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Scott Campbell @susurros.bsky.social · 1h

"Members of the Madres en Resistencia Chiapas collective reported that during their ongoing protest in front of the State Attorney General's Office, they were threatened and assaulted by municipal police officers from Tuxtla Gutiérrez."

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Policías amenazan y agreden a madres buscadoras durante manifestación en Chiapas

Las madres y otros familiares de víctimas de feminicidio y desaparición mantienen un plantón frente a la fiscalía del estado.

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Zack Haber @zackhaber.bsky.social · 1h

Statement from Jerusalem Coffee House. Someone smashed a window of the Palestinian owned cafe Tuesday morning...

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 51m

This person happened to watch a music video that had things burning in it, he walked up a mountain path & saw a fire, tried to call 911 to alert about a fire, then 7 days later the fire breaks out.

Given Essayli’s recent record, media should be highly sus of anything he says

People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · Jul 29

HUGE W! CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST LA ORGANIZER ALEJANDRO ORELLANA!

Solidarity with everyone who spoke out and organized around this. Fuck ICE. Another L for US Attorney Bill Essayli

Trump’s top federal prosecutor in L.A. struggles to secure indictments in protest cases

Trump’s LA Prosecutor Orders Cases His Staff Say Lack Evidence (1)

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 47m

By applying protections meant for vulnerable groups to shield government actors, Apple has created — within its own ecosystem — a new kind of protected class: state power itself.

Recording public officials is not harassment. It’s democracy.

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Academic Anarchy🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 12h

the fascists losers stand around doing nothing but trying to start fights with people then running away. Most of them are not even from the city. Same shit it’s been in Portland for years.

I used to follow a lot of the Portland stuff back in 2016-2020. It’s good to see Portland is still weird.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 13h

counter protesters are huddled together down the street, somehow resisting joining in on the YMCA

Group of around a dozen men standing close together. One is a large white man in a white tee shirt that reads FREEDOM, holding his phone up

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 11h

The rhetoric vs what's actually happening is such a stark contrast.

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 11h

These costumes really ruin the optics of the propaganda videos the far right wants to make, which is what they're there for.

ICE will eventually target them and brutalize them to try to run them off, so they can get useful propaganda video. I hope they're prepared for that.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 15h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 23h

Stephen Miller short circuits after saying Trump has "plenary authority" over sending troops into U.S. cities www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Stephen Miller Says Trump Has ‘Plenary Authority,’ Like A King

www.huffpost.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 22h

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 12h

DAILY MEMO: ICE Agent Claims To Be A Florencia Gang Member While Trying To Detain a Minor 🧵2 parts

If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming an member of L.A. TACO, buying some merch, or dropping a dime in our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this vital information.

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tree @treekisser.bsky.social · 12h

#NationalGuard

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 23h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Academic Anarchy🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 1d

The judge in this case morally failed by not immediately putting a TRO on this. She basically said “pwetty pwease wait until a thursday hearing mr. Government”.

Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/n...

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area

Texas National Guard members have arrived in Illinois. City and state officials say Donald Trump is using them as “political props” in Chicago.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The federal watchlisting center is quietly implementing NSPM-7 amid a 300% increase in domestic terrorism cases by the FBI
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7

“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror cases.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com · 1d

Police used Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But they lied and documents show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' for the fetus.

NEW: from @404media.co www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Literal dead labor.

Dead celebrities are apparently fair game for Sora 2 video manipulation

OpenAI’s likeness protections for living “public figures” don’t apply to “historical figures.”…

arstechnica.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

“Google has filed a patent for a face-detection activation system that would eliminate the need for ‘Hey Google’ hotwords by automatically triggering its Gemini AI assistant when a user's phone detects their face nearby.” 😩

Perplexity

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

www.perplexity.ai

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 23h

Greetings! I’m on the campus of UCLA, where several dozen are protesting in support of Palestine: some holding poppies and roses. A few carrying a mock coffin.

Large police presence, and administration has given some warnings that they can’t block the area.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 22h

I think we can all agree that Fuck Gavin Newsom

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 23h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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tree @treekisser.bsky.social · 13h

It’s from the 1900s 👵🏻

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Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 21h

You shouldn't underestimate the government's intent on following thru on these operations. That's why lawyers saying things like "Trump can't do that! The law doesn't allow it!" is so dangerous.

Plenty of examples to pull from: 40s-50s red scare, COINTELPRO, cold war COIN, post 9/11 "anti-terror"

RootsAction @rootsaction.org · 21h

For years, local governments & police departments have cooperated with federal agencies through the Joint Terrorism Task Forces. Now, through Trump's new NPSM-7 directive, these task forces will focus on “leftist” groups.

History shows us what happens when our movements are targeted by the feds.

In NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” President Trump directs the Justice Department, the FBI, and other national security agencies and departments to fight his version of political violence in America, retooling a network of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to focus on “leftist” political violence in America. This vast counterterrorism army, made up of federal, state, and local agents would, as Trump aide Stephen Miller said, form “the central hub of that effort.”

NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.”

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Scott Campbell @susurros.bsky.social · 21h

Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

www.aljazeera.com

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19h

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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