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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 43m

Ahmad Khdeirat, from the West Bank, was killed by the occupation after being held hostage for over 4 months without charge or trial. He becomes the 78th identified Palestinian hostage to die in Israeli custody.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 56m

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 44m

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19h

The sheriff in Mobile, Alabama reportedly has a Halloween “display” featuring skeletons dressed like ICE agents chasing skeletons wearing sombreros and serapes. www.al.com/news/2025/10...

Alabama sheriff under fire for Halloween display with ‘ICE’ agents chasing skeletons wearing sombreros

The controversial display shows ICE agent skeletons chasing figures in sombreros, which the sheriff's wife defends as "tongue-in-cheek" while citing her own Cuban heritage.

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 4h

Pritzker & especially Newsom are also authoritarians & following either into battle past this all hands on deck moment is kicking the fascist can down the road. Very clear TNR is pining for a neolib internationalist that simply does not & cannot exist anymore & which led us to this point besides

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 13h

sexy venture capitalist

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 13h

at least it's an answer to what seth mandel is doing outside the 16 hours a day he has to spend jangling keys to keep his wife entertained

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 13h

it probably does make it easier selling out for money and prestige when you also are a huge racist who always wants more dead brown people

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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RetroOoOoOo~ BOOmercial Screams @retro-commercials.bsky.social · 13h

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 14h

the democrats aren't actually doing anything to fight trump's persecution of migrants, trans people, & the unhoused, not just because they institutionally (& often personally) approve of those campaigns, but also bc they want to use all his lawfare tools to erase protest of israel from public life

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 15h

Shitlib meme warrior, gavin newsom, has signed AB 715 into law, which penalises California teachers for "antisemitism" using the IHRA definition - that includes criticism of israel and, by relation, zionism. The law was pushed by pro-israel advocacy groups (JLC, JPAC) and Democratic party lawmakers.

Newsom approves school bias bills despite educators’ free speech fears

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a pair of bills Tuesday to address antisemitism and other forms of discrimination on public school campuses in California.

www.sacbee.com

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 15h

Shitlib meme warrior, gavin newsom, has signed AB 715 into law, which penalises California teachers for "antisemitism" using the IHRA definition - that includes criticism of israel and, by relation, zionism. The law was pushed by pro-israel advocacy groups (JLC, JPAC) and Democratic party lawmakers.

Newsom approves school bias bills despite educators’ free speech fears

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a pair of bills Tuesday to address antisemitism and other forms of discrimination on public school campuses in California.

www.sacbee.com

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21h

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.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

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.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16h

starting to think much of the “how democracies end”/“how autocracies are born” literature could benefit from considering the actual existence of American law enforcement

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 16h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 23h

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 21h

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

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New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 23h

Sanford, North Carolina
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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 23h

if they sign the compact there is basically no choice but a campuswide work stoppage, wildcat though it be

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 1d

So very excited to announce that as of today the number of Videographic Books in the world has doubled! Check out ADAPTIVE FORMS, Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley's fabulous new open-access book on contemporary science-fiction - complete with video essays on ARRIVAL, SNOWPIERCER, BLACK PANTHER, etc.!!!

Adaptive Forms: Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film

An examination of media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film, with 14 video essays <br><i>Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/videographicbooks/">Videographic Books</a> series</...

www.fulcrum.org

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 1d

every small car is technically clown storage

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 1d

“and it won’t stop till it gets 20 gallons”

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Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago Presbyterian Minister is fired upon by ICE and hit 7 times with pellets containing a chemical agent.

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