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jelaniya.bsky.social
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. — Frederick Douglass
January 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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shakespeare.lol
The evil that men do lives after them
July 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
By ordering the Columbia student's presence in his courtroom and ordering his release then and there, a federal judge robbed Trump and his team of the opportunity to defy his order, which was implemented on the spot by court officers. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Judge frees Columbia student activist whom Trump administration wants to deport
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian students who were legally studying in the United States.
www.politico.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.
goodboy.bsky.social Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · Apr 29
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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jamellebouie.net
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 23
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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robertmaguire.bsky.social
It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.

Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.” Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges. “I first thought they were going to try to sell me something. But as soon as I opened the door they said, ‘Are you Clayton Jackson?’ I think I shook my head or said ‘yeah,’ and then I heard, ‘We have information that you are obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation.’” Jackson says alarms went off in his head. “My first instinct was to want to know what this was about. That it must be a misunderstanding. So I started to tell them about how I’ve been involved in some pro bono work. Then this voice in my head kicked in and just said, you need to shut the fuck up — don’t say anything.” The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside. “I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.” Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.” There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.” About 15 minutes after the interaction at his front door, Jackson’s Wifi was up and running again.
April 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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jamellebouie.net
black americans in ostensibly “free states” were then very vulnerable to kidnapping and trafficking to slave states for sale, where they were effectively disappeared since, as slaves, they had no due process and could not prove their freedom
April 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.
www.rollingstone.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
lailalalami.com Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · Apr 10
"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPI
The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals
As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.
www.thenation.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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rcobooth.bsky.social
the American services surplus with China comes partly from the billions of dollars Chinese families spend on US schooling

Yesterday China warned against studying in the US, given new and abrupt student visa revocations www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
April 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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jaywillis.net
I’m not much of a theologian but I do not believe doing this to people is forgivable www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
You never forget the sight of children starving to death, so I wish White House officials could have been with me on this trip to South Sudan, where 70 percent of nutrition assistance has come from the United States. Malnutrition is common in poor countries — more than one-fifth of young children worldwide are stunted from malnutrition — and near the Sudan-South Sudan border, I dropped in on the remote Upper Nile town of Bobonis, where many children are affected. Staff members of a nonprofit supported by U.S.A.I.D. used to visit weekly to provide an emergency high-nutrition paste to save the lives of young children with severe acute malnutrition — but that program was ended by the Trump administration last month. So now children in the village are starving. I quickly found a half-dozen children with severe acute malnutrition and getting no help. Fatima Abdulai, 14, held her niece, Nadia, a severely malnourished 2-year-old, and said the household has been reduced to one meal a day of sorghum mush. It was midafternoon when I met them, and nobody in the family had had a bite to eat that day, including Nadia. “Sometimes she cries from hunger,” Fatima said. “Then we give her water to drink.”
March 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · Mar 13
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"

(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
There’s no opposition party, just a few brave voices in a sea of vichy cowards bsky.app/profile/greg...
greggiroux.bsky.social Greg Giroux @greggiroux.bsky.social · Mar 6
US House voted 224-198 to censure Rep. Al Green (D-Texas)

Republicans 214-0
Democrats 10-198 (with 2 Ds voting "present")
March 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
sherylx.bsky.social
I for one would welcome our new Canadian overlords
akivamcohen.bsky.social AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · Mar 6
At some point, Canada is going to start responding to the "51st state" threats by noting that they're open to talking to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington and Alaska about becoming Canada's cherished 11th province
March 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
I have warned about the rightwing attack on empathy. It is as dangerous as any attack on democracy. It is an attack on our humanity. Once you turn off empathy you can do anything.

It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
March 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
It's like decades ago, when racist whites filled swimming pools with concrete, or closed down rec centers entirely, rather than integrate them. Hurting themselves as much as anyone, just to prevent Black people from having access to any public good. And huge % of whites were OK with that!
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
US higher education had become a world-class sector, one of the greatest strengths of this country, even with the amount of work still to be done in making it more just and equitable. But a cabal of mediocre whites, out of pure spite and belligerent stupidity, have decided to choke it to death.
February 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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nytimes.com
On Aug. 12, 1958, Art Kane gathered 58 jazz notables in front of a Harlem brownstone for a group portrait.

Only one of its subjects is still alive: the saxophonist Sonny Rollins, 94, who spoke about the historic image.
58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains.
Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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kibblesmith.com
If I block you, you have the exact level of access you had to me in 1998.
November 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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lolennui.bsky.social
me in my echo chamber
The sleepy time tea bear
November 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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rickihirsch.bsky.social
Fred Rodgers on the importance of making something even if other people don't think it's good had me crying this morning. Passing it along for anyone else that might need it.
A man in a green sweater and blue shirt drawing with crayons across three pictures. "Do you like to draw with crayons. I'm not very good at it but it doesn't matter" A man in a green sweater and blue shirt drawing with crayons across three pictures. "It's the fun of doing it that's important. Now, I wouldn't have made that if I'd just thought about it." A man in a green sweater and blue shirt drawing with crayons across three pictures. "No matter how anybody says it is. It feels good to have made something. The best thing is that each person's would be different." A man in a green sweater and blue shirt drawing with crayons across three pictures. "In a way, you've already won in this world because you're the only one who can be you and that's the way it's supposed to be."
October 25, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
I am really amused by accounts that pop up and are like 'Looks like Bluesky is full of LEFTISTS (derogatory) and I'm here to SHAKE THINGS UP' and then they promptly get blocked by everyone and shake up nothing
November 16, 2024 at 9:27 PM
sherylx.bsky.social
Still finding a few stray blooms here in zone6a, like this black beauty scabiosa 🌱 #flowersonfriday
Dramatic deep purplish burgundy, almost black, pincushion-shaped flower with frilly petals and bits of white towards the center
November 15, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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jasondiamond.bsky.social
Yeah. The real photo is so good. I’d seen it before but didn’t realize who the kid was.
November 15, 2024 at 1:20 PM