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ICE and DHS are bullies.
They’re bullying immigrants.
They’re bullying citizens.
They’re bullying children.
Then they come here and try to bully us digitally.
It’s designed to make people afraid to resist. Afraid to speak up.
They hadn’t even been here 12 hours & they quote dunked me.
They’re bullying immigrants.
They’re bullying citizens.
They’re bullying children.
Then they come here and try to bully us digitally.
It’s designed to make people afraid to resist. Afraid to speak up.
They hadn’t even been here 12 hours & they quote dunked me.
![Edited excerpt from a 21 October 2025 WIRED article titled "Inside the Trump Administration's Bluesky Invasion: On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts." by Makena Kelly:
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As the government continued into shutdown, members of the White House’s digital team decided to take its shutdown messaging to the predominantly left-wing platform as part of a coordinated blitz with several other federal agencies that officials described as an effort to “reach all audiences.”
“It should be the purpose of the government to communicate to the American public everywhere as often as possible,” says a White House official, who spoke to WIRED under the condition of anonymity to speak freely about the decision. The White House is now on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Truth Social, TikTok, YouTube, and X. “We’re just going to be there in as many places as possible because, as evident by the president’s ethos and his attitude and the sheer volume of open press stuff we do, we want to be as transparent as humanly possible and reach as many people as possible,” says the official.
[end excerpt.]
The article can be read in full at https://www.wired.com/story/inside-trump-administration-bluesky-invasion/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:boxxkbm7ojq3fiweqykvbx6a/bafkreihgh4jj3udeqni7iwybw752v3ewxyveio225ptayr4xsrb4opzxy4@jpeg)
![Excerpt from 11 April 2025 Federal News Network article titled "SSA shifts to X posts for official messaging after cuts to communications staff: SSA is once again walking back plans that would have limited the agency's level of phone support to beneficiaries." by Jory Heckman:
Regional SSA offices, each representing several states, will no longer have fully staffed public affairs offices, because of the agency’s mass reassignment of employees to field offices.
SSA Midwest-West (MWW) Regional Commissioner Linda Kerr-Davis told employees in a call Thursday that those regional offices will no longer issue press releases or “Dear Colleague” letters to advocate groups.
“Instead, the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public — formerly known as Twitter,” Kerr-Davis said. “This will become our communication mechanism.”
[endexcerpt.]
Article can be read in full at https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/04/ssa-shifts-to-x-posts-for-official-messaging-after-cuts-to-communications-staff/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:boxxkbm7ojq3fiweqykvbx6a/bafkreie4l26dye7so4tuj4vbh6hlswjmxqauviyzikgysnoc5rg2wy2ori@jpeg)
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· Jul 11
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· Jul 10
Report from someone at federal immigration court (26 Federal Plaza) in NYC:
“I’ve seen at least two detainments today where they [ICE agents] haven’t even let them [asylum-seekers] go to their hearings first.”
“I’ve seen at least two detainments today where they [ICE agents] haven’t even let them [asylum-seekers] go to their hearings first.”
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
· Jul 10
BREAKING: Judge in new case challenging Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship grants class certification and blocks enforcement of the order. The injunction is stayed for seven days to allow any appeal.
![Screen capture of a 10 July 2025 Bluesky post from Samahhgazaa (@samahhgazaa.bsky.social):
To the whole world, we live in northern Gaza, a place of death, displacement and famine. We have no dreams or future left, and now Rimas is suffering from cancer, fighting death and famine. She has lost her dreams. Your donation, even if it is small, will save her life. You are her hope. [broken heart emoji; explosion emoji.] https://gofund.me/ae817fe5
[end post text.]
There are two images with alt text included.
1 - The alt reads "I am Rimas, a 14-year-old girl with blood cancer."
The image has two photos; the one in the background is of a teenager holding a handwritten sign with the following text: "[Although] the celebration was Always a Joy, This Year brought Hunger & Pain [sad face]. Be the Reason For a Smile [heart.] Donate Even A Little !!!"
The one in the foreground shows a hand with an IV attachment and bandages holding it in place, overlaid by text reading: "I am the little girl Rimas, a blood cancer patient. I lost my childhood because of the disease, and now I am losing my life because of not receiving treatment, the closure of the crossings, and the famine that Gaza is experiencing. You are my hope. Your support will save my life before it is too
late." Held in front of the camera at the wrist of the hand is a paper from the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital (Gaza Cancer Center) dated 1 July 2025.
