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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting

The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

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FTT @firsttimetrek.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

@jpbrammer.bsky.social thought you might like to see... hung it today!!!

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Here's a drawing I did of the TNG episode "Rascals"

Captain Picard, Keiko, Ensign Ro, and Guinan as children from the TNG episode "Rascals"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 07/08/2025

slutty little shorts

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

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FTT @firsttimetrek.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It cannot be overstated how much I hate AI

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants

Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/07/2025

You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

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WATCH: U.S. Army veteran gives first-hand account of suffering, starvation in Gaza

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Brad Lander's "The line in the Democratic Party right now is not between progressives and moderates — it's between fighters and folders" is truly *the* best diagnosis of what's needed right now. It also has the advantage of being backed up by public opinion.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Our political media is simply not equipped to handle a situation where the voters were unambiguously wrong in a way which morally implicates the electorate.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Maybe the most Axios brained you can be is when you look at things and go “he’s achieving so much evil, and yet people aren’t appreciating it”

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

wow i wonder why everyone is so fractured and enraged and susceptible to propaganda gosh who can possibly expl

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

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FTT @firsttimetrek.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This country is beyond evil

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FTT @firsttimetrek.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Breathtakingly fascist and racist

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FTT @firsttimetrek.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

They truly are a horrific death cult

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

these people think you're stupid and hold you in absolute fucking contempt

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

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FTT @firsttimetrek.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Feels weird and dystopian that I'm the happiest I've ever been while everything is shit

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Rogers Park is the best.

Scenes from a few days after the annual Artists of the Wall festival in Rogers Park, where dozens of local artists each get space to create their own mural on a long concrete wall/bench that spans the beach. This year’s theme was “All Together Now.” The bench pictured here is a stylized postcard that says “Greetings from Rogers Park” with each letter containing one item that represents the neighborhood: the pier light, a Pride flag, a cicada, a Chicago hot dog, a kite, a tree on the beach, a Chicago flag mug, two people getting engaged (maybe the artist?), a red-winged blackbird, and a fence.

A wide shot of four painted benches. The one in the foreground is bright pink letters that say “Are are welcome (to sit) here! Especially SeaYaks” surrounded by roses and other flowers.

A painted purple bench that says “Abolish ICE” in Fire and Water colors surrounded by monarch butterflies. At the bottom in purple letters, it says “Let’s be brave together.”

A collage of four benches, one with a cartoon scene of downtown Chicago buildings and icons, one with an underwater scene called “Solidarity Forever” of a shark chasing a goldfish with dozens of smaller fish chasing the shark, one with a “Punkin’ Donuts” title in pink and orange with rows of little donuts underneath, and one with a smirking red cat surrounded by blue drones.

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FTT @firsttimetrek.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Hideous. Hope it gets vetoed

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/06/2025

We need *mass* mobilization in the U.S. right now, and I think that people who are somehow still focused on sneering at Perfidious Wine Mom Liberals are profoundly unserious

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FTT @firsttimetrek.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This man is not equipped for this moment at all

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I have to say: Thank God this man is not Chicago's mayor

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ceej @ceej.online · 11/06/2025

it’s not fair to judge me by my words alone. or actually my actions either. please judge me based only on my idea of myself that I hold in my own head

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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 11/06/2025

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We feed you. They hunt us.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Every day I have to hear about some asshole

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/05/2025

i haven’t seen technology this forced on all of us in my life time. they’re trying to make it so we have no choice to use this shit

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

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Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 30/04/2025

Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE. But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States. My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State (Gift Article)

DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

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