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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 1d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.” ⚓️

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 8h

"Among the estimated total population of Gaza, this is equivalent to more than 54,600 children up to six years old who need emergency nutrition and medical care, including 12,800 severely wasted children, the researchers said."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

My post:

There's SOOOOOO many reasons the distinction matters, not least that DOJ didn't even try to charge 6 cases in Chicago.

Claiming this is jury nullification lets DHS off easy for the bullshit charges they're arresting.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/g...

Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 18% - emptywheel

Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges aga...

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 8h

"Faculty were not consulted" 👀

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 13h

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 13h

Someone reskeets my Blackademics starter pack with a "Welcome to the resistance!" gif. When I replied below, the same person blocked me. I guess "the resistance" isn't prepared for gentle pushback or constructive criticism. Anyway...

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 15h

Please don't do that. Reposting is most appreciated, but many of the scholars in the starter pack have extensive critiques of what you describe as "the resistance." We are all in agreement that 45/47 is terrible, but don't reduce our thinking to a slogan that obscures as much as it clarifies.

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 18h

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 11h

This is just an excuse.

They don't want to fight Trump on immigration because they agree with him, their big donors agree with him, their consultants agree with him. They're all in the anti-immigrant camp.

They just split hairs about how deeply anti-immigration they are, and how to do it.

Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 15h

I mean—Durbin is basically stating outright "We won't let ourselves hit Trump on his biggest proven weakness, because it might damage us with Trump voters."

Does he even realize how ridiculous that is? It's a weakness because voters don't like it!

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 11h

Shereen lose her account here but her grandfather is sick and she needs help gofund.me/2a8c0180

An elderly man sleeping on a cot in a
Makeshift hospital

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🎃🎃🎃 @3carrots.bsky.social · 8h

What's one thing that can be set down for later? 💞

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · 22h

Talking to folx in prison reminds me that people have been living with extreme authoritarian conditions, including censorship and denial of trans health care, prior to this moment. Let's listen when they tell us how to get through it and what they need. #solidarity truthout.org/articles/bei...

Being Trans Behind Bars in Florida Was Already Hard. Under Trump, It’s Worse.

Trans people in prison are at the front lines of the increased targeting that trans people are facing under Trump.

truthout.org

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 11h

Y'all told these motherfuckers it was OK to let trans people lose their rights. Now they're banking on people letting them abandon everyone who looks vaguely Latino as well as actual immigrants. Who are y'all advocating for moderation gonna abandon next?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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xfiles s10e13: atomic bog @jessicapancakes.bsky.social · 11h

"look dont let perfect be the enemy of uhhhhhhhjh NOT disappearing civilians via extrajudicial kidnappings"

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11h

REI easily top of the list of companies most likely to do a land acknowledgement before layoffs

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11h

Decimating the alert system for critical infrastructure so as to provide for more raids of Home Depot parking lots

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 13h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Rusty Crayfish @stoobiedood.bsky.social · 18h

Nope. Toronto.
The uncropped photo shows the sculpture in the background, created by Eldon Garnet at Toronto Police HQ
www.alamy.com/eldon-garnet...

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Montrealers did the same for their riot police.
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From the hmmm community on Reddit: hmmm

Explore this post and more from the hmmm community

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 17h

PS I may have mentioned a time or two or twenty that white women only have value insofar as we support, police, & serve the white supremacist patriarchy.

And as I may have *also* mentioned a time or two or twenty, white supremacism actively depends on misogyny to function.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · Sep 28

In the white supremacist construct, other races are weak AND brutish, wily AND stupid. Someone has to be endangered by that set of characteristics—but it certainly can't be white men!

So who is it? Has to be white women. And WW who refuse to be white supremacy's enforcers are a danger to it.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10h

They knew to start with Black people so everyone would do nothing til it was too late

They told people they were doing it and had the websites up the first days

So they are absolutely where they want to be

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 15h

What's infuirating is that these idiots intentionally crashed the job market so that we would all either be forced to work for ICE or create AI slop.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10h

I have no way to convey that non white people aren’t shocked at chaos being chosen over merit

We’re just kind of tired of waiting for folks to get to the next step of

Doing something about it

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 20h

Odai's malnutrition has created a serious crisis, his inflammation is spreading through his body and his foot just wont heal. His body just cant fight. Can you please help him? Can you please fight for him? www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Donate to Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine, organized by Mahmoud Shehada

Hi world , it’s Sahar Please read this as if I'm a member … Mahmoud Shehada needs your support for Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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Genderless Rodent, Portland's Strongest Poster @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 16h

It's a whose who of shitty locals!

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Abood Radwan @aboodradwan1.bsky.social · 12h

If this ceasefire is real, let it finally stop the bloodshed, bring back the missing, and relieve our children from the sound of bombs. 💔🇵🇸

We've already lost so much—we just want to live, rebuild our lives, and breathe peace again. 🕊️

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12h

"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements.

Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

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