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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1h

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end

‘If this is happening to me, a U.S. citizen, what are they doing to the other individuals?’

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 1h

They’re also a terf.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2h

"More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect"

More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect - News From Antiwar.com

Rescue workers in Gaza have recovered more than 200 bodies of Palestinians killed by the IDF from the rubble and from areas they were previously unable to access since the ceasefire went into effect o...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 4h

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 1h

as a less essential Link, i second this

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2h

Bluesky is broken because the main Link is missing

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 2h

I have been watching the devastating videos from friends and colleagues. Some folks are still missing in cold waters. The few news and info sources for locals are also the same ones being cut by federal funding. People should know this is happening

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 2h

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

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Vlad @ Vertvolta Press @vertvoltapress.bsky.social · 2h

Coolcoolcool

WIRED @wired.com · 3h

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 2h

I was thinking about Nicole tonight because she also did mutual aid. I remember once I got let go when a restaurant I worked at closed right before rent was due, and she literally kept me in my apartment. I was just a person she sort of kind of knew on Twitter.

Miss her energy. A good take.

Drunk On Mystery @drunkonmystery.bsky.social · 7d

This was doubly weird, because Nicole Cliffe was basically the platonic ideal of that-era Twitter account.

An incredibly wealthy elite who was smart enough to act occasionally embarrassed about it, and who was also sort of insane but in a fun, rather than violent or scary, way.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7d

I remember people went absolutely ballistic about this and it was partially why Nicole Cliffe left Twitter. It's kind of infuriating how people lost their damn minds about it. (Also, remember when people thought a Nigerian fan of Buttigieg was a sock puppet account?)

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 2h

The director says he’s intent on finding a way to wrap it up, but how? 😭

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Spooky Sauce @cloverheartquake.bsky.social · 9d

Daniel Arthury, "Where's my Breakfast II," 2025.

a painting. a black cat sits in the lap of a skeleton. the cat is meowing.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 2h

extremely mad that the show of my heart, 30 Coins, did not get a third season from HBO

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 3h

yep

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 3h

There's! a! new! Virago! edition! of Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming next spring with a new introduction by @samanthashannon.bsky.social — and of course blurbs from @amalelmohtar.com, @hollyblack.bsky.social, & @ursulakleguin.com.
(I'm yet to find an artist credit for the fabulous cover.)

Travel Light: 'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3h

By their own teachers, professors, schools and universities.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 5h

“empire of borders” is very good on this point for anyone who has not read it

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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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 5h

I watched season 3, then, in a state of deep suspicion, so should rewatch with more patience—found the series finale genuinely moving

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 5h

I remember at least one fabulous ep, but yeah, I got angrier & angrier

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 5h

Sahar’s account has been deleted again, in less than a day.

Please follow her and donate to help her son Odai ♥️

saha-rajrami.bsky.social @saha-rajrami.bsky.social · 9h

Did you all forget about Odai?
Odai was injured by a quadcopter over a year and a half ago.
Since that day, his life full of pain, inflammation
He still can’t walk normally, and his medications have run out.
Everyone moved on
but Odai is still here, suffering in silence.💔
tinyurl.com/HelpSaharsFa...

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 5h

2 is so, so bad.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 6h

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5 and Odd Jobs” includes a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” written about a deportation flight crash that killed 28 migrant farm workers in 1948.

🎶 They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves 🎶

Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs on vinyl

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 5h

Back in 94, I went into a Borders Books in Ann Arbor to look for reference for a complicated Hawkman panel background. The bookseller I talked to couldn’t help me, but we wound up becoming friends & she introduced me to Sara who, three years later, I married! #lieberAMA

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 5h

What is your favorite panel in anything you've worked on, and why?

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Prism @prismreports.org · 5h

“We have seen pigeons fall from the sky, shot down by drones. My nephews & nieces cried over them as if they had lost loved ones.” In Gaza, survival means union—even across species. We're bombed together, starved together, displaced together. We do not abandon each other, says Hend Salama Abo Helow.

Israel calls us “human animals,” never understanding that our bond with animals is the deepest proof of our humanity

Like all of us Palestinians in Gaza, our animals have been displaced, starved, bombed, and terrorized, yet we refuse to abandon each other

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