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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/12/2025
Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 21/10/2025
"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window
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US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say
A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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erinblackirish. @erinblackirish.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Tramell Tillman ("Severance") won the Emmy for best supporting actor in a drama series, becoming the first Black man ever to win in the category. It was the only acting field that had yet to honor a Black performer in the #Emmys’ 77-year history. variety.com/2025/tv/awar...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2025
NEW: The National Guard analyzed its mission and found it is perceived as "leveraging fear, driving a wedge between civilians and the military, and promoting a sense of shame among troops and the military." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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National Guard documents show public ‘fear,’ veterans’ ‘shame’ over D.C. presence
Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
ICE GOON wearing a Trump pin
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say
Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
ICE agent
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing
"Police" vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained.
According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members.
"I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: 'You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
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Leslie Mac @lesliemac.com · 26/08/2025
Not enough folks are connecting the attacks on labor organizing over the last 50 years to the moment we find ourselves in. Labor is now our ONLY organizing asset that still has power & possibility of turning this ship in a different direction
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
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Michael D. Baker @mikebakerlaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Federal prosecutors offered to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty to criminal charges, but threatened Uganda deportation if he refused. This is prosecutorial coercion & misconduct - using one legal proceeding to extort outcomes in another. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Wrongly deported migrant Abrego detained again, may be sent to Uganda
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Kilmar Abrego's arrest and said ICE is processing him for deportation to Uganda.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Israel murders four more journalists this morning in a strike on Gaza's Nasser hospital. Presumably Israel will tell us that Maryam Abu Daqqa was a Hamas commander too.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 25/08/2025
Here in Baltimore this morning, where clergy and activists have gathered in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is set to check in with ICE this morning. Heavy faith presence in addition to, just, a lot of people for 6:45am. Kilmar himself is about to speak.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/08/2025
Israel has destroyed over 1,000 buildings in Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods since its August 6 invasion, leaving hundreds trapped under rubble, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence aje.io/n9v0at
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in Gaza City: Civil Defence
Israeli attacks kill 51 Palestinians across Gaza, as Netanyahu’s government ignores international pleas to halt war.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per DHS & ICE sources, this afternoon, DHS notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s counsel via email that ICE may deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda “no earlier than 72 hours from now”, & ICE is also ordering him to report to ICE’s Baltimore office on Monday. Notifications below 👇🏻
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The company running license plate tracking cameras across Colorado has insisted that immigration agents don't have direct access. Flock now says they were wrong. CBP has access. (Using license plate info for immigration enforcement is prohibited by Colorado law) #copolitics
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alsblueskyacct.bsky.social @alsblueskyacct.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
www.404media.co/email/ab4940...
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Podcast: Why Are DHS Agents Wearing Meta Ray-Bans?
CBP's use of Meta Ray-Bans; the bargain that voice actors are having to make with AI; and how Flock tech is being essentially hacked into by the DEA.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Children. Injured children. Blocked from getting treatment and care here because a nutjob grifter who once got banned from Uber for harassing Muslim cab drivers is now arguably more powerful than the Secretary of State.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This is unconscionable. And illegal.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "It's the rule of Don, no longer the rule of law. And people need to understand the lines that are being redrawn in Texas are not about party. They're about power. And you've got to meet fire with fire and power needs to be asserted in blue states, not just red states."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
😳🥵 “‘How come I can’t breathe?'” Elon Musk’s AI company is “belching smog-forming pollution into South Memphis *** None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules.” 5/6/25
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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
You should be very concerned.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@marcelias.bsky.social: "I want everyone to pay attention... Trump is laying the groundwork to steal the 2026 election."
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
New York has entered the chat 💬
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Cory Booker (D-NJ) voted against Bernie’s resolution to block sales of assault rifles to Israel. This year, Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old from New Jersey.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
BREAKING: In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote to Stop Arming Israel 26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every Republican present. Here are the details, from Prem Thakker:
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BREAKING: In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote to Stop Arming Israel
26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every Republican present. Here's how the vote went.
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alsblueskyacct.bsky.social @alsblueskyacct.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's time to march for humanity on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Please sign 🙏 www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/al...
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Allow the March for Gaza on the Sydney Harbour Bridge!
Israel's deliberate starvation of 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels. According to the UN one third of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have not eaten for days. 40,000 babi...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
If any of the dozens of congresspeople responsible for overseeing the Pentagon could say something, anything, that'd be great
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New: After Gaza aid flotilla volunteer & US citizen Christian Smalls was taken into Israeli custody, seven uniformed individuals beat him, choking him & kicking him in the legs, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. Smalls is co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union.
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Dylan Lino @dylanlino.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
University workers should sign this open letter against threats to academic freedom from the massively overreaching recs of the Antisemitism Envoy overland.org.au/2025/07/open...
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Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan - Overland literary journal
We, the undersigned university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of uni...
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 23/07/2025
BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
“Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die” - AFP. International media is barred from entering Gaza by Israel. The only ones who have borne witness are local reporters, 185 of whom are now dead. The last remaining, like all Gazans, are being systematically starved.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵
Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
21 juillet 2025
L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…
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Nazi Slayer @trumpisnazi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Israel has already killed all of these journalists
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)
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