2 - The alt reads "I am Samah Khairat. My dream, my university, my twin Mahmoud, and this is the rubble of my house. There is no dream or future left."
The photo is of a young woman sitting atop a pile of rubble in what is clearly the remains of a building; a second photo below is another angle of the destruction. Text over the photos reads "The war took a lot from me, my home and my twin Mahmoud went with it, and it also destroyed the other's home and we escaped death for the second time. We have no place left to live in. We lost everything."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:boxxkbm7ojq3fiweqykvbx6a/bafkreia463f44tbifjniiatcyrgrg5qu2iprirgwca3fiejgtb2kxsdcxa@jpeg)
emnreviews
@emnreviews.bsky.social
· Jul 10
@repilhan.bsky.social coming to #NASHVILLE along with @brotherjones.bsky.social THIS SATURDAY!!!
Rep. Andy Ogles hasn't held a town hall in his district, but he *has* been calling for Rep. Omar to be deported. Instead, she's going to his district to convene the town hall he's too scared to hold.
Rep. Andy Ogles hasn't held a town hall in his district, but he *has* been calling for Rep. Omar to be deported. Instead, she's going to his district to convene the town hall he's too scared to hold.
emnreviews
@emnreviews.bsky.social
· Jul 10
emnreviews
@emnreviews.bsky.social
· Jul 10
hi @politico.com my name is marisa kabas and i publish the handbasket and you basically copied my story and then linked me in the 23rd paragraph of your story without specific attribution: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
here's my original: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-david...
here's my original: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-david...
Have you seen this man?
In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found.
www.thehandbasket.co
emnreviews
@emnreviews.bsky.social
· Jul 10
hi @politico.com my name is marisa kabas and i publish the handbasket and you basically copied my story and then linked me in the 23rd paragraph of your story without specific attribution: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
here's my original: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-david...
here's my original: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-david...
Have you seen this man?
In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found.
www.thehandbasket.co
![Excerpt from a 10 July 1925 article in the D.C. Evening Star titled "Scopes Reindicted After Trial Opens To Correct Error" by the Associated Press:
Crowd Stands at Prayer.
The crowd rose as the judge's gavel fell. They stood during the opening prayer. Camera men focused their machines.
Photographers were given their inning. Visiting counsel ranged behind the judge and gazed into a snapping battery of picture makers. The crowd considered itself "at ease" and discussed the situation audibly. Camera men retired and the judge hammered for order. Spectators sat down, but the attorneys received a second admonition. The space around the judge was crowded with court attaches.
A tow-headed 2-year-old boy sat on Judge Raulston's desk and drew the jury panel.
The judge broke his eyeglasses and was forced to leave the bench to get Mrs. Raulston's assistance in repairing the damage. The operation was successful.
Judge Reads Bible.
Raulston's voice rang out clearly as he read the first chapter of Genesis to the grand jury. Men in the crowd looked at one another significantly as he read the scriptural story of creation. Jurymen listened with heads erect and grave faces.
As Judge Raulston was convening court a blind musician stationed his organ upon the courthouse lawn and began playing old-fashioned hymns. A crowd assembled around him and soon began singing the tunes.
As the music continued, others were attracted to the scene, and while the grand jury was being empaneled in the courtroom above the faint sounds of old hymns drifted through the courtroom windows.
During the intermission the crowd poured out upon the lawn and gathered in groups to discuss the trial developments. The country folk reclined upon the grass. Mothers comforted waiting infants or cuddled their young in their arms.
[end excerpt.]
Available at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1925-07-10/ed-1/seq-1/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:boxxkbm7ojq3fiweqykvbx6a/bafkreif7mmbp4pfcphlut6hwmjj4327ukc5hb6lkkmwqu7klp7bxrxajpq@jpeg)
![Article from the 10 July 1925 Imperial Valley Press.
Read Tennessee's Anti-Evolution Law.
An act prohibiting the teaching of the evolution theory in all the universities, normal and other public schools of Tennessee which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the state and to provide penalties for the violation thereof.
Section 1 - Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Tennessee that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the universities, normal and all other public schools of the state which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds, to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animal.
"Section 2 - Вe it further enacted that any teacher found guilty of violation of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500 for each offense."
Introduced by Representative J. W. Butler of Lafayette. Macon county.
[end text.]
Available at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92070146/1925-07-10/ed-1/seq-1/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:boxxkbm7ojq3fiweqykvbx6a/bafkreifdpwvx5tkzk7jsbx2aytp5lfxdgr7j2b7azecz2t7azsrtbz6uoy@jpeg)
