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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

As discussed on today's OA: even assuming the immigration allegations were true (which I do not) none of it was within the statute of limitations and the SOL on criminal denaturalization ran long ago. Idk what was in that search warrant my guess was that actual charges would be something like this

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 21h

“We don’t go to preach or convert anyone, we go to offer our presence,” Pastor Torres said about his visits to Adelanto. “Many of the immigrants [being held] never have visits because either their families don’t have legal status or they don’t live in the country.”

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23h

I know of a mother who was snatched up by ICE as she was boarding a plane to go to her son’s graduation from a military academy. She was not undocumented, had no criminal record, and had been here for decades. She was expelled to a country in Africa she’d never been to before.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Right so the war against social science. Yes it’s ideological. It’s also a termination letter from the state saying it no longer needs legitimation. that’s the public crisis — ask yourself why it doesn’t need legitimacy.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

As ICE is terrorizing California’s Central Valley, one gas station owner has been preparing and delivering food directly to his farmworker customers. "For Mohammed, delivering meals is one way to show farmworkers they have not been forgotten.” kmph.com/news/local/c...

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Cutler gas station owner delivers meals to farmworkers amid immigration enforcement fears

As fears surrounding immigration enforcement grow across the Central Valley, one local business owner is finding a way to support farmworkers, one meal at a tim

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 15/10/2026

In DC, DOGE was an existential and traumatic blow to the community and society. And that crisis never totally ended. You live under military occupation--armed troops watch you on the subway. Authoritarian pictures of Trump grace buildings. The Kennedy Center is shut down and might be demolished.

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/10/2026

UPDATE: At least 4 people have reportedly died, including 3 children, following a shooting this afternoon at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

A judge has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit against New York City over its sanctuary policies, rejecting the federal govt's claim that the city's policies violated the Supremacy Clause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Memorandum & Opinion AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim – #79 in United States v. City of New York (E.D.N.Y, 1:25-cv-04084) – CourtListener.com

Memorandum & Opinion AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Attorneys for ICE detainees held at El Paso's Camp East Montana say "dangerous and inhumane" conditions have led to deaths, abuse, sickness and trauma. They're submitting dozens of firsthand declarations and asking a court for emergency relief storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Your regular reminder that for DECADES, a consistent majority of the American public have told pollsters that undocumented immigrants living here for years should have a chance to "fix their papers." The "deport them all" crowd are the minority, and always have been.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Airplanes, trains, and automobiles have been used far more often than ships as transport for mass detention or deportations of those denied due process, but what history there is... is not good.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I should clarify that the newer modes of transport were used far more often in the 20th and 21st centuries (I was thinking of the modern era specifically, when so many modes have been available). Prior to that, of course, the record for ships is even more heinous.

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rekati.bsky.social @rekati.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And grotesquely reminiscent of the middle passage.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It doesn’t feel much like it but we get to decide what citizenship means, not them, we get to embrace our neighbors and afford each other dignity

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We must reconceptualize how we think of immigration or else condemn ourselves to fascist waves in perpetuity.

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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

They're losing on immigration. IN TEXAS

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tante @tante.cc · 14/10/2026

If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A while ago I had a conversation with someone who runs an organization that works on depolarization. I think I made them a bit unhappy when I said there are limits to depolarization in the context of climate change because the fossil fuel industry simply needs to be defeated.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Dominican Fr. Brendan Curran “said he drew inspiration from the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which helped humanize those lost to the epidemic, and from the tradition of placing makeshift crosses along the U.S.-Mexico border to commemorate migrants who died attempting the journey."

