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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy in order to construct a sprawling network of migrant detention centers in Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Utah. A source tells CNN that facilities could hold as many as 10,000 people each.

Civil Rights Groups Demand ICE Stop Jailing Pregnant Immigrants Amid Reports of Medical Neglect

A group of civil and human rights organizations is calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to end the jailing of pregnant people and to immediately investigate reports of severe medical neglect...

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Rev. Robin Tanner @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 12h

Nov 7 the Supreme Court will decide whether to revisit same gender marriage and overturn marriage equality. Some of us are watching our life’s work dissolve. I am remembering what is NOT dissolving -our ability to organize, to show up, to be kind, to offer safety even if it risks our own.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23d

Justice Alito swears he isn’t trying to overturn marriage equality, while the Supreme Court just so happens to be looking at a case that could do exactly that. Kind of like how Trump totally had no clue about Project 2025, right? 🙄

Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage?

In 2015, shortly after the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, a local county clerk from Kentucky made national headlines when she refused […]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 14h

Educated minds for all Halloweeners 👻

A Halloween candy bowl placed on a doorstep, but instead of sweets, it’s filled with paperback copies of 1984 by George Orwell. A white sign above the books reads “ONE COPY OF 1984 PER CHILD” in bold black letters. The red covers feature an illustration of an eye, symbolizing surveillance. The humorous setup replaces typical Halloween treats with classic dystopian literature, suggesting an ironic “trick-or-treat for the mind.”

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Rev. Robin Tanner @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 2d

When an authoritarian is abusing so many federal agents against their own people that we need a guide to tell them apart, then you know we have a fascist coup.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

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Leslie Takahashi @leslietakahashi.bsky.social · 2d

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International Court of Justice: As Occupying Power, Israel Must Allow U.N. Aid into Gaza

The International Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that Israel, as an occupying power, must allow United Nations humanitarian aid into Gaza and may not use starvation as a method of warfare. In its ad...

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Rev. Robin Tanner @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 3d

After they shot a pastor in the face with pepper bullets and business leaders called Trump
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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Trump calls off federal deployment to San Francisco, mayor says reut.rs/4qnUZ4H

Trump calls off federal deployment to San Francisco, mayor says

U.S. President Donald Trump is calling off any planned deployment of federal agents to the city of San Francisco, the California city's mayor said on Thursday, citing a call with the Republican leader.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

They are firing pepper balls into the faces of clergy, again
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Jorge Bautista, a clergyman with the United Church of Christ, reacts after he was hit in the face by a pepper round from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent as protesters blocked the entrance to Coast Guard Island Alameda, where they are sent to as a staging area for a planned immigration crackdown, in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Alex Jones’s InfoWars is now part of the new Pentagon Press Corps.

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Rev. Robin Tanner @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 3d

From the sacred to the mundane…it’s organ tuning day at church….oh boy…

a dog is playing an organ in a living room

ALT: a dog is playing an organ in a living room

media.tenor.com

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Rev. Robin Tanner @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 3d

Define your red lines in this authoritarian coup. Get clear about them, your decisions and commitments. And then do not comply.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

A court could rule on legal challenges surrounding the National Guard deployments in the coming days. And, a new policy for Pentagon reporters has led many to turn in their press passes. n.pr/4o1G1j7

Court to rule on troop deployment. And, a new Pentagon press corps emerges

A court could rule on legal challenges surrounding the National Guard deployments in the coming days. And, a new policy for Pentagon reporters has led many to turn in their press passes.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 4d

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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Leslie Takahashi @leslietakahashi.bsky.social · 4d

We cannot lose our science. It is essential to our future.

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Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 4d

More than 150 Catholics, including religious sisters, brothers, clergy, lay people and students gathered outside the Delaney Hall inmigrant detention center in Newark this morning for a powerful prayer and blessing.
Thanks to Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace for the photo.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4d

Here’s what’s at stake in the shutdown:

If Republicans get their way, 50,000 Americans will die unnecessarily every year.

15 million will lose their health care.

20 million will see their premiums double.

All so they can give a trillion dollar tax break to the 1%.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d

Trump has believed, since his first term, that the U.S. treasury is his personal piggy bank (as he did with his personal charity). The entire purpose of his presidency is to funnel as much of it as he can to himself and his family

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d

We are being erased in real time, our history, the laws created to protect our status as citizens. Emboldened white supremacists disparage us openly & on TV.
The President calls us low IQ.Our Dad & Moms are being kidnapped by ICE in front of their children.
We will not ignore a Nazi tattoo. No.

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Leslie Takahashi @leslietakahashi.bsky.social · 4d

Not again. Not on our watch. End child detention by ICE.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: The Trump administration is targeting children of color

Instead of policies that reduce crime, we get rhetoric of locking up 'bad children.' It's counterproductive and expensive, and it distracts from real solutions that were working before Trump cut their...

www.latimes.com

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Rev. Robin Tanner @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 4d

Love mercy enough to speak truth
Love mercy enough to give rest to your worthy being
Love mercy enough to see in one another possibility
Love mercy enough to know in your bones
That even the seeming extinguishing of the light is
A call for genesis
Growth
And rebirth
In the gift of darkness.

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Rev. Robin Tanner @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 4d

North Carolina is the most recent site of attack to steal representation from the people, specifically Black voters. It is the same playbook they used a decade ago. Stop the votes, take away healthcare, divide the people www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

As GOP focuses on redistricting, NC Medicaid deal to reverse cuts remains elusive

By late November, when lawmakers are next expected in Raleigh, most providers — and their patients — will likely feel the effects.

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Rev. Robin Tanner @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 4d

Blocking the votes they don’t want…and the will of the people

NPR @npr.org · 4d

Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva has still not been sworn in four weeks after her win. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing House Speaker Mike Johnson, citing “taxation without representation.”

Arizona Attorney General’s Office confirms lawsuit against House Speaker Johnson

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Rev. Robin Tanner @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 5d

Look, I think it’s atrocious to rip down a bldg for a ballroom in a shutdown AND imagine the photo of the burial plots if 17 million Americans lose health insurance by 2034, which is the impact of these cuts. #healthcareIsAHumanRight