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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

get in loser we’re hating leaf blowers

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

every month when we get our new books we look at her picture and say "thank you miss dolly!" she's like a minor deity in this house

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She wrote a handful of the greatest songs ever written, and the first thing so many people think of is not those towering achievements, but how good a person she was and how many people’s lives she improved

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

They arrested a mariachi band, bear sprayed an observer, and ditched an injured citizen at a hospital in the next town. “The ICE agents allegedly then performed donuts with their vehicles under the freeway overpass for about 15 minutes.”

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ICE Conducts Father’s Day Raids on Santa Barbara’s Westside and Eastside

An observer was reportedly bear-sprayed by an ICE agent and as many as 11 individuals, including a U.S. citizen, were detained Sunday morning.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Heads up to the moms whose SNAP benefits just got cut

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I say this as someone who loves the WC more than any other sporting event: every team should get on a plane home right now. Or all the games should be rescheduled for 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽. The USMNT should be disqualified now & suspended from the next WC. Or, we can start acting like a serious country of adults.

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

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Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

NEW: “Immigration authorities have detained a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old son at Washington Dulles International Airport for over a week,” per her lawyers. “CBP is holding [Anabella] Gyasi and her son in a windowless holding room, according to the ACLU.”

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Pregnant woman from Ghana detained with child at Dulles Airport, ACLU says

The pair had arrived seeking medical treatment and have been in a windowless room for more than a week, according to their lawyers.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 25/05/2026

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

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Josh @thejoshbaker.blue · 24/05/2026

Proof that god loves the Indy 500.

The radar at 14:00 for the state of Indiana on Race Day 2026. 2/3 of the state is covered in storms, including the northwest and southeast, but in between, over Indianapolis, the weather is clear and dry.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 05/05/2026

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🚨 🚨 🚨

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

the fuck am i supposed to say in therapy today lol

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/02/2026

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Experts have described Dilley as “a hellhole” and decried the lack of proper medical care. Court records claim food is filled with worms, and the water is undrinkable. As a result, reports have spread of children are hitting themselves in the face and wetting themselves long after potty-training.

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Josh @thejoshbaker.blue · 03/02/2026

Love to get daily reports of what the kid did at preschool today.

A screenshot of the "Tadpoles" app.

"Daily Report
2/2

Bathroom
9:15 AM - Pee"

And then the other 80% of the screen is completely blank. This is clearly a good use of everyone's time.

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Ben Gaines @gaines-law.com · 28/01/2026

Support for this group is vital to keeping our neighbors safe in Maine. We are already seeing families unable to make rent after missing work for fear of being snatched off the street. This is only going to get worse, and the groups on the ground doing this work in Maine do not have enough help.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“I don’t do politics.” Yes you do. Low wages? That’s politics. High prices? That’s politics. War? That’s politics. The world won’t spare you for not “doing” politics. Stay informed.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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The Appeal @theappeal.org · 21/01/2026

A record number of people died in ICE detention last year, @mludwig.bsky.social reports for @truthout.org Six more people have died during the first three weeks of 2026 alone. theappeal.org/ice-deaths-d...

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Deaths in Detention Warn of Horrors Behind ICE’s Prison Walls

At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025. Six more have already died in ICE custody during the first three weeks of 2026.

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Alicia Wilson Baker @aliciawbaker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

FINALLY A REPRIEVE FROM THE SADNESS OF INDIANA SPORTS 😭😭😭

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Alicia Wilson Baker @aliciawbaker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Nothing more entertaining than watching sporting events with your TV production husband @thejoshbaker.blue than when the people working the TV production mess up.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Delete Spotify

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

There is a faction of Americans who are fine with people being shot for disobedience to authority. The penalty for trafficking drugs is not death The penalty for resisting arrest is not death The penalty for disobeying law enforcement is not death The penalty for civil disobedience is not death

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My wife, a Minneapolis native, reminding me it's dead of night in Minnesota in January, below freezing, and there's thousands of people outside

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The Trump administration was comfortable murdering the white widow of a war veteran on a suburban street in broad daylight bc she wouldn’t move her car fast enough. Imagine what they are comfortable doing behind closed doors to everyone else. No one is safe here.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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HTTP 1.1/418 Eldritch Teapot of R'lyeh @rmd1023.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

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Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?
The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.
Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.
Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Perhaps an obvious point, but beyond a certain level of wealth, these numbers become meaningless. Those eight billionaires are mostly wielding political capital at this point; the bank balances are irrelevant. What this is a record of is therefore only what they *took* from everyone else.

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Alicia Wilson Baker @aliciawbaker.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

@vicmmic.bsky.social plz enjoy my bird Corky (2001-2022, RIP) on the second day of lockdown in 2020 giving into his inner demons (read: foot fetish)

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/12/2025

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

in 2026 i resolve to get even sleepier

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This entire weekend

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