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sanders.senate.gov
Because of Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill,” the annual ICE budget — at $28 billion — is now larger than the annual budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons COMBINED.

No. The American people do not want Trump's domestic army.
January 15, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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benrosen.bsky.social
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
If you live in Ireland and truly care about nature and our environment, please make a submission objecting to the government's plans to *severely* restrict communities' ability to defend them in the courts.

Instructions below, it only takes minutes, and the deadline is the day after tomorrow!! 🙏
antaisce.bsky.social An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 5d
Have your say by January 15 deadline.

In all our time in An Taisce, this is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. These proposed changes are clearly unlawful, undemocratic & unfair.

For more: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...

#environmentaljustice
irishtimes.com The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 5d
An Taisce urges public to object to ‘unlawful’ caps on judicial review fees
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Relentless "improvement" of the countryside leaves no space for nature.

But ever more people are now helping the wild return, through *rewilding*.

No matter who you are or where you live, you too have a part to play in the fight.

There is no better New Year's resolution.
January 1, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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srmilesauthor.bsky.social
The political discourse in this country has been compromised by Russian interference. That was proven in 2016 and it has been continuing in every major election since then.. any criticism of Jasmine Crockett has to be viewed under that lens.
www.motherjones.com/media/2022/0...
Black or bot? The long, sordid history of co-opting Blackness online
Trolls and foreign agents love to exploit African-American culture for political gain.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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67rn.bsky.social
PFAS have been linked to several kinds of cancer, birth defects, damage to the liver and immune system, and other health problems. The EPA plans to relax rules requiring companies to report PFAS products and weaken drinking water standards for the chemicals.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/n...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food - The Boston Globe
The agency approved two new pesticides that will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli, and potatoes.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
good lord, what are people going to do? that's so outrageous i don't even have words for it. that's just an utterly impossible situation

www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...
Wendi Worthington, a 55-year-old Bend resident, said numbers are more than policy. She left her job as a public educator to care for her husband, a former high school teacher who she said suffered a stroke and was later diagnosed with a rare brain cancer. Worthington said the family currently relies on her husband's $7,000 monthly disability income, which places them over the Medicaid income limit but still struggling with medical bills. Because her husband is under 65, he doesn't qualify for Medicare, which would only cover him — not her or their children. Worthington said her family pays $1,400 a month for their insurance with subsidies. Without them, she said, their premium would soar to $3,284 — roughly $40,000 a year, nearly half their income. "That keeps me up at night," Worthington said. "Health insurance shouldn't take 50% of an income, and that's just the insurance. That doesn't include out-of-pocket costs
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
The Onion: DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”

@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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redderbeanpaste.bsky.social
Woodrow Wilson used photos in federal job applications to not hire Black people
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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gregpak.net
That's murder.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Nov 6
ICE deported him anyways.

They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.

Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.

What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?

He died a few weeks after deportation:
Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state
Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatment
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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dinfontay.com
can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence
Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement
progressivegrocer.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
"What's a DHS? What's a minister? What's a bloodied? What's a press conference? What's a question? What's these things on the end of my arms? What's love got to do, got to do with it? What's a what? What what what? What? What? Wh? W? ?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 29
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Authoritarians fear only one thing: DEFIANCE‼️

(Downtown Portland)
October 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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oregonian.com
Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.”

Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
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
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
The GOP budget is going to be the single most unpopular and destructive budget in modern American history - tariffs/higher prices, exploding deficits, gutting health care, slashing clean energy/higher electricity costs, huge ICE expansion.

Going to be a parade of horrors and they are scared of it.
simonwdc.bsky.social Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · Oct 13
Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done?

Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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celestelabedz.bsky.social
A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.
October 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...
www.npr.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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agreenberg.bsky.social
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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funranium.bsky.social
I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.
jakeythesnakey.bsky.social Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · Oct 12
This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)
October 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol
richraho.bsky.social Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Oct 11
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
People enjoy seeing Black people poor , they enjoy lecturing us about it, they love ignoring our observations by pointing to " commitments"

and they love feeling justified when we have appropriate human reactions they can villainize to justify the inequality
dianaresists.bsky.social DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · Oct 12
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM