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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 22h

Monsters

ICE kept most offices open in shutdown — but not the one inspecting detention centers

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees.

wapo.st

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.

They’ve been disappeared.

People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 5d

Here is a review of my new book *Freedom Ship* by Eric Foner, published yesterday in *The New York Review of Books* (@nybooks.com).

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.

www.nybooks.com

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

Just got my copy of this new children’s book about an abolitionist hero of the ages. Based on the book by @marcusrediker.bsky.social

Need more for all the beautiful tots in my life!

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

Ho Ho Ho

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: DC US District Court issued an emergency motion to stop ICE from detaining unaccompanied immigrant children in adult facilities once they turn 18. This ruling enforces a permanent injunction + halts a directive to place newly “aged-out” youth into adult ICE detention.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 1d

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) still hasn't sworn in an Arizona Democrat who won her special election last month, and she suspects he's blocking her to prevent the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva came to Washington last week

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

More messaging like this please

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 1d

17 year old psycho charged with killing two girls by running them over while they rode their bikes. One of the girls had made fun of Charlie Kirk and he left an online trail of videos talking about how angry that made him as he pranked her with pizza deliveries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdcR...

17-Year-Old Suspect In Hit & Run Murder Is Vincent Battiloro

YouTube video by Inside Edition

www.youtube.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

The Senate Judiciary Committee needs to get a copy of this OLC memo publicly released.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

www.cnn.com

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 1d

If only we had defeated not only the Nazis but also nationalism...

I write about this in my article, "Postcolonial as the governmentality of immigration controls."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

WIC runs out this week

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

TIME MAG - “The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire…” (Stephen miller in particular has been lashing out at judges)

time.com/7323442/sout...

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 2d

ANYONE WHO HAS EVER PUBLISHED A BOOK! You could be owed money from the Anthropic Class Action (c $3k per book) if its in the database. None of mine are, but some people I know are!

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | ANT

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

As a good friend always reminds me: "What is bad for 'migrants' is not good for 'citizens'! (Bridget Anderson)

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

100%

So too does every other kind of nationalism.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The President of the United States is lying and/or delusional, and it seems like we should be talking about this and nothing else.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

We need to stop defining "society" as a "nation" or a nation-state.

This is our world. For everyone. Movement across it has been happening ever since there have been humans on this planet. Movement is the very definition of freedom.

Ted McConnell @tedmcc.bsky.social · 3d

The latest from the Great Ann Telnaes...a reflection on what ICE did, in all our names, in Chicago and elsewhere...

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 2d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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