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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 6d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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B.J. Gunts @bjgunts.bsky.social · 7d

This is worth a few minutes of your time.
youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A?...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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taber @kvetch.gay · 6d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Haezyll @haezyll.bsky.social · 7d

They are drunk with, what they believe is, impunity of their violence. They are gleeful at the horrors they are inflicting. They are enjoying destroying people and hurting communities.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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Haezyll @haezyll.bsky.social · 7d

And folks felt that was a bit, uh, antagonizing and she got ratioed again. And now she’s on about how “Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked.”

Three posts from Jay, Bluesky CEO:

Post 1:
“Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.”

Post 2:
“Yet it's a behavior that persists across social media anyways, with negative consequences for civil discourse and society. Human nature is a contributing factor, but systems that reward outrage only make the problem worse.”

Post 3:
“We're system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.”

Haezyll @haezyll.bsky.social · 7d

CEO posted on a waffles comment. Then someone asked if they’d banned S*ngal. Then she replied with “waffles.” People had thoughts about her seemingly taking anti trans hate not seriously or not taking action on it etc. Then, she decided to double down and post a pic of a waffle.

A screenshot of Bluesky CEO, Jay, quote posting, a response to the post, and her reply.

First, a post from Jerry Chen which said “(Bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES.”

Jay’s quote posted that from Jerry, saying: “too real. we’re going to have to try to fix this. Social media doesn’t have to be this way.”

Lucas, another Bluesky account, responded to Jay: “have y’all banned Jesse Singal yet or”

Jay replied to Lucas with: “WAFFLES”

The next day Jay, Bluesky CEO, posted:“Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles.” She included a photo of a round waffle, topped with berries and a dusting of powdered sugar (that is icing sugar for my UK, AUS, NZ etc. friends), on a table with dappled light.

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Haezyll @haezyll.bsky.social · 8d

Zip tying kids together, destroying property, handcuffing everyone, holding/detaining people for several hours… this is *not* “targeted enforcement.” Do not believe their lies.

This is many 4th amendment violations.
This is armed security forces goons terrorizing a community.
This is fascism.

Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 8d

They zip tied little kids together, shoved their guns in the face of a Black American grandma who came out in her nightgown, and destroyed building property with chainsaws.

The Ronin @the-ronin.bsky.social · 8d

“They Took Everyone”: ICE Raids 75th Street Apartment, Detains Migrants and U.S. Citizens Alike

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 8d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8d

When Trump let Musk feed USAID into the woodchipper, he started a chain reaction that began by firing dedicated public servants &
ended shortly thereafter in the gasping last breaths of children denied medicine within reach. It's murder with slighty more steps www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 9d

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 11d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 11d

Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia’s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11d

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling.

Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 12d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Feb 28

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 13d

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13d

Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Dustin @hareandthere.bsky.social · 13d

War ravaged Portland.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 14d

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders.

we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15d

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

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Haezyll @haezyll.bsky.social · 16d

Do it!! They are so much fun and such a great way to visit yarn shops you may not have had an opportunity to visit. And can be fun way to meet other local knitters/crocheters/crafters, or learn about knitting+ circles or events in your area. Plus, all the yarn (and notions) you’ll want to buy!

Haezyll @haezyll.bsky.social · 17d

This is so awful. Acadia NP is such a special place. Visitors should be able to hear the real truth about climate change & the human impacts on these places. The important work of scientists should not be censored.
The erasure of info on Indigenous peoples’ experience & sacred spaces is despicable.

Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17d

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park

The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

barharborstory.substack.com

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