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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 21h

Good morning. Want to feel better? Helping with immediate medical bills for a DV family recently displaced. We're currently at $50/$500 if you'd like to support. Please RT for reach! Thanks. 🙂
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Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 9h

I have only about 200 of this which leaves about 3.1k and need to knock as much of this out before court on the 16th so I don't lose my housing.

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Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 5d

Okay somewhat decent news.
I actually only owe 3.3k in total and they said they're going to let the courts know I've made payments and we will reach on some kind of payment plan.
So still urgent but slightly less urgent

Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 5d

Well just when I was feeling okay, I got the court hearing notice that I have to pay $5.7k in order to keep my home (not including what I owe already and paid today).

Here's the proof and court is the 16th of October.

I need so much more help than I realized.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

The relentless @djbyrnes1.bsky.social has spent day after day in court this week tracking what's happening with suits against DHS filed (disclaimer: we're plaintiffs in one of them), as well as protesters facing charges.

Get up to speed now:

Trump’s ‘Midway Blitz’ hits the courts in Chicago • The TRiiBE

The legal impacts of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts landed hard in Chicago’s federal courthouse this week, with more developments expected in the coming days.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 12h

Doing my daily walkies/running I have started to see so many of my neighbors. The lovely older couple who waves as we pass, the woman training for her first race, all the very good doggos. I hope that we all find ways to keep moving forward, to survive, outlive them & thrive.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 14h

Don't worry, everything is still very dumb outside.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 14h

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 16h

Met several of my best friends via social media.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 16h

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 16h

This is going to be very interesting. And by interesting I mean messy.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 17h

But I understand it.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 17h

As usual, you're doing such great hyperlocal work. Great idea.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 17h

Extremely reassuring when the fan on the freezer sounds like an airplane engine.🫠

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 20h

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

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Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 21h

I guess me harping on age verification laws being terrible laws now has another real life use case and data disaster to provide as an exhibit in a future lawsuit.

👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 21h

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 21h

Good morning. Want to feel better? Helping with immediate medical bills for a DV family recently displaced. We're currently at $50/$500 if you'd like to support. Please RT for reach! Thanks. 🙂
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 22h

Cleaning your glasses does help.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 23h

Please share AND appreciate how impactful you’ve been the last month, helping SEVEN families (waiting on the eighth) evacuate north Gaza.

But this isn’t a ‘win,’ and their displacement conditions are severe. They need food, tents, blankets.

10 hours left today. 120/640

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Abo jameel @sadmohammed12.bsky.social · 1d

Look at the innocence of childhood, look at the pain inside them, look at the hunger, how it affected their bodies, the horrific anemia inside them. Don't be stingy with my children in buying food and medicine. Don't let them die of hunger.
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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

Shares appreciated! We’ve never been asked to resign to hopelessness. Last week, you helped single mom Mai escape from north Gaza—with 5s and 10s. This was nothing short of lifesaving. Let that fill you with boldness.

18 hours left 🚨 She needs food & blankets. Give/find her link here. 10/500

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · Aug 24

Me to anyone who mentions cats.

Look at my son: 🥹

A photo of a sleeping tuxedo cat, lying on a blue towel on the back of a grey couch. There are striped red and white curtains in the background.

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