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The United States descended into soft competitive authoritarianism during Donald Trump’s second presidency. Regime change occurred with striking speed." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What has united the different factions on the Right is a commitment to fighting against any attempt at leveling hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth - to defending a “natural order” that is, in their view, not up for political deliberation or subject to democratic control.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Infamously, segregationists routinely derided the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s as communist. They protested the integration of public schools holding signs that read “Race Mixing is Communism.” Martin Luther King? A communist, of course.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This particular political attack stood in a long tradition of demonizing racial equality and any form of social progress. Prominent pro-slavery theorists of the Antebellum South, for instance, often claimed that the real goal of abolitionists was to institute socialism.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In the 1950s and 60s, equating the struggle for multiracial democracy with “communism” was common not just among redneck protesters or white supremacist militias, but also within the halls of conservative thought leadership – at the National Review, for instance.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There is a direct line from “Race Mixing is Communism” in the 1950s and 60s to “The real enemy is liberal democracy” in the early 1990s to today’s Trumpist assault on the civil rights order and democratic self-government.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If we want to properly understand what drives and fuels the Right’s ongoing radicalization, if we want to adequately gauge the danger we are in, we better start from the position of imagining these people as “true believers.”

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They are true believers not necessarily in Trump, the person, but in the political project Trumpism stands for: The white grievance politics that seeks to forever preserve America as a place of strict hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military.

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Immigrants with harrowing accounts of domestic abuse were detained after contact with local police, sometimes after calling them for help. "I had suffered from domestic violence,” said one woman, whose daughter was still nursing when she was detained. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

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These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.

It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump admi...

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

ICE keeps saying their victims weaponize their cars because they’re the ones doing it.

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Attorney Kathleen Martinez @attorneymartinez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."

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Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence

Harris County DA Sean Teare told NBC News his office has collected multiple videos for its own investigation but isn’t getting cooperation from the federal government. ICE denied their agent intentio...

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Love it when publications bring simple & honest language to the table to describe the injustices we're witnessing: There are no "family detention centers" or "processing sites" or "holding facilities" There are just immigrant prisons & jails that punish vulnerable folks.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump’s reign of terror: “We’re seeing across-the-board reduction of school attendance, substantial reduction in employees showing up to farm operations, packing sheds and in the fields. Construction has essentially come to a halt,” Arias said. “We’re seeing very few people out in the streets.”

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work” On the recent trove of math proofs released by the evil robots

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‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)

Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.

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The Immigrant Legal Resource Center @the-ilrc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Trump admin is now attacking refugees — a category of relief falling under the MOST scrutinized applications for entering the country. None of this has EVER been about safety. It’s been about racism, fascism, and exerting authoritarian violence on our communities. 🔗

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Trump administration cuts refugees’ deadline to contest status termination, raising fears

The Trump administration is cutting the time refugees have to contest the termination of their status.

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The Immigrant Legal Resource Center @the-ilrc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“The Trump administration is cutting the time refugees have to contest the termination of their status, a move critics say could put tens of thousands of people who fled persecution and wars in their home countries on a path to deportation.“

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The Immigrant Legal Resource Center @the-ilrc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“The new policy…reduces from 30 to 10 the number of days refugees have to challenge the revocation of their status.” “It is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to restrict and transform a program that has served for decades as a pathway for refugees.” CC: @apnews.com

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New paper out today shows that ICE and National Guard presence in DC led to a pretty sizable drop in pediatric ER visits among Spanish-speaking and Hispanic patients. If sick kids can't go to the emergency room, immigration justice has to be a public health issue. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Federal Immigration Enforcement Deployment and ED Utilization Among Children

This cross-sectional study evaluates changes in pediatric emergency department utilization following the August 11, 2025, immigration enforcement deployment in Washington, DC, and whether these chang...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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Donovan Maust @dtmaust.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"the Trump administration proposed additional 25 percent tariffs on trumpets, tubas and other brass instruments, citing 'national security threats'” 🎁link www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...

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Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools (Gift Article)

When a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The best argument for leaving Twitter has less to do with giving oxygen to a Nazi platform than what spending a lot of time on such a platform does to our brains. It’s easy to see how many once normal people on there, right or left, have truly lost themselves in conspiracy theories and false facts.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Judge Reyes' opening statement to the DOJ as the hearing begins: "I am thoroughly unamused right now."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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