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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 12d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

@nlgchicago.bsky.social is trying to raise $10k to fund ongoing legal support for protesters. They've had to cover long shifts at Broadview, and their volunteers have been repeatedly assaulted by police in the process. More info with ways to donate here: instagram.com/p/DP36ITJja-W/

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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WIRED @wired.com · 7h

Your browser sends a lot of information with each website you visit. That can be used to track you across the internet.

Here’s What Your Browser is Telling Everyone About You

Your browser sends a lot of information with each website you visit. That can be used to track you across the internet.

wrd.cm

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · Sep 16

The conservative project always makes much more sense when you realize it's just run by upper middle class American christian nationalist who are basically completely fine in material position but furious the entire country doesn't bow to their weird cultural preferences.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Sep 16

oh no, on CBS no less

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 21h

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 9h

ITUC denounces Trump’s intervention in #Argentina’s elections — backing a regime that cuts wages, attacks public services, and enables capital flight 💸

This isn’t a bailout. It’s a hedge fund exit plan.

✊🏽ITUC stands with Argentina’s workers. No more blackmail & foreign interference. #ForDemocracy

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 16h

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Covenant House International @covenanthouse.bsky.social · 1d

We’re rethinking what “affordable” really means for young people trying to move out of homelessness and into stable housing.

That means building 1,000 housing units over the next 10 years that youth can rent for 30% of whatever their income is — no more no less.

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Boiling Boy @dreweliotcurtis.bsky.social · 17h

That’s a given. DHS’s narrative is foundationally false.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 1d

We need $1600 by Oct 28 to help keep a recently housed neighbors power on. This will allow him to start a payment plan he can manage through SSI payments.

Cashap: $RemoraHouseDC

GB: givebutter.com/remorahouse

Thank you all!! Love & solidarity!

Support Remora House

By Remora House

givebutter.com

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 23h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Pablo Barría Urenda @pbarriau.bsky.social · 1d

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

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Boiling Boy @dreweliotcurtis.bsky.social · 21h

The clarity of analysis about the three main “takes” on Trump 2.0 (and what got us here - as well as how they overlap) is very grounding, and the article hints at ways forward where people who subscribe to each of the three can collaborate for a liberated future and at how difficult this will be.

Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 22h

This is as useful an essay as everyone sharing it has already said, which is to say, very useful to think with.

What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review

Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.

www.bostonreview.net

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the 59th anniversary of the creation if the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.

Founded by Huey P Newton (RIP) and Bobby Seale, the Black Panther was actually a symbol from the 761st Tank battalion and the Bloody Lowndes Democratic formation.

Bobby Seale turns 88 one week from today

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

“Please someone listen to me, I don’t want to die”

These are the words of a woman named Harmonie who had an ectopic pregnancy

Her obgyn refused to help, citing a
1% chance the fetus could survive

She lives in a blue state & still couldn’t access the life saving care she needed

Illinois Woman Denied Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancy

10.14.25

open.substack.com

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Boiling Boy @dreweliotcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

They do not break us… on one side and Chinga La Migra/Nos Sostenemos on the other

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

i am making a THEY DO NOT BREAK US THEY BREAK UPON US flag that i will wave as high as i can on saturday for no kings. repost this with what you intend to do. encourage every person you know to hit the streets.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Look, I don't trust Hochul, but she's canny enough to know how to call these fucking bigots what they are, and I appreciate that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Boiling Boy @dreweliotcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Cartels are for sure offering CBP and ICE bounties now that officers have been pulled off of tracking them down in order to go after empanada vendors, nannies, and inflatable unicorns. Makes total sense.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 2d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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