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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 2d

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back?

From my understanding:

Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned.

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Blacksky - Open Collective

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 18h

Debt Collective, the nation’s first union of debtors, has a long history of participating in the private sector to purchase student loan debt. In 2023, the Debt Collective’s Rolling Jubilee Fund purchased nearly $10M of student loan debt directly from Morehouse College.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 22h

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 15h

P.S. I've been updating docs.blacksky.community based on questions and feedback so check that out.

Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces.

Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾‍💻

Introduction | Blacksky Documentation

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 1d

Great piece from @emmavj.bsky.social who is calling Peak Vibe www.ft.com/content/14ef...

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 4d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 3d

As we enter “week 2” of the shutdown, remember: the administration has shut the government down for months — ending USAID, cutting grants, freezing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau & dropping its lawsuits vs big finance: bsky.app/profile/fedw...

Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 8d

The Trump administration has been shutting down the government & slashing public services for months. 12% of the federal workforce has already been cut. This is not about numbers. It’s about power. But together, we will win. Read: prospect.org/politics/202... #SaveOurServices #SupportFederalWorkers

The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months

Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 3d

The next day, @fedworkersunited.bsky.social joined @reprashida.govpeeps.us to discuss fighting back through the #ShutdownShowdown:
bsky.app/profile/fedw... /5

Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 5d

Federal workers: Join us TONIGHT for an organizing call! We're gathering to discuss prospects for organizing and fighting back through the shutdown, no matter how long it lasts. This is a call for inspiration, brainstorming & solidarity. Register here: bit.ly/FedWorkerSho... #SupportFederalWorkers

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 3d

On Weds Oct 1, federal workers including Paul Osadebe joined @fairshareamerica.bsky.social for a rally to tell the country “it’s not business as usual when people’s rights are being taken from them.”

Rally summary at: substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 3d

Also on 9/29:

HUD tries to fire two brave fair lending attorneys, Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan, who blew the whistle on the agency’s attempted shuttering of the division tasked with fighting discrimination in lending:

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s attempted firing of two whistleblowers at HUD is a “stunning act of illegal retaliation” — @fedworkersunited.bsky.social

Osadebe and Heenan warned about HUD’s attempts to shutter the office of fair lending, tasked with fighting discrimination in housing.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Housing Agency Removes Lawyers Who Filed Whistleblower Report

The fair housing attorneys said they face retaliation for signing a report criticizing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s leadership.

www.bloomberg.com

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 3d

Mon 9/29: Rally w/ workers from @fedworkersunited.bsky.social,
Reps @ramirez.house.gov, @ivey.house.gov, Sens @vanhollen.senate.gov:

“The way you stand up to a bully is not to cave to the bully. The way you stand up to the bully is to say NO to the bully”

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Under threat of RIFs and a government shutdown, some federal employees ‘not buying it’

At a grassroots press conference Monday evening, federal employees described the “terrible toll” the Trump administration has imposed on them this year.

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a quick roundup from last week of just a few of the ways federal workers reminded Congress that the “shutdown” started in January: /1

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Hold The Line T-Shirt

100% of proceeds go to the CFPB Union Solidarity Fund.

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 5d

We're one of 35 labor unions who signed the "No Bad Budget in Our Name" letter from federal workers telling Dems in Congress to do their damn jobs and FIGHT! #SaveOurServices #TrumpShutdown

Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 6d

A coalition of unions in the federal sector signed on to an extraordinary @fedworkersunited.bsky.social letter urging the Democrats to fight Trump administration cuts, even at the price of a government shutdown. labornotes.org/2025/10/will...

‘Willingly Forgoing Paychecks’: Federal Workers Support Shutdown Fight

A coalition of unions in the federal sector signed on to an extraordinary Federal Unionists Network letter September 29 urging the Democrats to fight Trump administration cuts, even at the price of a ...

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 3d

Passage is from chapter 6 of “Medgar & Myrlie”:
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Joy Reid's 'Medgar and Myrlie' traces extraordinary lives and love of civil rights leaders

A love story is helping paint a fuller picture of the civil rights movement. Activist Medgar Evers was killed in 1963 by a white supremacist outside his home in Mississippi. His murder thrust Myrlie E...

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 3d

JD Vance’s demand for “gratitude” reminds me of @joyannreid.bsky.social’s passage in “Medgar & Myrlie” on reactions to the 1963 clemency of Clyde Kennard:

“The white southern press typically presented black life as a constant exercise in gratitude at the undeserved blessings of white beneficence”

Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. www.joyannreid.com/p/the-vice-p...

The vice president has too much time on his hands

Tweet less and govern more, James David; you are wasting our time and tax money

www.joyannreid.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 4d

I really enjoyed this essay by Audrey Borowski on Günther Anders & his prescience on the impact of technology.

“The atom bomb…illuminates that the more ‘our’ technological power grows, the smaller we become… singled out as being expendable and inadequate.”

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Excerpt from “Philosopher of the apocalypse” by Audrey Borowski about Gunter Anders:

“‘Man is probably not a machine, but he behaves as such in a situation where the machines im se his operating rules. Indeed, the progress of technology should not be understood as necessarily being the progress of mankind: far from it, they are not accompanied by a progress of thought, reflection and responsibility, since they eliminate their intervention and even often make them impossible.’ [end quote by Gunter Anders.]

Crucially, man increasingly found himself enlisted in the production of his own disappearance in the most natural manner possible.”

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

You can see how their cameramen document their violence. This is about content creation. For the last one, I had to search my files for a photo of this moment that didn't include the face of a pained or screaming protester, but for clarity: those are tackled human beings on the ground.

DHS cameramen film their assault on tackled protesters.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

if there is one sad truism about online it is despite any reassurances they may give u companies are simply unable to protect anything you give them

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

They were human props in fascist propaganda. The state of Illinois should play no role in these theatrics, and we certainly shouldn't prosecute protesters who did nothing wrong. Let ICE spin its own BS cover story. We don't have to lend them IL courts for that.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

As I mentioned earlier, I can't show you all of my pictures because some include people's faces—but the pain and terror on some of those faces would bring tears to your eyes. These are people of conscience who had no chance to process the violence that fell down on them.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 4d

NEW — A lot happened today.

• Multiple protesters were arrested outside the ICE “processing” facility in Broadview.

• Chicago Ald. Jesse Fuentes was handcuffed and detained by ICE agents inside a hospital ER.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/illi...

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square • The TRiiBE

A roundup of ICE activity in the Chicagoland area on Oct. 3.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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