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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

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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Cara Lopez Lee @caralopezlee.bsky.social · 1d

JOHNSON: “What I’ve seen is the abuse of law enforcement by radical leftist activists. Most recently, the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers who were protesting ICE down there.”

The only example he could conjure 🧐

Careful, naked protestors, you might put an eye out!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

Cara Lopez Lee @caralopezlee.bsky.social · 1d

Overwhelmed, I find it increasingly difficult to originate posts.

Much of what I want to say has been said, over & over.

So I repost what shakes me to the core, in case it helps even one person to know: here’s more evidence, America is in a dark place…but here you & I are, still shining a light.

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

ICE detained Isabela, a Delaware victim of domestic violence, despite her living with temporary protected legal status. In 2019, Isabela helped police find, prosecute, and deport her ex-husband, who stabbed her. If ICE had deported her back to her native country, her abuser would be waiting.

‘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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a close-up of a large ancient living tree in a flat landscape with other trees in the distance, the tree has many branches forming a rounded flat canopy viewed from underneath

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 2d

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Cara Lopez Lee @caralopezlee.bsky.social · 1d

Spectacular! 😱😍

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Cara Lopez Lee @caralopezlee.bsky.social · 1d

May we all honor Indigenous people today and every day! 🙏🌺💕

Colorful red-gold-indigo print of a graphic-design indigenous woman with long black and indigo hair layered with faint indigo flowers, looking at the viewer over her shoulder. A red eagle or hawk spreads its wings in the foreground, about to fly over her shoulder. A red sun hangs behind her. Text says: Indigenous People are the Future.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

US painter
Laura Wheeler Waring,
Woman with Bouquet, c.1940 #womensart
#BlackHistoryMonth US

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

The work of contemporary Northumberland artist and printmaker Rebecca Vincent #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a view over a colourful furrowed field landscape to a flat horizon on which a single windblown tree grows under a sunset pinky blue sky

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Cara Lopez Lee @caralopezlee.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Unsettling even. 🫣😂

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Cara Lopez Lee @caralopezlee.bsky.social · 3d

That is so cool! Congrats 🎉

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Cara Lopez Lee @caralopezlee.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent choice. I never get tired of this song.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Tamara de Lempicka,
Blue Woman with a Guitar, 1929
Polish painter who created her work in an Art Deco style #womensart

Stylised painting of a white woman in a soft blue dress holding a round stringed instrument with a long neck on her lap and holding it as if playing

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Ben Bradley @benbradleytv.bsky.social · 4d

WGN-TV creative services employee taken to the ground, handcuffed by immigration agents. wgntv.com/news/operati...

wgntv.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Artist Susanna Bauer adds thread and crochet to dried leaves, creating miniature artworks #womensart #Autumn #Fall

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 5d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Cara Lopez Lee @caralopezlee.bsky.social · 4d

Love these quotes! Thank you for sharing them, Mona 😍

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