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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 3h

"[I]t doesn't matter if they're ... pushing back against protesters, against clergy members, against journalists or against the police. [ICE agents] just seem to think that they have the power to act and behave in whatever way they want."

Truthout @truthout.org · 18h

“There’s no emergency,” says Yohnka, who blames the administration for needlessly escalating tensions in Chicago, seemingly in search of excuses for more violence. “And when anybody protests, then that’s seized upon by the administration as a claim for the need to bring in further forces.”

ICE Escalates Raids as Illinois Officials Denounce Troop Deployment to Chicago

Ed Yohnka of the ACLU of Illinois discusses how the ongoing immigration crackdown is putting communities at risk.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 3h

"Rather than combating the rapid spread of health misinformation with facts and clarity, [Robert F.] Kennedy [Jr.] is amplifying it. The consequences ... are measured in lives lost, disease outbreaks and an erosion of public trust that will take years to rebuild."

Truthout @truthout.org · 19h

The former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican and Democratic president since George H.W. Bush have written an op-ed warning Americans that RFK Jr. is endangering the health of the nation by leading the department down a road which lacks scientific integrity and transparency.

6 Former Surgeons General Say RFK Jr. Is Endangering the Health of the Nation

The bipartisan group of surgeons general included Democratic and Republican appointees dating back to the early 1990s.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 3h

"Each time we say it can't become worse, it does."

Truthout @truthout.org · 19h

In Gaza, another humanitarian crisis has emerged: the soaring displacement expenses — or, as many people in Gaza bitterly describe it, “The fees you pay to become homeless in the south.” Tents cost $1,000 and securing a patch of land to pitch it on can be almost as costly.

Israel’s “Safe Zones” in Gaza Offer No Safety. Many Can’t Afford to Flee Anyway.

Displacement costs, which many call “the fees you pay to become homeless in the south,” have reached nearly $5,000.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 3h

"[B]ody camera footage ... showed a Border Patrol agent saying to [Marimar] Martinez, 'Do something, bitch' before pulling over and shooting her at least five times."

Truthout @truthout.org · 19h

An account given in court by the attorney of a woman who was shot by a Border Patrol agent “really makes it sounds like” the agent “tried to murder an anti-ICE protester in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him,” said one researcher.

Attorney Says Video Betrays DHS Account of Border Patrol Shooting in Chicago

An agent shot a woman after federal officers accused her of driving toward them in the Brighton Park neighborhood.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 10m

That's unfair to children.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 14h

"[SCOTUS] is using an imaginary controversy to make conflicting inferences ... For the Supreme Court, right-wing reactionaries should always win. The idea of medical debate is a tool that the justices can use to empower states when they see fit, and bind states when they do not."

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case:

As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21h

"Reproductive dragnets are not hypothetical concerns. These surveillance tactics open the door for overzealous, anti-abortion state actors to amass data to build cases against people for their abortion care and pregnancy outcomes."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 23h

"Reproductive dragnets."

Flock "and the Johnson County Sheriff insisted that she was being searched for as a missing person."

"[U]nearthed court documents about the incident show [..] police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the death of the fetus."
#Texas #USA #Healthcare #Policing

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21h

"Legal experts have long warned that the two-century-old [Insurrection Act] is dangerously broad and in desperate need of updating ... [I]t's one of the few key exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act barring federal military forces from engaging in civilian law enforcement operations."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 23h

"Invoking the Insurrection Act would not, however, be a flip switch moving us from a functional democracy into fascism; rather, it would be an expansion of already existent fascist action, and another tool [..] to continue to crackdown on dissent."
#USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act

An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21h

"We need a zero tolerance policy for lying by law enforcement."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"'[S]ounds like' the agent 'tried to murder an anti-ICE protester in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him.'"

