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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11h

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Amazing how people who call themselves "leftists" will end up defending ICE because Bernie Sanders said Trump's border policies are better.

The borders of the US are literal violence on stolen land with dozens of atrocities committed daily to enforce them. You defend them if you want to. I won't.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 9d

Our friends at HIPS do incredible work providing harm reduction supplies, outreach, & housing support to our neighbors in DC.

They could use some help stocking hygiene supplies for their outreach team!

Order here: bit.ly/hygiene4hips

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raquel @dominguezraque.bsky.social · 12d

gerrymandering! KS-01 just got expanded to include Lawrence which means Lawrence will probably never have a democratic rep despite being in the only county that reliably votes blue in the entire state

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 15d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 16d

It is not too late for you to start wearing a mask in public.

It is not too late for you to start advocating clean air.

It is not too late for you to learn how to build your own air filters or to tap in with folks already doing so.

They want you sick. They want your neighbors sick. Tell them no.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16d

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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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 16d

It would be super duper cool if, in the face of fascist threats, our Mayor & City Council stood up to defend the people that live in this city.

It’s almost like… they also want to criminalize unhoused people & Black young people in the city 🧐

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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 17d

folks, the training bit doesn’t work for cops and it doesn’t work for ICE.

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 18d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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raquel @dominguezraque.bsky.social · Jul 3

been thinking a lot about how *deeply* irresponsible it was for the Biden admin to not dismantle ICE when they had the opportunity, when they KNEW what the Trump admin wanted to do and had already done with it
(I know why they didn’t)

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 18d

all while a virus that causes brain damage spreads without ample mitigation or surveillance

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 18d

I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.

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DC Abortion Fund ⭐ @dcabortionfund.bsky.social · 18d

we have a 5k gap to close by this friday for a DC native. we know it's rough out there-- can our community dig deep and show up for our neighbor? love & rage! xo DCAF 💕

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 18d

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 19d

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

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daniel s. @self.agency · 19d

it is october 7. for two years hamas has been offering to return israel's hostages in exchange for an israeli withdrawal from gaza to which benjamin netanyahu has said "no," ignoring the hostages' families demands and prioritizing the destruction of gaza over saving the hostages lives.

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 20d

Watch how Pritzker and Newsom the two current big names for 2028. Neither want true change, they just want to reset back to Pre-Trump. Their state and local law enforcement not only doesn't protect their residents, but commits violence against them & helps ICE. No talk of that.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 20d

IL Gov. JB Pritzker says he has asked TX Gov. Abbott to refuse to allow Texas National Guard troops to be deployed to IL.

Pritzker says Bonvino and ICE have brought violence to Chicago. Points out that Bonvino admitted that ICE is detaining people based on what they look like.

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 20d

Years ago, scientists warned us that Covid would create an "unfathomable" crisis of longterm illness that included diseases not typically diagnosed as "Long Covid." Now a fight over exploding healthcare costs has shut down the government. These two things are connected.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 21d

Miller’s attempt to deem The Left terrorism was obviously where this was going and why, in addition to it being intellectually and morally correct, it was important to resist efforts to classify pro-Palestinian groups as such. You reject the politicization of “terrorism” or you accept it for all.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 22d

The federal government is accelerating its war against democratically held cities and states And the sooner people realize neither The Police , nor the legal system will help them from these terror raids and increasingly violent attack on civilians the better

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 22d

Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.

Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.

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raquel @dominguezraque.bsky.social · 23d

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raquel @dominguezraque.bsky.social · 24d

you cannot actually oppose ICE if you support local law enforcement. in DC and everywhere else they reinforce one another. the entire apparatus has to go

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 24d

MPD did not stop collaborating with ICE after the emergency ended. They proceeded full steam ahead, working hand in hand to terrorize DC’s immigrant communities, with Bowser’s blessing. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/01/dc-police-immigration-trump-crime/

Immigration officers still patrol with D.C. police after Trump emergency

The Washington Post reviewed photos and videos of at least half a dozen incidents since Sept. 10. They show D.C. police officers with masked agents in vests labeled HSI for Homeland Security Investiga...

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 24d

Not only should we abolish DHS and try everyone involved in these massive civil and human rights violations in the Hague, we should give everyone hurt by them massive compensations at the bare minimum

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 27d

DC doesn't have this illogical system that assumes people somehow become less dangerous if they pay money. But Republicans are trying to impose it on us.

Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 28d

The vast majority of people held in jail are legally innocent. Many of them are there simply because they are too poor to make bail.

Does that look like a system built on justice?

Graph showing that the median felony bail amount is $10,000, yet the median annual pre-incarceration income for men & women aged 23-39 in local jails who were detained pretrial and unable to post a bail bond was $15,598 and $11,071, respectively (2015)

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29d

people in dc: “we fucking warned you over and over and over again and few of you even talked about us”

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29d

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Sep 27

Six families evacuated, two families left to help flee—please share! We’re matching £3,000 ($4,000)🚨

The last we heard, one family was trapped, surrounded by tanks before we lost contact.

Help them flee. Every radical hope needed. 93/7000 by Tuesday night.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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