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Emily Pinkerton ♿️

@poetryfriend.bsky.social

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Disabled bisexual writer. Author of Adaptations, Bloom, and Natural Disasters. More to come! #longcovid & #mecfs (presently Very Severe) since March 2020. She/they

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · Feb 7

I have Very Severe ME, back up from Profound, a state where you’re not far away from a waking coma, and let me tell you what they say about the quality of life with this illness is true.

chadzia dax ($105/$150+) 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · Jan 18

please mask up.

we’re still in a pandemic, and covid is oncogenic.

also it causes long covid and ME/CFS. severe ME has one of the lowest qualities of life out there. even mild ME can make you unable to work or enjoy life.

John Prensner @johnprensner.bsky.social · Jan 4

Why do kids get cancer at such a young age? Sometimes we find a mutant gene that runs in the family. Often not.

This 💎 of a paper from @vanallenlab.bsky.social and Riaz Gillani finds new causes of #childhoodcancer. This is worth your time!
🧬 💻
#PEDsky
#CANsky
#MEDsky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

Every Halloween since 2020, I see people walking around dressed up and I think to myself, there are a lot of people right now who absolutely refused to wear a mask for 15 minutes to save my grandmother's life because of plague, who are drunk dancing in a Michael Myers mask for six consecutive hours

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5d

📣 IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE FREE LIBRARY TURN IT INTO A COMMUNITY PANTRY ASAP IF YOU ARE ABLE

In view of the SNAP crisis, providing pantry stable items to those in need. Please take what you need and leave what you can, no perishible items please.

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 5d

The worst part of submitting a new manuscript is knowing you have to wait at least six months to hear back on it.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 8d

As June Jordan said, “We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary... At a minimum we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies. We have the power to stop the courtesies and to let the feelings be real.”

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone needs to read this thread.

Everyone.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 9d

More from the scene

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 10d

This is going to be wildly dangerous

Katie Mummah, PhD @nuclearkatie.com · 10d

Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed.

At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.

"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...

Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 10d

I am convinced that creative people were more creative before the internet because they spent more time being bored and imagining things, time we now spend scrolling.

Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 10d

some days I really wish my parents were still alive. I miss them.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 11d

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling

Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling

Two young kittens in a cage taking notice

A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 12d

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

What We Can Do About ICE

ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.

www.coyotemedia.org

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 12d

ICE
Sophie Cabot Black

A small animal went out to the middle And disappeared. No sign of anything Further. At the border, where trees

No longer take root, the brave track, Steadfast, written only so far.
We grow quiet enough to hear the moan of ice,

The rumble of deep water going
Beyond its beyond; we cannot break open Without loss. And ice with nothing more

To remember, shifting under its own weight
As if it could stay forever. Do not let the word for this Stand for something else. It is this.

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Bree 🇵🇸 @breeminneapolis.bsky.social · 13d

It's a very cool time when people are legitimately being warned to go to a food shelf now because soon there won't be food.

Soon, there won't be food.

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13d

In short, we do not know exactly what will happen with November SNAP benefits if the shutdown continues, but we do know there will not be enough money available to fully fund everyone's EBT card.

www.patreon.com/posts/snap-w...

SNAP & WIC - Status Update | Matthew Cortland

www.patreon.com

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13d

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15d

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

StatesmanJournal.com
SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
AND THE MID-VALLEY
"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
OUT OF MY
LOUR
WALLET
CHOICES
LIMIT GOVERNMENT
Oregon Taxpayers United
FREEDOM
gat
TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
Statesman Journal
Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
See Protest, 2A
Inside
Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 16d

still got it

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Lebanexican @lebanexican.bsky.social · 16d

One thing I saw at the No Kings rally that stuck with me— an older woman, maybe in her 70’s, carrying a sign that said “I was at Kent State”

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marlo @marlo.ooo · 17d

bro why is a sovereign nation crashing out on here

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 17d

Can confirm. Both of my parents died of stage IV cancers and I have much fewer abilities than they did until they were basically comatose and in the last days of their lives.

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 18d

“Most of the people I’ve seen with #MECFS are so much sicker than my cancer patients.”

Dr. Fridbjörn Sigurdsson, a former medical oncologist now focused on ME/CFS, speaking at the 2025 @investinmeresearch.bsky.social conference.

Thanks to @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social for finding the clip.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18d

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 18d

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20d

I love how analysts and governments are beginning to ring an alarm bell of economic crisis 4 times the size of the subprime collapse and Sam Altman is like “who else is horny for computer?”

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 20d

I've been quietly suffering ever since I saw Sam Altman use the word 'erotica' this morning.

I've just been occasionally making the kinds of faces he makes naturally.

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Laurie @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 22d

video of people being snatched by ICE at a laundromat shows an intersection between housing and immigration enforcement. if your unit and building don't have (working, available) laundry, that's one more errand where you have to spend significant time in potentially vulnerable public space

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 22d

This is a fantastic read

evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 22d

"A soldier knows what to do when they encounter another soldier. But an air-humping frog?"

@sarahjeong.bsky.social on the shitposting/aura farming era of American politics.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.