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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 6d

today @governor.ca.gov signed AB 715, a censorship bill that will punish educators for calling israel’s 2 years of genocide what it is…a genocide. he did this despite opposition by @aclu.org and education unions like @cfaunited.bsky.social to pander to the israel lobby bc he’s for sale.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6d

Two years after Hamas' attack on Israel, California mourns the lives lost on Oct. 7th and in the days since.

Peace and healing will come only with the safe return of all hostages — and with real action from leaders to deliver the justice that everyone in the region deserves.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 15h

Proof that public outcry can still be helpful, if temporarily. The money was rerouted to the National Center on Deafblindness, who will then distribute to the other programs. But it is only one year's worth, so keep an eye on it.

Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 19h

U.S. Department of Education reverses decision and will fund programs for students who are both deaf and blind.

But the money will flow a different way.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

www.propublica.org

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 12h

how much state violence are we willing to accept?

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 17h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5d

It seems like a bad sign when they fire the people who tell the military what’s legal and what is not.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 6d

“[M]ilitary lawyers & legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army & Navy's top judge advocates…sets an alarming precedent for a crucial job in the military, all as…Trump has mused about using the military in unorthodox & potentially illegal ways.” 2/25/25…1/

'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears

Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...

www.military.com

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 13h

it should be #1

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

More info about the illegal firings at the US Dept of Education have been shared by the staff union with advocates.

Notably absent is the office that will implement the “Beautiful Bill,” which will significantly increase many student loan borrowers’ payments.

Full list of affected offices below ⬇️

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

how much state violence are we willing to accept?

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

are we living in ICE-rael?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

he’s the status quo+ liberal mascot

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Israel is retaining control of 58% of the Gaza Strip, including the majority of its farmland in eastern Gaza.

Western Gaza was largely built on top of sand dunes, as you can see from the aerial image in the post below.

ISRAEL'S WAR ON GAZA
Israel's withdrawal to the 'yellow line'
In the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan, Israel is set to withdraw its troops to the agreed 'yellow line' within 24 hours, after which a 72-hour period will begin for the handover of Israeli captives.

Israel retains control of 58%
of the Gaza Strip

[map of Gaza showing the area still controlled by Israel in yellow, with a yellow line surrounding the area in which Palestinians are allowed to reside]

eyal weizman @weizman... 1d g ...
This aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of Israel's redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east.
[B&W aerial image of Gaza showing a yellow line separating the area where Palestinians are allowed to reside in the west from the area in the east. Sand dunes are visible in the majority of the now built-up area for Palestinans]

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

like supporting genocide?

⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

it’s a protein land after all

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution.

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

moneyontheleft.org

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

⚠️ STATES, LOCALS, TRIBAL NATIONS, TERRITORIES ⚠️

HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk.

Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

us-ians, we worked and had our taxes taken for this.

Collateral Damage @coldamage.bsky.social · 1d

Khan Yunis, #Gaza.

When Germany did less than this to Warsaw, it led to the Nuremberg trials.

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

how much state violence are we willing to accept?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · 1d

I LOVE CICLAVIA

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 1d

how much state violence are we willing to accept?

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 1d

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2d

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 2d

grift and eugenics are the point

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 2d

Every English-language article about the Nobel: "Well-deserved win by brave freedom fighter!"
Every Spanish-language article about the Nobel: "Lmao remember the time she asked Netanyahu to invade Venezuela"