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Fallon | find me on disabled.social instead of this nazi bar @fallonturing.bsky.social · 4h

#WIPWednesday sweater I'm working on for a comm that's been taking forever! Comms currently open, check my shop link I'm bio!

#knitting #fiberarts #knitsky #commissions #queerart #disabledartist 🧶

An in progress knitted sweater in dark blur and red. The red forms an octopus across the sweater body.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 4h

Time for bed. We can all doomscroll more tomorrow.

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 7h

#Comics folks, I need you to pull up to this one.

The world sucks right now, and we have the opportunity to do a little bit of good for a displaced and marginalized member of our community. Please join me in supporting this KS campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

If you're somebody who values supporting marginalized voices in comics, here's your chance to put your money where your values are!

The writer of this RINGO NOM’D INDIE COMIC (and a very dear friend of mine) is a Syrian Refugee who has been through more continuous hardships than I have space to list here; constantly navigating visa applications, unstable living conditions, predatory landlords (limited options as a refugee).

Anas just wants to make comics and live a normal life like what so many of us take for granted. Backing this campaign will help Anas to take the next step toward freedom and autonomy, helping to fund a move to another country with more stable employment options. This is truly one of the most important comics purchases you will ever make.

Middle Eastern and North African comics creators are some of the most underrepresented in the comics industry of the western world. Anas isn’t running a GoFundMe to support this move, and is not asking for charity. Simply, Anas is using their talent for storytelling, along with Dennis’ gorgeous art, to offer you a beautiful experience in the comics medium, that also goes toward funding a better life for Anas.

I’m so proud of Anas, and humbled by their experiences and perseverance. I would like to see Anas’ Dream realized, and I’d love to see this community help to make that happen. Please join me in pledging to the Etheres Kickstarter campaign! (link below).

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 4h

If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 15h

"I really don't care, do you?" is now the new ethos ...

"Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World. Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism." gizmodo.com/fake-protest...

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 10h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 7h

Just in time for Halloween

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 10h

Now: Hundreds assembling in the Chicago Loop for a march and rally to demand the National Guard leave town. Folks chanting "Donald Trump you racist clown! You're not welcome in this town!"

A photo of a large group of protesters gathering in downtown Chicago near Michigan Ave. Skyscrapers are behind the crowd in the background.

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 9h

50: coincidentally, was watching Mae Martin’s Wayward at the same time as Within the Wires and enjoyed the uncanny similarities. (I hope that’s not too much of a spoiler…)

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 9h

49: finally finished listening to @withinthewires.bsky.social and its novel. My favorite seasons are 1, 2, 7, and 8, in no particular order

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 9h

So, just like every other newsroom I guess

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 9h

You think being their GC sucks? Try freelancing for them. You’d think all that Soros money could pay a damn invoice on time but my editor just kept saying, “we don’t believe in fiat currency. Indoctrinate the masses for love of the game and barter for your basic needs like the rest of us”

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a thread on ways Jack Posobiec has been normalized in mainstream media since Charlie Kirk's death:

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27d

I'd list all the things Jack Posobiec is known for, but I think it would get me banned on Bluesky in the current environment of automated moderation.

Let's just say he has an extensive page at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Anyway, CBS News is talking with Posobiec about his friend Charlie Kirk.

YouTube screenshot of Face the Nation from CBS News: Jack Posobiec reflects on the life of his friend Charlie Kirk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

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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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 1d

Oops, looks like I never finished this list! Let's go

47: the brief moment of mental clarity after closing a bunch of browser tabs. I am at peace, I am enlightened, I am a competent adult

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 1d

48: Fat Bear Week of course bsky.app/profile/mc2x...

Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 13d

I didn't know a bear could be that shape

Screenshot from explore.org's Katmai National Park bear cam. An enormously, gloriously fat bear sits by a river. Just rolls and rolls of flesh covered in fluff

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate Charles Sowell is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on immigration detention.

➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/3IusbGP

Article excerpt: After Trump won and formally announced Homan would be returning with him to the White House, Sowell kept Homan on his payroll until the end of the year. Once named as the border czar, Homan said he would recuse himself from contracting, saying he would have no “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts.”

But several industry executives who spoke with ProPublica said at least half a dozen companies vying for a slice of the $45 billion Congress has allocated for immigration detention work had hired Sowell because he had led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of winning government work.

Homan's business relationships are under greater scrutiny after MSNBC reported an FBI sting that allegedly caught him on tape accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents posing as would-be government contractors before he took the border czar post.

His relationship with Sowell raises fresh questions about the integrity of the billion-dollar contracting process for immigration enforcement, ethics experts say.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 4d

𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐨
I've been filing independent journalism about ICE in Chicago under #Illinois. 80+ articles added over the past month. Daily updates.

𝐓𝐨 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐝
1. Desktop: Click on #Illinois. Mobile: Click and Hold.
2. Click 'See # posts by user.'
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This image shows your options when you click #Illinois on one of my posts. The image is divided into three lines

The first line includes hashtags: '#Illinois #USA.'

The following two lines show the available options after clicking on #Illinois. These options are 'See #Illinois posts' and 'See #Illinois posts by user.'

This image displays a feed of independent journalism archived by Harms Committed under #Illinois.

The top of the image includes a back button, a share button, and '#illinois From @harmscommitted.bsky.social.'

There are two tabs to sort the archived articles, 'Top' and 'Latest.' The 'Top' tab is highlighted, having been selected.

Below these tabs is a representative post, featuring 3 quotes from the article and relevant hashtags.

The article's title is "Veterans Speak Out Against ICE's 'Mob Tactics' In Broadview: 'Our Democracy Is Being Crushed.'"

Description of photo: "Federal agents detain two people during a protest near the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at 1930 Beach St. in Broadview, Ill. on Sept. 26, 2025. Credit: Colin Boyle."

The post's text reads as follows:
"ICE has no regard for any human life."

"I've seen ICE agents with fingers on their trigger, using real M16s and M9s, pointing them at people."

"They're just trigger happy, and there is no trigger discipline."
#Illinois #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Resource on migrating to Blacksky or one of Blacksky's servers for non-Black users: bsky.app/profile/rude...

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4d

Migrating to Blacksky PDS: Complete Guide | Blacksky Documentation

Complete guide to migrating your Bluesky account to Blacksky's infrastructure. Covers migration tools, step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting, and how to use Blacksky services without migrating.

docs.blacksky.community

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 1d

Mesa Gateway Airport is keeping people locked up for weeks in a detention facility only meant for 12 hour holding and ICE is using this airport to deport immigrants to countries they’re not even from — detainees are reporting they’re being flown out in straight jackets & given little food or water.

Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 1d

ICE Air Operations uses Mesa Gateway as headquarters for controversial third-country removals

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Trump's African deportation operation runs through a Phoenix airport

Arizona's Mesa Gateway Airport serves as hub for Trump's ICE Air deportation flights to Africa as ICE expands operations

azmirror.com

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 1d

Oops, looks like I never finished this list! Let's go

47: the brief moment of mental clarity after closing a bunch of browser tabs. I am at peace, I am enlightened, I am a competent adult

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 1d

Niche can be good! I joined Bluesky back when it was a walled garden of freaks and weirdos (non-derogatory) sharing surreal memes. Serious people discussing deeply unserious things. Maybe that vibe is only possible in smaller groups bsky.app/profile/mc2x...

Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · Sep 22

I’ve been on Bluesky for about eight hours now and it already reminds me of back when the internet was fun. Just saw a dozen strangers complimenting each other’s hobbies underneath a different group trading cat photos which was underneath osint tips. And no nazis so far. 🤞🏽

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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stevemmills.bsky.social @stevemmills.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: If you've ever fought with your health insurer -- and, let's be honest, who hasn't? -- then this explainer on external reviews from @deldeib.bsky.social of @propublica.org will surely help you.

www.propublica.org/article/heal...

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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