be fired, Duffy warns

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he understands the frustrations and worries of air traffic controllers who have to work without a paycheck during the government shutdown, but he and the union...

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 10h

‪This is not a city‬
‪it is a graveyard, ‬
‪an open funeral that spills its sorrow till the end of the universe.‬

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11h

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

MYTH: My grandmother was deported to El Salvador.

FACT: No one really knows where she was deported to.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 20h

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro secretly offered the U.S. sweeping access to his nation’s oil, gold, and mineral wealth—proposing to cut ties with China, Iran, and Russia—to avoid military conflict with Washington. The Trump administration rejected the deal. - NYT

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/americas/maduro-venezuela-us-oil.html

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14h

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 17h

This is awesome.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 10h

NEW — Both Broadview police and Illinois State Police aggressively pushed demonstrators back behind the barricades during today’s demonstration.

They didn’t deploy teargas or any other chemical agents, but some carried pepper ball launchers.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/no-t...

No troops in Broadview yet, but anti-ICE protestors say state and local police used intimidation tactics in crowd control • The TRiiBE

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Broadview to continue calling out the federal government for its aggressive immigration enforcement and the treatment of detainees at the facility.

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Suzan @tinlizzy49.bsky.social · 11h

Debbie Brockman was taken by ICE. She is a citizen and a journalist. Where are the local police, state troopers, the TV station attorney's, and Governor Pritzker getting her release??

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Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 8h

YES: A Wyoming librarian fired for refusing to pull LGBTQ books just won a $700,000 settlement for violation of her First Amendment rights. 👏 Let this be a warning to every censor-happy official in the country.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 10h

‪How many times can a soul break ‬
‪and still bloom again? ‬
‪I’ve shattered a million times, ‬
‪yet I rise.‬

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 7h

Live H5N1 Bird Flu Virus Found to Survive in Raw-Milk Cheese for Up to 6 Months, Study Finds

The infectious H5N1 virus remained viable throughout the cheese-making and aging process in raw-milk cheeses with pH levels above 5.0.

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Black Trans Texas Connection @blacktranstx.bsky.social · 20h

telling you we in danger‼️
PayPal.me/blacktranstexas
Cashapp $bttconnection

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 9h

Ice is the gestapo

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 10h

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21h

Just saying it out loud right now.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 9h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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