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ComradeCamera @comradecamera.bsky.social · 8h

October 2025

CBP Blackhawk, in blackout mode, flying over Portland, Oregon, USA.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 9h

Immigrants stole all the Portland calculators

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 9h

The narrative can never fail; only be failed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 11h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 9h

ICE is marking homes the way the Nazis did!

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 11h

There were so many naked bike riders @bikeportland.org reports in the thousands of riders.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 10h

Posted without comment

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

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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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Cascadia Now Illahee Forever @redcascadia.bsky.social · 18h

Medically experimenting on disabled people and puppeting their body to promote your fascist AI is some indie sci-fi movie shit…

A lifetime of hard labor could not make up for such sin.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

www.technologyreview.com

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War-ravaged hellhole Enthusiast @unlawfulassembler.bsky.social · 18h

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Look inside Tacoma’s ICE detention center, where you could be kept for days or years

Conditions inside Tacoma's Northwest ICE Processing Center have been a mystery for many. In new interviews, people formerly held there reveal what life is like.

www.seattletimes.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 18h

No. No. No.

(Nothing against Steven, I used to do this too until I learned that it was a bad idea.)

Swim goggles hit by a projectile (like a tear gas canister or pepper ball) can direct force to the area around your eyeball and pop it out of your skull.

NOT desirable.

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 19h

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

Eric Andre asking Mel B if Margaret Thatcher had girl power

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 21h

I'm loving this Pope.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories!

On X, 15 people replied to the same query.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18h

Consider investing in a Faraday Pouch if you haven't already. Remember: they can track you even if your phone is off if they really want to

(Source: former SIGINT)

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 20h

his state police are beating the shit out of anti gestapo protesters while he's on tv. democrat politicians are not opposed to fascism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 19h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Cascadia Now Illahee Forever @redcascadia.bsky.social · 18h

These are the most powerful people on earth and they are publicly failing at reading comprehension as a hobby.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 19h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Cascadia Now Illahee Forever @redcascadia.bsky.social · 19h

Let’s let people openly declare themselves antifa w/o um-actually-ing them every time they post some cringe WWII meme.

When people say “yes, I hate fascism too” our response should be excitement not gatekeeping.

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Cascadia Now Illahee Forever @redcascadia.bsky.social · 19h

The US was certainly not in love with the idea of helping the Soviets. But to say the eastern front was decided by the time the US entered is bonkers. The battle of Stalingrad started after Pearl Harbor…!

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