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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

This video is AI.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3d

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 5h

Machado has publicly supported Trump killing random Venezuelans in boat strikes and asked Benjamin Netanyahu to help dismantle Venezuela's government. I don't think the freedom or sobereignty of Venezuela is her goal

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 6h

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 6h

Seen on LinkedIn: “Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebola response.”

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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 6h

a wide-eyed tiger face painted with orange and blue against a white background

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 11h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 8h

The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 11h

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 8h

The WGN producer was released with no charges, per the outlet wgntv.com/news/operati...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

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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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 8h

9th Cir. grants an administrative stay blocking Judge Immergut's order that the National Guard not be federalized, but notes that bc DOJ didn't appeal her second order forbidding their deployment the effect is that the NG can be federalized during continuing litigation, but not deployed to Portland.

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 8h

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment [ca9])"
Doc #53: UPDATED ORDER FOR PUBLICATION FILED. (Susan P. GRABER, Ryan D. NELSON, Bridget S. BADE) Update: attached reformatted order. [Entered: 10/10/2025 04:15 PM]

Download PDF | View Full Case

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 10h

Do you have a union? You need one!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

1. This AM we learned Bari Weiss sent an email to CBS News staff asking them to submit a memo explaining how they spend their time and what’s working/not working.

Now, the Writers Guild, the union which reps some CBS News staff, says it has sent a demand to CBS to get more info about Bari’s request

Dear Guild Members:
We are aware that Bari Weiss sent an email asking CBS employees to provide information about their jobs and feedback about CBS News. Many of you have expressed concern to us about the purpose of the email, and we share those concerns. That is why we sent the company an immediate demand to provide information about the email by Monday. (Information request copied below.) We suggest that you refrain from responding until we are able to share the information that we receive so that you can make an informed decision by the Tuesday deadline.
Solidarity,
Michael Isaac, Director of
Broadcast/Cable/Streaming News
Brandon West, Field Representative
Sophie Martin, Field Representative
Dana Trentalange, Field Representative

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 13h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 10h

Can’t believe they are still charging this man:

“That left only one of the five defendants charged, Dana Briggs, 70, an Air Force veteran accused of making contact with an immigration agent’s arm while trying to hand off his cellphone, allegedly “causing pain” to the agent’s wrist.”

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 10h

Feds finally got a grand jury to indict

Woman shot by immigration agent after allegedly ramming vehicle indicted on assault charges

A woman shot by an immigration agent after she allegedly rammed his vehicle on Chicago’s Southwest Side last weekend has been indicted by a federal grand jury, part of a flurry of developments Frid…

www.chicagotribune.com

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 11h

Hey @barackobama.bsky.social check this shit out

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago residents are now following ICE vehicles, honking horns and shouting warnings before raids begin. This is what community defense looks like. 💪

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

This morning, masked Border Patrol agents violently pinned a longtime WGN-TV producer to the ground after detaining another unidentified male in Chicago, eventually arresting her and hauling her off in an unmarked silver van.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action

A DHS spokesperson said that Debbie Brockman was placed under arrest for ‘assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ claiming the WGN employee threw objects at the agent.

www.independent.co.uk

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine returning home to this after everything they have already been through.

Imagine doing this to other human beings essentially for sport.

Overnight, Israeli troops carried out a large-scale campaign of setting fire to huge amount of civilian homes and infrastructure before families returned to it in northern Gaza.

It appears to have been the most extensive mass arson operation since the genocide began

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING

The acting U.S. Attorney in Maryland is moving forward quickly to seek criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton.

A complaint or an indictment could come as early as next week.

Full Story: bit.ly/4o8DW4I

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12h

JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME. BEARING WITNESS IS NOT OBSTRUCTION.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 14h

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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