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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 9d

The fascist abusers who are torturing children and adults should never live a day in peace. These are Nazis, pure and simple. And don’t tell me that hurts your feelings, you fuckers. The best way to avoid being called a Nazi is NOT TO BE ONE.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9d

What Trump's secret police was up to today: holding a 5 yo autistic girl as bait to catch her father, who's lived in the US for twenty yrs and has an active asylum application. The agents went to his home and kidnapped his daughter. trib.al/VFuC1v3

ICE Agents Held 5-Year-Old Autistic Girl as Bait to Arrest Her Dad

Federal immigration agents are turning to increasingly sick tactics to meet the Trump administration’s arrest quota.

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 9d

ice gets ever closer to re-enacting the third act of blues brothers in chicago

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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korakophilos ⓥ // 🅅 @korakophilos.net · 12d

What I don’t see any of the coverage of this mentioning is that while the masses were walking out, there was a loud vocal minority loudly applauding the genocide. It feels gross knowing I live in a world with such sickos. .

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12d

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody

State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

gothamist.com

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Mar 1

literally every time I talk to friends

three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 12d

If you don't know about the Wounded Knee massacre, this thread is a good primer.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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korakophilos ⓥ // 🅅 @korakophilos.net · 12d

Rest in power.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

www.whatimreading.net

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Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social · 12d

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rain @rxinboots-sec.bsky.social · 13d

if i may have a moment of your time to help somebody in dire need.

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 12d

This is so brilliant. It's a concrete action with immediate benefits that can be performed incrementally

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 16d

A small but growing movement has sprung up in Nashville that is radical in its simplicity: People are building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops where there is no other place to sit. nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22/g...

Activists build benches for Nashville bus stops - Nashville Banner

A small movement in Nashville is building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops without seating, providing a simple solution for the elderly, unhoused and others.

nashvillebanner.com

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 13d

it is actually fucking infuriating to have to read this shit from any of the handful of people who actually held the power to do this for 15 months

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

Jon Finer and Phil Gordon, both of whom served as senior members under the Biden administration's foreign policy team, now claim that they're in favor of conditioning and even suspending military assistance to Israel altogether.

Opinion | We Served in the Biden Admin. It's Time to Impose Conditions on Aid to Israel.

The United States should distance itself morally and materially from the slaughter in Gaza.

www.politico.com

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 13d

If anything, autism causes Tylenol

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 13d

NYPD should just arrest this guy. It's not complicated.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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korakophilos ⓥ // 🅅 @korakophilos.net · 13d

No, but it used to. In this economy, you’re lucky to find it for under $20.

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Aj Rez 🗿 @aj.reznor.com · 14d

Speedrunning Watergate: The Current Administration*

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rid-me-of-...

Rid me of this meddlesome priest, Pam!

How mob boss Trump sped through all of Watergate in just a single weekend.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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TProphet @tprophet.org · 14d

My beat is telecom, not Secret Service org structures. Nevertheless, someone with a deep understanding of inner law enforcement workings appears to be as puzzled as I am.

Ben Thomas @benjaminthomas.bsky.social · 14d

I don't know why they publicized it as a threat to the UN. Seems unlikely.
Uniformed Division guards sites but is unlikely to be that far away from the UN doing any kind of physical security.
Electronic Crimes and/or Protective Intelligence SAs would normally investigate something like this.

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 14d

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Can't wait to see MAGA tear itself apart over the Epstein files.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14d

NBC News projects: Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins the special election for Arizona House District 7.

Grijalva will bring the important 218th signature to the chamber's Epstein files discharge petition — forcing Mike Johnson to handle a fight that has divided his conference.

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korakophilos ⓥ // 🅅 @korakophilos.net · 14d

Who says the two have to be mutually exclusive?

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korakophilos ⓥ // 🅅 @korakophilos.net · 14d

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mcc @dryad.technology · 14d

THIS REPORTING WAS DEAD ON LOL

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 15d

Demonstrators were shot with more pepper balls and rubber bullets Monday at ICE’s Broadview facility.

“The fact that they’re shooting me is getting me more worked up. … Every day off I’ll make sure I’m out here.”

“It’s like igniting a fire.”

Story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Protesters stand on the sidewalk the bisects the Broadview ICE facility’s driveway as federal agents move toward them to clear the path for a vehicle to enter the facility, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.

Protesters with the marks of pepper ball powder on their backs are pushed off the sidewalk the bisects the Broadview ICE facility’s driveway by federal agents trying to clear the path for a vehicle to enter the facility, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.

Daniel Schouse, a 36-year-old Palatine resident, holds a rubber bullet he was ahit with Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.

He was covered in white pepper ball powder by the afternoon, only to be hosed off by others with wipes and water bottles.

For the last several days, federal immigration agents have regularly used pepper balls and other chemicals as well as rubber bullets during demonstrations. The agents are firing the rounds as an attempt to clear protesters from ICE's facility driveway so vehicles could carry agents to raids and detainees to to holding facilities.

Schouse took several hits as protesters stood on the sidewalk blocking cars from entering the facility temporarily, but always being fended back by agents shoving them out of the way or the pepper ball rounds.

But he and others also were shot while dancing and blowing bubbles in front of the facility. They later shouted to agents on the roof not to shoot a woman who arrived to drop off a relative's legal documents.

"The fact that they're shooting me is getting me more worked up and makes me want to be here more," Schouse said. "Every day off I'll make sure I'm out here. ... It's like igniting a fire."

Morsa Narvaez (left), a 25-year-old hair dresser who lives nearby, wipes pepper ball powder off another protester, Levi Rolls, at ICE’s Broadview facility Monday, Sept. 25, 2025.

Narvaez arrived for the first time Friday to ask if the protesters there needed supplies. She's been there every day since, now taking charge when people stop by to ask the same question she did four days ago.

"There's no organization," Narvaez said. "As we're going, we're realizing what we need. ... We're just a communitv of people who see something that's wrong and are trying to do what we can. We're not professionals - I cut hair. We're just figuring it out."

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 15d

anyway here’s @vivmccall.bsky.social with some extremely good and extremely fucking sobering reporting on the recent surge in random hate crimes directed at trans women in Seattle. Please be careful, everyone. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings sin...

www.thestranger.com

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 14d

If I were him, I'd avoid ever creating sound bites like this...

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 14d

Content that is suppressed needs to be leaked.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15d

New: For @msnbc.com I wrote abt Trump’s absurd EO declaring antifa a “domestic terror org”

I trace history of MAGA manufacturing antifa bogeyman to both distract from v real far right violence, & to create a pretext for vigilantes & police to target the wider left www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump‘s new anti-antifa panic is the start of something much more dangerous

The president signed an executive order Monday declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.”

www.msnbc.com

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 14d

Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer’s poem “If I Must Die” has echoed across the world since his killing—translated by volunteers into dozens of languages. We share it here in English & Arabic.

inthesetimes.com/article/refa...

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umbellifer @apiaceae.bsky.social · 16d

fabulous work happening in the midwest US not least because tenant organizing and collectivization is some of the hardest there is
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tenants Seek to Unionize One Private Equity Firm's Entire Housing Portfolio

By organizing renters across Capital Realty Group’s affordable housing complexes, the Tenant Union Federation hopes to bring sectoral bargaining to negotiations with large landlords.

www.bloomberg.com

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