Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2hThey're Neo Confederates masturbating to the idea of slave ships. I want it to be more complex and less grossly stupid but they're not special interesting boys, they're Silicon Klansmen. 7425114
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...theintercept.comICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness SaysA member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it. 9350202
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialPeggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 6hDonald Trump's ICE just purchased the Appleton private prison for $496 million, making it the biggest real estate transaction in Minnesota history. I was proud to stand with folks in Appleton to protest this facility, and I'm ready to do the same in the U.S. Senate. 20755235
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1h“At a press conference, Espaillat said that he attempted to visit the shooting victim in the hospital, but was prevented from doing so by federal authorities. ‘I went to the hospital to see the victim,’ Espaillat said, ‘but we were not allowed by ICE agents to go in the room.’” 29543
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1hTroy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong." 5739451134
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 1hICE is terrorizing our city and our communities. They’ve just shot someone with a five-year-old in the car. There is no justification for this or their presence in New York. ICE out of NYC. #abolishice. Image via @gothamist.com 325076
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialDiana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com · 2hAgents surrounded him and A 5-YEAR OLD CHILD in his car before firing multiple rounds. There is no reforming this barbarism. Abolish ICE is the bare fucking minimum. 015149
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 2hWho is going stream a public lynching is a very good question? I suspect Elon will step up to the plate. 2353
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2hA lot of these people are going to skate but military guy who participated in bloodthirsty public embarrassment seems like a ripe target to make an example of 1437
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2hIf you’re in the military and you’re in the public execution chain of command you should seriously consider doing what’s best for you and leave or refuse orders. 29317
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 2hFlorida, we are all we got. With Hurricane Isaias headed for the Panhandle & Gulf Coast, every rally is now an emergency supply drive. Sarasota, that starts TOMORROW at 2 PM with the Manatee Progressive Caucus! RSVP at Angie4US.com/MT. #AngieForFlorida 121389
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3hThe death penalty on its own is morally indefensible; Turning it into a public spectacle is an abomination 23456102
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 3hThe regime knows they’re on track to get demolished in the midterms, so they’re about to reach as far into the dictator’s toolkit as they can reach. They know they’re cooked, but they’re going to try to break everything on their way down. 421947
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3hThe administration’s resort to increasingly horrific forms of state violence as Trump loses his grip on power doesn’t make me feel super great, I have to say 221088193
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialcognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 2hthey had to be shamed into action. they have no shame now. 013
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3ha livestreamed execution is just a lynching 23070011452
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialAubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 3hFellow fat people/people who wear plus sizes: how is the skinnypocalypse showing up in your own life, outside of media? What kinds of changes have you noticed in body politics in your own friends/family/coworkers/neighbors/self? 5520430
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialtalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 3hVideo from the scene shows NYPD rush to a man who’s surrounded by ICE agents and carry him into an unmarked SUV. Video also shows ICE agent Brendan Cuni carrying a rifle and wearing a work vest. Witnesses say Cuni shot him. Cuni, who’s from NYC, is known for dragging a pregnant woman in MSP. 110857
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4hYeah. 4:20 pm. Right near the Marble Hill train station which is 225th Street in the Bronx. If you were at the tip of Manhattan and crossed the Harlem River into the Bronx, that's where it is. Witnesses say they heard 7 gunshots and it was a man and his baby in the back of a car. The man is alive.abc7ny.comPerson shot during interaction with ICE agents in Marble HillA person was shot during an interaction with ICE agents in Manhattan on Thursday. 0107
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4hThe Waco torture and lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916 has stuck with me for years after reading the details. 10,000 people came to watch him be torn to pieces, and burned alive over the course of hours. Exactly 100 years ago. 923775
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h“City Councilmember Tiffany Cabán also condemned the shooting and called for ICE to be abolished. ‘We need to get ICE the hell out of our city, abolish ICE, and hold this administration accountable for the horrors they have inflicted on our immigrant communities,’ she said in a statement.” 1313107
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4hThis IS what this country is. It's not the only thing that it is but it is absolutely violent and barbaric. The US. is one of 55 countries that still maintain capital punishment. 140 countries have abolished it. This IS what this country is. Might as well televise the killings. 7476115
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 7hthe reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 7178151895
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4hfwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher 612008345
