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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3d

At best we’ll see a similar version. Anti Blackness and the enmeshment of media and philanthropy . With no DEI standards or design autopsy of Twitter is what killed this project.

It will kill most other ones too

Marcel Proust of Eating Brains @thotchev.bsky.social · 3d

If bluesky implodes from Jay's crashout I want to once again pitch a site wide migration to gaiaonline lmao

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Dev Dās 🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇵🇸 @devadasa.bsky.social · 3d

I feel a little better, so I came back for more pain.

Dev Dās 🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇵🇸 @devadasa.bsky.social · 3d

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13d

And please note the first major fall out about Bluesky racism was

TWO YEARS AGO

when people said give them time

mashable.com/article/blue...

Bluesky let users register usernames with racial slurs. The community feels betrayed.

Twitter alternative Bluesky allowed users to register handles with racial slurs in them. But the platform's response has prompted a larger protest from its user base.

mashable.com

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Jake Dye @jakecdye.bsky.social · 13d

I was flippant about this in the original post because its dumb and I stand behind my colleague's reporting, but as I'm watching her deal with targeted harassment sent her way by Vance and by Suzanne Downing, I'm thinking about the lack of protections or support for journalists in this state.

Jake Dye @jakecdye.bsky.social · 14d

Rep. Sarah Vance announced tonight that she’s organizing a boycott of the Homer News over their fair and accurate reporting on her Charlie Kirk memorial service. Maybe she can get our corporate overlords at Carpenter Media to remember they own newspapers in Alaska.
www.homernews.com/news/homer-h...

Homer holds vigil for Charlie Kirk; highlights opening of local Turning Point Education private school | Homer News

The vigil was organized in part by District 6 Rep. Sarah Vance.

www.homernews.com

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 13d

breakups suck but have you ever remembered some stupid shit you said

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Dev Dās 🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇵🇸 @devadasa.bsky.social · 13d

Every night when I am trying to sleep, Hadas. L'shana tova to you, too.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13d

I hate how people are arguing with me about Biden’s culpability when he explicitly named the bill “Build Back Better” to restore “normal” and also kept saying frequently throughout the campaign that he expected Republicans to support some of his policies—deliberately undermining himself.

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 14d

The most telling statistic I have ever hear is that poverty decreased during the pandemic heights because we were just doing direct payments. We basically had a national UBI pilot and ditched it because Biden wanted to restore status quo ante instead of leading a 21st century New Deal transformation

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14d

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

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Dev Dās 🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇵🇸 @devadasa.bsky.social · 13d

a man wearing a red sweater and tie is sitting on a couch and says mmhm

ALT: a man wearing a red sweater and tie is sitting on a couch and says mmhm

media.tenor.com

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 14d

"A rabbi associated with the congregation gave Mr. Mamdani a challah."
👋

I promise to continue sending him challah for at least 8 more Rosh Hashanahs at Gracie Mansion. If he will accept 😉

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15d

How fucking cool is this @bradlander.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at Rosh Hashanna services and EVERYONE WAS MASKING!

Kolot Chayeinu was one of the first synagogues to call for ceasefire.

“The rabbi spoke extensively about the war in Gaza, calling Israel’s campaign a genocide.”

A livestream of the services showed Mr. Mamdani, center, sitting next to Brad Lander, the city comptroller, a close ally who is Jewish. Kolot Chayeinu, via YouTube

During Monday night's service, which was held at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant to accommodate a larger crowd, Rabbi Sam Kates-Goldman explicitly thanked Mr. Lander, who is Jewish, and Mr. Mamdani for modeling
"interdependence" in politics. In his sermon, the rabbi spoke extensively about the war in Gaza, calling Israel's campaign there a genocide, a term Mr.
Mamdani has also used.
Afterward, Mr. Mamdani, who wore a yarmulke (optional) and a face mask (required), was mobbed by congregants before he could leave. One called him "a mensch" for staying for the full service; another said his campaign had given them hope.
A woman handed him stickers she had made with a picture of bagels and lox and a message urging Jewish voters to support Mr. Mamdani: "Reject the smear campaign — join the schmear campair »
A rabbi associated with the congregatlu. gave Mr. Mamdani a challah.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15d

How fucking cool is this @bradlander.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at Rosh Hashanna services and EVERYONE WAS MASKING!

