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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 15/11/2025

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

In Denver, there is no trace of its Chinatown, which the city demolished in waves during the 1940s and 1960s. Today, a new generation of chefs are reclaiming their heritage, building community, and cooking up tasty dishes. Story by @estarla.bsky.social www.cntraveler.com/story/in-den...

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In Denver, New Restaurants Honor a Long-Erased Chinatown

In downtown Denver, a hub for the Chinese American community dating back to the 1880s, the next generation of chefs are embracing their heritage.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 19/07/2025

Good column by the often wonderful @mollyjongfast.bsky.social . And yeah, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social gave us gift link so go read it please.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This is a great list of some fantastic spots in Los Angeles. Good stuff from @estarla.bsky.social. And glad to see the bar I work at made the cut. www.bonappetit.com/story/best-b...

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The 8 Best Bars in Los Angeles Right Now

Big, national names are building a local audience, while homegrown talent dazzle with their attention to craft.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

documenting what we all knew: Trump was teetering on financial collapse until he won the election, now he’s cashing in (gift link)

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Trump’s Finances Were Shaky. Then He Began to Capitalize on His Comeback.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/07/2025

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

As an anti-Zionist Jew, I’d love advice from progressive, anti-nationalist Christians on how you navigate connection to your religious identity while its most visible & influential face is a faction of racist, empire-seeking supremacists

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/06/2025

Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Let’s honor them by doing the same.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Black people are over represented in deportations, many of the most questionable ones are to the Caribbean and specifically Jamaica I would like to fight

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Important coverage of today’s press conference from @lataco.bsky.social. Please share:

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

three years ago, Vox Media reached an agreement with its union securing one of the *strongest* contracts in digital media. and now they won't budge on basic protections? shame on management. solidarity with my vox media union pals!!!! i hear they're ready to strike!!!

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

FUCK RICKY LINTON! FUCK LAPD!

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

LAPD FIRING ON US AT POINT BLANK. TAKING MULTIPLE SHOTS AY THE CHEST AND HEAD AREA!! FUCK LAPD!!

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 10/06/2025

Protesters sitting in front of police chanting peaceful protest

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Just watching on local news now, but there are maybe 100 protesters carrying signs, being blocked by a line of police cars that stretch for three city blocks.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/06/2025

Rep. Maxine Waters calmly attempts to access LA Federal Building to check on David Huerta and is denied, recalling lawless shabby treatment of mayor Ras Baraka and Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver when they attempted to access a NJ ICE facility

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Maxine Waters barred entry to Los Angeles Federal Building amid riots

Rep. Maxine Waters, D- Calif., on Sunday was barred from entering the Los Angeles Federal Building by the National Guard.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend. The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law. Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow. Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

I recognize this is an exceedingly difficult time and for many of you this is a crisis on several levels. I respect those challenges and I don't consider press rights superior to the rights of others. However, all other rights depend on press rights. We cannot allow them to be chilled. This was explained by civil rights icon and longtime congressmember John Lewis:

"If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings."

Democracy cannot function without an informed public. The public cannot be informed without a free press. It is your shared responsibility to ensure press are able to do their job. Several of you have been supportive over the years and I thank you for that. But your support is now needed more than ever. Please ensure your teams are aware of these egregious violations and ensure you take all possible steps to protect the press, and thereby the public and our country itself.

Sincerely,
Adam Rose
Press Rights Chair
Los Angeles Press Club

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/06/2025

Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This seems important from Jake Sherman

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 28/05/2025

the national "fell for it again" awards competition has come to southern missouri. big fan of watching people delude themselves that this isn't what they voted for while the guy next to them smiles and speaks the truth: yes you did, you just feel bad about it now.

