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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 11h

🚨A quarter of all FBI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 11h

oh thank god people.com/dolly-parton...

Dolly Parton Says 'I Ain't Dead Yet' as She Gives Health Update After Sister Asked for Prayers: 'Do I Look Sick to You?'

Dolly Parton, 79, addressed concerns about her recent health issues in a video shared to social media on Wednesday, Oct. 8, just one day after her sister Freida told fans she’d been “up all night pray...

people.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 12h

Which praise and worship band would Mike Johnson prefer to do the Super Bowl halftime show, wrong answers only

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

President Trump called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Truth Social.

The threat comes after Illinois sued the administration on Monday in hopes of halting the troops’ deployment. The National Guard arrived this week nonetheless. trib.al/pXoPcwu

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans will say he’s just joking. Media will say it’s just Trump. But if it was any other President, we’d taking him seriously, and we should here too.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 14h

name of lizard pls

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta stare down that Abyss. Show it who's boss.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 2d

slash pancake house

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, for sure.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks everybody. I'll explain in the book but basically it was Colorado Denny's

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 3d

This is basically a sequel to @kathleenbelew.bsky.social "Bringing the War Home"

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 3d

www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs

At a recent DHS career expo in Provo, Utah, many attendees hoped to get hired to help with the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

www.npr.org

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 2d

writing q: do people know what Village Inn is? Or do I need to explain

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Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 7d

Coupled with the FBI declaring the ADL a terrorist organisation.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 7d

"Globalist" has long been used by the white power movement to signify a Jewish conspiracy to eliminate the white race. It sometimes means something less alarming, like opposing the UN, worrying about cosmopolitanism, etc, but that's not who this meme is for. This meme is bread & butter racism.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

I guarantee you there that there is a huge news story behind whoever is running this account, and whoever at the White House put them there. They know what they're doing.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8d

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 7d

interesting and different approach to preventing school shootings www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/n...

How 106 People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting Before It Happened

www.nytimes.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 9d

That was an opinion article, which they wrote explaining their study

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 13d

As the person who did the first empirical social behavioral study of terrorism in my doctoral dissertation & the work that led up to it (mid 90s to 2001), this is garbage. Terrorism is always a small n phenomenon even in places where it happens more regularly than the US. 1/

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 14d

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise
For the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right.
By Daniel Byman and Riley McCabe

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 9d

Sure!

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 9d

cosign

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