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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just ten minutes on the exploitative, hallucinating, disparity-exasperating app makes you less likely to succeed at things, generally

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 21h

One week from tonight I'll be on stage making my musical theater debut, and I'd really like to have my rent paid by then! I need $750 immediately to accomplish this #MutualAidRequest

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

I’ve seen Black people across social media platforms talking about picnics at lynchings and so many white people are in our mentions insisting that the last public execution was 1936 and that lynchings were “mob murder” not state sanctioned. So confidently loud and incredibly wrong.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

It's just been announced at NYCC so I guess I can tell you that I'm writing The Regulators for Marvel. My five issue comic series will be out in 2027. Mutants, magic and monsters woven into the very fabric of Jim Crow America.

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lunchtime Boost: I still need $750 immediately to pay my rent so I don't get evicted while I do my show. Opening night is a week from today and I really want this paid before then #MutualAidRequest

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026

last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

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docvanden @docvanden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Walking away is also movement.” Whew. Go read this thread.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/10/2026

I know that times seem uniquely terrible for white folks, but living down the road from Selma is a constant reminder that this is just America happening to me for the first time, and other people have fought harder against worse with less, so what am I going to do? Give up like a loser?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Dept. of Justice policy of collecting unredacted voter rolls, checking them against federal citizenship databases, and urging states to remove voters flagged as ineligible. www.democracydocket.com/cases/doj-na...

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🚨 Common Cause v. U.S. Department of Justice

Learn more.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 09/10/2026

On October 9, the United States government sanctioned the International Criminal Court, citing ICC jurisdiction over crimes by US nationals abroad. This is an unprecedented assault on global justice and the rule of law. Read HRW's statement: bit.ly/4zuGQqh

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Second, the whole point of the lynching spectacle was to indict and implicate the white community involved the lynching. It tied them together; it implicated them; it bound them to each other in guilt and shame.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

“Lynching” in the US is not a singular phenomenon. The lynching you are describing is a “racial terror” lynching. There were “public spectacle lynchings,” which have elements of the former but are not identical. There are also “legal lynchings” which were the summary use of capital punishment.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today's student rally at the historic Place de la Bastille.

Place de la Bastille in Paris chocker block full of students protesting

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Melissa "Snack Lady" @melondc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Please help again if you can! She really has just us, and I wish it were better right now. #directaid #mutualaidsaveslives #payitforward #helpfolkslive

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So it’s slave ships except they’re trying to reduce the number of laborers in this country

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Statement from the Texas Coalition Against the Death Penalty on the execution:

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just got a second delinquency notice. I really, really need this $800 immediately. If I get evicted, I likely won't be able to do my show, and I don't want to drop out after working so hard to get to this point #MutualAidRequest

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026

One of the reasons public opinion on trans health care is where it is is because a lot of cis people will never ever believe just how corrupt the professional medical class running our health care really is.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This paragraph builds and builds the insane comedy but you're not ready for the kicker.

Atelier Missor, active since 2021, describes itself on X as a “classical foundry in Paris, on its way to building a new Rome.” Its founder, Missor Movahed Ghaleh Nouri, has claimed he was drawn to pursue classical sculpture after receiving a vision of Napoleon I while wandering the Place Vendôme in Paris. His staff wear identical tan suspenders, billowy shirts, and unkempt facial hair, and—per previous versions of their website—spent much of the first half of the 2020s producing bronze and clay busts of such figures as (of course) Napoleon, Nietzsche, and Jordan Peterson.

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docvanden @docvanden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This. We desperately need to be able to imagine better. That’s our path out, our opening. Always pay attention to what they’re telling us is a danger to them and their whole project. They know what their kryptonite is. Do we?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

back in the pre-marriage equality era I once heard a close friend from church earnestly say to someone “I just can’t understand why gay people want to DESTROY my marriage by redefining the meaning of it” I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.

36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

3/ 100+ Americans have been held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. They say they were profiled — detained because of their skin color, accents or jobs. “ICE isn’t looking for criminals. They’re looking for Latinos,” one said.

100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship

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docvanden @docvanden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Read this thread. Share these stories. This is what ICE is—to folks clearly *outside* their purview.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We allow monsters to rule us

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

All of these people fear death and want to reign over us from the grave because they won’t grapple with the inevitable.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is just kidnapping children

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 03/10/2026

Lethal injection as a "humane" way of killing someone has always been about the people watching, never about the human experiencing death at the hands of the State.

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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 02/10/2026

Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...

The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.

For example, a senior director for Bass told the interviewers that the Inside Safe program uses an internal Google spreadsheet to manage its occupancy records and does not have access to the Homeless Management Information System, the countywide database that tracks street contacts with homeless people and housing placements

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

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US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US ‌federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as ⁠the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

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docvanden @docvanden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Read this thread about @usatoday.com ‘s shitty decisions.

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docvanden @docvanden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The shading on this one just makes me happy.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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docvanden @docvanden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is when you tell us what you are doing now and what you WILL do if we vote you into a majority.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/10/2026

“There are a lot of books being published about how Big Tech is ruining our environment and our minds … but Hyperscale is the one I’ve got my eye on this fall.” @literaryhub.bsky.social recommends my book HYPERSCALE on its non-fiction list! Preorder now: hyperscalebook.com

Is Nonfiction in Crisis? These 14 Books Suggest Otherwise

Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data
Empires by Paris Marx

There are a lot of books being published about how Big Tech is ruining our environment and our minds (often by publishers that still think Al might work for them), but Hyperscale is the one I've got my eye on this fall partly because I'm such a fan of author Paris Marx's podcast, Tech Won't Save Us.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

This is part of a series of terrible arguments that people make that they think are real gotchas. Yesterday, someone said "I get why women would choose the bear, but then why haven't they? Why haven't all women walked into the woods?"

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