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I stay #Woke. 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 Fuck Trump and all his minions. Israel is evil.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2025
It’s the latest twist in the government’s vendetta against the man they accidentally deported.
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Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia
It's the latest twist in the government's vendetta against the man they accidentally deported.
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Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com · 05/10/2025
it’s challenging being a Black-owned newsroom during this time of anti-DEI and political attacks, but we persevere. that’s what our ancestors did. if you can, consider making a contribution — big or small — to fuel our reporting on Chicago. if you know a $$$ person in your life, spread the word.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2025
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. Read @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social's award-winning investigation:
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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 03/10/2025
NEW — Darius Fitzgerald, a security guard, was in the midst of a 10-hour shift at a BP gas station in Chicago’s East Garfield Park on Wednesday when he saw a Black man being chased by two federal agents. thetriibe.com/2025/10/secu...
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Security guard describes federal agents chasing Black man in East Garfield Park • The TRiiBE
Agents were also seen choking a Black man; DHS denies allegations.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 03/10/2025
In Broadview, IL this morning outside Chicago— Federal agents have kidnapped hundreds of immigrants in recent weeks. Outside the ICE processing center here, protesters are gathered for another Friday morning demo. Last week's ended in tear gas and arrests. ICE vans periodically rolling in.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.
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Corli Jay @corli.thetriibe.com · 02/10/2025
So DHS is saying we didn’t see what we thought we did. The dept has not responded to why immigration agents were allegedly responding to a robbery.
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2025
New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
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Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) @iwf.org.uk · 02/10/2025
There are many ways you can support our mission to see an internet free from child sexual abuse. But the most important thing you can do is report to us at iwf.org.uk/report. Stumbling across criminal child sexual abuse content is upsetting, but every report makes a difference.
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Rather Odd Pursuits 🦆 @ratherodd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Because Elon used his position at Doge to leverage deals with law enforcement around the country to buy his shit in exchange for favors.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 01/10/2025
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2025
With his ban on military shaving waivers, Pete Hegseth knows damn well who he’s pushing out: Black troops.
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If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
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AmusedMuse Fellina 🦋 🖇️ @devikk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2025
BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 01/10/2025
NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...
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Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.
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leviathan3k @leviathan3k.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2025
Root canals gone wrong. A dental implant lost inside a sinus cavity. Months of antibiotics for infections. Utah dentist Nicholas LaFeber, his colleagues warned, was harming his patients. The state has allowed him to continue practicing anyway. With @sltrib.com
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Failed Root Canals, Lost Implants: How a Utah Dentist Accused of Substandard Care Was Allowed to Keep Practicing
Utah’s dentistry board urged the state to revoke Nicholas LaFeber’s license after repeated reports of poor dental work. Instead, regulators reinstated it. Now new patients say they’ve been hurt by his...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
CUBAN: “.. Rich people are doing better. They’re buying everything .. You raise my prices 15% to cover the tariffs? Pffft, not gonna change MY life. “.. But if you’re a farmer .. if you’re just working your day-to-day job, .. you’re getting toasted.” @thetnholler.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
accurate. this is why it's useless to engage in the violence/nonviolence debate. fascists will always frame any effective resistance as violent regardless of what tactics it uses. all that matters is what works. based on history, usually it's collective non-cooperation.
comic: Authoritarians call it violence when you resist their policies.

ICE boot stomping down on a person, they reach back to stop them "Look violence from teh left!"
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Rest in power Assata www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Assata Shakur, an icon of Black liberation who was exiled to Cuba, dies aged 78
Shakur spent decades exiled after she was convicted of killing a state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prison
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 26/09/2025
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Woman hospitalized with pain and vomiting—diet soda cured her
Doctor’s dissolve mass in woman’s stomach by getting her to chug soda.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2025
Two lawsuits allege that Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil, is the “principal beneficiary” of tribal lender Minto Money. CreditServe, a company that McGraw plays a key role in, controls the operation while “the Tribe is merely a front,” the suits said. (Published May w/ @adn.com)
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A 700% APR Lending Business Tied to Dr. Phil's Son Is Dividing an Alaska Tribe
Tribal lender Minto Money has boosted the economy of its Alaska town. But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it's made off desperate borrowers -- much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone to outsider Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
VPNs are a basic privacy and security tool that millions of people (and almost every major company) use. Banning them is a profoundly stupid idea that needs to be swept into the dustbin of history. Let's make it happen www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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'Leave VPNs Alone': Today's VPN Day of Action Protests Possible Bans
An anti-censorship and surveillance group urges computer users to press their lawmakers to prevent VPNs from being banned.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 25/09/2025
Republicans alone will be responsible for those looming mass layoffs, so we’re paying them back. We’re pledging to spend 2026 making sure these 26 MAGA GOP representatives lose THEIR jobs next fall. See any names we missed? Let us know here: action.lincolnproject.us/26for26
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If anything, autism causes Tylenol
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2025
Pete Hegseth’s new grooming policy practically guarantees an unfathomable wave of terminations, with Black service members likely to face the brunt. Does the secretary know who mainly benefits from the waivers? There’s almost no way he doesn’t.
