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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

“I’m English on my mom’s side and ethnically a kidnapper on my dad’s”

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 🔥🧊 @chrisdafer.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, we thought they said "the best and the brightest" but obviously they said "no breasts and the whitest."

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 18h

Guy who is zip-tying American children and shooting pastors on the head with pepper balls wants Peace Prize.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Lazer Cat @lazer-cat.bsky.social · 8h

If Indiana Jones wasn't scared to punch a Nazi, should you be? You're tougher than a college professor.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

By blaming vaccines and painkillers and selling dubious "remedies," Trump, RFK, and their cronies are essentially promoting the idea that there's no need for society to spend all that money, because if autism is easily preventable and treatable, then families (moms) can manage it on their own. 3/

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Trump, RFK, and their cronies likely want to create the (false) perception that autism is preventable and curable, because that allows them to: 1) cut accommodations, services, and support for autistic kids and their families, and 2) blame mothers for autism in ways that make (1) seem justified. 1/

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 1d

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like to brag but I do think our cat Jim is probably better at stretching than virtually any other cat in Britain.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h

Happy Helen Hayes's birthday!

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 14h

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Important thread:

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 15h

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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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 15h

Our classrooms are not safe for us or regular students. Our universities canot be relied upon to protect us. You have to keep speaking up about this. Faculty already are, but we need folks who aren’t in academia raising the alarm for everyone else. The End.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 15h

Part of this hierarchy has been created over decades by labor market economic stuff but universities embrace it so they can hire fewer profs overall and more Deans of ChatGPT Strategery 🙄🤮 It's also a deliberate political strategy to tighten up exactly who gets to have "academic freedom."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

But that’s no excuse for not showing up.

Show up to a protest on the 18th. It’s a way to stand up and be counted for the proposition that what these people are doing to your country is not right, not acceptable.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
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X.com
Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He cannot be deported to Ghana.
This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.
In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: “The Justice Department seemed poised to pursue an indictment against Letitia James on pathetically weak charges. Yet the charges that actually ended up in the indictment a jury returned on Thursday may somehow be even weaker.”

By @mollyroberts.bsky.social

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Courts & Litigation Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law
Executive Branch
The Justice Department's
Dangerously Weak Case Against
Letitia James
Molly Roberts
Friday, October 10, 2025, 12:20 PM
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Lindsey Halligan didn't have a strong case against Letitia James. She indicted her anyway.

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