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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18m

Another one

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12m

Perhaps if rich pedophiles contracted it Congress might become interested in protecting America from this malpractice.

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The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.
October 11, 2025 at 4:36 p.m. EDT

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 8m

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 50m

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 4h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 44m

I want to live in a time when this shit is not controversial like motherfuckers can we focus on cancer and shit and just leave everyone alone and help people who need it?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Witty Librarian Resistance @paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 23m

LITERAL CHILD KIDNAPPERS. In a sane world none of us would tolerate this shit. Every single ICE agent out of that office needs to be in jail for child endangerment, kidnapping, and general assholery.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 5h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 36m

When you think back to Trump’s unhinged Ebola freak out during Obama’s presidency this seems extra insane.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Witty Librarian Resistance @paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 33m

Tron Ares is okay. The plot is threadbare but serviceable. NIN was loud and intense as it needs to be. The SFX was stunning: That Recognizer looked REAL. Most of the actors gave good performances... except for Jared Leto, who played it too robotic IMHO. Jodie Turner-Smith by comparison was intense.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5h

1. This is illegal as it makes enforcement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 effectively impossible.

2. Congress appropriates more than $300M each year for enforcement because housing discrimination has one of the ugliest legacies in American history after slavery and Native American genocide.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 6h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

They’re actively working to resegregate housing, and our “allies” refuse to name racism while they’re doing so...

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 6h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 5h

That dawg don’t hunt in Louisiana or America Mikey.

Pawpaw and Memaw don’t hate America. 🇺🇸

They know Americans fought a war to get away from Kings. And, they believe in ballot boxes not bullets or riots as a peaceful transfer of power. Something your party should have learned a lesson from by now

Older gentlemen with a fishing hat on in a lawn chair lounging peacefully with a handmade sign that says: No Kings! in America. Woman behind him with a sign that says: “no Kings! democracy for AMERICA.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 5h

Taps the “this administration is full of eugenicists so yes, they do want people to die” sign so hard it snaps and shards go scattering everywhere.

And yes, we saw it coming.

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 19h

Kamala Harris is doing more for my Gubernatorial race & 2026 than some elected officials are since there’s a split donation fundraising email out for Sherrill & KDH For The People. Her email list is helpful.

Exhibit A: She did this for Jon Ossoff recently & he just raised $12 million in 3 months.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 18h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 7h

The agents had a map of the building, marked doorways with stickers, and even knew in advance which units had firearms.

Let's talk about that last part.

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 t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 6h

Trump is proud stating that he fired people who do things that Democrats care about.

Why do Republicans love lung disease, Measles and pandemics?

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 8h

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17h

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 7h

The lengths that ICE agents will go to throw citizens under the bus who document their transgressions on public property is absurd.

Women arrested by ICE in front of Chicago elementary school, accused of stalking agents.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Women arrested by ICE in front of Chicago elementary school, accused of stalking agents

Two women were arrested by ICE agents on Friday in front of a Chicago elementary school near the University of Illinois at Chicago campus on the West Side.

www.cbsnews.com

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Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · 7h

this is how you condemn thousands to death with a single strike of a pen.

this is death, nothing more than that.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 8h

This administration does the cuntiest things in the cuntiest ways possible.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

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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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18h

I hope to god the reporter and their editor are prepared to go to jail to protect their source here, because the regime will absolutely want to make an example of this man. Like all fascists, they know neighbors helping each other wins every time.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

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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