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Father of 3, Philadelphia partisan, immigrant rights are human rights - aquí estamos y no nos vamos!

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Looking over the end of Suzy Hansen’s From Life Itself, an up-close account of how Turkey’s state, democracy, and society were reduced to the broken playthings of a corrupt and completely unaccountable strongman
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What happened to the opposition during these long two decades—at least in Turkey? How had they failed to protest or stop Erdoğan? What did they regret? When I asked this question to all kinds of people-women in the corporate world, leftist Kurdish academics, low-level bureaucrats, liberal journalists-they all said they regretted the same thing.Photo of book page: 

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It wasn't that they wished they protested Erdoğan more. Their answer wasn't about him at all.
They regretted that in the first years he came to power they had not, as individuals, worked to overthrow the leadership of the main opposition party, the CHP. For a time under Erdoğan, Turks still had functional elections; the opposition could have beaten him. But they failed to recognize early that when the charismatic populist authoritarian comes to power, only an entirely new politics or mode of political figure can defeat him, that the world in effect has been remade by his arrival and that it is incumbent on the opposition to imagine a new politics in response to it. When the Turkish opposition finally found Imamoğlu, they were a decade late. I won't say "too late" because if living in Turkey taught me anything, it is that no one should count that country out.
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Pan African Marxist-Leninism and chill ✨ @contestedmilk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Liz - High and Inside @lizzierie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Schwarbs being a transit guy is elite stuff
Screenshot of Kyle Schwarber’s instagram story of him on a septa train and text reads

Top 5 Reasons
Riding SEPTA is a Pro Move
Phillies
1. It's $2.90
2. No traffic
3. No parking
4. Center City to South Philly in 11 minutes
5. Kids ride free
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the scheme of very sick humans
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences."
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Source: www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Jacob Kang-Brown @jkangbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New analysis of ICE detainers and arrests in 2026 with @bson.bsky.social for @prisonpolicy.org shows that law enforcement collusion tends to expand ICE arrests, and that the mass deportation project falters in places that resist. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/10...
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Cooperation with ICE doesn’t stop community arrests: New data on the results of state strategies
The Trump administration has demanded local and state collusion on immigration enforcement, and promised to pull back on community arrests in return. But our analysis ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, 100 percent. There's no reason why a Democratic House can't defund both the Office of Remigration and third-country deportations more generally. As I reported recently, here's what's being discussed: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stephen Miller's Office of Remigration deliberately announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy. Dems should defund it. The great Posting Through It pod invited me on to talk about my reporting on Miller. We went deep: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...
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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent
Posting Through It · Episode
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brazil, good luck out there; save your democracy
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Before people make up lies about the common law, aliens in England had the right to not be detained indefinitely and could challenge their imprisonment.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026
Last year, a pastor saw masked immigration agents arresting someone at her church and filmed them. DHS denied they were there. A year later, DHS finally acknowledged the incident — days after WH border czar Tom Homan claimed "no one has been arrested at a church." religionnews.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Do federal immigration agents make arrests at churches? Depends on what day you ask.
(RNS) — Over the past year, the Trump administration has issued contradictory and, at times, seemingly false statements about whether federal agents have conducted operations at churches.
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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
listening to an eagles podcast and something hit me like a freight train This is the morally correct beer to drink during Eagles games this season
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HARBAUGH: Jameis we’re going to need you to start the last 15 games of the season. you spent the offseason preparing for this right JAMEIS: of course coach JAMEIS THIS OFFSEASON:
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was delivering for DoorDash. His wife and lawyer have been trying to get access to him the hospital for several hours.
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shy guy who go to gym @coolideas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
eagles fans burning the rebel flag in nashville go birds
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Natural-born citizens have birthrights, which include not being treated like this. And their parents’ identity or status does not matter, despite what many lawyers, politicians, and law professors tried to tell you.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026
This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.
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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Xenophobia is economic suicide, and the *only* way forward will be to purge immigration agencies worldwide root and branch of xenophobic wingnuts
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/09/2026
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
many folks may be confused about what's real and what's fake - it's your job to remember that the suffering of migrants being detained is real, that the coughs of people whose air is poisoned by data centers is real, that the climate change induced heat stroke of a grandma is real
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My man looks like a Teddy Ruxpin doll programmed by the Heritage Foundation
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JD Vance Called Out Over Hypocritical Racist Dogwhistle
The vice president’s remarks about America becoming “dirtier” sparked fierce backlash.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
vending machines in the cafeteria-ass presidency
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Gary Dauphin @ebogjonson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pierre Damas Bel was 20 years old. He came to the United States from Haiti to join his parents and pursue an education. He graduated from high school with honors, participated in JROTC, played soccer and dreamed of becoming a doctor.
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Opinion | Pierre Damas Bel embodied all the traits America says it values. He got treated like a criminal.
Garry Pierre-Pierre: America should want more immigrants like Pierre Damas Bel
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not when he’s got his prescription pad out
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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Some video content
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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 02/09/2026
I was a wee little hoodlum from North Philadelphia. I knew nothing about entomology or arachnology until the kind people at ANSP took me in and let me work in their collection. They are the reason a young, poor Puerto Rican broke into the field. This is a travesty. I would not be here without them.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Ashley Huebner @ahuebner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Safe third country is a different concept than third country removal though. Safe third country is based on the idea that an asylum applicant can be sent to another country to safely seek asylum. TCR is seeming based on the idea that someone with a removal order can be deported anywhere.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Trump, empowered by SCOTUS, entered office convinced he could do insider trading, sell pardons and favors, take bribes, steal and openly flout the law. Now, with the prospect of investigations looming, he is growing ever more fearful that he miscalculated.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 28/08/2026
This is what I need people to understand when they start grousing about "resist libs": these are people who hate ICE with their entire, folk-art-making, cornfed hearts. You cannot sit around and write people off as potential allies because you're not personally into their aesthetics.
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I get SO ANGRY when I see this that I sometimes wonder if that’s the kind of fury that is required to support abolition and remake our society. Because at this point, we need to complete transform how this country understand immigration and so much else.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Trump administration has paused construction in Big Bend after bipartisan backlash over its plans to build border security infrastructure inside the national park—but the damage may already be done.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
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