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@adamleed.bsky.social
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Here for ME/CFS info. Fatigue & brain fog limit my interactions quite a bit. Love animals, the outdoors and happy stories, work in art department for photo and video production. Ceasefire in Gaza, open fire on CEOs. What Would John Brown Do?

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Adam @adamleed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Keep telling me this is a christian nation, convince me the god you believe in would be okay with this. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
nashvillebanner.com
Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A downballot race to circle for November: In a Harris +9 county in Maryland, far-right sheriff who boasts about funneling 2,000 people into deportation faces seeks a sixth term. I wrote about him, and ICE, and immigrant rights organizing, in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/frederick-co...
boltsmag.org
“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What do Papa Johns, Putin & a Dutch ship company have in common? One man: Tom Dans, chair of the US Arctic Research Commission. The role is typically held by science/public policy experts. That’s not Dans. We dug into how he could be leveraging the role for his own interests 🧵
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've managed to organise direct orders for The Wolf That Chews Rocks, which means you don't give a penny to Bezos, and it's a lot cheaper too. Go here and click the link. Or don't. I'm not your bloody mother, make your own mind up. russelljonesauthor.com
russelljonesauthor.com
The Wolf That Chews Rocks by Russell Jones
Dogs, science and chaos. Buy the illustrated hardback direct for £18.99.
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Adam @adamleed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Chappell Roan was right about everything.
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Christian Dawson @zeroand09.com · 14/09/2026
My mom is in serious danger of losing her home. I intend to keep that from happening. So, I'll draw custom art, she'll get the money, and everyone is happy. PLEASE SHARE ko-fi.com/c/e91f68d1ad
ko-fi.com
$50 Emergency Commissions
Commission available on Ko-fi.com
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why no bank holidays from now until Christmas? This is why.
Scene is a Victorian drawing room; a group of gentlemen is assembled for a meeting. At the front of the room, stood at a large blackboard, is SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, the inventor of bank holidays. The board has a calendar drawn on it. Also in the room is a SMALL DOG sat on the floor. 

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LUBBOCK:
And so gentlemen, I, Sir John Lubbock, hereby announce

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LUBBOCK:
The invention of ‘bank holidays’!
 
Legally protected days off work, for the whole nation to rest. 

AUDIENCE:
CLAP CLAP CLAP 

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LUBBOCK (marking days on the calendar):

My first two bank holidays shall be at Easter...
and then another straight after in May...

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LUBBOCK:
And then - what the hell - another one in May! 

And then one in August!

AUDIENCE:
Hurrah!

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
So many, Sir John?

LUBBOCK (grabbing him by the lapel, his face ecstatic)
Life is for living, man!

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
And then in the Autumn, sir….?

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[Lubbock looks sideways. He is distracted by the SMALL DOG. It has started scooting its bum across the floor]

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LUBBOCK:
Ugh. 

[his face has dropped, it's totally grossed him out]

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LUBBOCK:
OK that'll do

AUDIENCE MEMBER:
What? 

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Is that it? You’ve put loads in the summer…

LUBBOCK:
Yeah 

no more bank holidays till Christmas. 

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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Sir - have you just condemned future generations to long winters of unalleviated toil... because you saw my dog scooting its arse and it killed your vibe?

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LUBBOCK:
It's so gross 

AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Rollo can’t help it! 

[dog continues to scoot across floor]

[Ends]
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Police union in DC is speaking out against Flock cameras, but only because management was using them to investigate officer misconduct (possibly overtime fraud) 🙃 washingtonsun.com/metro-newsle...
The D.C. Police Union has joined the anti-Flock chat.

The group issued a press release Thursday sounding the alarm about the powerful cameras, which the Metropolitan Police Department uses to store license-plate information in a searchable database.

The union filed a grievance this summer, complaining that D.C. police managers had been misusing the tech. Union chair Gregg Pemberton tells The Sun’s Jenny Gathright that the department refused to investigate — so he decided to go public with the concerns.

“All I can tell you is that we discovered improper access or improper queries,” said Pemberton, who declined to share more details about what the managers were allegedly looking up in the Flock data.