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If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2025
Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social
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Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center
In the face of intense public opposition, the city’s Chamber of Commerce has gone to unusual lengths to promote Musk’s xAI facility: sending out a mailer, for the first time in recent memory, that inc...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24/09/2025
Timeline of ICE activity in Chicagoland today. Kidnappings across the city and burbs, a protester/content creator arrested outside Broadview late last night, and landscapers taken from their work vehicle in Downers Grove:
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Feds stuff man in SUV during arrest outside of courthouse in Little Village • The TRiiBE
Here’s a roundup of federal agent sightings today, Sept. 24.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 25/09/2025
"This is a cruel fact, but I want to pass it on to future generations to help ensure that war never happens again."
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World War II survivor bears witness to family tragedy in Tinian mass suicide
Eighty-one years after the mass suicide, the memory of his father killing two of his sisters remains lodged in the survivor's mind, yet he holds no grudge against his father.
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 23/09/2025
This week on Reveal, we look at potential evidence of human rights violations being collected by doctors working in Gaza. They allege Israeli forces are targeting children.
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US doctors in Gaza find evidence that kids are being targeted by the Israeli military
American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability.
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2025
We just sued ICE. Support us here: 404media.co/membership/
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2025
Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall
Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2025
NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
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We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 22/09/2025
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Kimmel censorship fiasco shows that protests still matter—and can still work
Thuggish government behavior is not stopped by capitulation.
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lindarn.bsky.social @lindarn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Release the Epstein files!
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#FightThePower
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA. Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/
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Donate We rely on donations from everyday people just like you to fund our strategic activism. Please make a recurring donation to our organization so we can continue to fight for your digital rights....
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 21/09/2025
Delta State University student Trey Reed’s death was a suicide, Cleveland Chief of Police Travis Tribble said while announcing the results of the autopsy on the 21-year-old student who was found hanging in a tree in the middle of campus.
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Trey Reed Hanging Death Was Suicide, Officials Say; Kapernick to Fund Private Autopsy
Delta State University student Trey Reed’s death was a suicide, Cleveland Chief of Police Travis Tribble said, announcing the results of an autopsy.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2025
📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: propub.li/4nhXQua
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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Horrible #epstein #trumpflation
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 20/09/2025
Federal agents did this in front of the news cameras and helicopters. They did this in front of elected officials and political hopefuls. They did this in a tucked-off industrial park in Broadview, an otherwise quiet suburb just 12 miles west of Chicago. thetriibe.com/2025/09/and-...
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And then came the tear gas: Federal agents use excessive force against protestors outside Broadview ICE facility • The TRiiBE
During a Friday protest outside the ICE processing facility in a Chicago suburb, federal agents deployed tear gas and pepper balls against protestors, press and elected officials.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Here's me & most of my band playing "$5" live on @wgbh.org yesterday. Catch us playing all of AMAB/ACAB tonight at @deepcutsrocks.bsky.social! Full WGBH performance & interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Re7... Album: evangreer.bandcamp.com/album/amab-a... Tix for tonight! dice.fm/partner/deep...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2025
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/09/2025
Israeli forces continue to carry out attacks on Gaza’s main urban centre, with two children killed in a strike on tent.
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Israel ramps up Gaza City assault, kills children in strike on school
Israeli forces continue to carry out attacks on Gaza’s main urban centre, with two children killed in a strike on tent.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/09/2025
Irish rap group has been denied entry for their alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah, accusations the group denies.
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Irish band Kneecap says Canada ban aims to ‘silence opposition to genocide’
Irish rap group has been denied entry for their alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah, accusations the group denies.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 18/09/2025
It's pretty easy to cancel your Disney+ subscription, and a coordinated, national day of cancellations would send a very clear message about our values as Americans.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/09/2025
Umar Hayat, 22, pleads not guilty to murdering 17-year-old Sana Yousaf in her home earlier this year.
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Pakistani court indicts man over killing of teenage TikTok influencer
Umar Hayat, 22, pleads not guilty to murdering 17-year-old Sana Yousaf in her home earlier this year.
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Art Vandelay @artvandelay10101.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Taxation without representation. Giving our hard-earned tax dollars to the billionaire class to make them increasingly wealthy is by definition un-American. These ghoulish sycophantic Maga creeps are intentionally ruining our government institutions. It's purposeful and they're enjoying it. 👀
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