For 20 years, Carol Hui has served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small
town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the
community hard.
Listen to this article · 9:40 min Learn more
By Jack Healy Photographs by Jamie Kelter Davis
Jack Healy interviewed residents in Kennett, Mo., and spoke by phone with Ming Li Hui from jail.
May 28, 2025
The first sign of trouble came early this month when Carol didn’t show up for her
shift at John’s Waffle and Pancake House.
She was as reliable as the sun rising over rice and melon fields in her adopted
hometown, Kennett, Mo., a conservative farming hub of 10,000 people in the state’s
southeastern boot heel, where “Missouri” becomes “Missour-uh.”
In the 20 years since she arrived from Hong Kong, she had built a life and family in
Kennett, working two waitressing jobs and cleaning houses on the side. She began
every morning at the bustling diner, serving pecan waffles, hugging customers and
reading leftover newspapers to improve her English.

That all ended on April 30, when federal immigration officials summoned Carol, 45,
whose legal name is Ming Li Hui, to their office in St. Louis, a three-hour drive
from Kennett. Her partner, a Guatemalan immigrant, had voiced suspicion about
the sudden call. But “I didn’t want to run,” Ms. Hui said in a jailhouse phone
interview. “I just wanted to do the right thing.”
She was arrested and jailed to await deportation.
Ms. Hui’s detention has forced a rural Missouri county to face the fallout of
President Trump’s immigration crackdown, which was supported in theory by
many residents in this Trump-loving corner of an increasingly red America.

Many are now asking how you can support Carol and also Mr. Trump.
“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” said Vanessa
Cowart, a friend of Ms. Hui from church. “But no one voted to deport moms. We
were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who
came here in droves.”
She paused. “This is Carol.”
Adam Squires, a onetime candidate for mayor of Kennett, saw it differently. He did
not bear any ill will for Ms. Hui, he said, but he voted for Mr. Trump, as did 80
percent of voters in Dunklin County, and he was glad to see the deportation
campaign reach home.
“They vote for Trump, and then they get mad because the stuff starts happening,”
he said of his neighbors. “We’ve got to get rid of all the illegals. This is just a start.”

Nonetheless, she was working, which people who enter as tourists are generally
not allowed to do, and her tourist visa had lapsed. Her status in the country
became a matter of dispute.
Many people in Kennett expressed outrage that a hardworking mother had spent
the past month jailed by immigration authorities.
Supporters described her as an ideal addition to a rural town where the population
is declining and the only hospital has closed.
“She’s exactly the sort of person you’d want to come to the country,” said Chuck
Earnest, a farmer. “I don’t know how this fits into the deportation problem with
Trump.”

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Esther Tseng @estarla.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

yes in fact ppl called him zzzzzzz for short

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

gonna start calling my catastrophic failures “partially successful”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/05/2025

can’t take anyone seriously who wears a hat indoors

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Esther Tseng @estarla.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

when we upgraded from 9600 baud to 14,4 on our 486.... ...we were the big kids on the block

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

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Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes

Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died

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Esther Tseng @estarla.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

oh wait was it this? bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Esther Tseng @estarla.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

i thought the whiskers on catfish were poisonous until i was 25 because my brother told me, when i was 8, that they were so i'd stay out of the way while they were cleaning and scaling their catch

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Republican Senators still in office who voted to confirm Hayden: -Barrasso -Boozman -Capito -Collins -Cornyn -Fischer -Graham -Grassley -Hoeven -Johnson -Lankford -McConnell -Moran -Murkowski -Paul -Sullivan -Thune -Tillis

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

the problem with accepting a $400 million dollar jet as a gift is that the IRS immediately takes 50% and half a plane really isn't safe to fly

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

“Leo also made a plea for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and for humanitarian aid to be allowed to be distributed ‘to the exhausted civilian population’ in the territory, as well as the return of the hostages taken in Hamas’ assault” (gift link)

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Pope Leo XIV Calls for End to War in First Sunday Blessing as Pontiff

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 11/05/2025

"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Öztürk 😭😭🥰

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Perhaps most important, it should be faster to manufacture than a traditional flu vaccine when there's a new pandemic

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