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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 3h

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Out Of This World

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 5h

The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.

Judicial warrants can still be served.

Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect

The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 8h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 7h

This.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

www.nytimes.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 11h

This is also a disability justice issue.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h

Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 8h

ICE spotted near Kenwood Academy today.

Dear Kenwood Parents and Guardians,
The safety of our students is my top priority, which is why I am writing to address a situation that occurred near our school this morning. We have received reports of federal law enforcement activity in the neighborhood near our school building today.
We immediately shared these reports with the CPS
Office of Safety and Security, and this team reached out to the Chicago Police Department (CPD) for more information. All members of our school community are safe. Today's school day proceeded smoothly and as planned.
I want to emphasize that school is the best and safest place for our students. Our staff is well-versed in the proper protocols for keeping our students and school community safe in case federal law enforcement representatives attempt to enter school property or interact with students or staff. As a reminder, our school and CPS WILL NOT coordinate with federal representatives, and we WILL NOT allow ICE agents or any other federal representatives access to our school unless they produce a criminal judicial warrant signed by a federal judge. I also want to remind you that CPS created a resource packet (English I Spanish) that includes guidance on the following topics:

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 17h

Basically, by including word for word the 10 Commandments from THEIR CHOSEN VERSION of the Bible, Arkansas Evangelicals are creating precedent that other Christians don't count. This is a big deal!

Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 17h

The spec for this law down to translation, chapter and verses speak to the crafting of a law in response to decades of frustration w/ how people have defeated the imposition of these as reqs (which version of the 10?!) and malicious compliance (sure its in the room)

www.4029tv.com/article/univ...

University of Arkansas to display Ten Commandments posters in campus buildings

The University of Arkansas will soon hang posters of the Ten Commandments in buildings across campus, a spokesperson confirmed to 40/29 News.

www.4029tv.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

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unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 10h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 9h

“I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways…Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.”

Crickets from the State Department. Awful.

Journalist Abducted by Israel Says She Was Tortured in Israeli Custody

A journalist who was abducted by Israeli forces last week as she accompanied a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid vessel says she was tortured in Israeli custody alongside activists seeking to break Israel’s...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

This is because the feds won't stop gassing our neighborhoods so they can flee and, by extension, are also repeatedly gassing the cops. What a moment to be alive

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 12h

CPD memo to officers today: helmet and gas mask available and accessible at all times, to be read at 7 days of roll calls. (For officers assigned masks.) Supervisors to ensure compliance acc to the memo. #chicago

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 13h

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Island of Reil - medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome @islandofreil.bsky.social · 14h

I'm so very unsurprised that goyim are trying to claim Columbus was Jewish.

Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 1d

"Ultimately, we gain less from asking ourselves whether Columbus might have been Jewish than from asking why some might be eager to put distance between Columbus and Christianity." @samirakmehta.bsky.social in @religiondispatches.org

religiondispatches.org/the-problems...

New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There's a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With

Speculations that Italian Americans’ problematic hero, Christopher Columbus, might have actually been Jewish were all over the news this month, with coverage ranging from NPR to the BBC to The Times o...

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 18h

I have a new paper out in @ersjournal.com, through a special issue on the mechanisms of racism, co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and #EduardoBonilla-Silva. 50 free eprints at link
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2WFQ9...

Mechanisms, smoke and fun-house mirrors: when naming racism is not enough

In this paper, I explain how public discourse around racism can hinder understanding of racist processes, becoming its own mechanism of racism. The general attribution of Flint's water crisis as a ...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17h

The Trump administration is targeting nine left-leaning organizations as part of its crackdown on activism. Two are explicitly Jewish. If you include Soros, it's three.

The Trump admin believes the US left is one-third Jewish. forward.com/opinion/7755...

The Trump administration is targeting Jewish organizations — what are we prepared to do?

Even if you're not a fan of organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace or IfNotNow, you need to stand with them nonetheless.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 17h

I believe this will end badly for the Dems, which is to say well for the rest of us.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race

Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins.

www.politico.com

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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 17h

The spec for this law down to translation, chapter and verses speak to the crafting of a law in response to decades of frustration w/ how people have defeated the imposition of these as reqs (which version of the 10?!) and malicious compliance (sure its in the room)

www.4029tv.com/article/univ...

University of Arkansas to display Ten Commandments posters in campus buildings

The University of Arkansas will soon hang posters of the Ten Commandments in buildings across campus, a spokesperson confirmed to 40/29 News.

www.4029tv.com

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 1d

This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.

WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF
WAYS YOU CAN HELP:
ONLINE FUNDRAISER - DONATE TO SUPPORT
Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate online. All funds raised will go directly to assisting communities.
PURCHASE ITEMS - AMAZON WISHLIST
Purchase items of immediate need to go directly to the Bethel Community Services Foundation to be distributed to villages most affected.
DONATION DRIVE AT AFN CONVENTION
Accepting items of immediate need including:
Cases of water, nonperishable foods, diapers, wipes, toilet paper, personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, phone chargers, blankets, sleeping bags, cots, flashlights, and hand wipes.
DENA'INA CENTER, ROOM 6 (2ND FLOOR)
Friday, October 17 | 1-5PM
Saturday, October 18 | 8AM-2PM

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 18h

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Angutekaraq Qakvalria @angutekaraq.bsky.social · 2d

People's houses are floating away WITH PEOPLE IN THEM

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