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IMMIGRANTS MATTER.

@shinery.bsky.social

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Immigrant in New York. Cis + she/her. 130 weeks in recovery. Unite Ireland. Free Palestine. Abolish ICE. Immigrants deserve rights, not platitudes. Republican, but not in the American way. If you have to ask, Google it.

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · Aug 25

This photo will be shown in history books as an example of deep and unabiding cruelty. You can't reform this.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia detained by ICE during check-in headline on CNN. The accompanying pictures shows him crying while he's being held by his wife.

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 3h

My next major appointment is with a dermatologist, and I'm worried. I've had a bump on my nose for years and my father passed from cancer (after I developed the bump so while it's unlikely it's cancer, it's still a huge worry).

Still, it's nice to be able to say that I can now see one.

a man and a woman are talking in a hospital hallway and the man says help me to help you help me to help you

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 4h

I don't understand why people feel the need to create videos like this, because as I said there are so many actual real videos and instances of police brutality happening.

It feels like making videos like this is making a mockery of what's happening, reducing it to a meme.

IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 4h

Just in case I'm blocked for whatever reason, the video being shared is a clearly generated AI video of a Black woman with three hands, two of which are behind her back with her arms as she's being detained and one of which is somehow holding a microphone.

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 4h

(I really wish you could detach videos or images from quotes.)

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 4h

There are so many other videos of people being brutalized by authorities, including actual immigrants.

There is no need to post misinformation and fake videos and keep them up.

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 4h

Respectfully, sharing videos that are clearly AI does not help immigrants in the slightest. It just makes our supporters look like batshit conspiracy freaks.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 7h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 5h

A hypothetical conversation:

Best Friend ™️: I'm not a big fan of this new system at work, I can't get used to it

Me: is it too wet for you?

a group of women are dancing in a club .

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 12h

Normalize being able to call politicians pieces of shit for their inaction as well as their action without dorkass losers acting like you've insulted their personal friends.

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 12h

Someone recommended Mooncat, and I've heard good things about Cirque and Starrily.

IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah. Even if she is just a member of the original Independent Americans Party, before they branched out, they're still awful lol

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 12h

So weird that people are acting like you're not talking about his policies.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 15h

Obama is a piece of shit.

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 12h

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

Jesus Christ

IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

MAJA

IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

My two genders are extremely angry or wildly horny. You're welcome.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

I would let that man turn me inside out like I was a rubber glove that had gotten stuck.

IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

caps are threats. let's all type like e.e cummings.

IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

two men are hugging each other in a grocery store aisle .

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

Like oh, someone doesn't like your haircut? Someone's wearing an inflatable frog costume? Someone called you a little bitch?

Man, that must suck. All we have to deal with is people wanting to throw us into camps. And we're not even getting paid for it.

IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but this country is a fucking disaster lately and it's really getting to me.

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

Seriously though, not great. How about you?

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IMMIGRANTS MATTER. @shinery.bsky.social · 13h

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