"[B]ody camera footage [.] showed a Border Patrol agent saying to Martinez, 'Do something, bitch' before [.] shooting her at least five times."
#Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Body Camera Video Betrays DHS Account of Chicago Border Patrol Shooting, Attorney Says | Common Dreams

Attorney reveals shocking details in court: Border Patrol agent allegedly tried to murder anti-ICE protester in Chicago. DHS lied to cover for him. Body cam footage contradicts federal prosecutors'…

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21h

"The checklist makes the testimony sound much less subjective than it really is ... Your assessment is always contingent on what you know or just believe about somebody."

The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 23h

"After he was found guilty, a psychologist named Thomas Allen interviewed Roberson using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. ...Allen gave Roberson a high score, told the jury he was a psychopath, and compared him to Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein."

Did the ‘Psychopath Test’ Help Send Robert Roberson to His Execution?

The case against Robert Roberson, whose execution is scheduled for Oct. 16, is the latest to raise questions about a controversial diagnosis.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21h

"An officer who broke his baton hitting a prisoner 35 times, even after the man was handcuffed, was not fired. Neither were the guards who beat a prisoner ... so badly that he needed 13 staples to close gashes in his scalp. Nor were the officers who battered a man with mental illness."

The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 1d

Shattered teeth. Punctured lungs. Broken bones.
Over a dozen years, New York officials have documented the results of hundreds of prison guards' attacks. ⁠When the state tried to use this evidence to fire guards, it failed 90% of the time, we found.

In New York Prisons, Guards Who Brutalize Prisoners Rarely Get Fired

Records obtained by The Marshall Project reveal a state discipline system that fails to hold many guards accountable.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21h

"[T]here's a deeper function still to naming the mounting famine in Gaza as a humanitarian crisis and not as a facet of genocide: It allows Western powers to continue their unshakable alliance with Israel and their rejection of all serious efforts to hold it accountable... for an obvious war crime."

In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 22h

Two years have passed since Israel began its total genocidal assault on Gaza.

As politicians rebrand mass starvation as a “humanitarian crisis,” @alfatau.bsky.social exposes how this language hides genocide, shielding them from accountability in Palestine.

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How to Hide a Genocide

Naming Gaza's mounting famine a humanitarian crisis rather than a facet of genocide allows Western powers to continue their unshakable alliance with Israel and their rejection of all efforts to hold i...

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21h

"Gazan children deserve more than survival. They deserve more than to simply be unmolested by the whims of tyrants. They deserve ... joyful futures. They deserve to babble and giggle with their parents. They deserve to live free, from the river to sea."

In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23h

Since October 7, 2023, Gaza’s children & families have proven to be the most vulnerable.

In this 2024 piece, sociologist and new mother @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the unbearable loss of Palestinian children—and the power of parental love as resistance.

On Parenthood and Genocide

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 36m

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 22h

"All medications designated Schedule I or II under the Controlled Substances Act are assigned [aggregate production quotas (APQ)], and that sum total is then divvied up between the various DEA-licensed manufacturers ... APQ are often gravely out of sync with actual demand."

Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 1d

The agency is allowing production of more d-amphetamine and methylphenidate, but denies its previous quotas didn't meet medical demand.

DEA Raises Adderall Production Quotas for the First Time

The agency is allowing production of more d-amphetamine and methylphenidate, but denies its previous quotas didn't meet medical demand.

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Philip Bite Marks @philipmarks87.bsky.social · 13h

#Chalktober 👁️

Charcoal with white chalk highlights drawing on grey toned paper of an eye very close up

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 22h

"If we choose prohibition, public health will lose. The black market will flourish and consumers will be exposed to unsafe and untested products."

Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 1d

“We are at a fork in the road."

Malaysian experts say the planned prohibition will not only impede smoking cessation, but also prompt an influx of more of the adulterated vapes that the government is reacting to.

@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:

Malaysia’s Impending Vape Ban Poses Multiple Threats

Malaysian experts fear more of the adulterated products that prompted the government's plan, besides damage to smoking-cessation efforts.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 22h

"The fact that Trump met with Arab and Islamic leaders without a single Palestinian representative shows that we've been erased from the equation. ... [I]t's our voices that should matter."

