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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 20h

It is short, bittersweet, irreverent and caustic. www.sup.org/books/law/wo...

The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told | Stanford University Press

When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?The story they have chosen to tell is wrong. It is time to tell a better sto...

www.sup.org

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 20h

There is a fascinating book that came out earlier this year called "The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told" by Keith Richotte, Jr. - all about how modern jurisprudence twists itself into pretzel-like shapes to avoid calling out and rectifying the past and ongoing racism in sovereignty cases.

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 1d

Dear one, the stories I have walking into stores full of tech as a black woman. One would think I was wearing a cloak of invisibility ... which is better than being accused of shoplifting (only once so far), but still.

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 1d

During CicLAvia yesterday I saw a bunch of people wearing medals and was surprised to learn that a 5K/rave hosted by Diplo was happening simultaneously in LASHP. All these streets were open to people — look at Broadway! — and it was fine.

Shouldn't we try doing this at least every Sunday?

A flyer for CicLAvia's Heart of LA event on Sunday October 12, 2025 from 9am to 4pm showing a map of the 7-mile route from MacArthur Park to Mariachi Plaza with a long spur up to Chinatown along Broadway in downtown LA

A map of the Diplo Run Club 5K course showing streets closed along Los Angeles State Historic Park and up into Elysian Park

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing.

undark.org/2025/10/09/o...

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NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation

The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.

undark.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 2d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

Gutting Musk’s "competition"

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 1d

Jay Gatsby's real secret wasn't that he had a Jewish background, it's that he's a biracial/light-skinned African-American passing as white.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 1d

Go on ...

a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

Alt: a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch grabbing a box of popcorn and lying back to enjoy some entertainment

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 1d

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an elderly woman is standing in front of a brick wall holding a hat .

Alt: an elderly woman is flossing (the dance, not the dental practice) in front of a brick pillar

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6d

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Library reorganized by color

Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Majority decision, Star Athletica.

Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Supreme Court granted cert

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 2d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Eli Edwards @misseli.bsky.social · 2d

#Ciclavia in Boyle Heights.

At Boyle & 1st in Boyle Heights, looking west towards downtown

Crowd enjoying Ciclavia at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 3d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 4d

When we defeat these fascists, ALL OF THEM need to be held accountable. No more of this shit we did with the Confederacy, Nixon, and bankers after the 08 crash, “It’s in the past” bullshit.

Accountability.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 5d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 5d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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