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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 3h

Check the White House.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.

Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He’s A Good Christian

Hundreds protested Tuesday at an ICE facility in southwest Colorado after agents detained two children on their way to school.

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 10h

Straight Up is also still a bop. Pop music is generally popular because it's fun.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15h

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 18h

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 14h

Which of their products have let you down?

I've found their mice and keyboards to be reliable, even the cheap ones, but I don't think I'd buy much else from Logitech.

The Logitech headset my old employer gave me at the start of the pandemic was truly awful.

Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 14h

I'll match your donation to my local pantry. Thank you for reminding me to give to feed my neighbors.

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who cares @maaaatttt.bsky.social · 17h

man it’s really disheartening to see how many people are unable to adjust their opinions in the face of new information. it’s ok to admit that you were a supporter of someone until you found out they were secretly the type of person that gets a Nazi tattoo.

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JLSRPH @jlsrph481.bsky.social · Sep 6

Blue States need to create a (H)old (E)veryone (A)ccountable (T)askforce (HEAT). When ICE arrives and breaks the law, HEAT squads from that blue state arrive, arrest and jail the ICE agents. HEAT gives the message “Not Here!“ If Trump can bend the rules, so can state governors!

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 14h

Assault with a deadly weapon, destruction of property, child endangerment.

ICE is committing violent crimes that every potential juror understands. Where is the DA who will charge them and bring them to justice?

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 15h

Food stamps remind me of vaccines, we basically eliminated hunger like we eliminated measles, both incredible human accomplishments the GOP is determined to reverse.

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 18h

Posted dumb shit on the internet 15 years ago: not good, but maybe he's grown; I'm willing to hear him out and decide later.

Inked Nazi imagery on his body and kept it into his 40s: He can fuck all the way off; we know what he is.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I’ve been incredibly outspoken against the very real problems the gerontocratic Dem power structure has made for itself, including its submission to corporate interests, but if you keep a fucking Nazi tattoo on your fucking body for LONGER THAN A LITERAL DECADE that’s a *you* problem.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 1d

"It's really interesting to have this whole power structure essentially turn on to try to drag my name through the mud." Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner describes the resistance he has experienced within the Democratic Party.
www.threads.com/@thebriefing...

The Briefing with Jen Psaki (@thebriefingwithpsaki) on Threads

"It's really interesting to have this whole power structure essentially turn on to try to drag my name through the mud." Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner describes the resistance he has experienc...

www.threads.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 20h

This is good, but when people talk about this I want to emphasize: we have not run out of money for SNAP. The money is there, it has been allotted and saved specifically for this instance. Trump refuses to release the billions of dollars that Americans have already allotted to continue food stamps!

Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 20h

In the 60-year history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, it’s never run out of money. Here are the states suing the federal government over it.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 19h

SCOOP

The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered

The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”

I got the memo laying it all out

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19h

The whole point of the story is that despite being a group of people who aren't especially adventurous and mostly love good food, drink, and leaf and quiet lives at home, that they have a hidden strength and are especially resilient at resisting the evil of the ring!

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21h

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.

The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

www.independent.co.uk

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1d

Still remembering that time the NYPD were threatened with reforms so they initiated a work slowdown that resulted in less crime and then for some reason we didn’t learn from this?

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1d

Don’t threaten me with a good time

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

Northeast provides way more money to federal government than we get back: if we call the Republican bluff and lower federal income taxes, we would have more than enough money to fund a Northeastern Collective to provide the type of social services we want for ourselves.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

These 5 people could caucus with the Democrats, giving them a majority & firmly opposing the fascism, any time. It might be nice for an enterprising journalist to ask them why they keep not doing this every day as the crimes & corruption continue & John Thune refuses to fulfill his oath of office.

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if NYT decided Trump as a big of threat to NY (has stolen $18 billion from NY as he prepares to escalate paramilitary to assault non-white people on street) as it has apparently decided Mamdani is to NY (he wants free busses, the horror!)

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 1d

On the plus side, when everyone from the Trump administration gets thrown in jail, they'll have to pay through the nose to call anyone.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually

F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

www.nytimes.com

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Fava Bean @fava.bsky.social · 1d

My Republican parents, one of whom is the child of a man who escaped the Nazis, wonder why I haven't visited since the election.

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