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Lori Patrick Explores 🌎 @loripatrick.bsky.social · 10h

Newport Public Library 📚 banned books staircase. I identify as a library nerd 🤓
This speaks volumes to me. 🦋 📖 #booksky

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Stephen Anderson @stephena.fwrdaxis.com · 5h

Something to remember as President Trump will "declare this war to be over" later on today.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h

As hostages are being handed over to IDF, Israeli defense minister tweets about bombings to follow

Israel's great challenge after the phase of returning the hostages will be the destruction of all of Hamas's terror tunnels in Gaza, directly by the IDF and through the international mechanism to be established under the leadership and supervision of the United States.
This is the primary significance of implementing the agreed-upon principle of demilitarizing Gaza and neutralizing Hamas of its weapons.
I have instructed the IDF to prepare for carrying out the mission.

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Kari - 😷 Remember them ☂️ @kswenger.bsky.social · 5h

🤷🏼‍♀️? "The case involves Mr Singh using a public phone without paying. Court records show he served 10 days in prison and paid a $4,137.50 fine. The conviction has blocked his US citizenship."

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 6h

Paramjit Singh: Sikh man with brain tumour detained by US immigration

Paramjit Singh, an Indian passport holder, has lived in the US on a green card since 1994.

www.bbc.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10h

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10h

"Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers were warned in an email Thursday that not showing up to work during the shutdown “will not be tolerated”—while TSA officers told Forbes the memo’s partisan tone made them feel like they are being 'used as props.'” www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

TSA Officers Told ‘Illegitimate’ No-Shows During Shutdown ‘Will Not Be Tolerated’: Read The Staff Memo

TSA workers told Forbes the agency’s increasingly partisan rhetoric makes them feel like they are being “used as props.”

www.forbes.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

Police union leaders defending jan 6 after watching what those cops went through should have been the clarifying moment if nothing else (and there had been plenty before) bsky.app/profile/nota...

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 15h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Kari - 😷 Remember them ☂️ @kswenger.bsky.social · 6h

“...they were...threatening to shoot and arrest me, and not allowing the ambulance to leave the scene. This was no longer a safe scene, and in that moment, I realized that the scene had not actually been safe the entire time that they were blocking us from exiting,...we were essentially trapped.”

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 6h

Kristi Noem recently recorded a video blaming Democrats for the shut down.

Spokane Airport says it will not play the most recently delivered message from the secretary.

www.khq.com/news/spokane...

Spokane’s airport will not play shut down message from Secretary Noem in airport

SPOKANE, WASH- In recent months Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Nome has rolled out several of videos that have played in airports across the country.

www.khq.com

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 7h

They say he had “an interaction “ with the police, which could cover almost anything, including an officer asking him for the time. He has been transferred to Virginia, where he is sleeping on a concrete floor “with an aluminum sheet as a blanket.” His mother has not seen him.

He is THIRTEEN.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Curtis Morrison @curtismorrison.bsky.social · 7h

REWARD: $200 for Info About Darrell Issa's Shutdown Vacation
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REWARD: $200 for Info About Darrell Issa's Shutdown Vacation

On Friday, House Leader Mike Johnson explained that the reason he won’t call House lawmakers back to Washington until the government shutdown ends is that lawmakers need to be at home to help constitu...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 10h

I sometimes joke that I was trained by the jesuits.
As a punk rock dropout I met the bad-assed Michael Czerny who advised us about political organizing. He faced down death squads in El Salvador.
He married my wife and I.
He is the pope's right hand.
www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/meet-the-j...

Meet the Jesuit Cardinal Behind Pope Leo’s Social Justice Revolution

From drafting Leo's first apostolic exhortation to championing migrants and the planet, Cardinal Michael Czerny is shaping the moral heart of this papacy.

www.thelettersfromleo.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

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.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18h

NO SLOWING on the gun violence this week: there were seven separate mass shooting incidents in the United States where 15 people were killed and 48 were injured.

My Sunday recap covers this and all the critical legal and political details of last week: shero.substack.com/p/shero-on-s...

SHERO on Sunday

A lightning-fast rundown of the week's most significant political and legal events for October 6th - 12th, 2025

shero.substack.com

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Kari - 😷 Remember them ☂️ @kswenger.bsky.social · 13h

Police Who Tear-Gas Abortion-Rights Protesters Could Induce Abortion | Scientific American share.google/EjgR9RNokoiL...

Police Who Tear-Gas Abortion-Rights Protesters Could Induce Abortion

Tear gas is widely used by law enforcement, even though it may cause spontaneous abortion

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Kari - 😷 Remember them ☂️ @kswenger.bsky.social · 13h

"Many of these chemicals have been banned in active warfare by international treaties because they have been linked to a range of negative health effects, including blindness, glaucoma, and respiratory failure."
School of Public Health - University of Minnesota share.google/vfUhFvDDQY4j...

New study suggests link between tear gas exposures and adverse reproductive health outcomes - School of Public Health - University of Minnesota

In the wake of nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, anecdotal reports of irregular menstrual cycles emerged among

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15h

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

John Oliver rips presidential library loophole

Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 16h

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 1d

www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-taxp...

US taxpayers spent over $33bn on Israel's wars over two years

The hefty price tag amounts to US taxpayers giving each citizen of Israel about $3,400 since 7 October 2023

www.middleeasteye.net

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 1d

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Meet the Orbán Fans Hoping to Write Policies for Prime Minister Nigel Farage | Novara Media

Anti-woke academics, influencers and mining magnates are behind a new think tank making a plan for a Reform UK government. Sam Bright reports.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 20h

“In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished…No one at the Department of Correction was able to tell InvestigateWest how many sexual misconduct complaints had been filed against prison staff.”

investigatewest.bsky.social @investigatewest.bsky.social · 21h

Today we're excited to share a new series, Guarded by Predators, that we've been working on on for nearly a year investigating how sexual abuse by staff at Idaho's women's prisons has gone largely unchecked - www.investigatewest.org/guarded-by-p...

Guarded by Predators

A new series by InvestigateWest exposing rape and abuse by Idaho’s prison guards and the system that shields them.

www.investigatewest.org

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 19h

"'We don't have enough cops, so if they [National Guard] can be cops, I'm all for it,' he told the New York Times from aboard his private plane."

Another of SF's "good" tech CEO's sheds his mask.

Benioff says Trump should deploy National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce chief executive's comments came as he headed to the city to host his annual Dreamforce conference.

www.sfgate.com

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 16h

Great article with some onsite analysis of cellular signals indicating the use of cell-site simulators at ICE protests in Portland, Oregon

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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