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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 9h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Lizsmalls (she/her) @lizsmalls.bsky.social · 8h

can you tell I miss nyc?

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Lizsmalls (she/her) @lizsmalls.bsky.social · 8h

homemade bagels and homemade lox 🤤

A photo of a blue/grey plate holding a sliced bagel with cream cheese and beautiful pink lox. Behind it are some pretty trees and water lit up from the sun.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10h

Give every politician as much credit as their actions and no more

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 14h

President Stephen Miller’s fantasies escalate from here
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.”
—Anne Frank, 1943

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 17h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16h

Read it all. From one small section:

Shortly after a man fired >500 rounds at CDC and killed a cop, the staff that safeguard employee, facility, and data security are gone. And the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, that trains and supports risk management across the entire agency, is gone.

Beyond that, the CDC will not be able to function administratively, as the Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management (OSSAM) office, which safeguards employee, facility, and data security at CDC lost its entire Occupational Health and Safety Office. Barely two months after a gunman shot more than 500 rounds at CDC and killed a police officer, the office devoted to employee safety has been The Workplace Health Office was also RIFed, as was the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, which is charged with training and supporting risk management across the entire agency. Not only have the CDC employees been terminated, but the ones who remain will be forced to function within an organization that has eliminated mechanisms for looking after their well-being, safety, and ability to effectively do their jobs to carry out the CDC mission.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15h

"It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of media-ready Palestinian or Palestinian-American guests to choose from, chief among them Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has not appeared on any of the major Sunday news shows since 2019."

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 15h

Diane Keaton (1946–2025)

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 2d

If you care about my family, don't make me feel like I'm alone. We're hungry.

If you're browsing, please leave a dot. It's just a dot. We need more people donating

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

Only 400 💔

Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 3d

£39,284 of £40,000 raised! Ruaa's so close!

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

It could have all been avoided, but I chose you, Gaza. They crushed us both to dust. I know we’ll rise again but who will mend the cracks that will always remember?

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · 1d

Today in #ZineCataloging

One Million Experiments volume 8: Making a Plan
It's an activism workbook zine by @prisonculture.bsky.social. The whole series: millionexperiments.com/zines

Read the Zine: One Million Experiments

Read the Zine from One Million Experiments, where we explore community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

millionexperiments.com

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 1d

Local healthcare practitioners say getting tested is the best way to help stop the spread. https://akpub.io/4o8OPDC

Tuberculosis cases surge to outbreak levels in Bristol Bay, health officials say

Local healthcare practitioners say getting tested is the best way to help stop the spread.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 5d

For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.

For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List

Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Pat Race @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 5d

#akleg We're an informal group of Alaskans who are part of an ongoing discussion about what a grassroots, homegrown political party could look like. We're building community and organizing across Alaska and we want you to contribute your voice and unique skills.

alaskaneighbors.org

Alaska Neighbors

We're an informal group of Alaskans who are part of an ongoing discussion about what a grassroots, homegrown political party could look like.

alaskaneighbors.org

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Kittie @kittiepeters.com · 5d

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 6d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

This afternoon, I sat with Palestinian New Yorkers in Astoria and listened to what they and their families have endured as the genocide in Gaza continues, funded by our government.

In the face of immeasurable grief, they have showed unbreakable resilience.

Zohran posing for a group photo with ten people, including Palestinian New Yorkers.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

www.booksthroughbars.org

Books Through Bars Philadelphia

Books Through Bars sends free books to incarcerated people in the mid-east United States. We are a volunteer-run nonprofit based in Philadelphia, PA.

www.booksthroughbars.org

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