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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 17m

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Machado, Trump, and the Nobel Committee’s Role in Erasing Palestine - A Prize for Peace That Refuses Justice Is a Lie | Countercurrents

Author’s Note This essay argues that the Nobel Peace Prize, in its current form, rewards imperial alignment while erasing anti-colonial resistance. Through recent examples — including the sidelining…

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 8h

Why wasn't this a bigger story? Odd

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

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Sleepless In America @sleeplessinamerica.bsky.social · 9h

This is something that, when I finally got around to reading it, I meant to just skim, and ended up reading all the way through. I would put this up with Adam Serwer's "The Cruelty Is the Point" article (archive.ph/NjiSx) as one of the key explainers of why things are so bad today.

Many millions of Americans love Trump because he routinely humiliates people. It validates their own actions. They live vicariously though him, imagining the humiliation they could inflict if they were given greater power. He also normalizes the behaviour. The symbolic power of having someone of his open sadism in the Oval Office is massive. It is changing our society, making humiliation much more acceptable, and corroding the norms that partially restrain humiliators.

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MariposaRosa @mariposa17.bsky.social · 15m

They shot him 5 times and kicked him in the head until he was unconscious…

Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 26m

This is a 12-year-old boy who was SHOT TWICE gathering food for his family and then BEATEN UNCONSCIOUS by Israeli forces in Gaza. He's just a kid. Soccer is his favorite sport. Lionel Messi is his hero.

A Palestinian child was being killed or injured every 10 minutes, according to UN agencies.

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 7h

The settlers’ 250 year colonial experiment takes a fascinating turn as they again entertain civil war rhetoric. The only mention of Native people is as an exterminated historical population. Ever amnesiac.

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

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.

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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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 7h

Justin J. Pearson, Tennessee state representative & U.S. House candidate, moves WCPT's Michelle Peltier to tears:

"We got to love this place because we built this place. Our ancestors built the White House & built the Capitol. We can't give up on this."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 16h

🍃 💥 🧪 Origami in Nature

Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 16h

Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds
🧪 #Scicomm #Nature
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Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds

Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 7h

This is what terrifies Trump.

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 7h

Brass band at a (peaceful) protest of ICE in Portland Sunday afternoon.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 8h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 8h

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 7h

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7h

Sassy Broadview bee.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

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Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 7h

That is OUR money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Rita Jane @blueeyedbaby.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr fired 1000 people from the CDC late last night.

He wiped out entire teams that investigate disease outbreaks, infectious disease responses, data collection, and more.

Yes, this should aIarm you!!!!

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 7h

The violence in Chicago has gone too far

Meatwad leading a group of people dressed in animal costumes, including a panda, a unicorn, a bee, and a fox.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

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.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 12h

Just about everyone vulnerable has been told to stay inside. There are literally hundreds of trained emergency response people on the streets of the 1.8 sq mile neighborhood. ICE is driving through alleys looking for anyone who’s brown

This is Fugitive Slave Act stuff + foreign occupation

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

Rogers Park

Northernmost lakefront n’hood in Chicago

Home of Loyola U (RIP Sister Jean)

One of few n’hoods w no racial majority. One of the most densely populated places in America, & one of the most racially/ethnicly/religiously/linguistically diverse

An amazing community

And under attack

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 7h

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What It Means to Survive

Money for jails and power for data centers; no money and no power for the people. It’s the Louisiana story, but it’s also the United States story.

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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 8h

🇺🇸 Um adolescente brasileiro de 13 anos foi levado pelo ICE sem o conhecimento da família em Everett, em Massachusetts. Ele foi transferido para um centro juvenil a mais de 800 km. Sua mãe soube da remoção horas depois e luta na Justiça pela libertação jnascim.info/everett-teen