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4hI think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 6631231221
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4hIn the Bronx, just now, near the Marble Hill Metro-North station. Also: “City officials have been told ICE has been using a nearby Target parking lot on 225th Street as a staging area.” 69573
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 3hHey y’all! Can I come to your house next Thursday, Oct. 15 at 6:45 PM ET? Here’s how to become a host: 1️⃣ RSVP for a host briefing. 2️⃣ We’ll get you set up on the call. Sign up at Angie4US.com/House #AngieForFlorida 110052
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16hThe deployment of National Guard troops into cities has been so normalized that it barely merits a mention in the press or among the public anymore. D.C. remains occupied, Memphis is occupied, so is New Orleans... It's incredible to me. 9845297
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3hAnd a federal officer just shot someone in NYC. EARLY VOTE AND GET EVERYONE ELSE TO EARLY VOTE. The midterms are going to be a shitshow and we must flood the polls with democracy. 17131
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4hgrotesque country we live in, just no way around it 2149455
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialEric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment. 511939490
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5hIsn't this attempted murder? 712636
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialMax Granger @maxgranger.info · 5hYes, and I suppose unsurprising, given that attempted murder is quite literally their core mission, aka "prevention through deterrence" (forcing migrants into the desert to die). 012
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5hHey everyone, a local ICE watcher was brutally attacked this morning while observing ICE in Santa Ana (she had teeth knocked out), if you’re available this afternoon there’s a protest at the civic center plaza in Santa Anainstagram.comOC Community Self-Defense Coalition on Instagram: "ALL OUT FOR JACKIE: PROTEST TODAY AT SAFB 📍34 Civic Center 🕓 4:00 PM This morning around 5 AM, ICE agents beat and arrested Jackie, a longtime commu...718 likes, 22 comments - occommunityselfdefense on October 8, 2026: "ALL OUT FOR JACKIE: PROTEST TODAY AT SAFB 📍34 Civic Center 🕓 4:00 PM This morning around 5 AM, ICE agents beat and arrested Jackie... 318778
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialJames Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 5hBP are technically first responders, but as we can see here and we have seen countless times through the years, they do not respond to help people who they don’t think need help. Because of international cell phone agreements, it can also be very hard to call 911 in remote border areas. 410131
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialMax Granger @maxgranger.info · 6h"When bystanders called 911 seeking emergency medical attention for the locked down protester, the callers were informed that emergency medical services would not be responding to the scene." 37859
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7hNo, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here? 1751078
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6hAnthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 10068441823
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5hRelated news: I reviewed emails received yesterday by two federal agencies—SEC and NIH—instructing them to update all internal and public materials to say "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in order to comply with Trump's executive order. 40339116
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialAyo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 11hMichael Tracey is not a journalist, he is a stalker 6786690
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialDeb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 14hCDC has had to close down country offices overseas due to lack of funding... but the political leaders were able to use funds from global health security for this inappropriate and unethical study instead. Very clear what their priorities are 213774
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialTaras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 12hBy 1910, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked vehicles from Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, to Oneonta, NY—a journey of 1,100 miles—exclusively by electric trolley. 1186
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialTaras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 12hHow far could you get for a few coins back in 1921? Really far. This map covers 200 x 190 miles, and shows Interurban (as opposed to streetcar) routes radiating from Chicago. h/t transitmap.net What happened to them? 👇 🧵 1179
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialTaras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 12hWithin a generation, almost all of the interurbans were gone, tracks torn up, urban dwellers forced into car ownership. So how did it happen—and could something like interurbans come back? I dug into the story in High Speed, my transit and train travel blog: www.highspeed.blog/interurban-n... 0166
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10hSo many men appear to be wholly uninterested in being people. 1749962
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13hSo, historically, men have used the privilege afforded to them by patriarchy to push the "unprofitable" work of care onto women, making it easier for them to hoard the more profitable (and thus higher-status) work for themselves. And companies encouraged this, because it meant more profits for them. 31084125
Reposted by @deirdrewbeck.bsky.socialjohnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Here's a good overview of the student protests in France, which began in Paris suburbs, in working-class schools attended by many black & brown students, & have spread nationwide. The government has tried to end the protests through violent repression. It hasn't worked. f24.my/CCfuf24.my'We're fed up': Paris students rise up in a movement that shows no sign of slowingHundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions. 215276