A D.C. police spokesperson said the union’s grievance was over the use of Flock cameras in an internal affairs investigation regarding the misconduct of a union member.
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hi folks. Do you have any idea how isolating it is to be trapped behind bars? I know writing an anarchist prisoner is psychologically off-putting because what would you even say and it takes multiple steps (stamps, an envelope, etc) away from your computer. But PLEASE. I can make it easy for you:
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Bikini Kill @theebikinikill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you can't make it to the show you can still donate to their matching fundraiser here: donate2chirla.funraise.org/fundraiser/k...
donate2chirla.funraise.org
CHIRLA Community Aid
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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Data centres should pay ten times the consumer rate for energy. They should subsidise us, and not the other way around.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Flock taught cops how to monitor No Kings Protests, you can see it in this video. More here: www.404media.co/flock-taught...
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Astrid Meyer-Knutsen @astridmeyerknutsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Big article on research into postviral syndromes as #LongCovid and #ME/CFS. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes
Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I was nominated for an award and today is the last day to vote! Help me win and go vote for The Handbasket!
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026
So it's useful to talk about the specific ways in which this argument is dishonest because I think a lot of liberal and left-leaning people are very vulnerable to this rhetorical bludgeon—the idea that you should "listen to experts". But let's unpack what exactly Giggies here means by "experts".
SE Gyges : this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security professionals, you basically have to spit on expertise as a concept 


antivax movement but it's left coded and targets machine learning, artificial intelligence, and engineering fields
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Adam @adamleed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Liz Fried of Ann Arbor can suck it - balls n all.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 27/08/2026
Guys I hate to break it to you, but under capitalism, automation improves productivity but doesn't actually reduce the amount of time workers must work to survive. Instead, productivity gains are captured as profit. Only worker organizing will reduce our labor time. Yes, this applies to 'AI'
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Charlie Chaplin Working in Modern Times
ALT: Charlie Chaplin Working in Modern Times
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Adam @adamleed.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fuck it I'm voting for Hasan.
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Adam @adamleed.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Karen Bass would eat that burrito
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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
University Ghent suspends Nathan Cofnas over remarks about professor Arday www.belganewsagency.eu/press-releas...
belganewsagency.eu
University Ghent suspends Nathan Cofnas over remarks about professor Arday
The University of Ghent has suspended postdoctoral researcher Nathan Cofnas. He announced this himself on social networking site X last Thursday, and UGent has confirmed the measure.
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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The reason many lefties are mysteriously skittish about defunding the police once they acquire some power is that the police are lawless criminal syndicates with unlimited resources who are accountable to no one and have every incentive to take down the strongest threats to them through any means
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Adam @adamleed.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
james carville = sucka fucka dingdong. Same as it ever was.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Happy 8 years of Hell World. Here is a 50% off discount for one year of fantastic reporting and essays from an extraordinary array of contributors (and also my brand of horse shit.) What a gift for one and all! Thank you to everyone who has supported us. www.welcometohellworld.com/8-years-of-h...
announcement for first issue of Hell World
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/08/2026
"Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated [act of civic duty]." Blinding the cyclops, wrecking the panopticon. crimethinc.com/blindingthec...
valleynewslive.com
All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolen
Lost cameras valued at about $24,000
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Adam @adamleed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is another example of why "defund the police" is a moderate position. ACAB
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New: I spoke to Samuel Tunick, the man the U.S. is charging with allegedly wiping his GrapheneOS phone before CBP could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy.” www.404media.co/the-governme...
404media.co
‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to ...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 22/07/2026
This is a good time to learn about how the state uses grand juries to collect information with which to attack social movements and dissent in general. Here, you can read about how three people successfully stood up to grand jury indictments. crimethinc.com/resistgrandj...
crimethinc.com
Surviving a Grand Jury
Narratives from three people who successfully stood up to grand jury indictments: one who served jail time for resisting, one who went on the run, and one who supported a grand jury resister.
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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Alright vinegarettes! We got a big drop coming soon and we're going to be doing a little publicity around it. If you know anyone who might be interested in hosting our merry band of oft-do-wells on a stream, podcast, show, or battle arena, please have them reach out: fourthievesvinegar.org/contact/
fourthievesvinegar.org
Contact Us
Contact Us We don’t send a lot of newsletters and we don’t have chatbots - we prefer connecting directly. PLEASE NOTE: We cannot provide medicine of any type. If you are looking for abortion drugs, ch...
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Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE is murdering people in the streets and ADL is out here spending its resources trying to get journalists to attack DSA.
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Adam @adamleed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is mcconnell still dead?
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 13/07/2026
On July 13, 2019, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility in Tacoma, Washington. Everyone should read or re-read his final statement today: crimethinc.com/willem
crimethinc.com
On Willem Van Spronsen’s Action against the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma
We understand why Willem Van Spronsen decided to give his life to interrupt the violence that is perpetrated against undocumented people in the US.
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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
3 days left to save science from fascist takeover! Public comments are how we fight back, submit yours here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... @standupforscience.net has an awesome guide to help you write one: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... #science #savescience 🧪
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative
The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@spoonfulofhannah.bsky.social This woman, Hannah, is a chronic illness superstar (I post her stuff a few timess/week). She can't afford her meds that r @ the pharmacy. Please help her. She has always been so kind to me. CashApp: itsmeliz1129 Venmo: hannahliz1129 Paypal: hannahcampjohnson
Han 🖤 @spoonfulofhan · Jul 4

