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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 16h

is the justice in the room with us now

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

AMERICA: let’s give $20 billion to Argentina, what is money anyway

ALSO AMERICA: HeaLtHcaRe FoR aLL? wHo iS gOinG to PaY FoR It

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jordan pumpkin spice [ham] @nursemurderer.bsky.social · 17h

friendly reminder, our taxes pay for the military in israel to get free tuition and free healthcare

born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

AMERICA: let’s give $20 billion to Argentina, what is money anyway

ALSO AMERICA: HeaLtHcaRe FoR aLL? wHo iS gOinG to PaY FoR It

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Tom Chappell @tomchappell.bsky.social · 17h

JAMA article on this: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens

This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.

jamanetwork.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h

Trying really hard to meet people where they’re at, truly I am, but I have to say that when smart people continually ignore a problem or seem to not get the point, it’s not about lack of understanding after a certain point. It’s about a lack of ethics.

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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 16h

YES.
"resisting eugenics" and not even wearing a mask/respirator? nope

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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Adam M. @theunsoothesayer.bsky.social · 17h

OMG y'all they are trying to dissolve the #vancouver park board I just learned from @parkboardscott.bsky.social

They JUST protected #transrights in a meaningful way! PLEASE find your voice #yvr

Adam M. @theunsoothesayer.bsky.social · 17h

I live in the only good place I swear.

Thank you for standing on business against She Who Must Not Be Named @parkboardscott.bsky.social !!!!!

#translivesmatter

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 18h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 17h

Considering making a site on how I'm teaching legal studies classes in the current environment. To be a resource kinda like against-a-i.com
Would anyone be interested in that? I'd want to host it outside the US, any suggestions for a host?
Or is there something like that already that I could join?

AGAINST AI -

against-a-i.com

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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 17h

Could a copyright claim gum up the works here, anything?

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

Hubert's assets, created as decorations for cyberpunk cityscapes, are used especially widely in animations that the IDF released during their strikes on Iran in June.

Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:

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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 17h

this is so important and utterly immoral and infuriating.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · Jul 7

When JD Vance jokes about ICE detaining tourists at sports mega-events, it's no laughing matter. Especially since the Trump admin is building up a massive security apparatus for the LA28 Olympics & 2026 FIFA men's World Cup, as I wrote about @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · Jul 7

Welcome to sports mega-event Los Angeles, where a National Special Security Event designation is in effect that enables exactly this sort of militarized occupation of public space. Reporting & video by @melbuer.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/melb...

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Jul 7

Border patrol now sweeping the park

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · Jul 28

When leaders of the LA28 Olympics were asked directly about the brutal ICE crackdown in their city, they refused to comment. This is what complicity looks like. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Organizers hope the 2028 Summer Olympics present a 'refreshed global image of California'

Officials working on the LA 2028 Olympics appeared before a state Senate panel on Thursday to discuss tourism and planning for the international event.

www.latimes.com

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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 18h

Seems to me like people are not gonna come, and probably they shouldn't.

Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · Jul 4

My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

The IOC handed LA the Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them | Jules Boykoff

As the IOC ushers in new leadership, Donald Trump’s second term is already wreaking havoc on LA 28 – and turning a global celebration into a national security crackdown

www.theguardian.com

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · Jul 4

My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

The IOC handed LA the Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them | Jules Boykoff

As the IOC ushers in new leadership, Donald Trump’s second term is already wreaking havoc on LA 28 – and turning a global celebration into a national security crackdown

www.theguardian.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

Like on top of all the rest of it - the kidnappings of our students. The twisting of the judiciary. The spinelessness of any form of opposition. The people who have seemingly vanished from a place that they literally call "Alligator Alcatraz" bec they think its catchy. It's a lot. And chilling.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.

Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.

This is not okay.

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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social · 1d

what the ever loving f wowww

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3d

Deloitte issued partial refund to the Australian Gov for its error-ridden AI-generated report youtu.be/C17KWJ02Goo

Deloitte delivers report to government using AI which contained errors | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 3d

And I am in absolute awe of this woman’s bravery:

As Watson questioned agents about warrants and the legality of their raid, neighbors pleaded with her to be quiet for her own safety. She refused to back down.

"You claim you have warrants, but do you have a warrant to seize the entire building?" she asked the agents. "Do you have warrants to detain the entire building?" According to Watson, two federal agents told her that they were taking all detainees' photos to check them against databases for visas or warrants.

When Watson walked around the block to capture footage of the ongoing raid, she noticed federal agents were using the parking lots of Excel South Shore Academy—a CPS contractor school— to load residents into vans. In them, Watson saw Black U.S. citizens, women, and children. Grabbed from their beds, they hadn't been allowed to dress themselves before they were zip-tied and brought down to the waiting vans.

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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