Brooke (she/her)
brookebee.bsky.social
Brooke (she/her)
@brookebee.bsky.social
mom, sister, daughter, friend, shit stirrer.
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Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Northwestern University offered bland reassurance to trans students and faculty after signing a deal with the Trump administration that sacrificed them for restored funding.

More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Northwestern Folds to Pressure, Betraying Trans Students — Assigned
Leading Off: Northwestern University reached an agreement with the Department of Education on Friday to restore federal funding which would remove virtually all protections for transgender students an...
www.assignedmedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Really starting to panic about not being able to afford health insurance for my family next year.
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Photo of the Year: "Mona Lisa vs. ICE"

This woman was injured during the ICE raids in NYC yesterday.

The visual juxtaposition of her calm face bloodied amongst the dark chaos around her.

Photo: Michael Nigro
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Please share. My wife has been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic cancer and she faces radiation and chemotherapy. She has a gofundme page at gofundme.com/f/help-debbi... or please buy one of my dark thrillers or murder mysteries at tinyurl.com/24nucxb9 Thank you so much!
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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They preach “life” and “Christian values,” then turn their backs on actual people.

This administration has made cruelty the norm, from children to trans folks to immigrants.

We deserve better than this.
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Regular people continue to be far more courageous in their resistance than most political leaders.
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.

NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Fuel for my long held view that executives provide very little value and should be compensated around the middle of their org pay scale
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Riley Gaines' campaign against trans people has done incalculable damage to trans rights the world over.

TWIBS brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social
TWIBS: Riley Gaines Saga Explained by Mother Jones — Assigned
A new profile on the prolific anti-trans activist by Mother Jones sheds light on Gaines’ obsession.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The @medillschool.bsky.social was silent as 200+ journalists were murdered in Gaza, was silent as their own students were threatened w beating by police, then suspended me and denied me tenure for standing w the students. It is not a journalism school, it is a school for teaching cowardice & fascism
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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ICE surround judge's car threatening to smash windows—then arrest his high school intern.

Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.

Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.

Tonight he’s finally free.

Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.

He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.

He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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What are abstract ideas like “being happy” and “having fulfillment” compared to real world achievements like “working full time for a company and still needing food stamps”
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Too on the nose for comfort:

Indigenous actor Elaine Miles was detained by ICE. She says ICE called her tribal ID “fake.”

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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I'd previously seen reports of this in San Diego specifically. I'm assuming they're testing this for a wider rollout, which is horrific. They've always deferred to USCIS to make a decision (in which the overstay is not a factor) before enforcement.

But these are lazy people with arrest quotas.
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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It's much simpler than that. The Boy Scouts aren't maximally cruel to trans kids and so Republicans believe it should be destroyed.
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM