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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 3h

"17,500 hours of genocide."

"[P]eace smells of dust and dried blood." "We can rebuild walls, but not children, not mothers."

"Perhaps one day I will be able to say: I am living. For now, I can only say: I remember."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

I Am a Survivor of the Genocide in Gaza

And I refuse to forget.

therover.ca

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 54m

Holy fucking shit excommunicate this man from this city. Get out and don’t come back.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 55m

“It was a mistake to put so many migrants in New York City.” - Cuomo

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6h

Earlier today I was listening to one of the hosts from Here and Now repeatedly ask a resident from Southeast Chicago whether throwing rocks at ICE was justified. And finally she just said, "They invaded our community. They have machine guns."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35.

Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 4h

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1h

Three men debating legalizing prostitution and all falling on the wrong side of it is turning my stomach.

Sex work is work.

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yitzi2.bsky.social @yitzi2.bsky.social · 1h

Cuomo's only criticism of ICE's behavior is that they answer to Trump instead of himself.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 10h

"[P]ulled over by NYPD officers in South Brooklyn in a traffic stop that could shape the rest of his life."

"[T]hey're going to shut him [in an ICE facility] for eight or nine months, just because of a moped. It's not just."
#NewYork #USA #Policing #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

An NYPD Traffic Stop, an Unregistered Moped and 8 Months in an ICE Lockup

ICE’s targeted arrest of a young Guatemalan man several weeks after the NYPD nabbed him for driving an unlicensed moped shows the extraordinary cost minor infractions can have under Trump’s…

www.thecity.nyc

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 5h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 16h

Yes I can enlighten you. When the Democrats do it, they do it quietly and don't brag about it. This kind of killing of Black & brown people is preferred over the loud and proud style of Trump. If it happens quietly, liberals and Democrats can pretend it's not happening & carefree enjoy brunch.

The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 1d

I’m as appalled as the next person by Trump’s admin randomly bombing boats in international waters without oversight and accountability.

I nevertheless fail to see the difference between this and Obama’s drone campaigns.

Can someone enlighten me?

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017...

Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush

The use of drones aligned with Obama’s ambition to keep up the war against al Qaeda while extricating the US military from intractable ground wars, but…

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 16h

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5h

Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.

UNRWA @unrwa.org · 16h

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4h

same

AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 7h

resist libs pls don’t follow me ok

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

Lindsey Boylan is a former aide to Andrew Cuomo who was the first woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment. She now supports Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral election and says voters must not forget Cuomo's history of abuse.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/lindsey_boylan

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Harley Bashaw @writersflood.bsky.social · 1d

All of this and despite how horrible it was she came out still defiant. She’s braver than any of our leaders.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Israel did to Greta.

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me

• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked

• She was filmed while stripped naked

• Prison was 40 degrees but no water was given to Greta and her friends for days

• People fell sick. Guards mocked them saying they would gas them, showing them cylinders

• She was kept in solitary confinement for hours with bugs

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roseatespoonbill.bsky.social @roseatespoonbill.bsky.social · 1d

None of IOF atrocities are possible w/o US support. Americans refusing to vote for politicians who have advocated for IOF is probably among the few ways to stop this evil. Unfortunately, the unadulterated fascism of the current administration will drive voters towards crypto-fascism of centrist Dems

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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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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

All Western governments will abandon their citizens for Israel. If that isn't clear by now...we are truly lost

Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

"We're not cancelling kids because they did something stupid" -- the guy who wants to rescind visas for students who criticize Israel or weren't lavishing praise on Charlie Kirk

Also, we aren't talking about kids. This isn't High School Republicans or even College Republicans.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg's story is entirely consistent with the four Australians reported by @deepcutnews.bsky.social.

If the IDF inflicts such deliberate cruelty and degradation on briefly detained foreign nationals, no wonder we are getting such horrifying accounts from recently released Palestinians.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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UNB Faculty 4 Palestine @unbfac4palestine.bsky.social · 1d

At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.”

“If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

I know I have a few journalists following me...I hope some of you will stay on this. There are many organizations sitting on millions of dollars that people from around the world donated for the people of Gaza. This money needs to get to the people it was meant for so they don't have to beg anymore

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

It's not just UNRWA, every organization has received a record amount of donations they haven't been able to give to Palestinians in Gaza
www.reuters.com/world/us/pal...

Palestinian Americans fundraise for Gaza, as aid groups receive record donations

Palestinian Americans and aid groups in the United States are raising funds for Gaza, which faces a deepening humanitarian crisis as the Israel-Hamas war enters its fourth week - but they have as yet limited ability to get supplies into the besieged enclave.

www.reuters.com

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I’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a simple yes or no question.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

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

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

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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