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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 2h

"The report called Amazon “the ultimate keeper of the data that enables detentions and deportations,” while MIT Technology Review called Amazon the “invisible backbone” of ICE’s crackdown on immigrants."

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 2h

Frog and Toad stand up to ICE

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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 3h

the emperor has no brains

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 5h

Warning signs of real moonlight in a pair of earrings: vivid dreams, premonitions, a sense of coolness that starts at the tips of your toes and drifts up to the nape of your neck. Has @peripateticmeg.bsky.social done magic here? Only you can tell. www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Meg's Moonlight | Peculiarity Shop

The moon glows bright in these moonstone earrings Components: moonstone, sterling silver hooks Please note: these already come equipped with sterling earwires.

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 5h

It's no secret to the shop admin that I REALLY like @saraeileen.bsky.social's stuff because I've bought a lot of it. It is completely wild this necklace is still available. Straight up Locked Tomb awesomeness. YOU KNOW HARROW WOULD WEAR THIS: www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Sara Eileen's Love Never Dies | Peculiarity Shop

Sara Eileen handcrafts these ceramic pieces. Here, ze's placed ceramic skulls in epoxy clay, surrounded by freshwater pearls and red cubic zirconia. The heart bezel is sterling silver. Please take a l...

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 12h

boat!!!!!!!!

also, bodies W H Y

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 1d

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

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Anas Abdulhak - أنس عبدالحق @anasabdulhak.bsky.social · 13h

We are ONE backer away from 50% funded! 😭

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

Etheres: Ringo Award Nominated One-Shot Comic Returns

Anas Abdulhak and Dennis Menheere invite you to journey into Etheres, a realm where souls go when they don't belong anywhere else.

www.kickstarter.com

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Kate Sloan (she/her) @katesloan.com · 13h

Andy Izenson is such a cool & smart person that it was a no-brainer to immediately back their new poetry collection www.kickstarter.com/projects/lty...

Update 1: One Week In: We're Officially Smashing It · The World That Is Coming Inside You

I am boggled to report that despite being anxious bbs and giving ourselves two months for this kickstarter, we have smashed through our initial goal in less than a week. HOT DIGGITY!So where are we to...

www.kickstarter.com

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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 13h

Isn’t that just Pacific Rim?

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 15h

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 17h

Sandra Bland was murdered for being calmly defiant.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15h

The lake sturgeon (a 100-year-living, 90-kg relic from the age of dinosaurs) is returning to Missouri’s rivers after near-extinction from dams and pollution. The revival of a keystone species and signalling broader recovery of the Mississippi basin’s river systems.
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Ancient fish species makes historic comeback in Missouri rivers

The Missouri Department of Conservation reported that lake sturgeon are spawning in large numbers.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 1d

Moral clarity is such a refreshing change of pace

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Good for them

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Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 2d

My high school best friend’s first book of poems is now available for sale so you should absolutely buy it if you aren’t a total jerk

Streetlamp Nautilus|Paperback

"Catharine Batsios is a brilliant observer of broken and discarded things, which, being from Flint and Detroit, is a blessing. Streetlamp Nautilus is filled with decay, but a type of decay that create...

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 1d

nerds (affectionate)

A picture of two men standing together in a pink lit bar. One is wearing a mask that says “Love Is Real” and a sequin jacket. The other wears an “alpha Male” tshirt in pink with jeans.

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 1d

I would LOVE if Lattarulo's lawyers could get info on the record about whether ICE got into the phone, or failing that, if a Boston journalist could dig into this a bit further.

...I didn't number this because I didn't think I was going to have quite this much to say(famous last words). FIN.

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 1d

The reason I am concerned (other than on behalf of Mr. Lattarulo's clients) is that threat modeling around device seizures requires understanding what is possible with locked devices! If ICE can gain access to information on locked and encrypted modern iPhones, that's a big deal.

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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 1d

THIS COVER!!!!!!!!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The guy who seems to be setting the GOP shutdown position, Russ Vought, promised to put federal employees in trauma, and to use the shutdown to fire them and block their backpay.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Scalise: "When a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish."

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 2d

At least the memes are good.

ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 2d

Felt compelled

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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 1d

*chin hands*

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 2d

@democracynow.org had @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social and me on together to explain that she is not being sworn in because she is the 218th signatory for the release of the Epstein files. Swear her in today.

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