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seosamh.bsky.social @seosamh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s disturbing that the media has moved on with this story.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026

People really don’t comprehend that I don’t want my ideological enemies harmed. I’m perfectly content with them being unable to harm me. It’s telling. But personally I just don’t have any interest in committing my energy to that & I’ve peeped that the people who do can’t muster genuine smiles.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)

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NE Lake County Illinois Indivisible @nelcil-indivisible.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

zurl.co/KhtzX Transgender Day of Visibility Demonstrations Saturday, March 28 2026 Lake County No Kings Protest Sites Come out and show your support - tell Lake County that we support our transgender sisters, brothers and others! Register so that a flag is available for you at the protest site.

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LGBTQ Center Lake County - Transgender Day of Visibility - March 28, 2026

There is no doubt that recent efforts to erase trans* identities have had a massive impact on the well-being of the entire LGBTQ+ community. This is your chance to stand up and show that trans* people and their allies are welcome in communities throughout Lake County!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The request includes a declaration from a witness who filmed today's shooting of Pretti. Read their words: "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.

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 26 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 28. 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.

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Annie loves Mpls @anniekp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.

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Major League Bitch (she/her/Sith) @hooray4kaiju.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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Kindness Inc. (Antoine) @kindnessinc.music · 22/11/2025

Germany didn't remake the Gestapo in 1945. It doesn't need to be remade, it needs to be abolished.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to. Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller

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Trump and Mamdani giving the country a vision of what bottom v top rather than left v right politics could look like is, if not historic, a genuinely novel development
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group.

Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street.

None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier.

“I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/03/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that - “

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes -“

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/11/2025

"An eye for an eye" is carceral thinking. You don't have to respond to every slight or insult. Sometimes it's based on legitimate concerns, and we have to sit in discomfort and realize that. Sometimes it's not, it's just anger and fear coming out sideways from an otherwise good person who's fed up.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/11/2025

I will also add: I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.

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Whichy / Alyse @alymid.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

What the fuck @schumer.senate.gov ... We won, now we concede? Who taught you how to play?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has: -Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks -Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise -Made the largest cut to SNAP in history -Canceled the annual food security survey Shameful.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I've got nothing witty or insightful, just this -- fuck Musk. Just, fuck that guy. Wotta asshole. Saying it while we can. Everybody on earth would have to say it 125 times to equal his salary. I dunno, maybe worth a shot.

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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Ellis: "This is the Chicagoland I see. From Aurora to Cicero, and Chicago to Evanston to Waukegan. This is a vibrant place, brimming with vitality and hope. Striving to move forward from its complicated history."

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.

truthout.org

When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence”

No one should be caged, tortured, detained, or deported by the state — all carceral violence is done wrongfully.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 23/08/2025

I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I'm still thinking about this. There is SNAP fraud, but it's not recipients doing it, it's every corporation that doesn't pay a living wage.

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AuroraPeachy 🍑 @aurorapeachy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Amen amen amen! Ride the high of tonight’s victories straight through November 2028 and beyond. STOP giving life to the nihilists among us. F*ck that noise.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I know we're all watching election returns but don't let this get lost in the mix: the Heritage Foundation is calling on the HHS to conduct a 'safety' review of oral contraception jessica.substack.com/p/the-group-...

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The Group Behind Project 2025 Wants RFK Jr. to ‘Study’ the Pill

11.4.25

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

If we get a lot of good news tonight, enjoy it AND remember that this is what we're seeing when low info folks are really only just barely starting to grasp what exactly the regime is up to

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/11/2025

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/11/2025

For the life of me I will never understand, from a historical perspective, how Republicans took the color red for their visual brand, that said, the fact they did certainly gave new life to the phrase "better dead than red"

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New awareness campaign

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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Ah...so we really are moving to the "slave patrol" portion....great.

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Proton @proton.me · 31/10/2025

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 31/10/2025

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/10/2025

9. The only way forward is to stand unapologetically on principle—as Andy Beshear did in Kentucky, citing it as the very reason for his success—not to chase the approval of consultants who mistake cowardice for strategy and appeasement for leadership.

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Opinion | I’m the Governor of Kentucky. Here’s How Democrats Can Win Again.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I checked out the link and it's legit. If you need help, this could be a good place to start. via White Rose Resistance

If you need help finding food banks or other kinds of emergency aid go to findhelp.org

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