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TACO🌮TACO🌮 loco @saltyvicki.bsky.social · 1d

"ICE Wants to Build a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team"
Thoughts?

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 13h

WTF: "An Education Department staffer told USA TODAY the agency laid off just about every employee who works to administer funding for IDEA, the primary federal law supporting students with disabilities. He was unsure how those programs will exist moving forward."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 13h

12 October 1940 | A German Jewish boy, Denny Deutsch, was born in Berlin.

In March 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Black-and-white photo of a young boy in a straw hat and plaid jacket.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 13h

When the concentration camps become forced labor camps the circle will be closed

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 3d

The Trump administration said Americans would fill farm jobs vacated by undocumented workers.

That's not happening, the Department of Labor now admits.

Trump's Labor Department admits that Trump's immigration crackdown is causing a shortage of farm workers

With fewer immigrant workers available on American farms, there is a risk of "supply shock-induced food shortages," the Labor Department says.

reason.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 20h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 12h

The dumbest possible people are making decisions that are causing incredible reputational harm to the US, and actual harm to its citizens.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

#MedicareForAll

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

ICYMI — Trump lied that Chicago had “4000” murders, when it’s projected to have 380 this year (way down from last year)

If it’s so bad there why does he have to keep lying about it?

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 12h

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12h

Y’ALL ARE KILLING ME

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 12h

Trump golfing today during the government shutdown

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 11h

three people were actually arrested by the cook county sheriff’s office, according to an updated email they sent out.

most of the 15 are charged with resisting arrest/obstruction of justice/disobeying a police officer.

these kinds of charges from protests are frequently dropped bc they’re bogus.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 14h

illinois state police arrested eight additional people at broadview tonight for a total of 15 people arrested today, per an update from cook county sheriff’s office.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 12h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

Utterly evil

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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

Reese Witherspoon on Diane Keaton hiring her as a fresh-faced girl from Nashville. #RIP

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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africanspacechrist.bsky.social @africanspacechrist.bsky.social · 9h

This happened Saturday night outside the Portland ICE facility.

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Emtcub @cumpigcub.bsky.social · 9h

Clifford Paguio Photography

Keep Portland Weird

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9h

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
trib.al/KhKsfSb

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