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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10h

Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/10/2026

Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026

Vote early and in person, folks. If you're in a "vote by mail" state and can deliver your mail-in vote directly rather than relying on USPS this year, do it. Otherwise get it into the mail at the earliest possible date. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?

Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2

Screenshot of database titled "Explore All Incidents Where Citizens Were Detained." Text below explains that this is every incident ProPublica could find in which one or more citizens were reportedly detained between January 2025 and September 2026. There are 506 citizens' cases in the database, and users can sort by what the incidents involve, where the incident is located, and the recency of the case.

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Government of British Columbia @governmentofbc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BC has a new time zone abbreviation: PCT. PCT stands for Pacific Time, BC’s single year-round time zone. It replaces PST and PDT, providing a consistent way to refer to BC’s time zone in schedules, systems and communications. No falling back this November.

An image of a BC coastal scene with text that says: "B.C. adopts new new Pacific time, PCT, for year-round daylight time zone." (CTV News - Sep 17, 2026.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A massive diesel spill at a New Jersey data center has dumped roughly 5,000 gallons of fuel into wetlands connected to the Meadowlands. Local officials say a “computer glitch” caused the backup generator system to keep calling for fuel. The diesel entered Anderson Creek,

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

PSA: Election officials in California, Oregon, Washington and elsewhere are telling voters if you can, return your ballot through an official ballot drop box rather than trusting it to the mail.

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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

Black Bookstore Day is today! “Observed on the last Saturday of August, Black Bookstore Day™ is a yearly call to amplify Black bookstores through programs, events, proclamations, intentional spending, and community investment.” 📚✊🏾 #books #bookstores #BuyBlack #BlackOwned #BlackBookstoreDay

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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

SAT, AUG 29: The inaugural Black Bookstore Day! Modeled on Independent Bookstore Day, #BlackBookstoreDay celebrates "Black-owned bookstores and the stories, communities, and cultural memory they protect.” 📚✊🏾 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief... #books #bookstores #BuyBlack #BlackOwned

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Inaugural Black Bookstore Day Set for August 29

The event, announced by the Black Bookstore Coalition and modeled on Independent Bookstore Day, will take place annually on the last Saturday in August, which is also National Black Business Month.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

If you never read my essay on guns in Black southern culture in @newrepublic.com I encourage you to read it now. I'm getting together a portfolio to submit to something & re-read it. It's super relevant for Black southerners now in the wake of our current lynching epidemic. @solomonrmissouri.com

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My Gun Culture Is Not Your Gun Culture

In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 27/08/2026

BILLS ARE DUE! Please boost!! I'm worried I won't be able to pay rent this month if I can't make more sales. If it's in your budget, please go treat yourself or a loved one to some beaded bling, it would really help me out. Shop my work → cvkvlv.com MVTO! (THANK YOU!) 🖤 Goal progress in comments

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 21/08/2026

My Ukrainian publisher Ranok asked me to pass along the news that on 8/1 a warehouse was bombed by Russia, burning about 8 million books, including the print runs of their translated Murderbot editions, + The Cloud Roads & Witch King. This really hurts the publishing house, and 1/-

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026

ProPublica reporter @maxblau.bsky.social spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him with a question: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem? Watch his quest to find the answer.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/08/2026

I'm a big fan of Upright Health (many of his mobility exercises have been EXCELLENT for me), but I feel like this video (with the accurate yet clickbait-y title) is something a lot of people might benefit from seeing.

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How to Stop a Fall from Killing You

YouTube video by Upright Health

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In a timeline where it is not always easy to stay, it is vital to look for reasons to stay 💚 My joy is partnering with Lilac Market Headbands for a headband collection inspired by books, belonging, the magic of you being genuine you 🥹 lilacmarketheadbands.com/collections/back-to-school-with-mychal

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12/08/2026

Do you have questions about Ebola symptoms, lab testing, waste disposal, or others? CDC has developed comprehensive webpages for clinicians and public health practitioners 👇 www.cdc.gov/viral-hemorr... www.cdc.gov/viral-hemorr...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 06/08/2026

Since industrial logging began more than a century ago, most of Vancouver Island's productive old-growth forests — those capable of growing the large trees characteristic of the island's rainforests — have been cut. to.pbs.org/3RMtWDR

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British Columbia is logging its last old-growth forests. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it

Trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I wish everyone approached the Nolan Wells story with the care Duvalier Malone does. Care for truth. Care for the grieving family. Care for the grieving friends. Care for the history of mistreatment that informs Black Mississippians distrust of the system. It's all the above.

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Opinion | Nolan Wells’ Family Deserves Answers

Duvalier Malone writes about Nolan Wells’ death and why Black Americans may be skeptical of the ongoing investigation.

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MassShootingTracker @massshootingtrk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

America's gun psychopathy continues: *321* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 2 people killed and at least 5 wounded — including a 2-year-old child — in Seattle, Wash.: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Mass shooting at Seattle Center leaves 2 dead, toddler wounded

Police and aid crews responded to a shooting with "multiple" victims at Seattle Center, according to the Seattle Police Department.

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404 Media @404media.co · 22/07/2026

Opened a new credit card? Here’s how that could inform ICE about where you live. @josephcox.bsky.social Read now: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 17/07/2026

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

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Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach

Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/07/2026

For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org

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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If you haven’t already called about this, please do so tonight or tomorrow. These losers will keep trying and we have to keep fighting. Find your rep: Reps.fyi

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Find Your Representative

Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

For those counting that's now FOUR national book banning bills that are moving their way through. This one seems to be a senate companion to 7661 (much of the same language). Call the senate re: 2616 and 4925, call the house re: 8705, 7661 And as always, fuck censorship 📚

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Take a minute for this Sam Neill clip, reuniting with his JP co-stars.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

ICE is rapidly expanding its surveillance capabilities. The agency has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on vehicles equipped to support cell-site simulators, also known as fake cellphone towers.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/07/2026

A Police Executive Research Forum report from 2014 showed that CBP officers were purposely placing themselves in front of moving vehicles, and then shooting at them. This isn’t something that can be reformed. Abolish ICE. www.npr.org/sections/the...

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Border Patrol Releases New Use-Of-Force Guidelines, Critical Report

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske said the release was a push for more transparency. The agency had previously declined to make changes recommended by the panel.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 09/07/2026

The family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is asking for help with funeral and burial costs, legal expenses, everyday living costs, and the wife’s needs, who has lost her lifelong companion and sole provider.

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Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.

On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old

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Zak Kinsella @zakkinsella.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hi. So your boy needs a kidney & I’m officially on the #transplant list. Please share this as it would mean a lot to me to get a living donor.

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WA Whistles @wawhistles.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

Map of ICE sightings from iceout.org, 7/1-7/8, showing Puget sound area between Fort Lewis and Marysville.

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The judge gave Estrella 21 days to file an asylum application, but I don’t know how that’s going to work, since she doesn’t have a lawyer, she’s separated from her mom, and again, she’s three years old.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Instead, confirmation of his death came in the cruel form of videos on social media. 'I recognized him immediately: not from his appearance, but from his voice crying in the street as he was bleeding out,' Ronaldo said through tears." www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026

This is the foundational understanding white people are kept from that they need to have right now. These fascist conditions are only new because they're coming for you now. You benefitted from America's fascism the whole time. To fight it now, connect with its legacy & unite with the oppressed.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

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Through the Static @throughthestatic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

ICE has made 10,000 arrests in a five-day period— doubling its arrest numbers— and much of it hasn’t been reaching headlines. The U.S. has been wrapped up in festivities with several cities hosting the FIFA World Cup, including Seattle, and with Pride events and parades. Read more below & subscribe

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ICE arrests 10,000 people in five-day period as Pride Month and FIFA come to a close

By Hannah Saunders Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has made 10,000 arrests in a five-day period— doubling its arrest numbers— according to the NYT, and much of it hasn’t been reachi…

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The amount of ICE activity around the Seattle metro area (Renton, White Center, Burien, Lynnwood, Everett) is ramping up at an alarming rate. Now is the time to be brave. Take a rapid response training class through WAISN or States at the Core. Talk w/ your neighbors about what they’re doing.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

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Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I’ve had a huge health setback following my move. My level of function is half what it was before. The hospital said they would connect me with “resources” to assist with activities of daily living. There’s a 1.5 year wait list. MAiD was offered in under a month.

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