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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 38m

ICE arrested a cop--a white guy, even--for deportation in Chicago.

Probably offended he's not wearing a mask.

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ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

'Startled' judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes

A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 3h

If you don't know who Kilian Jornet is, you should. He just wrote new chapter in mountaineering history by summiting all 72 of the U.S.’s 14,000-foot peaks in 31 days. If that's not enough, he rode his bike to get from peak to peak.

72 peaks. 31 days. One mountaineering legend: Kilian Jornet's mind-blowing mountain marathon

Even the most experienced mountaineers are stunned that Kilian Jornet could climb so many 14,000-foot peaks in such a short time.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

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jordan from various blocks @jordandarkly.bsky.social · 3h

look you can't just declare yourself an ally, gender neutral boxes have to see you as such on their own terms

The Verge @theverge.com · 5h

Got any questions about the Xbox Ally? We're holding a special subscriber-exclusive AMA with PC handheld expert @seanhollister.bsky.social today at 12PM ET!

Ask away any time and we'll answer as many questions as we can at noon. We even heard @tomwarren.co.uk might pop in...

I just reviewed the Xbox Ally, ask me anything

Seriously, ask away!

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16h

"Jewish Americans told us —by a margin of nearly 3 to 1— that Trump manipulates antisemitism dishonestly, using it as an excuse to pause or cut university funding. Only about one-fourth of all Jews nationwide believe the president “truly cares about protecting Jewish students on college campuses.”"

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 16h

Commentary: A wide majority of Jewish Americans say President Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion — that it’s a thinly veiled disguise to justify his assault on higher education, as revealed by a national survey.

Professors: Most Jewish Americans believe Donald Trump is exploiting antisemitism to assault universities

A wide majority of Jewish Americans say Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion, as revealed by a national survey.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 3h

What a fucking horror show. "On the afternoon of January 2, a 26-year-old Guatemalan construction worker on a moped was pulled over by NYPD officers in a traffic stop." The result: he's been "locked up inside an ICE detention center for eight months and counting."

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/16/i...

An NYPD Traffic Stop, an Unregistered Moped and 8 Months in an ICE Lockup

ICE’s targeted arrest of a young Guatemalan man several weeks after the NYPD nabbed him for driving an unlicensed moped shows the extraordinary cost minor infractions can have under Trump’s mass-depor...

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jordan from various blocks @jordandarkly.bsky.social · 3h

axios an actual pillar of getting it wrong in the service of power

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3h

Very sad to see NBC Out go down. I know journalists who have worked there and it was home to some of the best in depth reporting on LGBTQ+ issues out there from a legacy media outlet.

Legacy media continues to abandon us, and it seems only we can tell our own stories these days.

Breaking: NBC fires teams of journalists focused on marginalized communities, axing NBC Out & NBC BLK staff

NBC News has fired journalists who reported on Black, Latino, Asian and LGBTQ+ communities.

www.advocate.com

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UNChamps @unchamps.bsky.social · 4h

Healthcare will present its own problems to the masses soon enough, people will see ramifications of that individually & be able to make their own conclusions. This however, needs to be repetitively presented to people that aren’t always online so that they can see exactly how big the problem is.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 5h

Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.

When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 5h

I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...

The Last Enemy Is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future

How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3h

Once again would like to remind people that Will Stancil once called me an anti intellectual

barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 6h

Wow!

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Jun 4

free yourself from the chains of taxonomy and stop identifying as the configuration in which you have intercourse as if it's a personality. you are not a top or a bottom or a switch. you are a daishō of Oda Nobunaga and the treacherous dog Akechi Mitsuhide has just arrived at Honnōji with his troops

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 6h

Why do US infrastructure projects cost so much & take so long?

Consider the Hudson rail tunnel:
1995—Studies
2009—Construction
2010—NJ Gov Christie kills it
2011—Project relaunch
2015—Fed support
2017—GOP Congress kills funding
2021/22—Biden funds it
2023—Construction
2025—Trump claims to cancel it

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15h

Trump announced today, seemingly at random, that he is cancelling fed funding for Gateway Tunnel, a tunnel for intercity & commuter trains under the Hudson River.

The motivation for the cancellation—which is likely to be contested—appears to be purely the president’s hatred of Sen Schumer.

Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 16h

"If this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and the economy of the country collapses." The most important economic development project in the entire nation threatened with cancellation: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 6h

Collecting the best examples (pejorative) of this genre to pull back out in a few years when the bubble has burst

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

By an entire parsec, the Trump administration has undertaken the most illegal set of budget actions in history. This is why we desperately need guardrails to restrain and go after budget malfeasance from the White House.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

Taken together with impoundments, this would break everything. The president is claiming the power to not spend money he doesn't want to and now also to spend money where it's not allowed. And SCOTUS might say no one has standing to stop him. That would make him an appropriations king.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13h

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts

Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

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jordan from various blocks @jordandarkly.bsky.social · 13h

what a stupid little weenie

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

"There is live-fire training with high explosive munitions scheduled on the following dates:

October 14-19, 2025 from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m."

Camp Pendleton on Twitter: ****NOISE ADVISORY****

There is live-fire training with high explosive munitions scheduled on the following dates:

October 14-19, 2025 from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.

This training may be heard anytime throughout the day or night.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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jordan from various blocks @jordandarkly.bsky.social · 14h

seems weird i don't think he should do that

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 14h

WHY IS HE SHOOTING MISSILES AT US???

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 14h

Newsom’s office told the Los Angeles Times that it has received reports that the White House is directing a plan to use Navy ships off the California coast to fire missiles into Camp Pendleton.

Newsom rips into Trump celebration plan to fire missiles over California’s I-5 freeway

Newsom’s office told the Los Angeles Times that it has received reports that the White House is directing a plan to use Navy ships off the California coast to fire missiles into Camp Pendleton.

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jordan from various blocks @jordandarkly.bsky.social · 14h

hello twitter refugees, the thing to know about bluesky is you should follow me, because i don't have "enough" followers and it Makes Me Feel Bad