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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 3d

You know hiw ChatGPT keeps context about you so it can better interact? I really have to wonder what it thinks about you now. 😂

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 3d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 7d

When I ran a coal plant we kept 7 - 14 days of coal in the pile to accommodate rail volatility. When we got below 3 we started curtailment planning to ensure critical loads were served. Anyway, please tell me more about how PV can’t work because it requires overnight on-sight energy storage.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 15d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 15d

#Gaza’s war: 2 years too long.

🔴 Over 66,100 people reported killed
🔴 Nearly all of Gaza’s residents have been displaced
🔴 Nearly 80 per cent of structures damaged or destroyed

UNRWA continues to provide critical services.

Read UNRWA response here: www.unrwa.org/resources/fa...

#UNRWAworks

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 16d

Progressives:
"I am because we are."

Conservatives:
"I am because I'm not them."

#CDNPoli
#MapleMAGA

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 18d

a cartoon rat with red eyes and a long tail .

ALT: a cartoon rat with red eyes and a long tail .

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 19d

I wonder about how full-scale wars like Russia's invasion of Ukraine are still happening. Why didn't Ukraine just put a $100 million bounty on Putin's head? Why isn't this legal?

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Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 20d

Please Starmer, stop blaming immigrants and human rights lawyers. You are making this country into a sewer of hatred and division.

None of our problems are because of too much kindness.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 20d

I often asked the question "if we had to choose someone to represent humanity in some higher court, who should that be?"

My thoughts always went to Jane Goodall first.

Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 22d

Many people talk about the lawlessness of ICE being a classic example of fascism, but what we need to note is that their behavior is also _evil_.

Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 23d

List here:
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 24d

If you dont understand the "sex is not gender" part:

Think of sex as the hardware (chromosomes, hormones, organs).
Think of gender as the software (identity, expression, role).

Biology gives you the device. How people run it is more than the parts inside.

A screenshot of a social media exchange. The first post is from a user named “the.incorruptible.mamabear” who says:
“Biology doesn’t care about your feelings. XX = woman. XY = man. Everything else is word games.”

The second reply, by “kataclastic,” lists many chromosomal variations that exist beyond XX and XY, such as XO (Turner, female), XXX (Triple X, female), XXY (Klinefelter, male), XYY (Jacob’s, male), mosaics, and chimeras. The reply ends with the sentence: “Oh, and sex isn’t gender. Class dismissed.”

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 27d

"I don't want to see Netanyahu destroyed by a missile along with his family," Boric told the UN General Assembly in New York. "I want to see Netanyahu and those responsible for the genocide against the Palestinian people brought before an international court of justice."

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 27d

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away.

And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 28d

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29d

BREAKING: President Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.

Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence

President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 29d

The brume closed in, erasing horizon and shore.
The sun dimmed to a pale wound in the sky.
Crows kept watch on the stones,
as if they knew we live always
at the edge of vanishing.

A fog-heavy shoreline in Sooke. The sun glows faintly through thick brume, casting a halo in the sky. Tall evergreens rise ghostlike on the headland, their trunks half-lost to the mist. In the foreground, three dark crows perch on rocks near the water’s edge, their silhouettes sharp against the haze. The sea glimmers silver where the fog thins. (If you linger here, the crows are not only birds, but keepers of a quiet council, waiting for the horizon to return.)

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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · Sep 21

News on the flotilla has gone silent, other than on Al Jazeera. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Dispatch from Sumud Flotilla: Sailing into ‘yellow zone’ en route to Gaza

The volunteers are just as determined despite the reality of the dangers they may face, Mauricio Morales writes.

www.aljazeera.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 21

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Sep 21

Advocates say the Trump administration’s goal is clear: make the pre-deportation process so punitive that targets give up and leave voluntarily. The administration and its allies see the detention policy as a corrective to decades of catch-and-release policies www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Trump’s new detention policy targets millions of immigrants. Judges keep saying it’s illegal.

The administration says the sweeping detentions are a key prong of Trump’s deportation strategy.

www.politico.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 20

This is amazing.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · Sep 18

Trump’s next step will be formalizing censorship powers via FCC license threats combined with a new anti-disinformation law. A "foreign agents" law like Russia.

#Kimmel

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · Sep 16

Stunning piece. A horror movie of sorts. Will be familiar to anyone on the left trying to navigate the centrist American legacy media, albeit made all the more difficult when your bosses and colleagues all assume your people are by default murderous barbarians. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

I was assigned, at some point, a piece about a spree of killings and land thefts carried out with impunity in the West Bank since October 7th. The piece mostly focused on a single settlement where a man who had gone to pick olives on his land one Saturday was shot by an off-duty Israeli soldier. His execution had been captured on video. The story included a cast of settlers, anti-occupation rabbis, and West-Bank Palestinians who had spent their lives fearing that their homes would be stolen, and that if they were killed or dispossessed, there would be no recourse for them. I ran into the story editor in the hallway, who said he was having trouble balancing the narrative because all the Israeli characters seemed evil, while all the Palestinians were angels. A long section that documented, without any editorializing, that Palestinian dispossession was an ongoing process that had begun long before October 7th was whittled down to a single paragraph after a series of fights between the editor-in-chief and the story editor on one side, and myself and the freelance writer on the other.

Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · Sep 16

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 16

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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