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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The only way the logic of this holds together even a little bit is if you think trans people are not a protected category. If any other minority group was told to "enjoy the camps" it would be moderated as targeted hate speech. This is shameful.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New Democratic politician gets attention and rises in the polls due to moral clarity and refusal to abandon their principles or people, then throws that all away in a vain pivot to chasing Republican voters. Then they lose in the general election. A tale as old as fucking time.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect

On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The AI industry is just dumb bitches paying other dumb bitches millions of dollars to tell them “exactlyyyy”.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

SURJ has (so far) endorsed only three candidates for the 2026 elections (surj.org/2026-election/) and the guy with the Nazi tattoo is one of them. That’s sure a choice.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/03/2026

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned

A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So because two aging despots are desperate to avoid accountability for their lifetimes of corruption and predation (and frankly, just because they like killing), we just started a war for made up reasons and immediately killed a bunch of children. Everyone involved in this needs to face justice.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It is both true that a letter on an ID document can never define you and that having ID that matches gender presentation is safety and privacy for (some) trans folks. Kansas cannot invalidate anyone's identity, but they are trying to take away their safety and privacy.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Yet another example of the inhumanity of Kavanaugh Stops. If federal agents refuse to accept the validity of your documentation, you end up in hell.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This comes on the heels of the story of how burdened government lawyers are responding to all the lawsuits and habeas petitions. They made sure they had time to work on this because vindictive cruelty aimed at a 5 year old is a priority.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We have to add “purge this surveillance data and enact actual data privacy and consumer protection laws” to the post-regime to-do list.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.

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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

why did keith edwards set up a gofundme was set up for alex pretti when has no connection to his family and did not get their permission to do it? so fucking shady

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Philando Castile did that and still ended up being killed. That is the reality behind these lies - when the state’s violence workers have impunity, there is no possible way to behave that will ensure you survive the encounter.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/01/2026

If he's going to do it, he'll just do it, so leaders with authority might as well fight back with whatever tools they have.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/01/2026

I don't think the dude who wants to invade Greenland and explicitly said he kidnapped the president of Venezuela because he wanted the oil is waiting for protesters to give him a pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act, folks.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is a small immediate action you can take to support the businesses where the murder this morning happened. They were closed yesterday. Now they’re going to have to close today. Few of them can take multiple days without business.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

printing tricia mclaughlin’s justification for murder is spreading propaganda. do not listen to a word these people say.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This violence is sanctioned by the White House. It’s why the federal agents are there. Trump has made clear what he’s going to do with his power - send racist, violent agents wherever he wants. The question is what @governorwalz.mn.gov is going to do with his.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is not about public safety or enforcing immigration laws. It’s the federal government bringing violence into neighborhoods to achieve their fascist, white supremacist goals. The violence is the point.

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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I think it probably is important to know that this was many outnumbered 9:1 being beaten on the ground before he was shot. Not in a car. Not running. ICE will likely come up with some reason why they were afraid for their lives. But you don't need to watch.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19/04/2025

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

pointing at the hamburger menu icon in the top left hand corner of a mobile bluesky app screen

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

the video of another person being murdered by the state on the streets of minneapolis shows exactly what people are saying it shows. make your own choices but don’t feel like you are obligated to bear witness to it. reading a description is enough.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

My friend's five year old asks her if people are going to take her away the way they've been taking other kid's parents.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It is a cold and dark winter night and I cannot fix all the world's problems, so I'm just going to make some biscuits.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

if you’d like to help, pls donate to the Maine Solidarity Fund to help with rapid response www.mainesolidarity.org

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Maine Solidarity Fund

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

There have been confirmed reports from local organizers in Portland ME that ICE is knocking on doors claiming to be from MaineCare and “offering help“

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is the exact same shit they pulled during the George Floyd protests in 2020. They are also arresting/targeting observers again. The tactics are the same because the fight is the same - whether or not we allow armed agents of the state to bring violence into our communities with impunity.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

These are prisons. The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here. This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

If democrats hadn’t been the feckless wimps they are and actually stood up unequivocally for the rights of trans people in this country, Trump wouldn’t see this as a viable pressure point. Giving into fascists only gets you more fascism, as always.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

For anyone still questioning the level of control Israel has and exerts over Gaza (and for anyone thinking fundraisers must be scams because Palestinians in Gaza can't possibly have cell service):

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It's been clear from the treatment of Palestinian accounts on here that moderation standards are applied selectively, not uniformly and without bias, and @moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app letting this disinformation targeting trans people stay up is the latest example.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

This shows how shallow (or warped) the thinking of pundits is. George Floyd was killed by the state. That was the salience to protestors, and the motivation was to change the actions of the state. Kirk was not the victim of systemic state violence, but they somehow imagine he was.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I do not care about “respectability” I care about folks getting rounded up to camps during a time they are counting on inciting a riot and will be encouraging it Do NOT snatch federal charges out the jaws of anonymity

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 02/09/2025

Um...as the old saying goes, when you want to convince people you aren't being Weekend At Bernie's, you open your press conference with serious unexplained technical glitches.

screenshot from youtube, of the "LIVE: President Donald Trump Oval Office announcement" from Fox 35 Orlando. It's a fucked up technical glitch color bar screen.

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