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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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DrDucko-enstein 🦆🧌 @drducko.myatproto.social · 16h

Governor Pritzker, please call off your state troopers!

You said you would stand between ICE and the people of Illinois. This is not how you do that. These officers should be defending peaceful protestors, not ICE.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 21h

Sounds pretty accurate imho

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

[gift article] this is terrible. What does Hochul have to say about this?
www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Migrants languish in ICE, Border Patrol hold rooms across New York

In Buffalo, Albany, New York City, and along the Canadian border, detained migrants are waiting longer and longer in temporary holding facilities.

www.timesunion.com

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 1d

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Connor Burbridge for Rhode Island @burbridge-for-ri.bsky.social · 23h

RI’s senators failed a crucial test in standing up to Trump to remove troops from American cities and protect trans and minority service members. I would have never capitulated like this.

Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 1d

Senators Reed and Whitehouse support NDAA that targets transgender rights and allows Trump unlimited domestic troop deployment

"The NDAA vote provides insight into how far most congressional Democrats are willing to go in opposing Trump’s culture war fascism and use of troops on domestic soil..."

Senators Reed and Whitehouse support NDAA that targets transgender rights and allows Trump unlimited domestic troop deployment

"The NDAA vote provides insight into how far most congressional Democrats are willing to go in opposing Trump’s culture war fascism and use of troops on domestic soil..."

steveahlquist.substack.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

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

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“[T]he broader aim of all this agitprop is far uglier. Trump has employed a form of state propaganda that may be unrivaled by any presidency in modern memory, and these MAGA influencers are generating material for that vile effort.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

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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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 23h

I think Medicare for All and UBI would decrease the need for domestic violence shelters by like 50 percent at least, more if there was no housing crisis.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 1d

Evangelical, right-wing 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/kings-army-soho-lgbtq-homophobia-london-uk/?utm_content=1760271600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

This incident was reportedly over a mile from where Brockman was detained. She was put into a minivan with New Jersey plates. This is a different SUV.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

This is not the white van carrying Brockman. This is a totally different vehicle. The van carrying Brockman did ram into another car and pull off its bumper though. You can see here from the original video of Brockman’s detainment.

We don’t know much about this new TikTok incident yet.

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 1d

Magaziner is beyond disappointment. The focus on healthcare rings hollow too, because most of these centrist dems stood in the way of real reform when Bernie was running and there was momentum. I’ve been struggling to pay health care for years, & dems like Seth have never offered more than crumbs.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 1d

It seems unlikely, but think about never having to be accountable for anything in your life or never even feeling slightly responsible for ANYTHING, you would have no stress on you body and psyche and your heart might actually be in relatively good condition, physically.

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Emily Conklin @emzconk.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t throw trans people under the bus. Don’t give your blessing to troops being deployed domestically. Don’t authorize this act while our federal administration continues to violate the law & terrorize our communities. @whitehouse.senate.gov @reed.senate.gov you should be ashamed of this vote.

Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 1d

Senators Reed and Whitehouse support NDAA that targets transgender rights and allows Trump unlimited domestic troop deployment

"The NDAA vote provides insight into how far most congressional Democrats are willing to go in opposing Trump’s culture war fascism and use of troops on domestic soil..."

Senators Reed and Whitehouse support NDAA that targets transgender rights and allows Trump unlimited domestic troop deployment

"The NDAA vote provides insight into how far most congressional Democrats are willing to go in opposing Trump’s culture war fascism and use of troops on domestic soil..."

steveahlquist.substack.com

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James must be protected at all costs!!!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d

If she'd been married and lied about being single or if she'd been a convicted abuser and lied about that she would not be going to jail.

People lie all the time before sex, during sex and after sex.

If you're trans, that's a crime.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 3d

She's been jailed - to be raped every night.

She's in a male jail. Despite living as female since she was 13.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Trans woman jailed after hiding male genitalia during sex with man

Ciara Watkin, 21, concealed she had male genitalia and performed sex acts on a man she had been on a date with - before later texting him 'I'm trans, I'm sorry I didn't tell you'

www.mirror.co.uk

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 1d

It looks like a desk they grabbed out of a random office in NY. You’re overthinking.

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 2d

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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 1d

Love this so much ❤️

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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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