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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🔥 @anandwrites.bsky.social on Bill Maher: “Cities are unfairly labeled. A large % of (LGBTQ youth) homeless who end up in cities were failed in other parts of 🇺🇸 . Many families choose a verse in a Book over their child… cities are holding a lot of people you failed to love & take care of.”

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wilber was finally able to undergo surgery on Thursday—11 days after he was shot. “When ICE can shoot a man in the back and then barely give him any medical treatment and let him suffer, there’s a reason for that because we have gotten to a point where we see people as less than human.”

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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent

The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I saw the movie piranha when I was way too young and for years was convinced they would swim out of the filter in our swimming pool and eat me

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He knows they do plan to get pregnant and that pregnancy post Dobbs can be a death sentence, and it’s pretty reasonable to plan your life around whether or not getting pregnant might mean you die if you need an abortion! He just thinks women should never have an abortion, even death is preferable.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s like Brazil saw what happened in the US and thought, or we would want that! Or, if that sounds improbable, billionaires Thiel and Musk are buying elections across the world to dismantle nation states to create crypto fifedoms.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You mean Hitlers favorite film actress and his frequent dinner guest?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wilber Garcés Pérez appeared in federal court in Austin on Wednesday in a wheelchair, still carrying the bullet an ICE agent shot into his back. The Venezuelan DoorDash driver was denied bond on September 30 after being charged with one federal count of assaulting, resisting, interfering

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Stephen Miller is a white supremacist who does not view these children as human. He does not care if they are traumatized, trafficked or killed.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He should down in history as a mass murder for gutting USAID and killing millions

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh they won’t exclude the HBCUs and African American/ Hispanic serving colleges. They believe in a segregated military officers will come from White Christian schools, and cannon fodder will come from the black/brown schools.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Over 25,000 people have been deported to countries other than their origin. Often without documents, once leaving US custody they are removed from records, and some are imprisoned when they arrive and no information given out. This is enforced disappearance. forbiddenstories.org/the-deportat...

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I support their wage increase but their burger hasn’t been $1.80 for awhile now- at $2.50 it’s still cheap tho!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Legal immigrants have and are bing kidnapped, beaten, forced onto a flight in shackles and strait jackets, stripped of identity documents and abandonded in African states deemed too dangerous for American citizens. We must bring them back to the US for due process www.latimes.com/world-nation...

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‘I’d rather die here than in Africa’: Migrants describe violent deportation flight

More than 25,000 people have been expelled to 'third countries' under Trump, including to dangerous and conflict-ridden nations such as the Central Africa Republic.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In small towns and suburbs across the US regular people going about their business are being disappeared by ICE/DHS/police and placed in concentration camps or deported to countries without documents where they don’t know the language or the people and are imprisoned or tortured.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This a good comment. I grew up half Mormon. The best remedy is to be polite and kind. Sometime I even offer them a pop. I do tell them not to return it’s not worth their time, I am a very content atheist, and time is God’s most precious gift:)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wonder if his previous marriage was for Turkish oligarch family consolidation, she realized he was gay and dissolved the marriage, and now he needs a new beard and pays Alina handsomely for it

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In case anyone doubted the end goal of ending access to birth control- conservatives are now using environmental laws to push that bc contaminates water I’m guessing their no interest in the levels of Viagra in drinking water.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It looks like they photoshopped out the wives?

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So the senior advisor to the First Lady’s program to empower women is….a man

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Charles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fields director at Starfire Sports, a beloved soccer complex outside Seattle that's hosted many US Open Cup matches over the decades, has been snatched up by ICE. Please consider helping him and his family if you are able.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How does this get 3 seasons and Ride or Die cancelled after 1?!

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICE is just as bad as it ever was, maybe worse, they are just fanning out, not acting as concentrated, to avoid counteraction or protesters

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you haven’t seen this great Canadian film called Brother, it’s about young men falling into caregiver roles. Set over time from 1990s present. Very good!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

cost was never a consideration

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/09/2026

As I was saying. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ICE kidnapped a man in front of his co-workers Sunday morning Sept 13 in Burlington Washington. ICE waited for the vehicle at a gas station before approaching the man, grabbing him from the vehicle and taking him away.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Love thy neighbor includes trans people

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The audacity of asking people to give away their rights. Just substitute any other class into the framing of “ we have to vote Democrat at all costs even if they take rights away from (women, black folks, Latinos, disabled folks,)” …say it’s not the same means you don’t see trans people as people

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But DHS has money for shock gloves and robot dogs for ICE

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect

Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everyone remembers where they were that day no matter their age

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was about to post this- it was a family members school and the kids were terrified. And that was last year before the high profile murders.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

I've been Black long enough to have at least some built-in 'yup, people be racist, and yet we move' defense systems But ngl shit can still sometimes be...jarring! Like seeing this, openly and shamelessly, and knowing Gorsuch had him in his chambers, and that he helps pick federal judges. Sickening!

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Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

These people are so joyless. WNBA are. Some the most fun games I’ve ever been to!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026

Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

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