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Paul Chapman @poulchapman.bsky.social · 2h

Obscene that we taxpayers are paying cops to be private security guards for a corporation. The Nextdoor crowd should be irate that 911 response times are slow because cops are protecting hats at Marshall’s

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 10h

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
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Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Last week, the Seattle Police Department announced it had completed a successful “Organized Retail Theft Operation”…

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I hear you calling, Marian (version) @magicmarian.bsky.social · 2h

It’s chicken sausage o’clock somewhere

I hear you calling, Marian (version) @magicmarian.bsky.social · 2h

People made fun of Romney’s car elevator and his binders full of women, but nobody called him Hitler

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 6h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

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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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

And here's a link to a letter from the IDS editors about the firing of the student newspaper director.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 13h

At a Boyle Heights hospital, ICE agents call the shots, doctors say.

Doctors say administrator directives allow immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and compromise medical care.

At a Boyle Heights hospital, ICE agents call the shots, doctors say

Doctors say administrator directives allow immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and compromise medical care.

lapublicpress.org

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Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com · 6h

How do you solve a problem like Antifaaaaa

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6h

album cover with sound of music biking scene and the text

Meet The radical Cyclists.
no helmets - no lights - no hi viz - riding in a pack - distracted - taking the lane.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 6h

At this point I assume they are all a danger to women

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 8h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

And you, governor, should stop providing state cops to police protesters for ICE at Broadview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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I hear you calling, Marian (version) @magicmarian.bsky.social · 9h

In case I have not said it plain and explicitly:

Fuck Charlie Kirk and fuck all these people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h

Trump posthumously awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President granted the US’s highest civilian award to the far-right commentator who was assassinated in September Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, to the assassinated far-right commentator Charlie Kirk at the White House on Tuesday. Kirk, who was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in September, was among the most significant rightwing activists in the modern political era, galvanizing a younger generation of conservatives to engage in politics and support Trump’s candidacy ahead of the 2024 election. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h

Holy shit he literally did it NO FUCKING WAY LMAO

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump opens the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "This is the first time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden. And people are loving it. They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

On Sunday, I visited DEAR NEW YORK, Brandon Stanton's "love letter" to the city he's been documenting for years as "Humans of New York" for their family reception with student artists.

It's a gorgeous exhibit that's transformed Grand Central Station. See it before 10/19!

Zohran and Brandon standing in Grand Central Station. Brandon has his arm around Zohran's shoulder showing him the exhibit.

A group photo with Zohran and Brandon sitting on the floor with a dozens of students around them.

Zohran and a student artist admiring a photographer.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 9h

In the past 11 days, Department of Homeland Security Agents have used tear gas against the people of Chicago 4 times:
in Logan Square (Oct. 3); Brighton Park (Oct. 4); Albany Park (Oct. 11) and East Side (Oct. 14).
In all, 40 CPD officers have been exposed to the gas. @wttw.bsky.social

Federal Agents Deploy Tear Gas Against Crowd on Chicago’s Southeast Side

Federal immigration agents deployed tear gas on Chicago’s Southeast Side on Tuesday morning after a crowd gathered at the scene of a car crash involving those agents.

news.wttw.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 11h

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👉 A creepy white Avelo 737 on ICE charter duty arrives to pick up human cargo at Seattle's Boeing Field.

It will be serviced by Signature Aviation, whose owners include Bill Gates.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12h

The potential for shit like this is one reason why groups like LUCE in Massachusetts urge people to report sightings to them so they and their partners can directly warn people. A decentralized network is a lot harder to shut down. No big tech company will be in ally in the fight against ICE.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 12h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 14h

Not seeing this news getting out.

At least 51 people had to be rescued by boat; ~1400 people in shelters so far.

FEMA, what FEMA? That money was all dumped into ICE’s pockets.

alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 12h

Huge scoop of a secret company that can track anyone’s phone’s location and is likely involved in multiple assassinations

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 12h

This is Zebby. He finally managed to catch his tail. Super proud of the accomplishment and would like to pretend no one saw the part right after. 12/10 (IG: zebbythegolden)

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 15h

People knew how to write headlines, once upon a time.

Tell children today that, they won't believe you.

Newspaper website headline: "Blind bisexual goose named Thomas who spent six years in a love triangle with two swans and helped raise 68 babies dies at the ripe old age of 40."

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