Kolot Chayeinu was one of the first synagogues to call for ceasefire.

“The rabbi spoke extensively about the war in Gaza, calling Israel’s campaign a genocide.”

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 14d

I genuinely cannot emphasize this enough.

Law enforcement manufacturing evidence and testilying isn't novel to the Trump administration. It's not even more common. They're just worse at it so they're more easily caught doing it.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14d

Saw someone post about how it's really fucked up that we all have to speculate about whether or not the FBI manufactured evidence to back their version of events. The thing is, you should always suspect that about law enforcement—these guys are just more clown-ish and obvious about it.

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#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 15d

Hany was a truck driver.

He used that skill throughout his time under genocide to rescue so many people, taking them to safer areas.

He was martyred by the Israeli occupation while doing exactly that - trying to save lives.

Please help his 8 children survive without him.

He deserved so much more

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 15d

In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔

He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.

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Hany- 8 Kids
last seen Sun at 8:20 PM
Molly
10:11 AM
Please excuse me
10:11 AM
I know I bothered you a lot
My friend Molly
10:47 AM
10:11 AM
10:47 AM
Death is approaching us 10:47 AM
We can't get out of danger
10:48 AM

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Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 17d

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„I'm a mother from Gaza.
It's been 25 days since I last received any donations.
We've been displaced.
We've lost everything.
My children go to sleep hungry.
We live in fear every moment.
There is no food.
No clean water.
No home.“

_ Najwa

Share. Speak. Help.
Please.
🔽
gofund.me/67a3741e0

A portrait of Najwa while displacement and famine in genocide.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 14d

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Prayer, fasting and vigil - in the Cherokee culture these are prime requisites for obtaining clearness of

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is ritual and pronounced dadahnoogawskah

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 14d

According to them, escaping enslavement, teaching yourself to read, becoming the greatest speechifier on Earth & buying your own freedom, a set of feats that no white person has ever achieved, is DEI.

After finding employment as a laborer, Douglass began to attend abolitionist meetings and speak about his experiences. He soon gained a reputation as an orator, and was paid to speak about slavery by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. This took him on speaking tours across the North and Midwest.
Douglass's fame as an orator increased as he traveled. Still, some of his audiences suspected he had never been enslaved. In 1845, he published his first autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, to lay those doubts to rest.
The narrative gave a clear record of names and places from his enslavement.
To avoid being captured and re-enslaved, Douglass traveled overseas. For almost two years, he gave speeches and sold copies of his narrative in England, Ireland, and Scotland. When abolitionists offered to purchase his freedom, Douglass accepted and returned home to the United States legally free. The Douglass family relocated to Rochester, New York.

https://www.nps.gov/frdo/learn/historyculture/frederickdouglass.htm

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.

Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter

Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes, "Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist

www.gofundme.com

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Anne Hilborn @annewhilborn.bsky.social · 14d

CA Biology job alert
My unit at the CA Dep of Fish and Wildlife is hiring a permanent position to write 5 year reviews for species listed under the CA Endangered Species Act.
Based in West Sacramento, currently 2x week in office.
I am happy to answer questions
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14d

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 14d

A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration.

The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.

It’s Official: Poverty Got Worse Under Joe Biden

A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration. The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.

jacobin.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14d

wait I thought government workers were overpaid drains on society?

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 14d

Laura Ingraham asked Tom Homan if he took a bribe and Homan started ranting about how he has to subsist on a government salary.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with
the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully
with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman-
der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be-
havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable,
fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many
political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14d

gives lie to the whole “but no one knew they were like that back then” (also would be nice to see someone bring her book back out)

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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