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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 18h

ICE is likely surveilling protesters’ phones in Portland using fake cellphone towers, aka stingrays.

Here’s my interview with @mikaelthalen.bsky.social about what’s happening.

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 5h

Parents of teen tossed to ground, detained by apparent federal agent demand answers www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Parents of teen tossed to ground, detained by apparent federal agent demand answers

The incident captured on video shows the teen girl getting pulled out of the passenger seat. She is then thrown to the ground, all while saying she is not resisting arrest.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 17h

Entrevista con @miquelramos.bsky.social por El Público

Mark Bray conversa con Miquel Ramos: Las amenazas trumpistas y el exilio

YouTube video by Diario Público

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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 11h

No, and you’re being weird.

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WIRED @wired.com · 11h

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 1d

Greek Parliament Approves Harsh Migration Bill: Prison Sentences, Fines and Ankle-Monitors

New migration law passed by Greece is considered one of the toughest in Europe. Opposition parties and international media speak of “Trumpian turn.”

unicornriot.ninja/2025/greek-p...

Greek Parliament Approves Harsh Migration Bill: Prison Sentences, Fines and Ankle-Monitors - UNICORN RIOT

New migration law passed by Greece is considered one of the toughest in Europe with the country taking what many call a “Trumpian turn.”

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 1d

Being shy
David Willis too, who has shot protesters with paintball guns numbers times. Almost every male in this group isca convicted felon.

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 1d

Joey Gibson in a group of 8 chudss heading to ICE with their flags.
Real time

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 1d

ERO/ICE agents crossed the street into the crowd to grab this protester. Agents on the roof shot pepper balls at the crowd.

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AndyNgoInspiresMassShooters {bird cult aficionado} @justsomefucker.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if he was in the silver SUV with no license plates that went speeding through the protest tonight for no fucking reason

Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 2d

Far-right asshole Josh Fulfer, who called for vehicular assaults on Portland protestors, has come up from California & is filming on the ground tonight.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Like a piece of shit eating itself.

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

Australian Catholic University used an AI tool to falsely accuse students of cheating us an AI, taking months to clear their name.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Pentagon has launched a $1 billion buying spree to stockpile critical minerals, per Reuters

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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 1d

www.tiktok.com/@adamnwhodey...

TikTok video by Adamn WhoDeyWant

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Great article with some onsite analysis of cellular signals indicating the use of cell-site simulators at ICE protests in Portland, Oregon

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors ***
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat [alleged] antisemitism” 1/7/25 … 1/ forward.com/news/686797/...

Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

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Pamela in California @pamica.bsky.social · 1d

WTAF?! Marc Benioff and Elon Musk call for troops to San Francisco? I just spent two days there, walked around safely including at 10 pm with a girlfriend. Nothing but polite pedestrians, music and laughter.

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Alison @indiealison.bsky.social · 1d

It’s always two dumb bitches telling each other exactlyyy

San Francisco chronicle headline: “‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco”

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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 1d

San Francisco is a delightful paradise. Fuck this piece of shit.

Billionaires out of Frisco!

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

So Elon Musk using the language “only solution” when joining Marc Benioff in the call to send federal troops into the city of San Francisco. (Musk doesn’t live in SF. Some of his immigrant employees probably do.)

10/10/2025 Elon Musk tweets: “It's the only solution at this point.
Nothing else has or will work.” He is sharing a post that says, “Pretty much 80% of San Francisco wants federal intervention on deporting drug dealers. That's how insane it's been here.
90+ kilos of fentanyl seized in one year by
SFPD. 4,300 OD deaths since 2020…”

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 1d

mf said “trans-adjacent murderer”

Turning Point Action COO Tyler Bowyer posting on X:

It was recently uncovered that Mesa Elected councilwoman Julie Spilsbury liked a comment calling conservatives who support Trump
"fascist... hellbent on destroying our country & it's imperative that they be defeated."
Remember— a bullet meant to kill my friend Charlie Kirk had inscribed on it "Hey Fascist, Catch!" by the trans-adjacent murderer.
Julie has been called a "trans ally" by supporters on the left, which I believe is what has shaped her very distorted and incorrect view about her conservative neighbors.
This type of thing is what has enabled political violence.
Words and ideology matter locally.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Spotted in Oakland

Wrong Way street sign with a crossed-out swastika

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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