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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 57m

Dems, this is your shutdown message for today! They have money to bailout the president of Argentina who is literally doing stunts and shows (he can't fund his own bailout ticket sales look pretty good), while letting Americans foot the bill AND pay higher premiums on their health care.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7h

The guy we are saving with $20B bailout

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 10h

Please don’t say he is not trained. Border Patrol agents do this on the border all the time. Agents at my station used to throw rocks into car windows that sometimes made them crash. They think it us funny. It’s not training in the academy, but in the field.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

The SloanSports Conference has gone too far

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10h

“If I can get seconds, thirds and fourths on that raw milk now? Ooh boy!”

Bryce Harper on the birth of his fourth child, a boy, last week: "I've got an incredible wife, man. She pushed that thing out in three pushes and 30 seconds. She's an absolute monster doing it. Women, man, what a breed.
I'm serious, it's an incredible thing."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

On a Sunday cleaner than TD Jakes

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Sold Drank 2 Ray J (feat. Jhonniedamnd) by YUNG NATION on Apple Music

Song · 2022 · Duration 2:17

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

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Wurk Wurk Don't Stop by YUNG NATION on Apple Music

Song · 2013 · Duration 3:47

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Sprinter USA by YUNG NATION on Apple Music

Song · 2023 · Duration 3:49

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

lol thank you

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

A screen reading “save Texas: No Deal!” with an outline of a Longhorn

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

Thank you!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h

A flyer reading “Come and take it!” “No Deal!” “Tell Texas to hang tough, Keep UT independent!”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h

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Former Longhorns “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” Open Letter

On September 28th, The Washington Post reported that the Trump Administration is planning to offer what they have named a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to nine universities in ...

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 11h

Ya know who would never keep their science a secret, or keep it a secret that they're even doing science?LITTLE WEIRD KIDS little weird kids will make their own newspaper & print it out at home with a QR code linking to their 4 hour YouTube deepdive explainer on their science they're so proud of it!

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15h

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

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Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

Adding sign ons

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Using this weekend for edits or additions and I’ll have a form Monday for signers Here’s the letter so far

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Texas Alumni “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” Open Letter [Draft]

On September 28th The Washington Post reported that the Trump Administration is planning to offer what they’ve named a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to select universities in t...

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 13h

Faculty show support for USC to reject the federal government’s "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"... the USC @aaup.org chapter sent a petition rallying for USC to reject the compact

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‘Reject the Compact’ petition urges USC not to sign Trump’s contract

Faculty show support for USC to reject the federal government’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

“The contrast between that office’s temporary closure and the ongoing immigration crackdown at ICE highlights how the administration’s priorities have steered the agency’s operations during the funding impasse.”

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ICE closes detention oversight group in shutdown despite surge in detainees

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

“Ascol punched down when he posted to social media. His tweet, which has been viewed 116,600 times, opened the floodgates for racist and Islamophobic commentary that mirrors the “Islam problem” rhetoric that has, unfortunately, become common across the Lone Star State.”

Jesus Would Be Ashamed Of GOP Outrage Over Muslim Prayer at DFW Airport

Republicans are angry after an evangelical pastor claims he was denied entry to an airport prayer service.

www.dallasobserver.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 13h

Speaking of housing first, feds cutting supports for unhoused people in CA is a real telling illustration of their priorities.

California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

There are poor areas within rich counties too as a result of wealth inequality this is also the case in PG County, which is why I said communities and not counties.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 15h

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14h

Tarrio was called a "prolific" informer by his own lawyer for his collaboration in federal prosecutions and with local police too.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

Reminded this was the person the head of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department intelligence unit was collaborating with directly.

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 14h

On Friday, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio announced on his podcast that because "it seems like [the] Portland Police Bureau is not doing their job," "the Proud Boys will be coming back to Portland" in "one capacity or another."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

When he was working with MPD out here him and his crew vandalized and burned property from a Black church.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

So these are the kind of anti-authoritarian rebels who also text back and forth with cops and run little missions for them.

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