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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5d

This is absolutely Brownshirt business.

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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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d

DHS just lies constantly but this time they let the truth slip. DHS will arrest you if you are Hispanic PLUS literally any other thing that they think is correlated statistically with being here illegally; occupation, English speaking ability, the neighborhood, etc. It is sick.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 7d

An official website of the United States government.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 7d

The compact would require colleges to…cap the enrollment of international students + commit to strict definitions of gender…universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would ‘punish, belittle + even spark violence against conservative ideas.’”

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d

Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Indivisible Albany ❌👑 @indivisiblealbany.org · 7d

In the absence of the American people taking to the streets in massive numbers to say NO to fascism, the safety we can look forward to is being roused from our beds and detained by armed federal agents b/c of our speech or skin color.

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 10d

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

79. American citizen.

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 14d

“But tech giants are certainly capable of standing up for the long-term viability of their industry. And for democracy. So far they are doing the opposite.”

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 16d

An amazing story by Steve Levy in WIRED on how tech CEOs became Trump sycophants. And I'm quoted in the lede!

www.wired.com/story/silico...

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 15d

In the DC area, ABC did
NOT air Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Here are the commercials that aired on ABC in Kimmel's time slot.
I won't be spending a single dollar on any of these products/services:
Wendy's
Sketchers
Kia
Jeep
Cirque du Soliel
Safestep Walk In Tubs
AMP Sales &
Marketing Solutions

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 15d

lol "it's hard to find Black experts"

The Black academic experts on #bluesky in a perfectly curated starter pack:

STOP PLAYING IN OUR FACES lol

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · Apr 24

Finally updated my Blackademics starter pack, now including Katherine McKittrick, Imani Perry and others.

Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!!

go.bsky.app/SSc7tNL

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 15d

lol "it's hard to find Black experts"

The Black experts in question: bsky.app/profile/beli...

Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15d

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 17d

Since this is going to be headline news tomorrow…

The highest quality research has shown Tylenol use in pregnancy is NOT at all associated with autism risk.

To suggest otherwise is to be an amateur that cherry-picks data points from decades ago.

What we discussed 2 weeks ago remains true today ⬇️

Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · Sep 8

There’s a lot of problem in US Healthcare. It’s early out west, I’m in an ICU, and I see directly the challenges we need to work on.

One thing we don’t need to worry about is pre-natal use of Tylenol as a cause of Autism.

Yet here we are. We provide an explanation on yet another distraction.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19d

This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 19d

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Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 20d

Cancelling Disney+ is fine and well, but here's another strategy that will really get the local affiliates' attention, and thus ABC's attention.

CALL. THE. LOCAL. ADVERTISERS.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20d

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 21d

An INTENDED result of going after free speech is it scares people into being silent in a moment where we need everyone to be the loudest.

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 21d

Clip is embedded here:

www.latintimes.com/tucker-carls...

The whole video is here (almost 2 hours. Good luck; I fell asleep after 2 min)

www.youtube.com/live/V5iCxIu...

Tucker Carlson LIVE: America After Charlie Kirk

YouTube video by Tucker Carlson

www.youtube.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 23d

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration

Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service

A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 23d

Closing a Department of Statistics, in this day and age, is incredible and shortsighted. Please, read below. I encourage everyone from all over the world to submit their feedback here

apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu...

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Sarah W @ca-blue.bsky.social · 23d

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 24d

The insane choice by the city of West Hollywood to lower the LGBTQ PRIDE FLAG to half mast to mourn Charlie Kirk’s death, holy shit

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