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bewatermelon.bsky.social @bewatermelon.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The new Ottoman Empire according to my cats

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what authority does ICE have to manage use of public roads? That sounds like a job for local and state law enforcement. Not ICE.

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

this is more like it (from Instagram, posted by The Triibe, Block Club, and others) www.instagram.com/p/DPISPcujRO...

A gray graphic that says: "Federal agents detained Chicago journalist Steve Held, of Unraveled Press, on Saturday, September 27 outside of the Broadview Detention Facility while reporting on the ongoing protests. We urge for his immediate release." At the bottom are the logos of Injustice Watch, Invisible Institute, Block Club Chicago, Lumpen Radio, Investigative Project on Race and Equity, The Triibe, South Side Weekly, Cicero Independiente, The Reader, and Borderless Magazine.

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Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com · 28/09/2025

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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bewatermelon.bsky.social @bewatermelon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The amount of times a day I think “how nice it would be to be in a short term coma” does not bode well for me.

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bewatermelon.bsky.social @bewatermelon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If Pugsley Addams and Barbie had a baby.

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Members of Congress are being denied access to an ICE facility in Manhattan, because the conditions inside are that bad.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 13/06/2025

If you're going to choose NOW to decide to say that the Iranian government sucks, I'm going to assume you just want to manufacture consent for colonialism. You do NOT get to invade other countries because their governments are bad. WAR IS WRONG. UNPROVOKED WARS ARE EVIL.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

“How the public at large views this is critical to the future of the country and Trump’s whole effort to create a Putinized, autocratic presidency. Everyone should be choosing their next moves with an aim to having this play out so the public views these actions as illegitimate, unAmerican…”

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More Thoughts on the Unfolding Crisis in CA

In my first post I wanted to make clear the specifics of...

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Aubrey @aubrey.northsky.social · 02/06/2025

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales
Husband of Jonathan Joss

My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done.

Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.

When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.

While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.

Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.

Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future.

He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.

I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.

To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.

My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together.

If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.

Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built.

Tristan Kern de Gonzales

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Wannabe dictator acting like a dictator.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/05/2025

Not trusting Palestinian accounts because they keep getting deleted is exactly why Bluesky is deleting them in the first place. Not trusting Palestinian accounts because they don't speak English so they use a script is a demand they learn English in the middle of a genocide.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/05/2025

Anyway saying none of the Gazans are real people so donate to NGOs instead is like saying you shouldn't give money to homeless people, give it to nonprofits instead, and folks the answer is BOTH, YOU SHOULD DO BOTH, MUTUAL AID IS IMPORTANT

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/05/2025

We on the left keep completely ignoring or even denigrating things we can do to help people RIGHT NOW. I don't trust anyone who shits on mutual aid and harm reduction, or calls Palestinians scammers, or derides know your rights trainings, to lead or be part of a revolution. Sorry.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This was inevitable. Grotesque.

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bewatermelon.bsky.social @bewatermelon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Messing with scammers is the most fun you can have when not punching a nazi!

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Give a man a hamburger, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to hamburgle, you’ll feed him for a lifetime

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This is a key goal of Project 2025.

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GiGi Angel @gigiangel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10/05/2025

one thing about Abolish ICE in this moment is people can see how it’s not going to happen through Congress, but through people’s own ongoing actions, whether that’s legal remedies to free people from detention, coming together to monitor ICE arrests and activity—delegitimizing ICE day in and day out

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/05/2025

Hey @nbcnews.com he didn't say they were looking at suspending habeas "for migrants." He said they're looking at suspending it generally. And they've already suspended due process for migrants, unless Abrego Garcia has been returned from CECOT and nobody was told. Thanks for downplaying this!