I need help to continue living. I’m severely sick and bedridden 99% of the time. I have epilepsy, severe ME, severe POTS, and an autoimmune disease. I’m trying so hard and have no where to turn.

CashApp: itsmeliz1129...

[Graphic with a purple background on the left and a collage of medical photos on the right.

The text on the left reads:
"SUPPORT NEEDED
I'm Hannah. I have epilepsy, severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), severe POTS, and an autoimmune disease. I'm bedridden 99% of the time, use a wheelchair, can no longer drive, and require constant medical care.
The cost of medications, specialists, hospital visits, food, and basic living expenses has become overwhelming. I'm working to reopen my small business, but my health has made that incredibly difficult.
Every donation and share helps me continue receiving the care I need. If you can't donate, sharing my fundraiser would mean the world to me.
CashApp: itsmeliz1129
Venmo: hannahliz1129
Paypal: hannahcampjohnson
GoFundMe below"

The photo collage on the right shows various images of a young woman in medical settings: lying in hospital beds, wearing a medical mask, with an EEG setup on her head, showing a scraped and bloody nose, sitting in a motorized wheelchair from behind, and sitting in a hospital chair with an IV.]
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alex @nonmodernist.com · 24/06/2026
i wrote about my friends, two of whom were sentenced yesterday to 50 years in prison each. hotel-florida.ghost.io/the-seeds-of... if you read it, or even if you don't, please donate to @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social
hotel-florida.ghost.io
The Seeds of Prairieland
The first time I met Savanna, Liz, and Ines, they gave me seeds for my garden. I don’t actually have a garden, but I love plants, and so I took the seeds in the hope that I’d get to plant them before ...
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Adam @adamleed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I thought he was dead until this popped up, another two days and I'll forget he's alive again.
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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Death Sentences 1-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley, murdered by police after his mother was mistaken for someone shoplifting diapers
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The lines are drawn: $30 million from AIPAC, Schumer and corporate PACs vs. Us, the People of Michigan, the UAW, the Nurses, and Bernie. It’s time to choose our future. Let’s fight.
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's my birthday! As your gift to me, please read this story I wrote about following Greg Bovino around.
thenation.com
Notes From an ICE Chaser
I followed agents from Illinois to North Carolina to Minnesota. To my surprise, they loved my coverage.
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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Maine! You have options! Join me in one of my final virtual town halls before the primary. Ask me your questions and hear about my platform and why I believe that I'm the best candidate to beat Susan Collins. See you there! #mepolitics andreaformaine.com
A flyer for Andrea's two remaining virtual town halls. One on Friday evening from 6-7pm and one on Sunday from 9-10am. Email laflammeforme@gmail.com to RSVP
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
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