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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 21h

Blocking an ambulance transporting a patient is recklessly criminal.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Beth F Baker @nogodnomaster.bsky.social · 1d

Despite the violence unleashed across the country, it looks like Trump won’t reach Obama’s record for the number of immigrants disappeared in 1 year, at least not in 2025. Trump’s deportation machine depends on the infrastructure & ideology built by the Dems - Obama and the Clintons especially.

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 1d

Boycotting isn't just about wielding our power as consumers; it's also about wielding our power as citizens and neighbors.

The term 'boycott' itself comes from the name of a 19th-century English land agent in Ireland whose community ostracized him to protest the unfair treatment of tenant farmers.

Graphic with an image of a masked ICE officer wearing sunglasses, tactical gear, and a hat. Alongside it is a quote from Charles Stewart Parnell's 1880 speech encouraging the ostracism of Charles Cunningham Boycott:

You must shun him on the roadside when you meet him, you must shun him in the streets of the town, you must shun him in the shop, you must shun him on the fair green and in the market place, and even in the place of worship, by leaving him alone, by putting him in moral Coventry, by isolating him from the rest of the country, as if he were
the leper of old.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 1d

The "cool new" technology is dependent on dirty old technology.

Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 1d

As I reported earlier today for DeSmog, they're not hiding their intentions...

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

www.desmog.com

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 1d

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

windycitytimes.com

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 1d

Truly horrific story, showing how dangerously out of control US immigration enforcement has become. There needs to be a reckoning, from the highest to the lowest level.
spotlightdelaware.org/2025/10/13/b...?

‘Bring her back': Delaware abuse victim rescued from ICE deportation

ICE detained a Delaware victim of domestic violence, despite her living with protected legal status. Then the Attorney General stepped in.

spotlightdelaware.org

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Zackary Berger שלום בערגער @drberger.bsky.social · 2d

In the Baltimore Sun today we ask Governor Wes Moore to cancel Avelo Airlines' contract with BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. He can do it today. It doesn't require the assembly. It will help stop ICE & help our patients and neighbors.

Please share widely.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/11/w...

How Wes Moore can deal a blow to Trump’s immigration agenda | GUEST COMMENTARY

Guest commentary: Gov. Wes Moore has a novel opportunity to undermine Trump’s immigration agenda by targeting an airline participating in ICE’s deportations.

www.baltimoresun.com

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 1d

The Onion has much more truthful headlines, and is a much more credible news source, than the New York Times.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re a ridiculously awful and complicit newspaper these days, you characterize the difference between blatant and manipulative lies weaponized for fascist and political violence purposes, and the truth, as “different views.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 1d

Libs who love Newsom because he says snarky things about Trump have no idea what the man is actually like!

Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 2d

I hadn't been following this bill, but just saw that Gov. Newsom vetoed AB 93, which imposed certain water use reporting requirements on data centers, as part of the business licensing process (including for annual renewals).

calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202...

AB 93: Water resources: data centers. | Digital Democracy

Digital Democracy overview of bill AB 93: Water resources: data centers.

calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org

Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 1d

"Does two plus two equal four, or does it equal seven? Depends on who you ask."
New York Times headline.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 1d

This is criminal child abuse, perpetrated by the US government.

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 3d

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 2d

The New York Times willingly acts as a propaganda mouthpiece of a fascist regime, without even being forced to do so.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

About a week ago, the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast portrayed Russell Vought as a devout Christian, a true “small government” conservative who loves the free market, and a man with a great work ethic. A remarkable combination of credulousness and deliberate whitewashing.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 2d

Toxic car culture rots the brain.

Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 3d

Driver hit two people, one of them is pregnant, the other thrown 20ft, and the headline leads with WINDSHIELD DAMAGE

@thewaroncars.bsky.social

The Berkeley Scanner @berkeleyscanner.com · 3d

BREAKING: A driver struck two pedestrians, including a pregnant woman, near UC Berkeley on Friday, sending both to Highland Hospital.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 2d

Avelo Airlines is a commercial airline, and also runs ICE deportation flights. It's time for @govwesmoore.bsky.social to go beyond making symbolic statements and take concrete action against the Trump regime's deportation agenda by kicking #AveloOutOfBWI.
www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/11/w...

How Wes Moore can deal a blow to Trump’s immigration agenda | GUEST COMMENTARY

Guest commentary: Gov. Wes Moore has a novel opportunity to undermine Trump’s immigration agenda by targeting an airline participating in ICE’s deportations.

www.baltimoresun.com

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 3d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 3d

We told you fruit would rot on the vine. We told you Americans won't do it and it would cost you more. Americans should pay for their racism and now they literally will. Learn to appreciate what immigrants do for this country.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s immigration crackdown is risking higher food prices for Americans, according to the Trump admin itself.  DOL warned in an obscure document last week that “near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 4d

Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 3d

We have a name for the Nuremberg trials. Greg Bovino.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 4d

Humor, whimsy, levity = powerful tools in disproving the lies of the regime. We are not violent domestic terrorists. We are non-threatening Americans in silly costumes. This is how we make the regime look both extreme (bc they are) and show their claims are ridiculous.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 3d

Neoliberals prepare the ground for fascism. They did in the 1920s, and in the early 2020s.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 3d

The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 4d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 3d

This is the right decision, President Sally Kornbluth is showing leadership. Makes me proud to be an MIT alumn (PhD, 1979)
apnews.com/article/mit-...

MIT president says she 'cannot support' proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

MIT's president said she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to feder...

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