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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5h

Now here is an artist. Abdul. Red blanket, beneath it a yellow construction sign. He wore a blue hoodie. I asked to take a portrait. Yes. I raised camera; he raised hand. Down went camera. “I’m sorry.” “No, take it.” Up went camera; up went hand. Down & up again. This is the portrait he wanted.

A bright red blanket drapes the shoulder of a man in a red t and a blue hoodie. Behind him the black metal bars of an Underground entrance railing. Center: the palm of his light brown hand, obscuring his face.

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Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social · 1d

My duh moment while watching ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER for a second time this afternoon: the song playing over a bloodied Sean Penn walking down the highway at the end is the classic bolero PERFIDIA performed by the masters of the Gente, Trio Los Panchos.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15h

(I write, resting between floors of his exhibit at Photographer’s Gallery in London. 26 years ago I acquired his book Case History almost by accident. Loomed over me, haunted, whispered to me, snickered at me since. Now, I feel like I at last have really begun to read this “book.”)

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t think I know of an artist—painter, writer, photographer—whose work I believe as constitutionally independent of “should”—its embrace or defiance—as the Soviet/Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov.

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Kamuka @kamuka.bsky.social · 18h

Federal Agents May Face Charges After Violent Arrest of WGN Journalist in Chicago in Violation of Court Order mhtntimes.com/articles/fed...

Federal Agents May Face Charges After Violent Arrest of WGN Journalist in Chicago in Violation of Court Order

A viral video showing federal agents violently arresting WGN producer Debbie Brockman in Chicago may violate a court order protecting journalists, raising serious constitutional and legal concerns.

mhtntimes.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

London hair salon after hours, each station equipped with a television, each depicting scene after scene of Gaza now, rubble and ruin.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Who do they report to @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinated by the shelves & shelves of nature writing in British bookshops, I bought The Golden Mole, by Katherine Rundell: prose poems of fantastical didja-know, draped in the antique finery of predecessors in the animal-describing trade from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. An antidote book.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

Did you miss it this week?

I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this.

Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that.

newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of reasons this kind of undercover work doesn’t happen in the U.S., but no good ones it shouldn’t

Adrian Polglase @adrianpolglase.com · 11d

We've been undercover in the UK's biggest police force revealing evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at Met Police's Charing Cross station. Here's my article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Love the scare quote, too

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Page One in Boston.

@bostonglobe.com

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 2d

I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."
@aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org
links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

Regarding the Compact

links.mit.edu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Orthodox Christianity is like Catholicism or Protestantism, a major branch. "Small-o" means he doesn't mean part of that branch, but just orthodox in the colloquial sense.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, Cadwallader went to Hampshire?

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Long considered "too conservative" by her fellow conservatives; committed to destroying socialism--her terms; practices a performative Christian nationalist politics; supports war against the Venezualan gov't, which is indeed awful. But still.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

It's not just strategy. I don't know anything about Trump ties, but her own record is as a figure too hard right for much of the opposition, a supporter of the military coup attempt against Chavez, and an absolute opponent of socialism. Maduro is a violent dictator but that doesn't make her a saint.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 2d

A win? Neat.

Can't be roller derby tough if you're a terf.

Judge halts New York county from enforcing trans athlete ban after roller derby league sues

The ban would have affected more than 100 sports facilities in Nassau County, just east of New York City.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Troubled by how many imagine Machado is a great hero because she's not Trump. She's a hard right former coup sympathizer who calls for military intervention & destruction of socialism. Her opponent, Maduro, is an awful dictator. That doesn't make her a dream, anymore than not being named "Trump."

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 2d

NOBEL PEACE PRICE COMMITTEE: WE GIVE THIS AWARD, FOR PEACE

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

María Corina Machado ©
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely mean this gently: if you've seen Ian Carroll, you've seen antisemitism. If you feel as if you haven't seen that in him, I'd suggest considering that maybe some more learning is necessary, as when any of us stumble across any bigotry we've unconsciously inherited.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Friend--hope it's ok to call you that, as we've corresponded a bit before--if you've seen Ian Carroll, you've not seen criticism of Israel. To him that's just a means to an end. Not one word of his hate is necessary to name Israeli genocide and oppression. It gets in the way. 2/3

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