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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 7h

We need more people like this, people that are willing to stand up for those being targeted.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! This is New York City. No ID, not identifying himself, attempting to abduct a passenger... Who TF are these Nazis?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Robert De Niro: "We've had 2 and a half centuries of democracy. We've fought in 2 world wars to preserve it.
Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away. Fuck that." De Niro is asking people to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th.
#NoKings

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 7h

This is brilliant! 🐸🐸🐸

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 17h

A message from the frog resistance
youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 8h

kermit the frog is sitting on a railing with the words `` in jesus ' name , amen '' written on it .

ALT: kermit the frog is sitting on a railing with the words `` in jesus ' name , amen '' written on it .

media.tenor.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

STATEMENT — PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION on Secretary of War (on Journalism) Hegseth revoking credentials because they won’t agree to a new draconian policy where he controls everything they do: “violates the first amendment.. a concern to all”

As we send them $1 TRILLION yearly🤔

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 14h

The moon looks cool right now…

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 17h

This is utter madness.

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

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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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 17h

This country needs a plague of frogs! 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 19h

We are going to close tonight with another Onion article that has more facts than the New York Times.

Good night all 🌌

The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

Wait. We get paid?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Sean Duffy says the No Kings protests this Saturday are “really frustrating” because they are all paid Antifa people.

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 23h

People, you are capable of going to the store without bringing your pet, your golden retriever does not need to shop at Target.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkable effort to note where DC neighbors are being grabbed by ICE

CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 3d

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 1d

It is hard to find the words for how messed up this is. This poor family, Lord have mercy.

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.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

"I love you, and you are more important than any other asshole sitting at this table."

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The Family Stone (2/3) Movie CLIP - This Isn't Coming Out Right (2005) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 2d

This!

Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 2d

When feudal kings talk about "Antifa" or the "radical left," these are euphemisms for Americans who kept learning after high school and developed a positive vision for how our society could be, and these kings are insecure that if this vision spreads to more people, it'll manifest into a reality.

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Rhymers gonna rhyme @rhymer29.bsky.social · 2d

Rebrand😉🐸

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

I love this image.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 3d

JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME. BEARING WITNESS IS NOT OBSTRUCTION.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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