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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7h

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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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 9h

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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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 12h

I stand corrected! I always thought the book series started in the 50s!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13h

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13h

“‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat *** Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.”

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 14h

It’s a tell that they don’t have an actual ideology apart from hating Democrats.

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Kelly Knox @kelly-knox.com · 17h

"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy." - Drew Struzan

Struzan's painted posters for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 19h

Today is @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's BIRTHDAY and you know what feminist culture critics and editors love for their birthdays? People who support feminist media!

Subscribe to @theflytrapmedia.com today.

The Flytrap

Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 17h

"Something about this version feels more welcoming, one of the rare third spaces in the city where leisure costs nothing and the pluralism on which we pride ourselves bears out." — @jawnita.bsky.social

After All That, the New East River Park Is...Fucking Awesome

We'll have to see whether the new resiliency infrastructure will withstand another superstorm, but we're happy to report that the park itself is, so far, a smashing success.

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 17h

Most literary fiction is dull, most genre fiction is trash, but genre fiction with literary aspirations? Literary fiction with genre trappings? Now you’re cookin’!

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Scotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 1d

When a work is said to "transcend genre", what they really mean is the work is good but they don't want to concede the genre can have good works.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 17h

Mass market paperbacks were the very best book form humanity has ever invented and it’s a travesty and a crime against the book-reading public that they have disappeared.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 18h

Mamdani is going to win. The question will now be, "Can you reproduce this?" It's doubtful. He's talented. But it's possible, first of all, if you remember all politics is local, and the more local you get - the more people recognize you - the more things like age and parties cease to matter.

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Kitty’s Ghost @kittysghost.bsky.social · 21h

In Chicago, ICE is filmed kidnapping unidentified people at an intersection before tear gassing civilians on the sidewalk and body slamming the ones in the cross walk.

In MA, they kidnapped a child asylee from school and transported him out of state without telling parents.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine if a woman president went off about every picture of herself she didn’t like. “Hysterical.” “Emotional.” “PMSing.” “Petty bitch.”

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 1d

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Immigration Hotline.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not so naive to think we’re likely to abolish immigration enforcement altogether, but it can be conducted by a new agency, rebuilt from scratch with new safeguards, operating under a new name, and removed from the stain of being Trump’s brutal secret police

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 1d

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If you were loud for Jimmy Kimmel, crank it up for Leticia James. Authoritarian bullies count on silence to get away with it; make some noise and have her back!

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Dik Tater @chaensaw.com · 14d

Hegseth: "Look at you weaklings! You're taking orders from ME, for god's sake!"

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