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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 7h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 6h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 6h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 7h

That catch was amazing.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 8h

Across the nation, even in these polarized times, we can unify around the great battle cry of Northern California: BEAT LA!

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 19h

A group of Democratic state lawmakers gathered with lobbyists at a Vail retreat. Who paid the tab? coloradosun.com/2025/10/13/c... #copolitics #coleg

A group of Democratic state lawmakers gathered with lobbyists at a Vail retreat. Who paid the tab?

The Colorado Opportunity Caucus, considered among the more moderate Democrats in the legislature, organized the event. The caucus was formed as a nonprofit that doesn’t disclose its donors.

coloradosun.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 12h

so there is some work being done at a house behind the alley from the room where i hang out. it sounds like there is a helicopter hovering nearby. i guess i need to get up and move.

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 14h

This will devolve into a de facto requirement for everyone to show ID on demand.

If a federal agent alleges a US citizen isn't in the country legally, they would need papers to establish their identity and status to (hopefully) avoid detention.

Do you carry proof of citizenship? Do your kids?

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Shaun Griswold @shaun505.bsky.social · 13h

What inspires Diné ballet dancer Jock Soto

www.hcn.org/articles/wha...

What inspires Indigenous ballet dancer Jock Soto - High Country News

The dancer seeks to preserve his legacy while educating others about his time on the biggest ballet stage.

www.hcn.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

- It is legal to organize and fund protest.
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 14h

Editorial: or the first time in 50 years, a state grand jury investigation concerns a member of the #Florida Cabinet. What's unprecedented is that he's FL's chief legal officer, appointed AG James "Oopsie!" Uthmeier. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/09/a... via @sun-sentinel.com

A grand jury closes in on the Capitol | Editorial

A grand jury probe into the Hope Florida scandal begins next week. Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is neck deep in the scandal, ought to take a voluntary leave until his name is cleared.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 18h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

chicago.suntimes.com

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy the time off!

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 1d

Well this is fun: Internet Archive full text search: archive.org/details/text...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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-C-M-F- @chrispps.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is essentially doing the Videodrome version of immigration enforcement; it is brutal but driven more by the need to create addictive prurient content for the depraved (including its makers) than by coherent policymaking aimed at objectively confronting problems

Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s Crisis Construction

www.nytimes.com

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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 2d

Right? Totally for Brewers in the next round.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Currently in Chicago...

This looks peaceful to me...

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 2d

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places.

But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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