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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 10h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 4h

There are in fact NOT plenty of jobs thay offer benefits and this is very intentional.

Kpow💥 @kpow70.bsky.social · 4h

At this point, you don't join ice for the benefits. You join for the funzies. There are plenty of jobs that offer benefits. I just got one last month. Within a week of moving here...

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Franki Butler @frankitheb.bsky.social · 4h

There's at least one study out there on how Black children aren't really children in many people's minds. I assume that with the immigration gestapo the adultification/dehumanization combo applies to all non-white kids.

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10h

Im still wondering what goes through the mind of someone who joined ICE just for the benefits when they're told to rip a mother away from her screaming children or to kidnap a child from school...

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 4h

I resent how the most ignorant and borish people have been enpowred by this administration.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 9h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 10h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Chanda B @chandab.bsky.social · 5h

I could never. How could I face my family, let alone myself? What would my ancestors say when I join them?

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 8h

Come teach with me for @resistanceschool.bsky.social !!

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 14h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 4h

Lol

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 9h

I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18h

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18h

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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p0usr.bsky.social @p0usr.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry word salad lol

Before COVID, there was an unstated sense of collective responsibility that has since shattered.

All the "fuck you I got mine" ppl made massive gains since then, and even ppl against them learned to ignore disabled folks who are STILL vulnerable even with vaccines available.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 8h

Definitely probable! I have a few neighbors who really lost their shit over the last few years. I’d have to go back and map out when their behavior started to change.

Whole lot of “masks are tyranny!” nonsense around me.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

I feel like they're the last generation that I've known who were able to escape digital brain worms.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

Is it weird that feel like I'm missing and needing the guidance ane wisdom of my greatest generation relatives now more than ever?

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 12h

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

My other grandad was a custodian and his dad was a WWI vet and a farmer.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

Grandad was in the military and was a prize boxer, his dad was a pullman porter.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · Jan 8

7. Do you know what your grandparents and your great grand parents did for a living?

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

Oh dear

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

Black People - What movies always mae you angry, no matter how many times you watch it?

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 14h

My girlfriend asked me to make dinner without using my airfryer, help! 😭😭😭

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Loc Queen 💜 @locqueen15.bsky.social · 9h

A little off topic but I think people in it for the benefits will be the most valuable witnesses for investigations & trials. A big if but if the next administration seeks to arrest ICE agents for illegal conduct those will be the first ones to seek a plea deal & protect themselves.

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10h

Im still wondering what goes through the mind of someone who joined ICE just for the benefits when they're told to rip a mother away from her screaming children or to kidnap a child from school...

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jacquisutton.bsky.social @jacquisutton.bsky.social · 9h

It’s like so many broken brains. And not just here. The crazy that we’re witnessing is global. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a simulation with wrong prompts. Like, observing reality shouldn’t be this hard, and yet …

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🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.social · 16h

They screamed "The Biden Crime Family" for four fucking years because of nepotism from the Obama years.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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