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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 19m

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 7h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6h

Censoring social media? Well I declare I thought the administration stood for free speech.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 12h

YO @cnn.com YO @npr.org YO @nytimes.com !!!

Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 12h

reading coverage of the ceasefire deal, it's not always clear where Israel got all those people from

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Al Jazeera: A total of 250 Palestinian political prisoners who are either serving life sentences or long sentences are being released from Israeli jails.

According to data obtained by Al Jazeera, all but nine of these prisoners are from the West Bank, and 157 of them are members of Fatah, the party that controls the Palestinian Authority governing parts of the West Bank.

Sixty-five are from Hamas, and the rest are from smaller political factions.

In addition, Israel will free 1,718 Palestinians who were, according to the United Nations, forcefully disappeared by Israel over the last two years of its genocidal war on Gaza.

Five of them are children under the age of 18, and two are women, according to the prisoner list obtained by Al Jazeera.

Most of the disappeared from Gaza were held in military camps, where dehumanisation and torture were rampant, according to international and Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups.

Palestinians were reportedly subjected to severe beatings, medical neglect, starvation and even rape.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“Total destruction”

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

“We hope and pray to God that this brings actual peace.”

Palestinian families told The Independent that soldiers had raided the homes of relatives on the eve of the prisoners’ release, warning them not to celebrate.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

‘All we see is destruction’: Palestinians fear the fragile ceasefire will not last

As aid trickles in, families reunite and people return to their homes, citizens of Gaza tell The Independent that they are still in danger

www.independent.co.uk

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 2d

CDC layoffs mean an even greater need for *neighborhood* public health and safety solutions.

“Aim to build communities of people with longstanding friendships and experience acting together” - @crimethinc.com

www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/05/i...

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

good morning. watch Reds.

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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 1d

Was my high school English teacher, the only class I attended.

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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 1d

AND see if u can count the # of times news outlets like @npr.org, @cnn.com etc. spk abt the 2k Palestinians in any detail AT ALL

Sudden Deth ☠️ @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting point on the language being used today. Israeli: hostage. Palestinian: prisoner.
2 thousand people, including women and children.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

The bbc focussing on what the ceasefire means for the hostages way more than what it means for Gazans, again seeing that disproportionately we’ve become accustomed to for years, this isn’t new, and it’s certainly not ok

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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✨Ki✨ ❤️‍🔥🎃 @roguetime.bsky.social · 1d

They’ve added a brass band.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Samhain Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who celebrates the release of a prisoner will be considered a target for "punishment and arrest" by Israel. Are you fucking kidding me?

Israel warns West Bank Palestinians against celebrating prisoners’ releases

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www.timesofisrael.com

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 2d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 2d

THIS:

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

Why Israel doesn’t let Journalists into Gaza yet? No excuses

Let the world watch what you have done

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too.
#NoKings
snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...

No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

snyder.substack.com

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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone else see Pibe to Tino Asprilla in that James to Lucho Diaz goal!?

Alguien más ha viajado en el tiempo con esa jugada de James a Lucho, viendo en su mente el Pibe a Tino?

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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty slimy how many national outlets ripped off @jael.bsky.social's big scoop on the Nevada solar megaproject's demise without crediting her or @heatmap.news.

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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 3d

at least they dont have beards amirite

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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