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Iago Grimaldo @archvillain.bsky.social · 3h

Several members of the Trump administration and apparently the vast majority of ICE field agents continue to demonstrate pronounced sadistic behavior where cruelty, a lack of common humanity and lack of compassion toward even the most vulnerable appear to be ends in themselves--all on our nickel.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 5h

It is alarming that the Trump Admin & rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child from Everett, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away & reportedly subject him to harrowing conditions.

They must stop violating our constitutional rights.

My full statement:

A graphic that reads:

“It is absolutely alarming that the Trump Administration and its rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away without his family, lawyer or a court knowing, and reportedly subject him to harrowing, inhumane conditions, including inadequate nutrition and sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket while still healing from a broken foot.

“He is a 7th-grader who should have been met with compassion and care, not criminalized and sent to an adult prison.

“The Trump Administration must stop violating the constitutional rights of our constituents. I join the chorus of community voices demanding basic adherence to due process, preservation of this child’s constitutional rights, and his immediate return to his family.”

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 3h

The policies of this govt are untethered from what human beings need to live. They live in an alternate universe where bodies have the best medical care, food appears in front of them, the illusions of media can get them whatever they want. They don't understand the real world they are destroying.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 3h

...to the Devil of genocide and to their weapons, oil, AI, & surveillance profits. We, the People, have to save our humanity and build a movement that knows that our children, our community, & our natural resources are what give life--not weapons, gold, or terror unleashed by sociopathic old men.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 3h

This is like Gaza before the genocide. The surveillance, drones, the soldiers with total impunity, the violence against children and journalists is here and growing. Whatever our sick leaders (with some brave exceptions) applauded Netanyahu for, they will allow here because they sold their souls.

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 6h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. 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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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone in the family planning office at HHS has been locked out of their emails + computers, so they can’t confirm if they’ve been fired

It appears that the whole office — which funds the country’s repro health clinics — has been cut

w/ @margaretmanto.bsky.social

HHS Appears to be Cutting Its Entire Family Planning Office

Almost every member of the Office of Population Affairs lost email access and is unable to tell if they were laid off, workers told NOTUS.

www.notus.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

Over 1,500 measles cases have been reported in 42 states — a 500% increase from 2024 and the highest count in more than 30 years.
www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 7h

Agnew, a Cree and Dene member of Salt River First Nation, said it was important for her to be on the flotilla as a First Nations woman.

Activists released from Israeli detention share their experiences

Two Canadian flotilla activists who were released from Israeli detention, including Mskwaasin Agnew, are sharing their experiences.

www.aptnnews.ca

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 15h

One example is April 2025 when Trump announced tariffs & the market plunged; then he announced a 90-day pause on new tariffs, and the market soared. His inside circle, including himself and his family, knew what he was doing.

www.kensingtonassetmanagement.com/april-2025-a...

Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 15h

Trump is manipulating the stock market for his mafia. They create some crisis, the market drops, they buy up stocks when they are cheap. He makes some pronouncement reassuring investors, the market rises, they make a killing. Rinse, repeat.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 2d

The technofascists made their fortunes thanks to government research to create the WWW and thanks to the generosity & vision of the pioneers like Tim Berners-Lee. They owe their billions to the democracies & universities they are trying to destroy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ber...

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 1d

....As police state expands, social safety net defunded, anti-violence funding stopped, the elements that build community defunded, gun ownership promoted, then interpersonal violence will increase. In every way possible we have to build, connect, nurture one another. Be clear about what's happening

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · Aug 31

Highly recommend following Dr @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, scholar on authoritarianism, who has been predicting the destructiveness to US and our people since before his 1st term. She says the AI/tech oligarchs will be/are probably even more dangerous. Great overview:

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Aug 29

"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

The Author Who Warned America: Sarah Kendzior

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

www.youtube.com

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · Aug 31

By early 2023, US had 245,000 Covid orphans who lost one or both parents. US has forgotten them, and stopped counting. 💔 #CrimesAgainstHumanity

Covid has left thousands of US children orphans. Few states are addressing the crisis

An estimated 245,000 children in the US have lost one or both parents to Covid, but despite profound implications they have been largely overlooked in policy responses

amp.theguardian.com

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · Aug 31

They are committing crimes against humanity, trying to kill part of the population by withholding healthcare & sabotaging public health, like during 2020 Covid.

40% of Covid deaths in 2020 under Trump could have been avoided. US had 245,000 Covid orphans by 2023, more now.

Damning analysis of Trump's pandemic response suggested 40% of US COVID-19 deaths could have been avoided

A medical journal compared the number of US COVID-19 deaths — the highest in the world — with the deaths in similarly wealthy countries.

www.businessinsider.com

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 15h

It could be profit motive. He is also a rapist, assaulter, and killed tens of thousands of us with Covid. He may have been intimidating Ivanka before testifying. When the case resumed, all Ivanka repeatedly said was "I don't recall." He is a mobster and stone cold killer, capable of anything.

Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · Aug 31

They are committing crimes against humanity, trying to kill part of the population by withholding healthcare & sabotaging public health, like during 2020 Covid.

40% of Covid deaths in 2020 under Trump could have been avoided. US had 245,000 Covid orphans by 2023, more now.

Damning analysis of Trump's pandemic response suggested 40% of US COVID-19 deaths could have been avoided

A medical journal compared the number of US COVID-19 deaths — the highest in the world — with the deaths in similarly wealthy countries.

www.businessinsider.com

Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 15h

Manafort, still in Trump's inner circle, grew up in a mob-tied family. They were in trash/demolition in Connecticut in 1970s, 80s, which was run by the mafia. His extended family still in business & got contract to clear Ground Zero immediately after 9/11 (according Manafort Inc website)

Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 16h

Manafort is still in Trump's inner circle. He was at 2024 RNC and involved in 2024 election. He is one of the most experienced election fixers on Earth, starting w Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s, according to The Atlantic. Manafort is paid by Russian & Ukraine oligarchs tied to Putin.

Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · Aug 20

Manafort who still calls himself "the man closest to Donald Trump" is according to BIPARTISAN Senate Intelligence Committee report "a grave counterintelligence threat." He has been unchecked in bringing down democracy since his pardon 2 wks before Jan 6: www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 15h

While all students deserve safe, welcoming schools for relevant, engaging learning, kids with special needs have a right to an education that meets those needs. Their civil rights are being abandoned. McMahon should be ashamed. Thank you to AFGE for exposing this. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 15h

Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · Apr 6

Reuters is reliable news source & quotes the ME saying she died of an accident "caused by blunt impact injuries to her torso." It sounds like the impact injuries came before the accident? Maybe they worded it wrong. The weird part is she was buried in her ex's golf course, now overgrown by weeds.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 15h

I am worried about King Barron. He looks like Bashar Assad but more ominously, his mother is negotiating with Putin (according to herself), while Ivanka's mother is buried in Trump's golf course. She died of blunt trauma to torso day before Ivanka was to testify about Trump Organization. #mafia

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · Mar 11

But Musk has been secretly directly communicating with Putin since at least 2022 when Putin invaded Ukraine and Musk took over Twitter, according to Wall St Journal, so who knows. We are in great danger; we have much in common with 2014 Ukraine, broken from inside.

www.wsj.com/llworld/russ...

Exclusive | Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin

Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns. Topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.

www.wsj.com

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