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Kass Bestor

@auntkass.bsky.social
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Aunt, Great Aunt, Great Great Aunt. Retired CASA volunteer. Feminist (a really old one!)

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3h
Los Angeles and San Diego, Trump officially states that your lives are a small price to pay for Israel's war in Iran. Do you agree with that?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h
And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!
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Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.bsky.social · 14h
Megyn Kelly, America's ultimate mean girl and first class bitch
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 14h
How has Vought et. al disrupted NIH funding? 1. Grants were awarded more slowly in 2025-2026. 2. Peer reviewed grants enter a digital black hole. 3. Most of the staff that process the awards is gone. 4. Grants are flagged if they contain banned words. 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...
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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 12h
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 18h
One teen told ICE officers he lived with his dad down the block, but that his dad was deaf. They didn’t try to contact the father before deeming the boy “unaccompanied” and detaining him. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18h
And meanwhile, $200 billion of taxpayer money going to ICE and CBP for their for-profit detention and deportation enterprise. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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ICE and Customs and Border Protection Budgets to Exceed $200 Billion
Without congressional action, the money will allow the Trump administration to carry out its immigration crackdown unimpeded.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20h
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Police violently beat Hispanic man-because he hurt their feelings
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026
Trump inherited an economy The Economist called “The Envy of the World" and ran it into the ground, just like everything else he inherited.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wyden: Trump has gone out of his way to "endanger migrant children and leave them at risk of falling into horrific cycles of trafficking." ICE facility in Louisiana will be "another black box location for the Trump administration to disappear migrant children." www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I dunno, but trafficking and raping children should be a whole lot bigger crime than being in a country illegally, but that’s just me 🫤
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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It wasn’t rape, pedophilia, healthcare, groceries or war… It was diesel prices. That was MAGA’s red line.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
High school senior Elder Chavez Carranza is an immigrant living in the US legally under a program for abused or neglected children One day he went to buy food when a cop asked for his papers-which he didn’t have that day. So ICE put him in detention He has been incarcerated for more than 200 days
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jgal57.bsky.social @jgal57.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New dating reveals artwork damaged by border wall is oldest geoglyph in the Americas www.azfamily.com/2026/09/25/n...
azfamily.com
New dating reveals artwork damaged by border wall is oldest geoglyph in the Americas
New research shows an Ajo archaeological site damaged by border wall crews predates Egypt's first pyramid by 2,000 years.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Kass Bestor @auntkass.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I just saw an absolutely disgusting ad during the Tampa Bay/NY game. My tv was on mute but the video was very suggestive. And I am unclear on what they are advertising—gambling or underwear? Do they know that children watch baseball?!?!?
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
good grief, VAX YOUR KIDS
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Hank Hoffman @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just because Ken Paxton is a scumbag doesn't mean the wife he cheated on and who's divorcing him isn't a scumbag, too.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.
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shreveportbossieradvocate.com @sbcadvocate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Government documents, interviews with officials and public testimony shed new light on day-to-day operations within the controversial new facility designed to hold undocumented women, families and unaccompanied children who choose to be deported. bit.ly/4yihv1T
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How ICE plans to speed deportations by holding children, families beside a Louisiana airport
Government documents, interviews with officials and public testimony shed new light on day-to-day operations within the controversial new facility designed to hold undocumented women, families and unaccompanied children who choose to be deported.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow!! Hundreds of community members in Medford, OR showed up last night to stand with @oregonnurses and the healthcare workers at Asante Rogue Regional fighting for high-quality local care. The turnout was so tremendous. www.instagram.com/p/Dd-Z0m2jAM...
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Oregon Nurses Association on Instagram: "‼️ Unbelievable turnout from Rogue Valley residents in support of local ONA nurses and healthcare professionals at tonight’s community town hall to discuss how...
257 likes, 3 comments - oregonnurses on October 1, 2026: "‼️ Unbelievable turnout from Rogue Valley residents in support of local ONA nurses and healthcare professionals at tonight’s community town ha...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A man died in a GEO Group cell in Michigan while Congress begged for answers. Ten weeks later GEO's PAC wrote a check to the Republican running for Senate there. He kept it. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Abolish the death penalty
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have you heard of 1789 Capital? The venture capital firm founded by Don Jr? They obtained a stake in a small company named Vulcan Elements-and quickly got a $620 million deal from the Pentagon Why? “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done” #PaytoPlayPresident
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is Ilya Honcharov. He was only 14 years old. Russia killed him in Vyshhorod, Kyiv Region on September 30 🕯💔 ​Ilya’s family had moved to the Kyiv region from Sumy to escape relentless bombings, only for a Russian missile to strike the building where they lived.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ted Lasso: Believe! Jackson Lamb: Oh fuck off
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot. Salah Sarsour was arrested and jailed. The next victim of ICE's cruelty could be you. We must all speak out and demand accountability.
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‘She was pure love’: Renee Good’s partner makes first public comments as family sues U.S. government, ICE officer over her killing
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, 37, in the driver’s seat of her SUV during a Jan. 7 en
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much ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
good example of the "legally present" vs. "lawful status" distinction. she's allowed to be here but is also deportable whenever ICE finds a country who will take her. US immigration law is fundamentally cruel
Traore is in the United States legally on a 2011 “withholding of removal” order, which grants recipients legal protection from deportation to a country where they face harm or torture. She has no criminal history.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's a non-smiling shot of the #CornellRapists. I couldn't stand the one of them smiling. #MatthewIngalls #DiegoSarabia #WinstonLee #ScottKretszshmar #ScottNorris #GilioLopes #JohnathanNewell Matthew was her "friend". Johnathan was the one who sent the free pussy message.
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Kass Bestor @auntkass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@stephruhle.bsky.social Disappointed you did not ask Ari Emanuel to name some “incredible” things DJT has done that Ari “blesses” him for. TBH I am more than disappointed, I am disgusted.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New ICE Facility to Hold Unaccompanied Immigrant Children at Airport “The facility will be managed by the LaSalle Family Foundation, the nonprofit arm of LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company” that operates other facilities where detainees have died. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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New Facility at Louisiana Airport to Hold Immigrant Children and Families (Gift Article)
The site in Alexandria, La., a major expansion of the Trump administration’s busiest deportation hub, will streamline and accelerate removals.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump and Hegseth have killed 230+ people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific with no proof they did anything wrong, no congressional approval, no nothing. Just 2 unhinged fascists ordering our military to commit murder. Vote against all Republicans for the sake of all that is decent.
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Joanne Belknap @joannebelknap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is beyond fucked up! State-sanctioned murderers fuck up killing her & take her to the hospital? Maybe stop murdering people, especially whose extensive childhood sexual abuse was never taken seriously by the same system that incarcerates and tries to kill her! 🤬SMDH
theguardian.com
Tennessee to execute a woman for first time in 200 years after governor denies clemency
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we allow this injustice to continue? The Trump administration's fast-tracked deport...
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂👇
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