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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

All 1,966 Palestinian prisoners scheduled for release today have boarded buses at Israeli detention facilities, Reuters reports.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

The first seven Israeli hostages being freed in Gaza today are with the Red Cross, and will soon be handed to the Israeli military, the IDF confirms.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 9h

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 9h

tempted to parachute into cities popping off? don’t.

it’s generally not in good taste to chase riot porn. it scans as opportunistic & callous, esp if you make no effort to build/be in community. plus any footage you post is guaranteed to get ripped so if you’re clout chasing you’re gunna get v mad.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 11h

Shout out to the Naked Bikeride who today ran hundreds of naked people directly through the line of federal officers and effectively blocked them from assaulting demonstrators. Being naked on a bike goes on the list of effective tactics if you get at least 500 of them and the city loves you.

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 14h

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 8

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice

www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 11h

i love science & i love that brassica is clearly some variety of eldritch entity that manifests as a bitter plant, native to the liminal plateaus on the thresholds of reality.

as humans, we are for some reason compelled to trick each other into devouring it.

“Brassica oleracea creating new common names to get 1 month free trials” and it’s a picture of brussel sprouts, cabbage, kale, collared greens, kholrobbi, broccoli, cauliflower, etc

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Lis M @radiancelis.bsky.social · 11h

At best, in some cases it’s fear. In what I suspect are too many cases, it’s because the people who make the call on what gets reported actually don’t care or even fully support what’s being done.

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ArchPundit @archpundit.bsky.social · 11h

Bovino was hurt on October 3rd and it was represented to the court that he was on 2 weeks bedrest due to a groin injury and yet was at CNN on October 7th. They are lying to keep Bovino out of court

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 11h

As I saw the video of residents in Albany Park being tear gassed earlier today, I thought about the Little Village community that was enveloped in dust in early 2020 from a smokestack demolition. The deployment of tear gas feels so connected to EJ and the fight for breathable air.

Dust Cloud Envelops Little Village After Smokestack Demolition: 'My Lungs Started Hurting'

LITTLE VILLAGE — After a century-old smokestack at the old Crawford Coal Plant was intentionally knocked down Saturday morning, a photographer captured

blockclubchicago.org

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 12h

Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN.

It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.

Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.

Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 12h

this is really crappy and this account does it dozens of times a day to people who are often putting themselves at risk to take the photos and videos it rips off

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 12h

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12h

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 15h

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 12h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 18h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 14h

PHOTOS: Views from this afternoon outside the ICE processing facility in suburban Broadview.

A federal law enforcement officer checks the lock on the gate of a fence constructed on Beach Street outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Around 50 protesters gather with lawn chairs, blankets, and yoga mats and listen to speeches from Jane Goodall and Mahatma Gandhi outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A small group of protesters continue to rally on the corner of 25th Avenue and Harvard Street after Cook County Sheriff’s police officers attempted to disperse protesters near the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A protester dressed in an inflatable bee costume walks over to the corner of 25th Avenue and Harvard Street after Cook County Sheriff’s police officers attempted to disperse protesters near the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

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paul @paulcope.land · 14h

I walked from Uptown through Edgewater up to Devon this afternoon and there was someone with a whistle every few blocks. Cyclists with whistles were patrolling alleys.

Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 16h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 17h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14h

Police union leaders defending jan 6 after watching what those cops went through should have been the clarifying moment if nothing else (and there had been plenty before) bsky.app/profile/nota...

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 15h

look at this absolute robber baron

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 19h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15h

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 23h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 23h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16h

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

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. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 16h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 16h

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

chicago.suntimes.com

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