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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 16h

They are doing what they do best, killing innocent people.

Jeff @justifiedmeh.mehcorp.net · 17h

Fucking ceasefire violations already. Couldn't expect Isreal to honor their ceasefire. Killing civilians again this quick. They couldn't hold back their bloodlust for long, huh?

www.palestinechronicle.com

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 16h

#cancersux

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

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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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 7d

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 7d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 7d

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 7d

Netflix needs to pick up this show

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 7d

I've never watched #LoveisBlind but my loctician had it on so I watched 3 episodes. And all of these people need to be in therapy and not on TV. The producers are more focused on creating drama than couples.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

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Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 8d

*increasingly violent

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve thought about this a lot. We’re back in the 19th century: “Show me your walking papers.”

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9d

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE is] just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. I don't know about you, but I don't carry around papers that say I'm a U.S. citizen. So U.S. citizens are getting detained and arrested."

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 12d

Birds of a feather...

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12d

Trump’s former “spiritual advisor.”

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12d

Under the most conservative estimates, according to NPR, Israel has killed a Palestinian every fifteen minutes this year.

EVERY. FIFTEEN. MINUTES.

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 13d

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 13d

Viewers are going to stop contributing if they continue bending the knee to this administration

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 14d

Not yesterday. Not today. Not tomorrow.

Author Alexis “AC” K. @acknight3.bsky.social · 15d

I have no interest in finding common ground with people who would hang me from a tree given the chance…

a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting in a car with her mouth open .

ALT: a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting in a car with her mouth open .

media.tenor.com

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 15d

Quite a satellite image this morning! 🛰️🌀

Clouds extend 1000 miles from #Imelda's center all the way into central Pennsylvania.

#Humberto continues to churn in the Atlantic.

Visible satellite image of the East Coast and Atlantic showing the two tropical system.

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 16d

Actually conversation between my sister and I this morning

KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 16d

Only in America can you say, “Did you hear about the mass shooting this morning?” and someone can reply, “Which one?”

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 16d

Today's moment of zen

tru @thetrudz.photo · 16d

Photographs of Black surfers at Huntington Beach. (📷 Allen J. Schaben) www.latimes.com/california/s...

“Professional surfer Cherif Fall, of Senegal, goes airborne on a big wave during a men’s surfing competition at the fourth annual “A Great Day in the Stoke,” a celebration of Black surf culture in Huntington Beach, on Saturday.”

Man on surfboard, wearing red and black, surrounded by ocean and waves.

“Friends celebrate with Nascimento, center, as she takes first place.”

Three Black women hugging and celebrating.

“Sidy Camara, of Senegal, celebrates winning first place in the men’s shortboard final.”

Young men carry one man on their shoulders as the crowd cheers them on.

“Ismailia Samb, left, and Fall, both of Senegal, congratulate each other after competing in big waves.”

Two men hi-five while on their surfboards in the ocean.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

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Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 16d

Safa Brown @safabrown.bsky.social · 17d

Love that for you

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