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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

michael?
peter.

Page from fox in socks by dr seuss. Drawing of weird little four legged bugs with faces.
Text reads:
What do you know about tweetle beetles?
Well
When tweetle beetles fight, it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 21h

If you (normal person) have heard of them, it was probably as a vocab term you memorized for a test in 9th grade Civics and then promptly forgot, and now that they're central to our descent into authoritarianism, you're not getting a lot of clues from the terms themselves.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 21h

It's certainly not the biggest problem and I don't have a ready solution, but I don't think it *helps* our current state of affairs that suddenly acutely relevant terms like "due process" and "habeas petition" are so unevocative of what they refer to.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23h

Truly impressive efficiency gains from AI! It's really inspiring to see so much human labor freed up for valuable and productive ends 😇

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

As companies increasingly turn to A.I. to sift through thousands of job applications, candidates are concealing instructions for chatbots within their résumés in hopes of moving to the top of the pile. The tactic has become so common that companies are updating their software to catch it.

Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It.

In an escalating cat-and-mouse game, job hunters are trying to fool A.I. into moving their applications to the top of the pile with embedded instructions.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

(Last spring being spring 2024)

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

Community member was surprised there weren't more protests at UCI and I was like, last spring the admin called in multiple police forces, arrested a couple dozen students and subjected them to an insulting student conduct process for completely peaceful protest; that was a pretty effective deterrent

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 1d

They were never serious...

A global banking group - Net-Zero Banking Alliance - that Prime Minister Mark Carney helped launch in 2021 to fight climate change has voted to shut down. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/n...

Climate banking alliance Carney helped launch votes to shut down

A global banking group that Prime Minister Mark Carney helped launch in 2021 to fight climate change has voted to shut down. A spokesperson for the UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance says members vot...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 4d

You know what? I think they're out over their skis here. I don't think even most Trump voters think that someone who is dying should be denied emergency medical care based on their immigration status.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 4d

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d

Vance makes a big show of being Catholic, so I know for a fact he and I, in our respective RCL-following churches, heard the same parable from Luke about the rich man letting Lazarus die outside his gate this past Sunday, but it seems to have made very little impression.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

I literally hate to give Newsom credit for anything, he's a snake when it comes to transgender issues, but he's legitimately doing a good thing here.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump’s political compact

The White House asked nine major universities, including USC, to commit to President Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Califor...

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 5d

Names my children have proposed for kittens, should we adopt them:

Cherry Blossom Candy Rose
Scritch
Johnaninio
Annamissimo
Pinkwally
Meowy
Miss Kitty
Sally

We're only getting two kittens max, so please feel free to borrow any of these for your pet/human naming needs.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d

I'm intrigued, though. Does the EU even grow kiwifruit? Doesn't it all come from New Zealand?

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d

Same way SCOTUS authorized ICE to "notice" undocumented people when conducting raids, I presume.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d

I'm no biblical scholar but I'm pretty sure the message of the parable is to not be like the rich man and his family, thinking the weight of one's religious call to grace, justice, and compassion does not extend to you unless and until you are personally contacted by a divine messenger.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d

*19-31, obvs

Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d

... in response Abraham basically says, "look, if you weren't already convinced to do the right thing by the entire weight of your religious tradition to this point, a resurrected man is hardly going to persuade you."

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d

Ironically, that's actually something of the message of Jesus's parable in Luke 16:19-13, which ends with the rich man in eternal torment after his death begging Abraham to send Lazarus to his family to tell them of their fate if they continue to neglect the poor ...

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d

Vance makes a big show of being Catholic, so I know for a fact he and I, in our respective RCL-following churches, heard the same parable from Luke about the rich man letting Lazarus die outside his gate this past Sunday, but it seems to have made very little impression.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d

Because it would be unspeakably evil to deny life-saving care to someone on the basis of where they were born?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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