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democracynow.org
Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now!'s Messiah Rhodes spoke to advocates supporting newly-arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, legal advice and job training.
West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen
Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now’s Messiah Rhodes spoke to immigrants and advocates supporting newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, legal...
www.democracynow.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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kwhitlock.bsky.social
Decades of exceptional research and analysis from @prisonpolicy.org are why I donate annually to this wonderful organization.
prisonpolicy.org Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Nov 10
The U.S. spends $13.6 billion every year locking people up who haven't even been convicted of a crime.
Pie chart showing that 1 in 3 people behind bars is in jail, and 70% of them are unconvicted.
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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thexylom.com
BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

www.wabe.org/family-says-...
October 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I'm sure if a Democratic elected official mandated that a left-wing organization had to be given access to all of a state's public schools, they would be completely fine with it and would never ever call it "grooming" or "indoctrination" or anything.
September 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2620-d...
Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide Edited by Yousef M. Aljamal, Norma Hashim, Noor Nabulsi, and Zoe Jannuzi
September 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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thetrudz.photo
John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.
Photograph of John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the Blues. Black and white photograph. He’s wearing a suit and sitting at a table with a mug in front of him and notepad etc on table. Behind him is a chart diagram of the evolution of the Blues, connecting genres over time. Photograph by Clemens Kalischer, 1951.
September 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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igd.bsky.social
Neo-Nazis seen hear violently attacking a Charlie Kirk supporter who did not support white supremacists being part of the memorial.

Will the media cover this?
acatwithnews.bsky.social Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · Sep 14
Huntington Beach, CA - As Patriot Front, Ryan Sanchez and Neo-Nazi groups are leaving they began to pummel one man in a leather jacket, who told me he was there to mourn Kirk but “hated Nazis.”

Attackers include members of the GDL and Robert Wheldon.
September 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
stay classy Steven
September 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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newsguy.bsky.social
DHS unveils a Trumpian ICE recruitment poster.
September 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
On X, economist Heather Long says, "The U.S. now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021."

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Heather Long @byHeatherLong It's official: The US now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021. In July, the US had: 7.18 million job openings 7.24 million unemployed people This is yet another crack in the labor market that illustrates how much harder it is to get a new job right now than what we've seen in a long time. [Note: The July data could be revised, but the trend is pretty straightforward to see] [title of graph] The U.S. has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021. subtitle: In July the U.S. had 7.18 million job openings and 7.24 million unemployed workers. red = Job openings blue = unemployed graph shows 2016 to 2025 the blue and red lines crossover Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (via FRED) 10:09 AM · Sep 3, 2025 · 239.9K View
September 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
UPDATE to this story: After his protest, Lt. Colonel Aguilar was taken to jail for a few hours where he was put in isolation and has now been released, he confirms to me.
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Sep 3
NEW: Retired Green Beret Anthony Aguilar, the former GHF subcontractor who exposed Israeli and GHF forces firing on civilians at Gaza aid sites, was escorted out of today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing after disrupting it to accuse the panel of complicity in genocide.
September 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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igd.bsky.social
"The report zeroes in on 16 cases where people have been arrested by government agents and held for extended periods of time without access to a lawyer, or to the outside world. The legal term for such detentions is “enforced disappearance." www.kuow.org/stories/secr...
Secrecy and enforced disappearances: WA human rights group sounds alarm about ICE
The University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights is warning that federal immigration action has crossed a new boundary and is now breaking international humanitarian law.
www.kuow.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
As a sociology exile, I appreciate that some brilliant people know that I am in fact a sociologist by training, lol.
August 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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lataco.bsky.social
Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting.

lataco.com/agents-shoot...

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Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
👍👍👍
The Economist: The threat from the illiberal left
August 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
A new shameful low. Even for Trump and MAGA. Everything about this story reveals the sickness that has taken over America.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown
Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.
www.rollingstone.com
August 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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newyorker.com
Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.
ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation
Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.
www.newyorker.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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crimethinc.com
At $20 million over budget, the Atlanta city government is preparing to make major cuts to services that people depend on.

But over the past three years, they have channeled additional tens of millions towards #CopCity.

They don't care about us—only about policing us.

crimethinc.com/CopCity2025
A screenshot of an article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reading "Metro Atlanta Atlanta asks city departments to evaluate budget cuts of up to 10% The city’s finance team has told the City Council that they are forecasting a $20 million budget deficit"
March 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
this is the most succinct demonstration of why you shouldn't debate or engage directly with fascists.

a lot of people i respect are into the whole 'filmed public discourse with the other side' thing but imo all that does is help them raise money
acab.dad John Breen @acab.dad · Jul 22
“I debated Mehdi Hasan and got fired for it” is going to turn into a viable grift for several of these fascist douchebags.

This is why you don’t platform fascists.
July 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
July 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 18 Jul 1964 riots broke out in Harlem, New York City – preceding a summer of racial riots in Brooklyn, Rochester, Paterson, Elizabeth, Newark, Philadelphia and Chicago – after a police officer shot unarmed 15-year-old Black youth, James Powell stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8996...
July 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
"My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transforming the world in a way that makes some kind a positive difference to other people. In a way, that’s what being human is all about."

#BullshitJobs
"My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transforming the world in a way that makes some kind a positive difference to other people. In a way, that’s what being human is all about."
July 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM