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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 20h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 17h

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 20h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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Jennifer Wray @10bagspacking.bsky.social · 1d

All I can picture is this.

a group of people are sitting around a table with a christmas tree in the background

Alt: SNL sketch that sees Matt Damon and Leslie Jones throw down over their divided Weezer fandom.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 1d

Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs

Screen grab of the WeRate Dogs podcast where they’re talking about cop violence against dogs

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Left: An excellent thread that the Department of Labor Bluesky account posted on the last day of the Biden Administration.
Right: What the Dept. of Labor Bluesky account posted about an hour ago.
I captured the second screenshot right before I blocked that account.

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U.S. Department of Labor O @dol.gov
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for all workers when he hailed the dignity of work and the important role of organized labor in advancing economic justice.
January 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM ® Everybody can reply
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Did you know that when he was assassinated in Memphis in April 1968, he was on his third trip there to support a strike by sanitation workers who were seeking better wages and working conditions?
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U.S. Department of Labor @@dol.gov - 9mo
You may have seen photos of the picket signs those workers carried - a simple but powerful message that could not be denied: I AM A MAN.
Today the sanitation workers have a place in our Labor Hall of Honor:
www.dol.gov/general/abou…
IAM A MAN

U.S. Department of Labor ® @dol.gov
RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM!
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We're continuing our work on Project Firewall—and restoring pathways to the American Dream by ensuring American Jobs go to American Workers E
RESTORING THE
AMERICAN DREAM!
Through Project Firewall
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM ® Everybody can reply

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d

Your honor, please let us hurt reporters!

It's been so long! How can we harass, injure, and arrest protesters when all of those Nosey Parkers are lurking to catch us in the act? Again?

Please let us shoot camera people with rubber bullets! And don't you agree clouds of tear gas make us look cool?

People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 2d

“LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press” 😭😭😭

“Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts their use of force against the press.”

LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press

The police department filed an emergency order ahead of this Saturday's No Kings protest.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6d

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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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 7d

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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7d

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):

She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.

Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 7d

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places.

But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9d

"does the president know what is real and what is not" is a legitimate question that should probably get asked a lot more

Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 12d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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stuforreal.bsky.social @stuforreal.bsky.social · 14d

You need to look in to your heart you piece of shit

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Jennifer Wray @10bagspacking.bsky.social · 13d

I own a different version of this one, a port-a-potty play set that includes a construction worker with his own newspaper to read while he relieves himself.

Box for a Playmobile toy showing a helmet-wearing construction worker holding a newspaper right outside of a port-a-potty that beckons him with a partially opened door.

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Jennifer Wray @10bagspacking.bsky.social · 13d

I love Playmobil’s extremely specific characters and designs. Like, a firefighter performing a snake rescue—sure, why not!

Playmobil figurine suited up in fire gear and gloves, with a flashlight, a snake-grabber stick thingy, two snakes and a clear box to contain them in.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13d

“Become a courts reporter,” they said.

“You’ll get weekends off,” they said.

“Because there won’t be any hearings on the weekend,” they said.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13d

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

Date Filed
Oct 5, 2025
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SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00
p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-
990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 812-980-
324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference.
For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25 by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (jy)
(Entered: 10/05/2025)

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 14d

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 15d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 15d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 15d

"In honor of all the people who brave the unthinkable struggle of having to be American every day: The Thin American Line"

A b/w US flag, with a squeezed normal flag in the thin blue line spot.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 14d

maybe the best dog halloween costume ever: a suspicious beagle is wearing a clown carrying a plate with the dog's head on it.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 16d

Josh Crowley (sp?) (@jdcrowley) on twitter: "If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15d

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16d

Crowd chanting, "lick them boots! Lick them boots!" at ISP.

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