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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 15h

Mutual aid and defense in Chicago 😍😍😍😍

Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE

Cycling x Solidarity's latest mutual aid effort takes cyclists on group rides through Pilsen and other neighborhoods to buy out tamale vendors so they can stay home as ICE agents swarm the city. They ...

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Amber R Cederström @kilravockrose.bsky.social · 11h

Wikipedia's far from a flawless source of knowledge, but it's indispensable for some things. Just donated.

Lulu NYT @lulugnavarro.bsky.social · 11h

Before the attack at a Wikipedia conference, I interviewed its co-founder Jimmy Wales about the challenges the site faces, among them from @elonmusk who calls it ‘wokepedia’. Wales’s response ‘ We’ll be here in a hundred years and he won’t. “ read more for free 👇🏽 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

NEW: Trump’s DHS appointees have:
• Dismantled civil rights guardrails,
• Protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks,
• Threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests & tactics.

By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

www.propublica.org

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Jen Rea @profjenrea.bsky.social · 22h

UF Classics is hiring an Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology. My colleagues are awesome to work with and I look forward to welcoming a new archaeologist to our department.
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

University of Florida - Details - Assistant Professor in Mediterranean Archaeology

explore.jobs.ufl.edu

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Amber R Cederström @kilravockrose.bsky.social · 21h

Excited to go to AFS! Not excited to get on a plane

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Remember our mantra:

Don't Engage, Just Block.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M flood protection grant for the area in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.”

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 1d

The very first issue of American Gothic Studies just published, and the article "Carrie at 50" is free to read through the end of the year!

Carrie at 50

Abstract. Fifty years after its publication as a novel, Carrie still manages to remind us of not only Stephen King’s importance as a novelist but also the value of reading the text and the film it…

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

"...this is how the Trump administration can ban birth control without making it explicitly illegal: they just need to make it impossible to get."

Trump Targets Birth Control With Federal Shutdown Layoffs

In the States

jessica.substack.com

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 1d

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

EMS called to ICE facility bc protestor has broken collar bone (!). ICE agents then refuse to let EMS ambulance leave. EMS driver puts ambulance in park, which makes the vehicle lurch slightly. ICE agent then get up into the cab threatening to shoot driver in the head
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 1d

30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

University Chancellors should receive the same salary as Senior Lecturers.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Amber R Cederström @kilravockrose.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t declaw cats

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO: “Feds chased a car through a residential neighborhood… intentionally crashed into the car.. responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying 3 rounds of tear gas with children & seniors in the area…” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Again, every time a Democrat gets in front of a microphone they need to bring this up.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

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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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 2d

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 3d

first time saying it publicly, but i believe a general strike is necessary. we need a real opposition party and leaders willing to organize and call for a federal tax strike. i don’t see any other way out of this.

you can’t confront extortionists with procedures and platitudes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Amber R Cederström @kilravockrose.bsky.social · 3d

Just emotional (and neck) support—she’s too old to go horseback riding 🤣

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