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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15h

DeHaas served as the Chair of NCOSE's Board, funneling money from his Christian porn surveillance app into the fight to ban adult content and sex work.

He called internet porn "the perfect sin" and the work of Satan.

Screen shot of NCOSE Board of Director showing DeHaas

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 14h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 9h

To be clear, this was a kidnapping and the agents should be charged.
www.fox26houston.com/news/missing...

Houston: Missing teen with autism reportedly in ICE custody

The family of a Houston teen who went missing tells FOX 26 that he had been in ICE custody for days.

www.fox26houston.com

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Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social · 14h

Huge shoutout to George Soros for funding our supporters with suits and pee bottles.

Here’s to a successful False Frog Operation In Portland, Chicago, and any city that oppressors invade.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 11h

This kind of terror will be with all of us for generations. The federal government is effectively engaging in domestic terrorism.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 11h

Being invaded by Canadian super hogs doesn’t seem that bad in comparison to everything.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 13h

Which Democrats is he referring to?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23h

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 20h

This is the protest edition of “weird” and it is working.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 20h

Really glad to see this. Wishing you and your family the security you all deserve. Solidarity.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 23h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

I am introducing a resolution today that the Seahawks never passed the ball on the 1 and now Tom Brady has one fewer Super Bowl

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 23h

I feel seen.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

"Miller plainly believes there’s a latent majority out in the country that can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism."

What comes across in this excellent @gregsargent.bsky.social profile of the infinitely loathsome Stephen Miller is that his is a very deliberate strategy. Must-read.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ve studied this a long time.”

Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 1d

Off the charts unhinged.

Two grown adults casually inventing medical science on live record.👇

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 1d

A regime of rapists

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

As Perry questions Hamilton about whether DOJ believes that threats against federal agents is enough to warrant the deployment of the National Guard, she says she started getting threats about 10 minutes after she was assigned to this case.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 1d

Seems totally fine.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 1d

attack on a Dalit Supreme Court judge for comments on Hinduism shows where US is headed.

Hint: it’s not good

“Each instance of state inaction functions as a moral endorsement, signalling to bureaucrats, police, &… judges that majoritarian excess is permissible, even desirable.”
shorturl.at/3CbZI

Anand Teltumbde: Attack on Dalit CJI Gavai recasts criminal aggression as nationalist virtue

When a Dalit chief justice is the target of symbolic violence and the state responds with indulgence, the promise of constitutional protection is hollowed out.

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