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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that. Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/05/2025

we need to talk about the pathological culture of hate that millions of americans raise their children in

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“Come, come, said Gandalf. We are all friends here. Or should be; for the laughter of Mordor will be our only reward, if we quarrel.” - The Two Towers

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I kind of forgot about this app for a min but hi here’s what I read in March!

A stack of hardcover books on a wood tabletop with bookshelves blurred in the background. “March” is in a script white font above the stack.
Books pictured, from bottom to top: The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker, Oathbound by Tracy Deonn, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, and He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

A screenshot of my March ratings collage from StoryGraph.
The Keeper of Night: 3 stars
Oathbound: 5 stars
She Who Became the Sun: 4 stars
Sunrise on the Reaping: 5 stars
Artificial Condition: 4 stars
He Who Drowns the World: 4 stars

A screenshot of my March reading stats from StoryGraph including number of books read (6), pages read (2,263), hours listened (8.5), and average rating (4.17).

A screenshot of my March reading calendar from StoryGraph depicting number of pages read/hours listened per day.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, International Women’s Day 2025

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Armelle Rancillac 🔬 @rancillac.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#StandUpForScience Science not silence!

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

My #Oathbound preorder finally showed up after lots of shenanigans with my tracking info lol. Let’s do this!!! 😅

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 25/02/2025

Another article detailing anxiety among young researchers. Future careers are at stake with the US funding cuts, and talented young researchers are already being driven to pursue opportunities abroad. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science

As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Finished my reread of Bloodmarked last night and just started this! I read my first SA Cosby last year and it made my top 10 so I’m really excited for this one 😌

A paperback copy of Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby on a tan blanket

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God @thegodshow.com · 18/02/2025

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/02/2025

I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Big day to be an infectious disease. Huge.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

it's so important to make time for yourself, rest, treat yourself gently and with kind words. you, not me, I have to run myself ragged until I collapse in a pile of exhausted self-hatred but you should definitely self care.

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 10/02/2025

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/02/2025

Powerful 🔥

Kendrick Lamar and dancers forming US flag at Super bowl

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

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Coffee&CannabisClub-𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐊𝐜𝐮𝐟 @coffeecannabisclub.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Please use alt text. Let's include everyone in our posts. Please and thank you I know I'm repeating this a lot, but I find it to be important.

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’m still here, trying to stop doomscrolling long enough to read a little. 😵‍💫 Last night I finally finished One Last Word by Suzanne Park. Now onto Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor!

A hardcover copy of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/02/2025

If RFK Jr is confirmed as HHS secretary, expect these headlines to become even more frequent and tragic.

Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Crockett: “I’m tired of the white tears. If you’re competent you’re not concerned. When you compare me to Greene/Boebert there’s no comparison… The only ppl crying are mediocre white boys beaten out by people that had to work much harder.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFp8K0M...

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/02/2025

What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.

This image is a screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) stating that the "@DOGE team is rapidly shutting down these illegal payments." The tweet is a quote tweet of another tweet from General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn), which alleges that Lutheran Family Services and affiliated organizations receive large amounts of taxpayer money and claims that religion is being used as a money laundering operation. Below Flynn's tweet, there is an image of a spreadsheet containing financial data related to these transactions. The Twitter interface shows engagement metrics, including 4K comments, 12K retweets, 55K likes, and 5.3 million views. A "Rate proposed Community Notes" button is also visible.

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Did some damage at Barnes & Noble yesterday instead of doomscrolling 😌 #Booksky

The following six books lying flat:
- Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
- Black Shield Maiden by Willow Smith & Jess Hendel
- All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby
- Razorbladd Tears by SA Cosby
- Crisis Averted by Caitlin Rivers, PhD
- Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-il Kim

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025

if you cared about morale and recruitment you would not alienate a group that disproportionately enlists into the military, but if you are a white nationalist…

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I keep wanting to come on this app for a little reprieve from the constant onslaught of bad news, but it’s made its way into my feed here too 🤪

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/01/2025

Folks, please use alt-text and turn on the alt-text requirement in your Bluesky settings! People need it for a WIDE variety of reasons and I generally won't share your art, information, or promotion if you haven't included it.

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Things are bleak right now, but guys please stop gazing into the palantir. It’s just what Sauron wants….

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

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tiffunnireads 📚 @tiffunnireads.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Here are 20 recommendations of Sci-fi/Fantasy books written by diverse authors to add to your TBR! #diversebooksky #sffbooks #Blackbooksky 📚🪐 💙

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hey, fellow #BookSky newbies! Don’t forget to add alt text to your photos 🥰

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I really do not want to talk about politics today, but I will just say that I’m so glad Biden finally pardoned Dr. Fauci

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Finally posted my 2024 reading wrap up over on Instagram! www.instagram.com/p/DFBueisxHD...

“2024 reading wrapped” in a translucent cream box overlayed on a pile of books

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James Alvarez @obscuregent.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Coworker: Are you watching anything good? Me: The end of civilization Coworker: Is that on Netflix? Me: Netflix?

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Steph | dr.bookish.biologist @drbookishbiologist.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hi! 👋🏻 For anyone who doesn’t already know me from bookstagram, my name is Steph! I’m a medical writer in NJ (USA) with a doctorate in genetics & cancer biology, and I love love love books — especially fantasy! Feel free to drop a reply here to introduce yourself 😄

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