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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My god the cruelty is unfathomable (and yes I know this is not a new practice forcing terrified children to represent themselves in immigration court but it’s still horrifying). I will vote for any Dem who ensures Miller & co are sent to a super prison in El Salvador for this shit.
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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lol this is the funniest thing I’ve seen all month. 😂
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with an estimated 800,000 people in Paris on Saturday, after spending the morning with migrants, the poor, and adults newly entering the Catholic Church. “For Christians,” he added, “the poor are not a sociological category, but the very ‘flesh’ of Christ.”
thelettersfromleo.com
Drawing 800,000 in Paris, Pope Leo XIV Calls on the Church to “Make Room” for Migrants and the Poor
“No one is so poor as to have nothing to give.” Before Mass, the pope sat with migrants and told catechists to respect each person’s pace. Six altar servers with Down syndrome served his Mass.
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You cannot treat people you view as human like this.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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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...
inquirer.com
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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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
404media.co
ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”
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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Grieving not only for the horrific suffering inflicted on these poor people but also Haitians in the US sent into this living hell w/their children. Steven Miller, JD Vance & every GOPer involved need to be dropped from a moving helicopter into Haiti. No pain or terror too harsh for these monsters.
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP you fabulous queenly king 👑❤️😢
Tim Curry in Rocky Horror looking fabulous with text Don’t dream it, be it
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A digital illustration depicting one large capybara which has a little dicorated saddle on and is being ridden by a smaller capybara that has a little knight's helmet with a visor and a feather plume perched on their head. The little one is also holding a yellow and orange striped tilting lance and there is a shield hanging from the saddle which is decorated with a blue and yellow heraldic device including checkers, an hourglass, and a feathered wing. Streaming off of the lance is an orange banner with gold lettering on it reading 'Maybe it will happen today'.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Joshua Aviles, deployed on the USS Lincoln for 9 mos: “I just ​got a call that my dad was taken by ICE. We have done everything to get his green card approved. I don't know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing ‌that ⁠my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal,"
"I've been ​deployed for over nine months, out at sea in the Middle ⁠East aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, fighting for a country that has given ​me everything," Joshua Aviles, the son of the detained immigrant, said on Facebook.

"I just ​got a call that my dad was taken by ICE," he said on Saturday, adding his father had his driver's license, social security card and work permit.

"We have done everything through immigration ​to get his green card approved, and we are just waiting. This is ​heartbreaking for me. I don't know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing ‌that ⁠my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal," the Facebook post added.

The DHS said Luis Manuel Aviles Roa entered the U.S. illegally and would remain in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention pending removal proceedings.

"Having a family member in the ​military is not a ​free pass to ⁠violate our nation's laws," the DHS said.

President Donald Trump says his immigration crackdown is aimed at improving domestic security.
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A judge ordered a 1-year-old, with no lawyer, to file an asylum application. A private company, accused of torture, received a contract to track down unaccompanied children. The govt. considers plans to build a new shelter for 3000 immigrant kids. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/22/t...
themarshallproject.org
How Trump and ICE’s Latest Tactics Target Immigrant Children
Officials claim to target the “worst of the worst.” But several agencies are now focusing on tracking and detaining children.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 23/08/2026
Thou art violently carried away from grace, there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man, a tun of man is thy companion.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/08/2026
I think it is remarkable to the extent the opposition party is still largely silent about the extrajudicial gulag archipelago that the sitting administration is using to turn innocent immigrants into political prisoners and slaves in third nations
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This Roman perfume bottle shaped like a bird is 2,000 years old, yet it looks like a modern design! 📷 Corning Museum of Glass glasscollection.cmog.org/objects/7194... #Archaeology
This photo by the Corning Museum of Glass shows a Roman perfume container made of transparent light blue glass in the shape of a bird. Seen in profile facing right, it has a long narrow beak inclined upwards. The head and neck are represented by single tubular element which merges with a plump, stylised body with a long, horizontal, tapering tail. Size: H 6 cm, L 11.7 cm. It is displayed against a grey background.

