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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27m

A 15-year-old autistic, intellectually disabled, and often non-verbal boy in Houston has been held in ICE custody for the past week without his family knowing where he was.

I confirmed this video is real with local news reports:

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1h

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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WhisperingSage @whisperingsage.bsky.social · 17m

I was busy and couldn't go, they need to release it again.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 26m

Being mad at Ms Rachel is a pretty good tell that you're just mad that people care about Palestine at all— many such cases actually but in that context these people will die mad because people will always care

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WhisperingSage @whisperingsage.bsky.social · 29m

Using fake evidence undermines the real point.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 37m

the inverse of this is how much of politics is now just accepting that you have to vote for people who hate you, so your best option is to vote for people who hate other people more than they hate you

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 43m

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 1h

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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WhisperingSage @whisperingsage.bsky.social · 41m

Luckily more people have found it that can use critical thinking, so most of the top comments are now calling it out for being AI, but she still hasn't deleted.

WhisperingSage @whisperingsage.bsky.social · 44m

If she's leaning, it's at the wrong part of the desk anyway. If she was going to "just continue", then she'd fix her chair and sit back in the right spot, not just awkwardly lean a foot away from her papers.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

It's called "hunting and gathering." When I heard that I said wow. But we'll be nomadic and probably more nomadic than ever before

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h

In an unusual acknowledgement, the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

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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WhisperingSage @whisperingsage.bsky.social · 1h

The Mrs. Freeze Act.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 11h

DAILY MEMO: In New Tactic, ICE Kidnaps Random Bystanders Near Foiled Raid Sites 🧵 2 Parts

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