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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.

Who could have predicted?

Oh, right.

Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last

Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable

www.tomsguide.com

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 3d

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

I really wish media covering Trump's invasion of US cities would step away from this "Trump wants to fight crime, but how bad is it really?" framing. They obviously don't give a shit about local crime, but this manufactured narrative dominates all the coverage.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

As Trump ramps up National Guard threats, what’s crime really like in Portland and Seattle?

Donald Trump has often name-checked both cities, describing them as dangerous. Here's what the numbers show.

www.seattletimes.com

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 3d

The news has sent counties throughout California into a panic. The state is bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars for permanent housing, which is the one thing experts agree on as the most effective way to solve homelessness. https://cal.news/4nBKuZI

📷 Fred Greaves

A person walks past a homeless encampment along X Street under State Route 99 in Sacramento on Oct. 25, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters

HED: California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4d

We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 4d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 3d

Love this concise but devastating eagle call reveal. Second only to “geographically improbable loon noises” for things that immediately inflame the ol’ birding lobe of the brain

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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Anne Hilborn @annewhilborn.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if there will be mass condemnation of this type of political violence

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 3d

Another one bites the dust.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 4d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 20d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 4d

Never forget that chemical warfare including tear gas is not only illegal in actual war, but carries powerfully damaging chemicals including abortifacients that can cause lasting harm to people's reproductive cycles.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4d

unbelievable amounts of gas right in front of the apartments by the ICE facility in portland. guys in fatigues in the middle of the road

Screen grab from a tiktok live showing billowing clouds of gas in the middle of the road. police stand in the road between camera and gas clouds

Two armed men in camo stand outside in the road between the camera and an apartment complex

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 4d

We inadvertently drove one of the circulating strains of influenza extinct in the wild even with the weaksauce mitigations that we abandoned far too soon.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

It’s never too late to start masking again.

It can be daunting to mask back up when no one else is bothering, but your health is worth it.

Every Covid infection is a dice roll with disability, and a good respirator like an N95 stops chains of transmission.

You’ll also get less colds & flus!

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4d

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this.

Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4d

The “but that’s illegal” crowd is going to find out soon what those of us on the academic and research side have been saying for months is true in that you cannot “legally” fight a legal fascist framework when countering fascism is seen as terrorism and illegal

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 4d

"If they're torturing Greta Thunberg this way, just imagine what they're doing to Palestinians."

*screams* WE DON'T HAVE TO IMAGINE!!! PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN SHOWING US FOR AT LEAST 2 YEARS!!!

Can we please believe people that are trying to survive genocide? Their videos aren't fake.

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TexasBirder @texasbirder.bsky.social · 4d

We were so privileged to get a private performance of Cirque Du Raccoon last night. So graceful. #CorpusChristiTx #Mammal #Ring #StickupCam

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
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is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 9d

I’m having a difficult time due to a lot of work/income loss + health issues limiting what I can pursue. I could use some support. TY.

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Screencap of online shop with the collection of writing on film and television: Insights: Film & Television (Reflections, Reviews & Resources). Also music-themed wall prints, tees, stickers, wallpapers etc. Photography and writing involved in shop artwork by thetrudz. Book cover photograph by thetrudz.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 5d

Why is Pritzker letting IL state cops help ICE abuse his state??

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

Major commotion as IL state cops shove back crowds trying to stop an ICE vehicle. I was grabbed and shoved repeatedly while filming the incident.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

What are you doing to *hold them accountable* though?????

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 5d

ICE is out of control, and we must hold them accountable for their abuses of power.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 6d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 6d

Exhibit N in why I will never ever go on a cruise. (Lots of other reasons too, including TOO MANY PEOPLE and the gross environmental footprint, but being trapped on a boat with noro is nightmare fodder).

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 6d

My nightmare: “Almost 100 people came down with norovirus aboard a Royal Caribbean ship amid a 13-day voyage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported earlier this week… The first reports of illness were made on Sept. 28, with four crew members and 94 guests falling ill”

Norovirus Outbreak Sickens Nearly 100 on Royal Caribbean Cruise

www.nytimes.com

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