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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · 4h

I never want to speak to my computer, ever, and I find it truly bizarre that no one is concerned that tech is so very eager to have any reason at all to listen in on you all the time

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 9h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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mitnerd36 @mitnerd36.bsky.social · 6h

What’s the data say about what destroying encampments does to the health of unhoused people?

mitnerd36 @mitnerd36.bsky.social · 6h

“Young Republicans weren’t this racist when I—“

Yes they were. You’re ignorant or lying. Reagan celebrated the murder of civil rights workers, Nixon campaigned as a white supremacist, and American conservatism was the primary inspiration for Nazism.

You’ve always been this shitty.

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David Goodman @davgoodvt.bsky.social · 7h

"I don’t say the war is over before giving Palestinians their rights — the right to self-determination, the right to freedom, the right of return and the right to live in dignity” - Mohsen Mahdawi on Vermont Conversation @vtdigger.bsky.social vtdigger.org/2025/10/15/v...

Vermont Conversation: Mohsen Mahdawi & Bernard Avishai on Palestine, Israel and what lasting peace will take - VTDigger

"I don't say the war is over before giving Palestinians their rights — the right to self-determination, the right to freedom, the right of return and the right to live in dignity," Mahdawi said.

vtdigger.org

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mitnerd36 @mitnerd36.bsky.social · 6h

vtdigger.org/2025/10/15/s...

A pig named Kyle Kapitanski (he’s fascist, the world will be safer when he dies so someone get on that) murdered a cyclist named Sean Hayes and was rewarded with paid time off and no jail time. Because the Shelburne DA is his bitch. Now he will move to a new department.

Shelburne officials fire police sergeant who pleaded guilty to criminal charge for deadly cyclist crash - VTDigger

Kyle Kapitanski had been on paid leave since he fatally hit a cyclist nearly a year ago on Shelburne Road in South Burlington.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like the name Angelo Elia sounds really, really familiar but I don't know why

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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mitnerd36 @mitnerd36.bsky.social · 7h

Americans, for having a lot of guns you REALLY aren’t killing enough federal agents with them.

Gotta get them rookie numbers up.

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Tirrrb ( locked in ) @tirrrb.bsky.social · 16h

I still think ice agents should be executed on sight tho so where do we go from here

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 16h

Jesus fucking christ there are details in this that are so fucking unhinged it beggars belief. Like they have a picture of her suitcase the Israelis wrote whore Greta on and drew a dick next to the fucking Star of David

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg was beaten and tortured by the Israelis. They learned how to call her a whore in Swedish, and forced her to wear the Israeli flag.

The Swedish foreign ministry abandoned its citizens in Israel, and downplayed what they went through.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Beating, kicking, and threats of being
gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla are now sharing details about their five days in Israeli captivity - and how Swedish Foreign Ministry staff left
them without help. Aftonbladet's investigation shows how the Foreign Ministry downplayed the
abuse in its communications. Her red suitcase lies in the hall. "Whore Greta"
someone has written in large black letters. Around the text: an Israeli flag and an erect
penis. The bag was confiscated by the Israeli military from the boat - and returned to her like this. She
laughs.
- They're like five-year-olds!

- They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me.
Greta laughs.
- Then they ripped off my frog hat, threw it on the ground, stomped and kicked it, and kind of threw a tantrum.
- They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. 'A special place for a special lady', they said. And then they had learned 'Lilla hora' (Little whore) and 'Hora Greta' (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 8h

The punk ethos has always been about mutual aid and community. We *know* our systems and institutions will fail us; that’s why we’re punks. “Pick someone up in the pit” is much more than literal, and especially when we’re most down in the shit, we need to remember that.

Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 9h

Good morning I’m in @theverge.com profiling @ekkoastral.bsky.social @jael.bsky.social and some other cool trans musicians who are bringing the organizing energy they learned from being trans online to music venues across the country. These musicians are meeting the moment.

The DIY and IRL energy of punk rock mutual aid

Bands like Ekko Astral are bringing the urgency of online solidarity into the mosh pit.

www.theverge.com

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 8h

A special kind of audacity

4 frame comic. Someone with a mic is doing a voxpop in the street and approaches a man with a black shirt and a baseball cap. He asks him : sir! do you think kids
should have their whole
life destroyed because of
some silly posts they
made on social media?

The man replies :
I guess
it depends
who we're
talking
about.
are we talking about foreign
students having their visa
revoked for making a single post
citing literal quotes from the
president's favourite racist
and transphobic podcaster?
or are we talking about a
bunch of 24 to 35 year olds
holding positions of power
advocating for gas chambers
and praising german fascists
over a period of 6 months?
also, it takes a special kind of
audacity for a v.p. who advocated
for mass firings of people over
their posts about charlie kirk to
go on the charlie kirk show and
claim that adults who are practi-
cally the same age as him are
too young to face consequences
for their violent rhetoric.

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🔫Scott Martian Invaders🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 8h

Great

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 8h

New from 404 Media: sites that use facial recognition are letting people unmask anyone's Tinder profile. I tested them out on two people; uncovered their account with their face. Designed to catch cheaters, but a massive gift to stalkers too. Going viral via creators www.404media.co/viral-cheate...

Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles

Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found tha...

www.404media.co

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mitnerd36 @mitnerd36.bsky.social · 8h

To clarify I’m mostly talking about terminally online communists here in Denver, most lefties I know are chill (hence my still knowing them).

mitnerd36 @mitnerd36.bsky.social · 8h

If I talk to lefties about Mamdani, how policy to reduce cost of living can drastically buffer a population’s capacity to build dual power, how local/state/municipal electoralism DOES in fact merit engagement, they disengage and call him a zionist.

Murdoch and Cuomo are laughing at you suckers.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

slate.com

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

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 10h

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal

Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The Alaska Native village of Kipnuk was due to receive a $20M grant from the EPA that they were going to use for flood protection.

It was labelled “wasteful DEI spending” and canceled.

The recent storm destroyed homes & flooded Kipnuk: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

“What we’re seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don’t say this lightly — is a fascist movement.”

Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Fearing for His Family’s Safety Amid Trump’s “Antifa” Fearmongering

We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The ...

www.democracynow.org

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 1d

Know where it comes from to better understand where it's heading.

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🔫Scott Martian Invaders🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 1d

Re: Young Republicans celebrating fascism and Hitler.
I'm sorry to burst the bubble of those yearning for a better time but since WWII the US has been the tip of the spear for fascism. They were essentially the Nazis in Korea and Vietnam.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Thousands of hateful chats between Young Republicans have been unearthed by Politico.

If you’ve been paying attention these last few years, none of them will surprise you.

These people have been telling us exactly who they are, and too many people refuse to believe it.

Believe it. Then fight back

‘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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