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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
slate.com
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@katmabu.bsky.social AMA R/50501
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"In a study published in The Lancet in September, UC Davis researchers surveyed over 9,300 people. They found that those who hold racist, xenophobic, and transphobic beliefs and negative attitudes toward gay people are more likely to support political violence and be inclined to commit lethal acts."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/10/2025
THE PURGE Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months. Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025. 🧵
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Journalist Mario Guevara is reporting that he will be deported to El Salvador today, after spending more than 100 days in detention after he was arrested on June 14 while covering a "No Kings" protest near Atlanta, GA. The charges against him were dropped, but DHS pursued deportation anyways.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2025
Assata Shakur's story, Marian Jones writes in @teenvogue.com, is "also a reminder of the impact of COINTELPRO, and how it continues to impact activists today through technological surveillance, the criminalization of protest, and the targeting of dissidents." Shakur passed in Cuba on Friday.
teenvogue.com
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Marginalized folks know TONE and LANGUAGE CHOICE are only part of what’s being communicated. But those in the power majority are accustomed to spaces that value and demand the faux nicety of polite tones no matter the core message being shared. To them, sounding angry makes you wrong in any event.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Tariffs + deportations + govt shutdown + artificial intelligence _______________________ = finance.yahoo.com/news/us-hiri...
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
the optics of Trump building a ballroom while laying people off and jacking up healthcare costs for everyone is a rich tapestry for an opposition party comfortable with doing good propaganda
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/10/2025
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt
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Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration
Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Like clockwork, we are back to the Republican framing that government assistance is okay if its farmer bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy & big corporations but hell no for people who need help with healthcare, food or housing.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)
Homeland Defender (Immigration Services
Officer)
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Citizenship and Immigration Services
Field Operations Directorate

Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud.
This entry-level role requires no college degree and offers up to $50,000 in signing and retention bonuses. If you're driven and ready to serve with pride, join USCIS and become a vital part of homeland security!
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I understand people are burnt out, but the fact that Broadview isn’t trending, even with the horrific raids in the news last night, is disturbing. Right now protestors are speaking up for the disappeared as Noem holds a press conference on the roof. Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/o4YzPpm...
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 03/10/2025
"Let’s make it clear not just to T-Mobile but all of corporate America: There are costs to siding with this authoritarian government." 🔥👏✊ #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall www.commondreams.org/opinion/boyc...
commondreams.org
Boycott T-Mobile—and All Trump Collaborators | Common Dreams
Let's make it clear not just to T-Mobile but all of corporate America: There are costs to siding with this authoritarian government.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
ICE attacking people again with support from state cops.
ICE attacking people again with support from state cops.ICE attacking people again with support from state cops. Someone here is being arrested.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
ICE just stormed over here and attacked us, even though the state police had us contained. I’m not in good shape.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
ICE agents have been abducting our neighbors, brutalizing protesters, and operating with impunity. Tomorrow I will be speaking alongside other local leaders at 1930 Beach St in Broadview, IL. Tell your elected officials to take a stand alongside us.
ICE agents have been abducting our neighbors, brutalizing protesters, and operating with impunity. Tomorrow I will be speaking alongside other local leaders at 1930 Beach St in Broadview, IL. Tell your elected officials to take a stand alongside us.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/10/2025
Was anyone really expecting TSA to show up and not get paid?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2025
And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Here's the creator of The Punisher specifically mentioning challenge coins using the Punisher logo as a huge problem and a sign of a law enforcement agency that doesn't understand its mission. /this is a Reddit comment reproducing a statement supposedly included in a SyFy article now offline.
What are your thoughts on the Punisher symbol being co-opted by police or the military?

I've talked about this in other interviews. To me, it's disturbing whenever I see authority figures embracing Punisher iconography because the Punisher represents a failure of the Justice system. He's supposed to indict the collapse of social moral authority and the reality some people can't depend on institutions like the police or the military to act in a just and capable way.

The vigilante anti-hero is fundamentally a critique of the justice sysytem, an eample of social failure, so when cops put Punisher skulls on their cars or members of the military wear Punisher skull patches, they're basically sides with an enemy of the system. They are embracing an outlaw mentality. Whether you think the Punisher is justified or not, whether you admire his code of ethics, he is an outlaw. He is a criminal. Police should not be embracing a criminal as their symbol.

It goes without saying. In a way, it's as offensive as putting a Confederate flag on a government building. My point of view is, the Punisher is an anti-hero, someone we might root for while remembering he's also an outlaw and criminal. If an officer of the law, representing the justice system puts a criminal's symbol on his police car, or shares challenge coins honoring a criminal he or she is making a very ill-advised statement about their understanding of the law.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Kristi Noem's on the roof at Broadview surrounded by snipers and Kat is still out there demanding to see what horrific conditions are going on inside.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/10/2025
They’re baaack. 🤣 Repairs and all…
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 03/10/2025
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.
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South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/10/2025
In this era of hyper-partisanship, shockingly the FDA did…. a normal bureaucratic thing. Which is what it should do. FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.
yahoo.com
FDA quietly approved a generic abortion pill ahead of shutdown
The FDA quietly approved a generic form of mifepristone, one of the two medications used in most U.S. abortions, on Tuesday.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 03/10/2025
Speaker Johnson is doing everything he can to prevent the release of the Epstein files. Should we really believe a word he says about the government shutdown?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/10/2025
i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of
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Roter Pixie 🔻 @redshotta.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
You banned people for not crying enough about Charlie or hoping for JK‘s demise. Circlejerking yourself for creating this app that hasn’t gotten any real traction while suspending accounts that were among the first on here and have contributed to it. Get fucked!
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Mavi Reshef @mavibluecatte.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Calls for accountability and protecting minority groups =/= harassment. If you don't like being held accountable for your, quite frankly, immature, flippant, and petty responses, hire a PR firm, a sensitivity reader and a DEI advisor for your company. You all need training. Clown.
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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦 @dthalliday.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
ALLOWING harassment has changed people's minds about the decentralized platform that you are the architect of, tho. Your basic argument seems to be, "Not my job" because people should be 'nicer', which ignores the fact that some people make a LIVING off the harrassment you allow to fester.
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