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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/08/2026

I love Minneapolis

Jake Lang, a Nazi asshole, getting his ass picturesquely whooped in downtown Minneapolis by a person dressed as Spider-Man

I cannot overstate how much this photo looks like a comic book cover

Photo credit Chris Juhn Photography

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Japanese internment survivors and faith leaders completed a 45-mile a pilgrimage from World War II internment camp in Crystal City, TX to Dilley to protest what one internment survivor described as "inhumane and a tragic 'repetition of American history.'”

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Japanese internment survivors, faith leaders demand closure of South Texas ICE detention center

Japanese-American detention survivors and faith leaders call for the end of family and child detention on June 27, 2026 in Dilley. Roughly two dozen

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

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Dawson Barrett @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I also ask students to create posters (inspired by JustSeeds’ “Celebrate People’s History” series), which they hang around their campus, teaching other students about these topics while transforming college hallways into an impromptu history/art exhibit.

A student poster with images of African American students and text related to the 1952 desegregation of Del Mar College.

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Dawson Barrett @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The site allows students to examine documents related to South Texas’ rich history of activism, including strikes by area farm workers and dock workers, student walkouts at local high schools, protests by World War II veterans, and the student-led campaign that desegregated their college.

A newspaper photograph of Chicano students walking out of their high school. One holds a sign reading "La Raza Unida."

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Dawson Barrett @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I am delighted to announce that the website I have been working on (and assigning to students) for the last several years, SOUTH TEXAS RABBLE ROUSERS, has received an “Award of Excellence” from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH).

Screenshot of South Texas Rabble Rousers website, with a photograph of farm workers marching in the sun and introductory text for the website.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

BREAKING MS NOW: ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump. On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.

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ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump

On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I feel like we’re in for many years of “haha, they were spending taxpayer money on bug condoms—DOGE to the rescue!” turning out to be something important Elon’s Tween Team didn’t understand.

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If you’re not familiar with what’s happening now at Delaney Hall with ICE, its private prison, and now NJ Governor Sherrill covering for them and Trump, check out @thecity.nyc asap: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/05/29/d...

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Inside the Battle Over Delaney Hall: Clashes at Newark ICE Detention Center

A standoff at the ICE detention center in Newark entered its seventh day since detainees announced a hunger and labor strike, as immigration agents clashed with protesters outside.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

These people are captives of a concentration camp fighting back against their heavily armed captors with only their bodies. Their heroism is extraordinary. Thank you to all of the protesters standing with and for them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/05/2026

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/04/2026

If you’re like, “Wait, everyone is shackled on ICE flights?! Wait, there are 50 ICE flights a day?! Wait, they’re sending people to countries they’ve never been to?!” I am begging you to please read my ICE Air FAQ. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...

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What is ICE Air?

Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.

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Dawson Barrett @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Guess you missed the many, many, many high school walkouts?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Six Supreme Court justices, the Roberts court majority, were very concerned about the risks of Donald Trump personally, and a future president hypothetically, not being able to commit crimes without consequence. It was a top priority for them, and they used their power to ensure it wouldn’t happen.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Today it's the airports, but soon ICE will be omnipresent in our lives unless they are stopped. Public spaces. The polling place. You name it. This is textbook authoritarianism and as long as the corruption of liberal democracy continues there will be more and more power vacuums for the fascists.

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Dawson Barrett @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A fair point. Real talk: I find him considerably more difficult to relate to in the context of war crimes.

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Dawson Barrett @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

“There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.”

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Wendy @hyssop.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #1

A collection of 9 anti-ICE and related signs.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 28/02/2026

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved

After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

ICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/01/2026

A man dressed as Batman attended a Santa Clara city council meeting in California, urging officials to stop cooperating with ICE, as immigration enforcement faces growing public backlash.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

People at the Prairieland ICE Concentration Camp, located outside Dallas, Texas, are enduring freezing temperatures as the ICE refuses to activate the facilities’ heating systems. The temperature outside is a bone-chilling 13°F (8°F with wind chill), and the situation has persisted since 1/26/6

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The actor, Edward Norton, calls for a General Strike! "What they are doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand. We should be talking about a national General and Economic Strike."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

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Dawson Barrett @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

There isn‘t enough camo gear in the world to hide how shameful this is.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/12/2025

"To ask the internet for knowledge and receive a series of articles that mostly remind you what your question was, then repeat the same three facts you already knew, padded out with more ad space than information."

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Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”

1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong. 2. To se...

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Dawson Barrett @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

That’s like 80 full grown hippos. Politics aside, can agree that you gotta have a good argument to pardon someone who was trying to smuggle 80 hippos?

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Save 30% on "Sweatshop Capital" by @bethdrobinson.bsky.social, which examines the labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, as well as the labor and social movements that contested them. #Labor buff.ly/slifuV3

Cover of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, by Beth Robinson. The cover features an pink and blue-tinted image of women marching in protest, holding signs. The title appears across the top of the cover and the author's name in the bottom right-hand corner. The subtitle is set in smaller text between two protest signs, as if itself a sign.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

In "Sweatshop Capital," @bethdrobinson.bsky.social examines the sweatshop labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, and the labor and social movements that contested them. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/Zr3tNKK

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.

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Nancy French @nancyfrench.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

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