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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12m

How do I make Justice Kavanaugh watch this?

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Bynum Demands End to ICE Raids After U.S. Citizen Allegedly Abducted by Masked Agents

Bynum compares ICE’s conduct to U.S. Marshals hunting down Black Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act.

www.wweek.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 41m

WSJ reports that Ghislaine Maxwell is treated like a VIP guest at a five-star resort in her new minimum-security Club Fed prison. She recently received a special visitor, and the entire facility was placed on lock-down while the guest was there so that no one could see who she or he was. Creepy.

Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell

The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.

www.wsj.com

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 18h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Raghad. Raghad is 22 years old and was finishing her studies to be a nurse. She wanted to go into nursing because her mother had a stroke that made her lose movement in her arms and legs. They are now displaced with her 10 siblings.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 39m

"Climate change could intensify favorable conditions for the species throughout the year and expand its geographic range. "

Good thing we're not doing anything about that either

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Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 45m

This sucker was on bed rest for two weeks bc he pulled his groin kidnapping toddlers.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 47m

Trumps head of operations for the war being waged in Chicago is openly trying to channel the supposedly masculine imagery of the Nazis

Make no mistake these domestic enemies waging war against the states are Nazis.

Bovino is really trying to sell its aesthetic now.

Bovino standing in a Trenchcoat in a hallway lit red. It’s giving Temu fascism.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 1h

Reminds me, as an Italian-American, that a lot of people escaped Mussolini, but a lot supported him, even here. Some of the origins of our modern national obsession with Columbus are directly from Mussolini propagandists.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Basu @basuwu.bsky.social · 1h

Was it this guy? He was itching so bad to shoot earlier in the day

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Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 1h

Fuckers dumb as dirt wish he wasn’t wearing a helmet

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Meg @givemeyourdoggo.bsky.social · 2h

It’s giving Peter Freuchen

Peter Freuchen and his wife. Peter looks enormous and is wearing an impossibly furry fur coat. His wife is dressed in a black dress and hat.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 3h

look at this absolute robber baron

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 7h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 4h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 1h

Read this piece. Made me cry just now.

Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you Diane Keaton, for your brilliant acting and for your animal advocacy. You spoke out for the Big Cat Public Safety Act, for dog adoption, for eating plants rather than animals. (PS- animals are not voiceless! They do express their wishes to live.) #DianeKeaton #animals #activism

Diane Keaton, actress and animal advocate, has died, aged 79

Fame, for Diane Keaton, was never an excuse to look away. In a profession built on performance, she turned her gaze outward—to the voiceless and the overlooked. While audiences remember her for Annie ...

news.mongabay.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1h

"F* them kids."
- Administration basically

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

they are not "trying" to exert influence, they ARE influencing elections already.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2h

FWIW ICE is probably the least accessible federal agency I’ve ever covered, and that includes the CIA.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 2h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

It was an honor to join Sunday services at the Historic Union Baptist Church in Harlem this morning. My thanks to Reverend Brian D. Scott for the conversation and welcome.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8h

Also seems reasonable to note the transparent racism is reacting to a protest about Palestine, in London with a call to deport Muslims (who may have nothing to do with either Palestine or London!) from the United States.

Racializing a religious identity so he can do racism to it.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8h

United States Congressman calls for the deportation of all Muslims from the US.

All Jewish groups should join together to denounce this.

Tweet from Congressman Randy Fine: "Muslims calling for the destruction of Israel — after the peace deal.

It was never about Gaza.

Why did the UK allow these demons in?

We must ban Sharia in the United States and deport them ALL before this becomes us.

Religion of peace."

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