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paleofuture.bsky.social
You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement
Two brothers killed in Israeli drone strike on Gaza
Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were gathering firewood at the time, their uncle said.
news.sky.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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wajali.bsky.social
"Mamdani's Masterclass at the White House: Mamdani just ran circles around MAGA and the Democratic Establishment."

Filmed the video right before boarding my plane and just wrote this while flying, but I had to get it out. Let me know if you agree.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/mamdanis-m...
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
it absolutely rules that the N&O is running, and promoting, this story. newspapers in any city ICE threatens should consider doing the same.
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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davmicrot.bsky.social
NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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jecboyle.bsky.social
Good news, but each of these folks will have to post a $1,500 bond. Please consider donating to our bond fund.
Judge orders release of hundreds arrested during Chicago immigration raids
Trump officials also cannot pressure detainees to agree to voluntary deportation while cases are pending, says judge
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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chasesolidago.bsky.social
THE PROPHESY CAME TRUE
ONE SNOWSTORM AND THEN...
Napoleon and his men starving in snow on wabash
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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imleor.bsky.social
Not that we needed more evidence that ICE is intentionally harming our communities, but if the alleged point of their actions is in the name of public safety it’s wild that the governor has to ask them to pause what they do so *children* can celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos
Feds Won't Pause Immigration Blitz During Halloween, Día De Los Muertos, Homeland Security Boss Says
During a news conference Thursday, Gov. JB Pritzker slammed federal agents' targeting of people without criminal records and using tear gas on neighborhood streets.
blockclubchicago.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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khrisnin.bsky.social
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
mshanahan.bsky.social
This is a wonderful thread.

Parents, raise your children to be a Derek Guy, and never a "JD" Vance.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 30
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
mshanahan.bsky.social
I don't have a gift link, but the headline says it all: John Kirby, aka the Baghdad Bob of the Biden admin's support for the Israeli Gaza genocide, is going to lead the U of C's Institute for politics.

www.axios.com/2025/10/20/s...
Scoop: John Kirby to head UChicago's Institute of Politics
Kirby will move to Chicago to head the nonpartisan organization, which was founded in 2013 with the aim of fostering students' "passion for public service and active engagement in our democracy."
www.axios.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.
cmgiulini.bsky.social Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · Oct 12
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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gwensmith.com
Fuck, man. This is water in a desert.

Thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. I’m rooting for you.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Oct 11
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.
radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Oct 5
If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · Oct 5
the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.
October 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ultralaser.bsky.social
terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.
October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 30
Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
The point of recognizing that the main power we have is speaking as much as possible with precision & accuracy is to set us free from calculation: the BS that ranges from online performativity & machismo to spin to the fundamental violations of human solidarity urged by the consultant class.
September 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
jolly_good_ginger Retired Army Vet Dropping Facts
September 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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drrenemd.bsky.social
He's doing such a great job "protecting" 🇺🇸, ain't he?

To the 🇨🇦 tourist: we love you. He doesn't represent all of us.

REPOST. PLEASE.
September 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM