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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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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.
Zak Needs a Kidney
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/06/2026
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
An indelible image from outside Delaney Hall last night. (📸 by Dean Moses) www.amny.com/news/delaney...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15/05/2026
Under the blazing sun in Gaza’s Muwasi area of Khan Younis, girls of different ages line up between rows of tents to practice boxing, throwing punches at worn punching bags and makeshift training pads fashioned from plastic poles and padded tarps.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/04/2026
Following months of activism, 1,500 beagles are being released from the Ridglan Farms testing facility to animal rescue groups: the Beagle Freedom Project and Big Dog Ranch Rescue. To all the dogs being released, we wish you many years in loving homes. 14/10 for all
a man wearing a white jumpsuit carries a beagle in the rain. the man looks off to the left with an expression of desperation. the beagle's right ear flaps in the wind. in the background, two others are wearing dark, hooded rain jackets and each holding a beagle. an inset photo of a wet, brown and white beagle.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The protests worked. They won the right to rape.
aljazeera.com
Israeli protesters rally for ‘the right to rape’ prisoners
Protesters, politicians and TV commentators in Israel are defending the right of soldiers to mistreat prisoners.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Fox ran older footage but labeled it as happening Saturday.
Trump saluting without his hat, the chyron in the corner says DOVER, DE: SATURDAY
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aphyrae.bsky.social @aphyrae.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
She has an audience of one
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
ICE detain father driving 2 year old son to daycare—leave toddler behind in back seat crying & confused. "The baby was crying and scared... he was covering himself with a blanket." "He was telling me 'Police took my daddy.' " Shoreline, Washington
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/01/2026
This is a death threat
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 20/01/2026
As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts. Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
theverge.com
It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Read this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in. ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white. He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
sahanjournal.com
ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling Latino driver
ICE agents rammed into a man’s car in south Minneapolis Monday afternoon while profiling the Latino driver.
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Lily Bart 📚 🎧 😽 @roguetime.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Federal agent drew his gun and pointed it right at the face of a non violent protestor. THIS HAS TO STOP NOW
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
mprnews.org
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
nytimes.com
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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Tom Leykis @tomleykis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Here is what CBS and Trump don't want you to know:
theatlantic.com
What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador
Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
m.youtube.com
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Somali American U.S. citizen grabbed & detained by Trump’s ICE goons for 24 hours, “sexually assaulted her and said what could you be hiding under your hijab?”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Kristi Noem's ICE hiring chaos laid bare as fat, illiterate and violent misfits 'not ready to tie their own laces' are recruited
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2025
O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Godfrey doing his Trump impression with Dr. Dre in the studio 🤣💀
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Zohran Mamdani on MAGA billionaire, Bill Ackman, donating to the campaign against him: "He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him. Everyday is like a million dollars, I'm like, I don't even want that much."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
An Idaho mother was brutally beaten and zip-tied by ICE in front of her three U.S. citizen children.
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Earl Grey Frames Club @frames.earlgreymemes.club · 21/10/2025
DS9; "Tacking Into The Wind"; Damar against a blue and green display, with caption: What kind of people give those orders?
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”
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aphyrae.bsky.social @aphyrae.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Got that lil ass chain @t-pain.bsky.social @nappyboyent.bsky.social
Text - "Lmaoo tell me my step mom not the coolest person u know", a keychain with a lil ass chain, a speaker, teddy bear with pink shades
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 06/10/2025
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/10/2025
News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement. Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.
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aphyrae.bsky.social @aphyrae.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Just opened up the latest @wired.com @katmabu.bsky.social
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
youtube.com
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
At the risk of hyperbole these really may be the most horrible people to ever live.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Happy 21st of September 🎉….do you remember?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Wow. From an article in The Guardian.
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