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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 3h

'it is impossible to overstate how important it is for a political prisoner to feel solidarity from the outside world and to know that they are not forgotten.'

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

“People like Maxim — who refuse to become silent accomplices to the Kremlin’s crimes — are saving our country’s honor amid this current darkness. And it will be they who will lead Russia back to normality once the drawn-out nightmare of Putin’s rule is over.”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | What Putin is crushing in Russia

The arrest of opposition leader Maxim Kruglov is a blow against the last vestiges of Russian democracy.

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 14h

Yes! Do not obey in advance!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

It looks like every media company in American that covers the Pentagon except OAN is refusing to sign Hegseth’s ultimatum.

Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 14h

Just amazing!

Naia @naiaearth.bsky.social · 3d

Flower Vase

Julia S. Powell

Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this! #Resist

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 1d

‘Their destinations included Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Laos, Nigeria, Romania, St. Kitt, Sierra Leone and Vietnam, according to Thomas Cartwright, who tracks deportations with the immigrant rights group Witness at the Border.’

Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · 12d

The folks at Homeland Security have cleared all the migrants out of Guantanamo Bay again, moving the most recent batch back to the U.S.A.
The 8-month-old mission staffed by more than 600 troops, contractors and ICE agents has held fewer than 700 migrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

I.C.E. Transfers 18 Migrants From Guantánamo, Emptying Detention Site

www.nytimes.com

Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 1d

‘Griffin-Gracy’s work as an activist ranged from her work on behalf of people suffering with HIV and AIDS in the early 1980s, to launching San Francisco’s first mobile needle exchange, to her championing of the abolitionist movement, often prioritizing trans women.’

Girl, I Guess @mikellestreet.bsky.social · 1d

Very sad to have published this obituary tonight, but tried to do her legacy justice

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 1d

‘But when individuals claim their African-, Italian-, Japanese- or other heritage as a part of their identity, they aren’t disavowing their American-ness. Rather, they are invoking a unique cultural narrative that has shaped their path and relationship to this country.”

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

I almost forgot to do my annual (re)post of my Christopher Columbus essay. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

How Christopher Columbus Ruined My Life

I have to explain to my children the difference between Native Americans and Indians simply because one man got lost one time.

open.substack.com

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. Sigh. 🙄

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 1d

WHCA Joint Statement on Press Restrictions at the Pentagon

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the guidance Jelger.

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 1d

Is the strong uptick for political oppression? Arrests at rallies and protests? Or some other surge? (Honest question, not snark)

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 2d

And it crushes my heart.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

Billionaire corporations are already seeing the money roll in from the giant tax giveaways Donald Trump and the Republicans stuffed into their Big, Beautiful Bill.

What about working Americans? They're losing their health care, and their costs just keep going up.

It's shameful.

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 3d

I trust Estonia. 💙

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 3d

Just check the audiobook out from my wee local library. Thanks!💙

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 3d

Good GAWDS. Forever.

Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 3d

Estonia leads the way.

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 5d

‘Witnessing such events means journalists don’t have to accept Homeland Security’s version of them.’

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 7d

As I told @markjacob.bsky.social, Chicago journalists are doing a helluva job covering the ICE incursion of our city. The dogged, on-the ground- reporting reveals what's actually happening, not what ICE wants you to believe.

www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-press-...

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 5d

‘Governors Pritzker (and) Newsom…grasp Miller’s theory of the case, and they are responding in kind, with their own war for attention, on the intuition that voters will side with the rule of law over authoritarian dictatorship—if they are presented with this as a clear choice.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly:

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 7d

'Scammers will use AI-generated photos or videos to make it appear Elon is promoting a given cryptocurrency or online platform where someone can supposedly get rich.'

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11d

I FOIA'd the FTC for consumer complaints about crypto scammers who pretend to be Elon Musk.

People are cashing out their retirement accounts and losing ridiculous sums of money.

Elon Musk Fans Are Still Losing Ridiculous Amounts of Money to Crypto Scams

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 7d

Ukraine's innovations astound me!🧠

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14d

The coal industry has been shrinking for a reason: Coal is no longer cost-competitive.
There are more students enrolled at say Penn State than there are workers left in the coal industry (about 40k).

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Jodi Breckenridge Petit @jodibp.bsky.social · 9d

Infuriating. ‘ICE is not allowed to arrest people who are going to or coming from a courthouse, under a 2020 Colorado law. ICE did not immediately respond to questions about the arrest.’

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9d

coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...

“There’s a baby!” ICE agents stop Alamosa family at gunpoint, smash car window

Immigration arrest last week in southern Colorado follows national trend of escalating force from ICE agents

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