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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 7h

lmao.

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 1d

let’s fucking go.

hardcover copy of the book Shadow Docket by Thomas Pynchon

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 1d

bring down an empire in 191 minutes with this one weird trick.

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 1d

the fact that she’s talking about the MOVIE Gandhi (1982) is so fucking funny lmao.

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 1d

And when Germany took control of France, they enthusiastically started using a better tank they found there.

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 3d

"While the firefighters were inside, a white panel van of the kind ICE sometimes uses to transport detainees raced out of the federal complex's underground garage and through the gap in the crowd that had parted to let the fire truck pass, according to eyewitnesses.”

Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Jun 10

On Saturday, the FDNY rushed to 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE is holding more than 100 people in inhumane conditions, to respond to an emergency call, only to learn there was no such emergency. What's going on? hellgatenyc.com/fdny-ice-hea...

The FDNY Was Sped to ICE Headquarters for a Bogus 911 Call: 'They Used Us'

After the fire truck pulled up to the federal building where more than 100 people are being held, a van of the sort ICE uses to transport detainees sped out past protesters.

hellgatenyc.com

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 5d

she only supports killing children in *other* countries.

Detroit Free Press @freep.com · 13d

BREAKING: Rep. Haley Stevens to call for RFK Jr.'s impeachment bit.ly/47Wm2xl

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

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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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11d

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 12d

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 12d

One thing the existence of “the buildings we call prisons” does is create a kind of zone of false reasonableness for anything that isn’t locking someone in a remote cage.

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 12d

when I was writing Predatory Decarceration, I came across a published law review paper that said one thing prison abolitionism fails to consider is crime (lmao) and suggesting we could resolve this tension and do “abolition” by creating a bespoke cyber-prison for every person.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 3

Local man embraces fascism.

AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America

With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker...

www.forbes.com

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 12d

idk if the himbos claim him (he can’t do a pull-up; potentially disqualifying)

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 12d

FYI for Philly people, PFS is hosting two screenings of a 4K restoration of the 1973 film The Spook Who Sat By The Door (tonight and Sunday).

Rare chance to see an amazing movie you’ve either never seen or have only seen in a bad YouTube upload.

filmadelphia.org/movies/the-s...

THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR - Philadelphia Film Society

A new 4K restoration of the long unavailable, galvanizing masterpiece! Ivan Dixon’s seminal adaptation of the Sam Greenlee novel follows the fictional first Black CIA agent whose disillusionment within the agency fuels his own activism and training of civilians in Chicago to become freedom fighters. Presented with Reelblack.

filmadelphia.org

elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 13d

Someone should really tell all the small children getting turned into roadkill by their own parents that they need to look both ways.

A bar chart showing vastly increased deaths from 15 in the decade beginning in 1989 to 575 in the decade beginning in 2009, as cars have gotten bigger and have less visibility range in front of them. The graphic explains that these "frontover" fatalities occur most often in driveways and parking lots when slow-moving vehicles don't have visibility of children in front of them.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 13d

ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser

PUÑO Fundraiser

Pilsen Defense & Access is launching a fundraiser through the end of Hispanic Heritage month, with 100% of funds raised going to PUÑO! PUÑO (Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo) works to protect our...

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 13d

some members likely struggling between morality and wanting to keep Israel around for the guaranteed W in Euro qualifier matches.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13d

It appears that there is an increasingly high chance Israel will be banned next week from UEFA due to its genocide in Gaza, which would in turn effectively end its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup.

I have heard this independently confirmed from another source.

www.thetimes.com/article/11e9...

Uefa members in favour of banning Israel from European football next week
Pressure has ramped up on European football’s governing body after protests and the UN Commission’s declaration of genocide in Gaza
exclusive

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 13d

counterpoint:

Side-by-side panels of very similar images of a driver looking down at a phone while driving. The first is labeled: “Driver's view of cyclist dressed in black” The second is labeled: “Driver's view of cyclist dressed in hi-vis.”

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 13d

If Georgia took the Medicaid expansion, 250,000 people would have been able to get Medicaid. This waiver program has never had even 10,000 enrolled. That’s why they are serious about seeing it as a national model. Because the money flows in, but not to poor people’s healthcare.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 14d

NEW: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027.

A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

By @savmargaret.bsky.social

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

www.propublica.org

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 19d

extremely upsetting to see this relative tied up and wrangled like this. the depravity of the circus that is college athletic departments with a gazillion dollars truly knows no bounds!

The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 19d

Colorado to debut new live buffalo mascot against Wyoming

The latest recruit on Deion Sanders' roster weighs in at 700 pounds and runs the 40-yard dash as fast as she wants.

coloradosun.com

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 19d

trying to prove a corporate conspiracy: your honor, it might seem preposterous but I may be able to prove the company was aware of and in fact played a prominent role in the activity of two of its wholly owned subsidiaries

criminal/immigration cases: we all know what the Belgian waffle emoji means!

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19d

"The emoji claims, repeated by the New York police department (NYPD), were made in four reports disseminated among law enforcement in 2024 and 2025 and obtained through records requests by @propertyofthepeople.org, a government transparency non-profit."

nice work @rshapiro.bsky.social

Revealed: US law enforcement claimed emojis could signal Tren de Aragua affiliation

Claims are ‘an unsophisticated, uneducated approach that demonstrates a lack of knowledge’, says one professor

www.theguardian.com

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 20d

Politicians in Missouri hate their constituents so much they’re trying to turn the state into New Jersey.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20d

NEW: Republicans have advanced a constitutional amendment to basically kill direct democracy in Missouri.

Since 2020, citizens have used initiatives to increase minimum wage, expand Medicaid, protect abortion.

All those measures would have failed under the GOP rules:

Under this GOP Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed - Bolts

Republicans have dominated Missouri’s legislature for over two decades, but they haven’t entirely controlled state lawmaking, in large part because Missouri empowers citizens to petition for ballot re...

boltsmag.org

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 22d

The satellite image published here—taken this morning—is the most complete depiction I've seen of the extent of demolitions already inflicted on Gaza City's outer neighborhoods.

To make it clearer: in black at right are urban neighborhoods the IDF has wholly razed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21d

Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation

Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...

semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...

Colossus 2: in Tennessee, Mississippi… or both?
Things get more confusing once factoring-in a Greater Memphis Chamber statement in May that no turbines would be sited in Memphis. They’re not lying.

Memphis and Tennessee have been getting a lot of pushback, so xAI’s genius move was to develop a Gigawatt-scale energy hub right across the border in Southaven, Mississippi. In mid-2025, the company acquired a former Duke Energy power plant in Southaven. Shortly after, Mississippi regulators granted xAI temporary approval to run gas turbines there for up to 12 months without a permit!

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 22d

This week the House will vote on four bills attacking DC. Nine more are in the works.

No one in DC wants these measures. They will not support our safety.

We want every Democrat to VOTE NO on all of these bills. Make calls today and tomorrow to 30 priority reps: freedcproject.org/news/make-ca...

Democrats, voting against DC means you are voting with Trump.

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