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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 9h

“The Trump administration was handed tools to protect black lung and they are doing everything in their power to toss those rules in the trash,” said one campaigner ahead of a protest planned for Tuesday.

As Trump Boosts Coal Industry, Black Lung Miners Say They've Been 'Cast Aside to Die'

“The Trump administration was handed tools to protect black lung and they are doing everything in their power to toss those rules in the trash,” said one campaigner ahead of a protest planned for Tuesday.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

So far, the only media outlet that has signed Pete Hegseth's new prohibitive press policy for covering the Pentagon is One America News.

Even Newsmax and the Washington Times have rejected the letter.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Even Newsmax rejects the Pentagon’s new press restrictions ahead of signing deadline

‘Newsmax has no plans to sign the letter,’ the network stated on Monday. ‘We believe the requirements are unnecessary and onerous and hope that the Pentagon with review the matter further’

www.independent.co.uk

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 16h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 16h

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 19h

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think you can “abuse” your right to protest

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 12h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻‍🎨 @writerartisteh.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a way I despise that we have to say “it will hurt you in the long run” to make people give a care. Hello? Just care even if it has nothing to do with you.

Graphic of boot trodding on head. “Every boot you ignore stomping on someone’s else’s neck is just breaking in the leather for yours."

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 9h

I'm going to "abuse my right to free speech" to say this is stupid and cowardly

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 12h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

Don Lemon interviews a Chicago native who is not pleased with the federal takeover.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h

Israeli media had all but ignored the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, according to an INSS report.

One executive admitted that directors at her outlet “made a conscious decision…to hide what was happening in Gaza from Israeli readers and viewers.”

Israeli media's distorted view of the war in Gaza

While global news showed a humanitarian disaster, most outlets in Israel remained silent.

www.motherjones.com

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 5h

Do the kids know each digit used to represent an actual physical link in a chain connection between handsets?

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Joel @jandcochran.bsky.social · 9h

“Italian food only incorporated tomatoes after a Columbus’s weird travels and then the Spanish kicked out all the Jews and some went to Italy with tomatoes” is just an amazingly weird historian run

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 9h

if nothing else, take a little time to read the wikipedia article, which has a graphic that somehow always makes me think of the "trade offer" meme

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbi...

graphic from the wikipedia article on the Columbian Exchange, which shows corn, turkey, syphilis, and smoking being exchanged from the new world to the old, with wheat, cattle, smallpox, and Christianity going the other way

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 9h

I don't think this idea should compete with Indigenous Peoples Day, so maybe another day would be better for Columbian Exchange Day... but if we want to get back to building a peaceful, tolerant world, I think we need to find a way to honor and teach the lessons of the Columbian Exchange.

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Derrell Durrett @derrelldurrett.bsky.social · 5h

Why do you think he needed to find tomatoes?

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 9h

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 9h

Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.

If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 9h

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · 9h

Gold surges in value, pushing up gold share of central bank reserves #EconSky
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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 16h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 9h

⚡️Kremlin issues veiled threats towards Moldova, cites Ukraine as warning.

Kremlin issues veiled threats towards Moldova, cites Ukraine as warning

Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov issued a new round of veiled threats towards Moldova on Oct. 12, warning Chisinau not to suffer from the same fate as Ukraine just weeks after an election that saw M...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 9h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 9h

Columbus wasn't on a mission to expand scientific understanding. Nor did he "find" a new world. And far from progress, Columbus brought enslavement, genocide, and mass rape. Finally, “Columbus Day” is only 88 years old, it isn't some ancient American tradition.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/indigenous...

Indigenous Peoples' Day Must Replace Columbus Day

Columbus was a historical figure who should be studied, not an icon to be honored

www.qasimrashid.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

"She wants to grab him," Ricky Patel said before he had had any exchange w/Ras Baraka. Even after Baraka left the facility, Patel said, "I’m going to place the Mayor in handcuffs. We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

www.emptywheel.net

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13h

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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