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Harlem born lawyer. Senior citizen. Grandmother. Among the 92%. Blessed to be in a BLUE state. Psalm 109:8 is my daily prayer: “Let his days be few. . .” No DMs please.

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bells110.bsky.social @bells110.bsky.social · Sep 8

This #SupremeCourt ruling approving apartheid-style “show your papers” dictates for all Latinos will go down in history as the equivalent to the Taney Court’s Dred Scott decision.
Maybe we should just make Brown people wear identifying signs? Make ICE’s job even easier?

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Not a Karen 🧘🐕🌻🪡⚾️💙🌊🧵🧶 @trojan2025.bsky.social · 1h

How do they justify this? No wonder hate is directed at ICE. No one should be treated like this. These men are the lowest form of humans right along with their dear leader the orange rapist

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Hair Furor 1901 @hairfuror1901.bsky.social · 1h

Nazis gonna Nazis. Are you seeing this, John Fetterman? This is why we call them fascists and no, we don't want to negotiate with them, we don't want to compromise with them and the shit they are doing has nothing to do with Democracy, big D or, little d. This is called Bull Shit by Americans.

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bells110.bsky.social @bells110.bsky.social · 51m

At least the Nazis didn’t hide behind masks like these ICE monsters do.

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Trishalla2012 @trishalla2012.bsky.social · 1h

This is what $50,000 ahead sign on bonus get you. Mean, ugly, brutal, cruel men.

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Phyllis @toooldtotry.bsky.social · 1h

To answer the question “what have we become”; monsters. We have become monsters. Those are American tax dollars paying for this horror.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Blueskydriving 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @blueskydriving.bsky.social · 1h

They said they would be deporting the worst of the worst. Drug dealers, rapists, and sex traffickers. Instead it’s mothers dropping their kids off at school, fathers attending an asylum hearing, and brown kids on a playground. They are roofers, house cleaners, and broccoli pickers. It was all lies.

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Sunshine Paradise @sunshineparadise1.bsky.social · 1h

The party of family values does not care at all about families, especially if they are brown or black. They claim to go after dangerous criminals and instead target parents and children at their homes, work and schools with extreme violence and cruelty. Anyone who supports this is complicit.

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Ray Shillito @rayshl.bsky.social · 1h

Legacy media is dead.
Control of the media was one of #Hitler and #Goebbels first moves. It enables this!

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The Art Of Hobbes Prime @the-art-of-hobbes.bsky.social · 1h

I would rather my children be taught to value individualism, creativity, curiosity, literacy, and acceptance at Drag Queen Story Hour, than the fear, hatred, and indoctrination Trump is trying to peddle.

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JLMILLER @mugz64.bsky.social · 1h

You are assuming these people are here illegally. They don't ask for identification and even when citizenship is proven they still take them. There is absolutely nothing normal about this. Due process is the LAW and these people are not getting that.

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pamnapo.bsky.social @pamnapo.bsky.social · 1h

A fascist state that openly declares Antifa, anyone who is anti fascist, is the enemy.

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Vic @decker2000.bsky.social · 1h

Anywho can't see how much this is like 1930s Germany with brown people instead of Jews isn't paying attention

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bells110.bsky.social @bells110.bsky.social · 58m

That’s why they’re hiding their identity.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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bells110.bsky.social @bells110.bsky.social · 59m

We have become monsters.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

Thirty original paintings by Bob Ross will be available for sale beginning next month through the auction house Bonhams, the artist's estate said. The proceeds will benefit public TV stations that have been grappling with funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Bob Ross’s ‘Happy Little’ Paintings Will Be Auctioned

Thirty canvases, many created for viewers of Ross’s PBS series, “The Joy of Painting,” will be sold to benefit public television stations grappling with funding cuts.

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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 2h

Adelita Grijalva will be a key vote in forcing a release of the Epstein files. Democrats say that's why Republicans keep delaying her swearing in after a special election win last month.

US House GOP delays seating Rep.-elect Grijalva, potential deciding vote on Epstein petition | Arizona Mirror

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats failed again Wednesday to force Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Johnson has said he’s holding off on swearing in Grijalva — an Arizona ...

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The Economist @economist.com · 2h

Donald Trump’s trade war has cemented Brazil’s place as the soyabean superpower

American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient

Donald Trump’s trade war has cemented Brazil’s place as the soyabean superpower

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 1h

NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org

Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge

Share of national electricity supplies that depend on imported fossil fuels in 2023, actual (left) and in the IEA’s “low renewable-energy source” scenario (right), in 31 countries that are net importers of coal and gas. Source: IEA.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1h

Under the latest plans, a contractor would use sites such as Facebook, Instagram and X—and could, in addition, use powerful online commercial, law enforcement and federal government databases—to generate leads about "individuals who pose a danger to national security."

ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 1h

Thought we wouldn't notice...

Trump deceptively post clip of Florida ICE arrest and claims its Chicago 'chaos'

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

Homeless people are not the enemy.

They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing.

It’s the system that’s failing.

Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves.

We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports.

We need a safety net

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