Prism @prismreports.org · 22h

‘Trump wants to turn Gaza into a colony’: Gazans respond with skepticism to U.S. peace proposal, Malak Hijazi reports. Gazans warn that President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan sidelines Palestinians & risks erasing Gaza’s rights & identity.

Gazans respond with skepticism to U.S. peace proposal

Gazans warn that President Donald Trump's 20-point plan sidelines Palestinians and risks erasing Gaza's rights and identity

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 22h

"Childhood in Gaza has been systematically targeted by the Israeli occupation. ... At least 19,424 children have been killed since the beginning of this aggression—an average of at least 28 every day—while tens of thousands of others have been left with lifelong disabilities."

Prism @prismreports.org · 1d

Two years of Israel’s genocidal war against every form of life in Gaza have invaded the very core of children’s imagination. Funerals, death, & martyrdom have replaced cartoons, playgrounds, & birthday parties as the themes of their play. Ahmad Abushawish details how Israel stole childhood in Gaza.

How Israel stole childhood in Gaza

Some children don't even recognize simple luxuries like fruit, while others play pretend by reenacting funerals

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 22h

"Fear, terror, and anxiety are part of our daily lives. The sounds of nearby explosions deafen us ... The fiery belt that wraps Gaza's sky at night has become a familiar sight despite its horror, and the houses collapsing next to us repeatedly remind us that we are only temporary survivors."

Prism @prismreports.org · 23h

Two years of genocide have left us ravaged, but our hope for Gaza will never be stifled, writes Shaimaa Eid. Israel’s war of extermination has spared nothing & no one, but still we cling to the hope that we will rebuild Gaza stone by stone & plant new life among its ruins.

Even after two years of genocide, hope for Gaza cannot be stifled

Israel’s war of extermination has spared nothing and no one, but still we cling to the hope that we will rebuild Gaza

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 38m

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 22h

"[T]he new framework was a 'priority of Russel Vought,' the current director of the Office of Management and Budget and a co-author of Project 2025 ... [Trump] has reportedly enacted nearly half of [Project 2025's] objectives. In recent weeks, he has more openly embraced Project 2025."

Truthout @truthout.org · 23h

The Trump White House is reportedly planning on drastically changing how the Social Security Administration calculates whether a person is eligible for disability payments, by eliminating or altering age as a consideration.

White House Plan Could Eliminate Age as Factor in Disability Eligibility for Social Security

Sources say the changes to Social Security are “a priority” for Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1d

"I get the care I need ... But with other people, I see them get ignored. That is the process with medical care — delay, deny and ignore."

Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 1d

Health Care Challenges in Oregon Prisons

Oregon Promises Better Prison Health Care. Here’s Why Some Are Skeptical.

The prison population in Idaho often has to rely on deficient and delayed medical care.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1d

"Israelis protest in large numbers without being massacred. They face police brutality ... but not live fire. Perhaps the only way Palestinians could take to the streets en masse would be if Israelis formed a circle around us, stepped between us and the rifles, and allowed us to lead from within."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"For a brief moment, I realized my body had forgotten what it feels like not to whisper."

"[W]e, Palestinian citizens of Israel, prove our belonging through measured quiet."

"Our silence is our citizenship."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Netherlands #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Genocide

Between a revolution and a whisper

For Palestinians in Israel, our silence is the condition of our citizenship. Abroad, I forgot what it feels like to speak freely.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1d

"We hope that this time ... we will be able to return to our homes and live normally — free from bombardment, starvation, and daily killing — like anyone else in the world deserves."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"Leaving my home was like taking my soul away from my body."

"Just end the war and return me to my neighborhood."

"I am dying slowly here." "Enough is enough."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

“Just End the War and Return Me to My Neighborhood”: Report From Southern Gaza

The despair we are living through keeps us clinging to the news, scanning for headlines containing the word “ceasefire.”…

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