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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 1d
Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d
What I like about living in NYC is that the zipper pull on my coat broke this morning and I just dropped it off at the shoe/coat/handbag repair shop a block from my therapist’s office and it should be ready when I get out of my session. Easy peasy!

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 1d

New Ep of Unruly Subjects!
Bill Fletcher Jr. on what “general strike” really means—how strike power differs from protest power, & what it takes to win.
Plus: Minneapolis workers Dr. Robert Mills III & Nakia Dunbar on working under ICE escalation!

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 1d
Demanding body cams is demanding that they take more of our money and spend it on killing us.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 2d
It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

Reposted by American Library Association, Trevon D. Logan, Melanie C. Green , and 1 more

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d
“There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred —particularly where the sole task ordered by the Court and repeatedly emphasized by DOJ was simple: redact known victim names before publication,”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d
Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 3d
I kicked off Black History Month in Corona at the home of Louis Armstrong, who lived in our city for more than 30 years. Walking through his house and hearing how much New York meant to him was a powerful reminder of what this city owes to Black artists and culture.
Mayor Mamdani inside the Louis Armstrong House Museum Mayor Mamdani looking at artwork of Louis Armstrong A trumpet player A signed photo of Louis Armstrong

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d
No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 4d
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.

Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately. Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.

Reposted by Mark Bray, Jamie Morgan, American Library Association

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d
“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Reposted by American Library Association, Lesley Bartlett

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d
In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia

You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge

Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old
Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days
The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.
www.cbsnews.com

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d
Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 4d
Manhattan Boro President Brad Hoylman is the first politician I have seen try and do something about the fact far right propaganda outlet Newsmax is streaming in NYC cabs. www.instagram.com/reel/DUJvtcY...
Brad Hoylman-Sigal on Instagram: "Newsmax has absolutely no place on New York City streets. I’m calling on the TLC to suspend their partnership with Curb until Newsmax is no longer being broadcast i...
445 likes, 54 comments - bradhoylman on January 30, 2026: "Newsmax has absolutely no place on New York City streets. I’m calling on the TLC to suspend their partnership with Curb until Newsmax is no...
www.instagram.com

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 5d
“It’s hard to understand how we have constitutional rights when you can just be arrested for being a member of the press.”

Georgia Fort, journalist arrested by federal agents for covering the protest at a Minnesota church.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 5d
The staff of Workday Magazine and Labor Education Service strongly condemn the federal arrests of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon. We are in full solidarity with them. This is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism, and we demand their immediate, unconditional release.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, American Library Association, Bonnie Honig , and 4 more

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Reposted by John Horgan, Victor Asal, American Library Association , and 5 more

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 5d
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
brianstelter.bsky.social Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 5d
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 5d
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 6d
"I always think about prison industrialization complex abolition as a vision of a restructured society, basically in a world where we have everything that we need," says our co-founder Mariame Kaba in this interview.
In It for the Long Haul: Increasing the Possibility of Freedom and Liberation for All
Cierra Kaler-Jones interviews Mariame Kaba, organizer, educator, archivist, curator, and author of We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice.
rethinkingschools.org

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 6d
Had an annual well visit today, doctor pronounced my blood pressure “beautiful” so there’s my good news.

Dr. Mermash at Langone. Strong recommend, she’s the best I’ve had since Dr. Lane. Thorough, friendly, warm, office doesn’t tell you your weight unless you consent.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 6d
Wait til you hear what they’re doing to school and public librarians. This guy wouldn’t last a day at the desk.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Tillis says he opposes ICE being barred from wearing masks: "I've seen people dox me. I've seen people take pictures and identify law enforcement officers and then put their families at risk. So, I think that's a step too far."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6d
Republicans redirected billions of dollars in infrastructure bill broadband grants away from stuff like affordable gigabit fiber, to Elon Musk in exchange for slow, expensive satellite broadband access he was planning to deploy anyway
SpaceX sends list of demands to US states giving broadband grants to Starlink
SpaceX won't make specific promises on Starlink network capacity or subscribers.
arstechnica.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Homan: "The withdrawal of law enforcement resources here is dependent upon cooperation ... as we see that cooperation happen, then the redeployment will happen"

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 6d
She Fought a Book Ban. She May Never Teach Again. (via @nytimes.com) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u... #books #bookbans
She Fought a Book Ban. She May Never Teach Again.
www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."