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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 7h

On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.”

That, Taher says, “is a lie.”

“I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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a matt @thrillhowse.bsky.social · 1d

this map accurately depicts rochester as being at the contested border of the midwest and northeast. that’s why i’ve always referred to that region of upstate ny as the middle east

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Dexter Patterson aka Wisco Birder @wiscobirder.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Publication Day!!!! 🥹 timberpress.com/titles/dexte... 🪶

Birds of the Great Lakes

From the co-founder of Wisconsin's BIPOC Birding Club comes a fun and accessible guide to birding throughout the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes region is teemi...

timberpress.com

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 2d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly his dumper isn’t even that big

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Maddie @maddiejayy.bsky.social · 3d

FBC is doing a Birdathon again this year! 🪶

charity.pledgeit.org/2025fbcbirda...

Flyer that reads: 2025 Birdathin
a fundraiser for + Birders of Palestine
Saturday, October 18 @ Sandy Creek Park
8:30 am - 10:30 am
attendance not required for participation in Birdathon take part and/or donate 10/17-10/21

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 3d

A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 3d

Y'know I'm not supposed to say that word things are correct or incorrect because that's classist and snobby and gatekeeping etc.?

"Woah" is incorrect.

Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 4d

How about doing your copy editing better?

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& Wirecutter
• Do your laundry better: If you're confused about how to launder an item of clothing, just take a photo of a laundry-care label. Then, tap the Info button at the bottom of the screen (or sometimes a washing machine icon with sparkles) and tap Look Up Laundry
Care. Woah.

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Good Bird @goodbirdbirding.bsky.social · 3d

Listened for a lot of these last week and saw a ton of warblers! Hoping to see them again in January!
Join us!
www.birdingforgood.com

Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here’s my short rec for a simple (and frankly very cute) trick that has helped me (and @kennkaufman.bsky.social!) find more warblers during fall migration. 🪶https://www.audubon.org/magazine/want-find-fall-warblers-listen-chickadees

Want to Find Fall Warblers? Listen for Chickadees

The calls of these resident stalwarts serve as an alarm bell for migrating songbirds—and a helpful beacon for birders.

www.audubon.org

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 5d

obligatory sturgeon mention content

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

Normal person who’s become vice president of the United States, and at a very young age: I’m grateful to this land of opportunity.

JD Vance: I’m resentful that others are seeking opportunities in this country, and I’m going to invent excuses to attack others for lacking gratitude.

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 4d

gifting a long read I enjoyed this am-

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

www.nytimes.com

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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 4d

"One doesn't ask of one who suffers: what is your country and what is your religion? One merely says, you suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I shall help you."
-Louis Pasteur

'Servant of Humanity'
Erected by the people of Chicago, 1928

a statue ft a bust of pasteur on top of on obelisk

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 4d

oh this is a separate photos of texts story

purrfectlyfrank.bsky.social @purrfectlyfrank.bsky.social · 4d

According to a photo of a private text on the phone of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina responded to the treasury secretary’s $20 billion bailout by turning around and removing its export taxes on soybeans & striking a huge new deal with China. China then immediately pulled out of its...

Leaked texts on Scott Bessent’s phone suggest the White House got played bailing out Argentina—and U.S. soybean farmers are the casualties

“This is highly unfortunate,” the text said. “Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.”

finance.yahoo.com

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 4d

How did I not hear anything about yesterday being the 25th anniversary of Kid A??? I waited in line at Tower Records in East Lansing (RIP) until midnight. Listened to the CD on a discman on the bike ride through wet fallen leaves to the dorms. Blew my mind—still does. youtu.be/NUnXxh5U25Y?...

Everything In Its Right Place

YouTube video by Radiohead - Topic

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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Elected officials questioning the legality of ICE processes being arrested

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 5d

MAGA star Jack Posobiec says voter fraud is a serious issue—yet he has voted for years in Pennsylvania, despite clearly living in Maryland. slate.com/news-and-pol...

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 5d

Some nice news this morning: my Cottage Life feature on Banff's long lost Wolf 57 won gold in the nature/environment category at the IRMAs! Thanks to @alyshavdt.bsky.social for the news *and* for the assignment.

She's a female grey wolf who disappeared in 2003. Why is Wolf 57 capturing researchers' attention?

Eighteen years after she disappeared, her collar was found hundreds of kilometres away. Here's why she deserves your attention.

cottagelife.com

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 5d

I’m having trouble reading anything other than books these days, but it was a total pleasure to immerse myself in this brilliant @longreads.com essay by Ashley Stimpson. longreads.com/2025/10/02/t...

Swamp People - Longreads

Finding refuge and resilience in America’s most reviled landscapes.

longreads.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

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