According to the museum, this bottle and others like it often contain powdered remnants of perfume. Glassmakers created the graceful bird shape by manipulating a glass bubble at the furnace. The bottle was filled with perfume and sealed over the fire. To use the perfume, its owner would crack the bird’s tail and reseal it after each use.
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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As a horse person this makes me absolutely sick. Horses are incredibly sensitive creatures & this is causing horrific fear and suffering for no reason. Everything is a commodity to these monsters. If you have a congress person overseeing BLM it’s worth at least going ballistic on them about this.
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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What is even happening here??? Good god.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An ICE agent directed Emilio, a Venezuelan Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for an interpreter and didn’t get one. When he saw a Mexican flag, he realized he was being deported to Mexico, sans passport. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity
An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.
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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I cannot stop laughing at this 😂
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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wait. NatHarp was in the top secret CATERING CART WITH HIM???
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Anyway, I don't think it is unreasonable to expect DC journalists to start asking the Senate Majority Leader & the Speaker of the House hard questions every day about why they are doing nothing while a Mad King shreds the Constitution & destroys our most important security alliances.
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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is a photograph I was convinced was a painting. ❤️ so lovely
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: We’ve spent a year tracking ICE’s massive expansion of detention for people with years-long ties to the U.S. It has strained courts, wrecked lives and been widely deemed illegal. Our report, based on interviews with judges, detainees and attorneys: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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ghostcomet.bsky.social @ghostcomet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yooooooo I know this story! There's a great stop motion animation version on YouTube youtu.be/P1nVCmoxpg0
youtu.be
David Lynch's Frog Moth Story | Stop Motion
YouTube video by AnotherThing
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Contemporary textile artist Julie French #WomensArt
Pictorial textile artwork featuring two black and white birds in flight against a pink and white floral background
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Our Public Lands & Waters @publiclandswaters.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The destruction of the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park has begun. #bigbend #nationalparks #publiclands #protectpubliclands #bigbendnationalpark
ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com
The Bulldozers Have Arrived in Big Bend National Park
Contractors are grading roads and surveying the Rio Grande corridor even as lawmakers, outfitters, and residents plead for basic answers about a $1.7 billion border barrier project
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Merzz. 53. Red Bonbon. by Kurt Schwitters, 1920 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Hilla Rebay Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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d.k.l.a. @dkla.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
lol 😂 would love to see receipts from behind the scenes. This is some Christopher Guest level stunt
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
WHAT THE F*CK futurism.com/science-ener...
futurism.com
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Daily bunny no.3398 wishes for the moon
On a starry night, a bunny holding a big top hat climbs a branch in a tree, reaching out as if to put the full moon into the hat. A smaller bunny calls to them from the grass below the tree.
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sam Altman
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cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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What if you just talked to your children
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
newrepublic.com
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.
nytimes.com
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
nytimes.com
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appoints state AG Ashley Moody to the US Senate. She turns around and approves $10 million to Hope Florida, FRAUDULENTLY diverting money from Medicaid to a non-profit for his wife, Casey DeSantis, to spend on 2024 elections. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
cbsnews.com
Florida Senator Ashley Moody faces renewed scrutiny over her role in Hope Florida scandal
As Florida attorney general, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
An illustration done in digital watercolor of a manatee placidly floating in green sea wearing a little horned Viking helmet of the sort they are knows not to have worn (applies to Vikings and manatees). On one flipper they are wearing a round shield and in the other flipper they are somehow without the benefit of digits holding a Viking axe. Archaic rune-ish lettering in the lower right reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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explore.org @explore.org · 23/07/2026
Yearly bear cam maintenance staff reporting for duty.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...
Representatives for produce giant Taylor Farms contacted the White House with an urgent plea: the company wanted to delay announcing a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history.
The call, during which the company asked for more proof and more time before being linked to the outbreak, illustrates how one of the country’s largest produce suppliers sought to limit its exposure to a public-relations nightmare, while grappling with a costly and complicated recall. Over the past several weeks, health officials have been scrambling to contain the outbreak of cyclospora, which can cause explosive diarrhea. Some current and former government officials have criticized the handling of the outbreak, both by the administration and Taylor Farms.Federal health authorities were preparing late last week to link Taylor Farms to a multistate parasitic infection that has sickened thousands. The company wanted to see more evidence, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House asked officials from the Food and Drug Administration, which has been investigating growing cases of cyclosporiasis, to join the call with Taylor Farms, which the government maintains is the source of the multistate outbreak. During the discussion, Taylor Farms raised concerns that the government had no positive laboratory tests linking its product to the outbreak and that it was overstating the company’s culpability, according to one of the people who was on the call.
Taylor Farms sought out the White House after company executives felt they hadn’t gotten enough clarity from the FDA on the evidence behind a potential recall and the scope of it, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Health and Human Services Department spokeswoman Emily Hilliard said the FDA presented Taylor Farms with substantial evidence connecting its products to the outbreak and engaged in extensive discussions with the company.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.
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Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Let me help you understand just how much garbage is in that report attacking the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Check out this image featured in it. It's two things that are part of a much larger exhibit.
Umbrella and t-shirt with butterfly and "Vote" on them.
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