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‘The family said no warrant was presented, agents did not ask for Thao’s ID, but they “nevertheless forcibly entered the home with weapons drawn.” ‘

Utter lawlessness. One of the few things holding it to account is great reporting as @marisakabas.bsky.social is doing
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/l...

#myanmar #burma #rohingya #genocide #refugees
Landmark Myanmar Rohingya genocide case to open at U.N.'s top court
Myanmar rejects accusations of killings, mass rape and arson amid a 2017 military offensive that forced at least 730,000 members of the mostly Muslim minority group into Bangladesh.
www.nbcnews.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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noansereiboth.bsky.social
The Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts submitted damage assessment reports on Preah Vihear Temple—caused by Thai heavy artillery shelling and aerial bombardment during two separate border clashes—to UNESCO, relevant international organizations & international community.
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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If you work for ICE, don't you dare call yourself a law enforcement officer. You're a hired thug.

#minnesota #ice #fuckice #murderers
January 8, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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evolvingempathy.bsky.social
Buddhist monks "Peace Walk" ☮️❤️💙🫶🏼
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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nantanreikan.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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burmaactionireland.bsky.social
More than 30 people, incl. women & children, were killed & over 70 injured yesterday, when #Burma junta warplanes dropped two bombs on a healthcare facility in #Mrauk-U in #Rakhine State.

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity
#SanctionAviationFuel #CutTheCash #StopTheArms
myanmar-now.bsky.social Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · Dec 11
The hospital hit by the bombing, which occurred on International Human Rights Day, was a major facility serving civilians from multiple townships held by the Arakan Army (AA), the ethnic armed group that controls most of Rakhine State’s territory

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December 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
"Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself"
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Nov 18
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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ct-yankee.bsky.social
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...

A little historical background, courtesy of @chicagoreader.com.

#chicago #chicagoreader #jeffnichols #ice #borderpatrol #fascistsgohome #danielbovino #danbovino #fuckice
Chicago has always defied kidnappings of our neighbors - Chicago Reader
Even after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, local officials and everyday people resisted the legalized abductions of men, women, and children who had escaped slavery
chicagoreader.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene: "As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump's bills and agenda, his aggression against me which also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls... this is completely shocking to everyone."

Question for Bluesky: Are you shocked?

#mtg #maga
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Nov 9
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · Nov 5
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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ehbecker.bsky.social
Great by protest yesterday

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_dIs...
Thousands march at 'Refuse Fascism' protest in DC
YouTube video by WUSA9
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November 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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frontiermyanmar.bsky.social
The Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar are succumbing to an environmental nightmare of deforestation, landslides, flooding and fires – exacerbated by cuts in international aid that have halted most efforts to mitigate the effects of such disasters.
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/living-in...
‘Living in fear of the sky’: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh battle environmental crisis
The Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar are succumbing to an environmental nightmare of deforestation, landslides, flooding and fires – exacerbated by cuts in
www.frontiermyanmar.net
November 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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nantanreikan.bsky.social
America.
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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When these imbeciles first came to Chicago, I wanted them out. Now I want them in jail.

Props to everyone who stood their ground and filmed these thugs.

#fucktrump #fuckice #fuckbovino
flamekurve.bsky.social FlameKurve 💙🦋 @flamekurve.bsky.social · Nov 4
it IS insanity. But it is also REALLY HAPPENING! Happening here, in OUR country. It's brutality and we have to STOP IT!
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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It's worth highlighting a passage from a recent blog post by @davidbrin.bsky.social: davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/11/will...
#ice #immigration #borderpatrol #polarization #tyranny
"Among the travesties that led to the worst episode (so far) -- the 1860s 'Civil War' - was the Fugitive Slave Act, supported by the John Roberts of the 1850s - Roger Taney, cursed be his name and memory and honor. After which, bands of often-masked irregular southern cavalry began rampaging and raiding across northern states, smashing into homes and workplaces, snatching neighbors and ignoring victims who waved documents proving they were free persons, and not 'illegals.' Sound familiar? Has anyone else made the parallel with today's monstrous ICE depredations? Because those slave-catcher raids had deeper effects than merely a run for the Canadian border. They radicalized northerners, who would never have voted for Lincoln had they not been fiercely offended by such nasty aggression and oppression in their own villages and counties."
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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davidbrin.bsky.social
My weekend post (a bit late) is about how one million or so professionals - civil servants, intel/FBI, military officers, judges, cops, first responders - stand tween us & chaos. They won't let us come to harm if they can help it! But they are caught in a bind!
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/11/will...
Will the professionals innovate new ways to protect us?
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.
davidbrin.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Example #3: When Daniel Montenegro tried to film a Border Patrol raid at a Home Depot, agents tackled him, injured his back and falsely accused him of using tire spikes to attack vehicles.

They’re assaulting citizens for documenting their violence.

We need investigations. Now.
An excerpt of Daniel Montenegro’s story
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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duckworth.senate.gov
Example #2: U.S. citizen and Veteran George Retes:

“They broke his window, they pepper sprayed him, they grabbed him, threw him on the floor."

Mr. Retes was wrongfully jailed for three days by Trump's federal agents. Three days.

This is how Trump treats our heroes.
An excerpt of George Retes's story.
October 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Consider a hypothetical situation: Imagine that it is November, 2016, and you've met a time traveler from November 2025. Anxious about the stakes in the upcoming election, you ask: What has happened since 2016?

#trump #maga #tyranny #democracy #dictatorship #nokings
American Hypothetical
An article presenting a hypothetical question about beliefs held by supporters of Donald Trump.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM