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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 1h

The Texas law @heykellyjensen.bsky.social describes in this article effectively abolishes school libraries in Texas. Libraries rely on the curatorial expertise of professional librarians; otherwise they’re just buildings full of books.
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A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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Black Sabre Jr. 🏆 @homunculusdick.bsky.social · 1h

Hey do people think they're helping by spreading that right wing fabrication about "Chicago gangs" waging war on ICE? "The cartel" is putting bounties on ICE agents heads? Do you listen to yourself? Doesn't this sound like the plot from an 80s movie? Are you stupid?

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 1h

This is all just a big reality show, to these people.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Border Patrol propagandists filming their operation yesterday

📸 @mkaplanphoto.bsky.social

Feds in camo with tear gas launcher, rifle
One agent in olive has what looks like DSLR camera
Nondescript man in black shirt red hat with matching gas mask filming with larger camera

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 12h

This does have international ramifications too, as far-right parties abroad can claim that the term is not “extremist” because the U.S. government also uses it.

Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · 12h

Just the Department of Homeland Security, using a term hijacked and popularised by the extreme-right Identitarian Movement.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 14h

Same in DC. It’s been two months.

Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 17h

Fall of Freedom is gaining momentum. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’

www.nytimes.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23h

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportation flights. The AP spoke to a number of people who said they were placed in the device after they had already been shackled.

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

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33rd Ward Working Families @33rdwardworking.bsky.social · 17h

Wanna go to Indivisible Chicago’s #NoKings protest with a friend? Then join the protest with us! #WeKeepUsSafe

10:00AM - meet at our office, 3248 W Montrose

10:45AM - walk together to Kedzie Brown Line

12:00PM - Arrive at Butler Field at Grant Park

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 17h

Senator Hale, 1851, dropping truth bombs about the Fugitive Slave Act that apply just as well to Trump's efforts to send troops do "mass deportation" against the will of the people (Cong. Globe, 31st Congress, session 2, p. 598)

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 20h

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

thetriibe.com

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 21h

This is at least 3 if not 4 TRO violations now?

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 21h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

tear gas billows from canisters in a residential intersection, at 105th street and south avenue north, on chicago's southeast side.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 21h

So this means that the AG is in the process of filing a lawsuit over the feds disregarding the judge’s ruling against using chemical weapons, right?
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 21h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...” ⠀
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

Stories of failed arrests due to community response are inspiring. There's been great legal work to free people, too. But this stuff is mostly a brief flash of unmarked cars, and then somebody's gone. Over and over again. No matter how many people are eager to help and want better than this.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

That does horrible things to a community, to people's ability to function. There are families who haven't left their homes in weeks, relying on networks of trust to bring them essentials. Kids staying home from school, fear about every unknown car on the block. And those fears are not unfounded.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in BotY, Brighton Park, Gage Park, or Englewood a couple times a week. ICE and CBP have been so ever-present there that I have run into multi-vehicle phalanxes of masked agents completely at random on two different occasions in the last three weeks. 47th is a ghost town compared to spring.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 1d

This will be a great zoom meeting to join tomorrow. I've attended a couple of their previous meetings, and they were really great for the insights and helped point toward a focus (or another one, anyway) in this fight.
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Register now – Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall – YouTube

Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall – YouTube, Tue Oct 14, 2025 - Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the Trump...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

We’re seeing a lot of pop-up protests against ICE in the Chicago area, such as this one outside a Home Depot in Evanston, IL, where 2 of our neighbors were taken yesterday.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 1d

I forgot to post this pic of a gorgeous giant Katrina I saw on Michigan Ave a couple of weeks ago.

Photo of a large statue of a skeleton dressed in a beautiful long red dress and wearing a large red hat. She is fanning herself with a hand fan. She’s standing in a bed of pink flowers and greenery under a tree that sits between the sidewalk and the street.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

As @rns.org documented in August, apparent ICE/federal immigration agents have conducted operations near or even *on the grounds* of churches at least 10 times this year so far.

One LA pastor personally confronted agents on her church property, demanding they leave. religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

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✨pb✨ gag on it @pbthankyou.bsky.social · 1d

Free whistles on Clark just north of Lawrence out front of the funeral care by Village Discount

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

*10/13/2025 noncooperation thread*

This is so important.

The regime is trying to terrify us into quiescence by grabbing people in broad daylight & then disappearing them into the void.

Refuse to accept the disappearance of your neighbors. Talk about it. Call electeds about it. Hang signs.

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CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 3d

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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