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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

Anytime there is a flood in the continental US, it is the biggest story across all social media.

Apparently, the same as not true for a catastrophe in Alaska. There was a typhoon yesterday morning and much of western Alaska is now underwater with homes with people in them just floating away.
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My Little Armalite: Friendship Is Magic @weedspagon.bsky.social · 7h

SHUT UP STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WATCH THIS RIGHT NOW

Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 1d

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Dec 27

Personally I think we should go back to making beautiful hair accessories that have little swords hidden in them. I could have used this twice yesterday

(Designer Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Paris)

Very beautiful hair clip that has a round center with the painting of a woman's face, and delicate beads and chains dangling down from it. It's held in place by a long, pointed pin that looks like the sword or a brave and mighty mouse

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 1d

Almost nothing makes the city safer than when the nypd is feeling mad enough to do a slow down.

I welcome their displeasure.

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Tareq and his family all survived to see a ceasefire, which feels like a miracle.

But Tareq's family, like so many others, remains in survival mode. Not only was their home destroyed, their entire neighborhood was erased. Everything they had is gone. They are starting over & need help.

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 1d

One of the least flattering photos of him to date. I am impressed.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the news is out. May her memory be a blessing. Miss Major, Presente!

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 1d

Rollover Tide

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.substack.com

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, thanks! I count myself very lucky to be in this profession, notwithstanding the many Cassandra-esque moments.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 2d

At so many junctures, defenders and other guardians of civil rights and liberties warned about the growing police state. The shrinking and then vanishing accountability. The outrageous overfunding and militarization.

They were never doing any of that that to protect the average local resident.

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 2d

I know I start a lot of commentary with "Public Defenders have been warning about this type of stuff for years," but it bears repeating.

Arresting kids for no clear reason isnt new.
Hiding them from parents isnt new.
Violating their rights isnt new.
Cooperating with ICE isnt new.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 2d

I have never worn an inflatable costume, so Grain of Salt, but it seems like a hydration pack should work (the sort generally used for running/hiking/biking.)

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 2d

Whoever chose this picture is doing excellent work.

"Stunned."

Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 2d

While Nigel Farage talked trash about Europe and secured the Brexit, his party colleague Nathan Gill took money from Putin's agent Oleg Voloshyn.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes - BBC News

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.com

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 2d

In 2019, voters empowered the Civilian Complaint Review Board to bring misconduct charges against cops who lied to the agency's investigators. But the board is tossing those cases out at a surprising rate, and public data conceals that fact. What gives?

The NYPD's Watchdog Is Tossing Out Lying Cop Cases—Then 'Hiding' the Data from the Public

The agency tasked with holding the NYPD accountable is letting cops accused of lying to its own investigators off the hook.

hellgatenyc.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

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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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 2d

Always good when you have to wonder if Measles is a musical act or if it's a concert + measles party hybrid event.

Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Tareq and his family all survived to see a ceasefire, which feels like a miracle.

But Tareq's family, like so many others, remains in survival mode. Not only was their home destroyed, their entire neighborhood was erased. Everything they had is gone. They are starting over & need help.

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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 3d

"Outside the ICE building, demonstrators ... have blown bubbles at ICE agents, formed a flash mob to dance the “Cha-Cha Slide,” held formal afternoon tea services and gone 'ICE fishing' — tying doughnuts to poles and pretending to lure federal officers with the pastries. "

Annette @inkstercat5.bsky.social · 3d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

www.nytimes.com

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 4d

Both DC and Marvel have expressed that gen AI has no place in their comic books.

That’s significant.

I hope they go further and enshroud that in contracts if they haven’t already. #CreateDontScrape

DC:
gizmodo.com/dc-comics-ji...

Marvel:
bleedingcool.com/comics/nycc-...

Jim Lee Says DC Comics Will Never Support Generative AI

So long as Lee is president of DC Studios, the company will not have its heroes drawn or written by AI.

gizmodo.com

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