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shegoeson.bsky.social @shegoeson.bsky.social · Mar 23

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Mar 21

Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech.

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...

Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine

At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate…

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 1h

Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says

Willamette Week reported federal agents allegedly blocked an ambulance from quickly leaving with an injured protester on Oct. 5.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 59m

Trump confirms that he authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela

Move by US marks sharp escalation in efforts to pressure Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s regime Donald Trump confirmed reports on Wednesday that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in US efforts to pressure President Nicolás Maduro’s regime. The New York Times first reported the classified directive, citing US officials familiar with the decision. Continue reading...

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Racket @racketmn.com · 7h

It's not often you hear a room cheer for the return of chicken pox, let alone measles. Welcome to Freedom Summit 2025.

What I Saw at This Weekend’s Minnesota MAHA Fest Scared the Hell out of Me - Racket

Over 1,000 Christian opponents of modern medicine descended on Alexandria, MN, to testify that drugs, doctors, and Satan were making us all sick at the 7th annual Freedom Summit.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Alice Lastname @shihtzulove.bsky.social · 8d

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. - Charlie Chaplin

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8h

Coming up at 11 am, we're talking about the Insurrection Act, and Trump's threat to invoke it, the horrifying Young Republicans chat scandal, Grijalva's election is certified but Johnson is still not swearing her in, and way more.

Join us live or on the replay.

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Trump Ramps Up THREATS to Invoke the Insurrection Act! What's Next

YouTube video by Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

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Miles Morales @milesm2000.bsky.social · 27d

"it's over! Trump has won and all dissent will be crushed forever!" these guys couldn't even get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, the last thing that immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, other minorities, Ukrainians, Palestinians and Africans need is a doomer's cowardice against these morons.

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Noah Stickley @noahstickley.bsky.social · 27d

I hate doomerism so f****ing much.

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Muz @impliedoralconsent.com · 21h

The most amazing thing about this is that Mike Johnson has actually seen or heard about something the press asked him.

This may be the first time I've ever heard him say something other than "I haven't seen that yet". Or "I don't know anything about that"

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 12d

I spoke to David Byrne and this is what he said.

David Byrne: “It’s hard not to feel like the dark is winning. But I’m not ready throw up my hands yet”

Is David Byrne okay? Over half a century, the musician, artist, writer and filmmaker has established himself as one of modern America’s leading cultural forces – ‘rock’s renaissance man’, as T…

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 5d

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible.

I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 22h

Say what

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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lesliead717.bsky.social @lesliead717.bsky.social · 20h

it’s all a grift. you can not believe one thing these liars say

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.

Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Article excerpt: Emily said she made clear the family didn’t have Venezuelan passports but was told that wouldn’t be a problem; the U.S. government would procure any necessary documents for them. They said the operator gave them an Aug. 1 departure date and told them to expect their plane tickets by email.

Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved with their children to Columbus, Ohio, where Deybis’ nephew let them stay in his unfinished basement apartment until their departure. The plane tickets never came.

Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported. Panicked, Emily and Deybis said they called the toll-free number again and again, leaving messages that went unanswered. Emily submitted a new application and sent more emails.

Article excerpt: ...They found travel agencies that offer to procure travel documents at a cost but said they were told the Venezuelan government requires an arrival date and proof that plane tickets have been purchased. Emily and Deybis can’t afford them.

“Thank you so much for your patience and we understand your frustration,” they heard back in another email. “Wait for new instructions from DHS.”

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 20h

It's not "There's no way a 13 yr old kid could be a criminal!" or "Well, how big was the knife he had?"

It's ICE STOLE A 13 YR OLD CHILD AND LIED ABOUT WHERE HE WAS. That's it. Nothing makes that ok.

Don't let them convince you it's ok to take "the bad ones."

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 20h

I have a lot of respect for Aaron so this is not a dunk on him specifically but I'm having a really hard time with everyone needing to fact-check DHS's statements about the "criminality" of the 13 yr old they stole from Everett, MA & sent to VA without telling anyone.

It's so fucking irrelevant.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Direct confirmation that DHS’s version of the facts was not fully true. They were correct about the knife, wrong about the gun, and jury still out on the prior criminal history.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

There had been reports that the boy had a gun on him, but Mayor DeMaria and the police chief said there was not a gun found on him.

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shegoeson.bsky.social @shegoeson.bsky.social · 19h

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 15: everybody, everything or everywhere in the title

The Korgis - Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
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The Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by UnionSquareMusic

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shegoeson.bsky.social @shegoeson.bsky.social · 21h

You're welcome😊 Wonderful song (I hadn't heard it before) and quote!

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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David Xavier Gentry @dxsuperpremium.bsky.social · 1d

#ArtistFave15 💙
#MusicChallenge

Thank you everyone and thank you @olgalovesyuri.bsky.social & @geodrew.bsky.social for hosting. I love this challenge.

Thank You For A Lovely Evening - Ted Fio Rito & His Orchestra, vocal by Ray Hendricks (1934) youtu.be/2wfO33iyWvc?...

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Raised On Radio @raisedonradio.bsky.social · 1d

We're definitely looking for more souls to join our spooky fun! 😉 If you look at my profile, you can see the calendar pinned & find the rules.

*Don't post early
*Use the #Howl-A-Ween hashtag

If you post on your own profile instead of replying to someone else's post, it's easier to find you! :)

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Jeff @jefmoz.bsky.social · 1d

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#MusicSky
#Musicchallenge

Bleach Lab- Violet Light

Van Gogh in a letter to his sister, wrote of this painting: ‘This is a night painting without black, with nothing but beautiful blue, violet and green…’

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Neels 🎃🔜 Furpoc 2025 @schnauzerface.bsky.social · 1d

This kid is my nephew's age. He's from my home state. I'm unbelievably sick for his family.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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Cheray @cheray.bsky.social · 1d

Meme text reads: “2025 is going to be my year. Me in October:” showing Jack Nicholson, disheveled, with unkempt hair, scruffy beard, and a faded orange shirt, looking exhausted.

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Fact50 @fact50.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
#Howl-A-Ween
Day 15: TV/Movie Horror Theme

Not sure if this is considered a typical true sense horror movie but…

David Bowie - I’m Deranged
(Lost Highway, 1997)

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I'm Deranged (Lost Highway Reprise) (2025 Remaster)

YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic

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