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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · Feb 10

eric adams is a fucking scumbag.

this is a message to all NYers: there is not a single person or group this man won't feed to the fascist maw if it means saving his own ass. act accordingly.

Reuven Blau @reuvenblau.bsky.social · Feb 10

“Mayor Eric Adams gathered his top commissioners and officials early Monday to give marching orders under the new Trump administration: don’t criticize President Trump, don’t interfere with immigration enforcement and trust the mayor.” — via @katiehonan.bsky.social
www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/10/e...

Mayor Adams to Top Commissioners: Don’t Criticize Trump, Don’t Interfere with Immigration Enforcement

After weeks of confusing messaging on ICE raids, the mayor ordered his staff to stifle criticism of the feds and that he alone will make sure NYC doesn’t lose funding.

www.thecity.nyc

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 21h

“I announced…I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, “We don’t give a fuck,” and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port.”

U.S. allies abducting and torturing American journalists isn’t a problem to this administration.

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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 34m

cities and states are going to have to figure out how to withhold federal taxes from this lawless government. sorting that out is above my pay grade, but it has to be done.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1h

i don't watch a lot of MSM, but have any of these reporters asked bessent, or any other republican for that matter, how democrats are to blame when republicans control EVERY branch of government?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

Speaking of “unhinged” rallies:

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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 3h

what we are witnessing is the federal government running a full-scale, human trafficking operation. look at what ICE and the feds are doing in communities across the country and tell me it isn't. i am not optimistic any of these people will ever be held accountable with or without a scotus ruling

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 6h

America's largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to grant federal contractors blanket immunity from human trafficking laws.

What stage of capitalism is this?

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 3h

pure, unadulterated evil

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6h

Israel returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians, all marked with numbers rather than names.

The bodies reportedly arrived with their hands and legs cuffed. Some were still blindfolded. Some had been shot. Others appear to have been run over by tanks.

www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Bodies of 45 deceased Palestinians transferred from Israel to Gaza remain unidentified, Nasser hospital says
From CNN's Abeer Salman and Mohammed Tawfeeq

[photo of Red Cross refrigerator truck]

A truck carrying the bodies of Palestinians who had been held in Israel during the war, arrives at Nasser hospital on Tuesday.

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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 6h

Adams tells host JR Giddens he never got the credit he deserved from Black and brown communities because reporters turned everything he did into something "negative" and "our folks are gullible, brother."

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 8h

Unearthed invitation shows Trump will host a lavish $1 million per person fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago this Friday.

This will take place on the 17th day of his government shutdown.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19h

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Gaza ceasefire will not affect his country’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ aje.io/mbmr4o

South Africa says ICJ genocide case will continue despite Gaza ceasefire

President Cyril Ramaphosa says progress and healing hinge on the case against Israel being heard.

aje.io

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 1d

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Some necessary info on The Oysterman. Make of it what you will

He’ll have some top-notch help doing that. Platner’s team includes Rebecca Katz, a New York-based strategist who has helped a string of outsider Democrats, including now-Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona and Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman; her business partner, ad-maker Morris Katz, fresh from helping Zohran Mamdani win the Democratic primary for mayor of New York; and Joe Calvello, who was Fetterman’s communications director and worked on Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign.

Platner said he’ll focus on small-dollar fundraising, take no money from corporate PACs, or donations from “weird” interest groups like AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby.

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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

looks like he's going on a play date

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

it's giving darvo

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

The absence of street vendors (and really, just...people) in my neighborhood is so haunting I don't really have words for it.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Jon Campbell @joncampbellny.bsky.social · 1d

The letter also tells you to keep the stub with your tax documents.

That's wise, because as my colleague Jimmy Vielkind points out: The refund checks are federally taxable.

gothamist.com/news/you-sho...

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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

with full approval of the newest nobel peace prize recipient.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just murdered six more people off the coast of Venezuela.

Donald J. Trump
@reaDonald Trump
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Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

*every republican*

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

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rosebongiovanni.bsky.social @rosebongiovanni.bsky.social · 1d

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Earlier, people who tried to go to their homes in the east of Gaza City and in southern Khan Younis were shot and killed by Israeli troops. At least nine Palestinians were killed despite the ceasefire.
#gaza
#GazaCity
#KhanYounis
#ceasefire

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

⚡️Drop Site Daily | October 14, 2025

Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement

www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement

Drop Site Daily: October 14, 2025

www.dropsitenews.com

annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

"As the host of the party, the US president had arrived – unapologetically – more than two hours late, musing to the Israeli parliament before boarding his flight from Tel Aviv that he feared his wealthy guests would already have left, leaving him with only two poor countries remaining."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’, but takes jab at Iraqi and Canadian leaders