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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9m

This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.”

The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 36m

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h

THIS IS IN ONE HOUR. They tend to go pretty quick so set an alarm.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

We Want You To Have This: Jewelry Gifts For Trans People

Requests for gifts are now closed! They will open again at 9AM Mountain Time (Denver) Wednesday, October 8th. The following round will be on Saturday, October 25th at 9AM. Just looking for the forms?...

nora.jewelry

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21h

Happening right now. To us. In America.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22h

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

In case you're wondering how it works: sponsors pay me $55, which covers $35-40 for me + $10 for harm reduction toolkits + $5 for shipping. I get the same kind of profits I would get selling wholesale, trans people doing injection based HRT get safe supply, and trans people get presents.

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Abolish ICE @greycellgreen.xyz · 1d

There’s one for Washington state available here too:

Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 5d

"How to Report ICE" 10/2:

Buffalo, CA, Chicago, CO, DC Metro, DE, FL, Indianapolis, KC Metro, MD, MA, NC Triangle, much of NJ, NM, NYC, Phoenix, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, RI, Rochester NY, St. Louis Metro, St. Peter & Mankato MN, VA, WI, WY

San Francisco in Spanish

tinyurl.com/mupyyr2x

Aloe plant "reading" a "How to Report ICE" zine.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2d

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice @amzn4climate.bsky.social · 8d

1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry.
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...

Open Letter — AECJ

www.amazonclimatejustice.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3d

Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Seattle Anarchist Bookfair @seabookfair.bsky.social · Aug 12

2 new posters for you to disseminate widely:

SEATTLE ANARCHIST
BOOK FAIR 2025
OCT 18-19
11AM-5PM
VERA PROJECT

MASKS REQUIRED
CHILDCARE PROVIDED
SABF.INFO

Two people and a dog sit at the bottom of a tree surrounded by flowers, reading books. In the tree are circles with historical Anarchist faces (Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, Kropotkin, etc.) and the words Mutual Aid, Wear a Mask, and SABF.INFO. There are also 2 faces in the Os of Book (Graeber and Voltairine). The words "child care provided" are flanked by 2 hearts.

A headless giant brings their boot down on Jeff Bezos' glass balls (the Amazon Spheres) while reading a book

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Exceptional Doctorow piece on the solar rollout, why it's unstoppable, & why many old downsides of solar aren't factors anymore. The entire material mining needed 4 a global solar transition = only 17% of the fossil fuel mining we do every year! & then we're done! doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Decarbonization at a distance

A post-American century that runs on sunshine.

doctorow.medium.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 5d

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S.

Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News

The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.

www.cbc.ca

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

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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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 6d

In this moment of federal overreach and cruelty, it’s particularly important to know your rights.

Washington state will always stand up for the rule of law.

Graphic on "Know Your Rights" showing what to do if an immigration officer approaches, if you are arrested, detained, or taken into custody, and what we're doing in Washington. Visit https://www.atg.wa.gov/know-your-rights-civil-immigration-enforcement-washington to see more detailed info.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7d

Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."

FCC moves to end discounts for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and school bus connectivity

The Federal Communications Commission voted to end discounts for library and school Wi-Fi hotspot lending programs on Tuesday, drawing criticism from lawmakers and librarians who say the move will mak...

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

OK y'all. Democrats are holding strong and now IT'S OUR JOB TO HAVE THEIR BACKS and demand Republicans stop the Trump shutdown.

Start here:

indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

STOP THE TRUMP SHUTDOWN

indivisible.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID?

It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo in remarks to journalists tonight: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Pope Leo criticizes 'inhuman' treatment of immigrants in US

Pope Leo on Tuesday appeared to offer his strongest criticism yet of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Catholic Church's pro-life teachings.

www.reuters.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8d

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

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