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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4h

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”.

The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 27m

We saw an unmarked van in the neighborhood as we were talking about it, a moment of panic

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 30m

TIL that ICE tried to detain a colleague’s teenaged son, asked him about his “color,” held a gun on him as he produced ID

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

A trend I’ve noticed after having watched too many of these despicable ICE arrest videos is when bystanders demand they let detainee go, an officer suggests they’re being picked up for a serious crime to try and deter help. But we know that’s not true of a vast majority of people and the jig is up.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 8h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 2h

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4h

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 4h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

Hey, Sydette needs help. She is one of the people who makes the world brighter and better simply by existing. If you have the capacity, please consider dropping her what you can.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 29m

We are not Catholic, but this is simultaneously appalling [denying them the sacrament] and wonderful [too cowardly to appear in person].

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 40m

Because OF COURSE

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 47m

'In an astonishing twist, the trial also exposed his previous role as an informer who worked for the police infiltrating prominent environmental and animal rights protests for six years in the 1990s and 2000s.'

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 43m

Oooohhhhhh!

Yeah, those were spectacularly hard to photograph accurately. It's why I had 4 photos in the gallery entry instead of just one, LOL. Those stones have SO much color shift!

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knifeBOOts aka Jen (they/them) 👻 @knifeboots.xyz · 45m

These arrived yesterday, and they're even more beautiful in person! 😍

WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 13d

This pair is called "At the Turning of the Moon": wingssilverwork.com/at-the-turni....

Sterling silver; rainbow moonstone. Old rolling-sun motif adapted for moonlight, wit a sense of orbital motion. These are so simple, and I love them so, because they just GLOW:

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 48m

Neither soldiers nor anyone else should have to apply for a line of credit/credit card to buy food.

This is a massive societal and governmental failure.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1h

And we already ran tonight's local needs thread, which begins below.

If you want to skip all of the background and just support Jen in getting to a competition she and her dog have trained for for over a year, you can do that here [goal is $1,500]:

PayPal via [email protected]

WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 2h

Okay, I'm doing tonight's local needs early, and I'm doing an unusual one. It's not life or death; not an emergency, although it *is* time-sensitive.

It's for our friend Jen, who runs the local dog rescue Taos Hound Underground.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1h

And right now?

I need to bring in multiple sales THIS WEEKEND for us to make it into next week.

Forget the repairs; the guys are laid off again. I'm talking about power, propane, insurance, etc.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1h

Also? It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable [and other] art, in styles you won't see anywhere else.

And I REALLY need to bring in multiple sales weekly now for us just to break even on the year.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1h

Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show, try turning your device sideways, or use desktop mode): wingssilverwork.com. Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries"> hover over "The Silverwork"> CLICK on chosen category.

wingssilverwork.com

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1h

As always, you can order them via the form here: wingssilverwork.com/contact/, or directly via e-mail at NDNSilverByWings [at] gmail [dot] com.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1h

A late friend pointed out that, as signifiers of love, these two different stones were actually perfect: at a glance, looking alike, but each distinct, from its own source, creating a pair greater than the sum of its parts.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1h

These are "An Atmospheric Love": wingssilverwork.com/an-atmospher....

Sterling silver; two different types of natural American turquoise, likely Royston [left] and Bisbee [right]:

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1h

Okay, tonight's inventory selection.

Just one. Today's feature is a pair of simple but beautiful Skystone earrings, giant teardrops [shown below].

I contemplated changing them to a different pair of turquoise earrings that were also apt for today; tonight's are this pair.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2h

illinois state police arrested eight additional people at broadview tonight for a total of 15 people arrested today, per an update from cook county sheriff’s office.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
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