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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 26/09/2026

Wonderful new story by my friend and comrade Adelaide about revolutionary trans women discussing their theater company. Please consider funding future authors by donating to Common Notions for Project 2052!

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tending to inspiration from the cultural intifada and seeds gifted during a visit to a liberated Palestine, Désirée, Mia, and Adelaide reminisce on a precarious collaboration. In a dire time, they have irresistible fun, learning from sparkles in the eyes of crowds of children.

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Six months before the Hunts Point Insurrection, three trans women gather on Samhain to reconnect and reflect on the three anti-imperialist theatre companies that led them to sustain their own collective from 2042-2049.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 22/09/2026

🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥 Chris Dixon's 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘢𝘶𝘭: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 is out today! Get your copy: www.akpress.org/for-the-long... & while you're there, download the free PDF reading guide!

The purple cover of Chris Dixon's book For the Long Haul, featuring bold yellow title text and a line drawing of people marching together, is shown against a yellow background with purple dots.

A blurb from Angela Davis, in white text against a purple background, reads: "For the Long Haul is an invaluable resource. Drawing on meticulous research and extensive political experience, Chris Dixon offers practical tools for building durable liberatory movements that can meet the challenges of our time."

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AK Press @akpress.org · 23/09/2026

If you're anywhere in the NYC area, you'll have SEVERAL chances to hear Ashanti Alston talk about 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 this week. You will definitely want to go to at least one of these. If not all three. You can thank us later.

If you're anywhere in the NYC area, you'll have SEVERAL chances to hear Ashanti Alston talk about 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 this week:

Saturday 9/26, 3:30pm at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair (@nycabf)
La Plaza Community Garden (@laplazacultural)

Sunday 9/27, 4:30pm at @mayslesdocumentarycenter, in conversation with Joy James

Monday 9/28, 7pm at @thewordischange

You will definitely want to go to at least one of these. If not all three. You can thank us later.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 25/09/2026

Autumn Hill was sentenced to 50 years in prison for protesting outside the Prairieland Detention Center, forced into a men's prison despite being a trans woman. This week, she talked to Grace Byron from behind bars:

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A Message From Prairieland Prisoner Autumn Hill: "Don't Be Afraid"

I talked to the political prisoner about the politics of love, her case, surviving as a trans woman in a men's prison, and how she makes it through the day.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/09/2026

Good morning from the ICE facility in Broadview, IL. As ICE vehicles trickle in and out of the lot, a small group of Chicagoland locals are holding a prayer service for those impacted by deportation efforts. The area around the facility is open, contrasting prior months of "protest zones."

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If anybody goes to work for an employer, it is clear that he loses his freedom; he must obey his employer, and the employer may punish him.

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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

A comfortable majority being supportive of a military coup is wild work.

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 24/09/2026

That a majority of Democrats would support a military coup and establishment of a ruling military junta does not speak well for a non-fascist future for this country

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is just disappearing people. This would’ve been the stuff of conspiracy theory a decade ago and now it’s in the AP.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ye gods Screenshot from an email I just got from someone, which I am just sharing to say: PAY NO ONE. You, as the creative person, should get paid. These truckloads of bullshit are easy to cut through: Who’s getting paid? If it’s not you, run away. It’s a scam.

I have allegedly been offered an opportunity to publish my book with Henry Holt. They are asking for two things:
A Universal Media Core Dispatch and an Executive Acquisition Pitch. They are telling me that they need these two things and that I should use a Hollywood screenwriter. They are charging a huge amount of money. I am just wondering if this seems legit or if they are trying to take me to the cleaners.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/09/2026

The 28-year-old asylum-seeker was shot in the torso and moved to an undisclosed location after his wife tried to visit him at the hospital. trib.al/jfYw8q8

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.

Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 20/09/2026

Capitalist empire is a roiling crisis machine, one that constantly creates openings for something else

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, there are shitty, hard things about transition. Yes, there are a lot of assholes, some of whom are in positions of power. But this is the easiest thing I've ever done, and most people are pretty cool about it.

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to Kathryn Benjamin Golden! THIS INSURGENT GROUND: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp is out in the world! This is a tremendously well-written and insightful history of Black women’s fugitive world making.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Democrats will not get the voters they need to turn out by having anxious members of the Democratic rank and file harass anxious people to their left on Bluesky. It may feel good to argue with people online, lord knows I'm not above it, but there's no universe where it a actually matters.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

“The $2.8 billion package, which would be purchased with U.S. taxpayer dollars, includes 40,000 bombs that weigh 2,000 pounds each, including 20,000 MK-84s and 20,000 BLU-117s, said the official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military matters.”

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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years

The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets up a potential litmus test for Democrats.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"ICE arrested 50,000 people in July, and another 50,000 in August, eclipsing the monthly arrests made during the peak of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans, and Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota." www.turtlediaries.net/p/ice-is-sti...

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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...

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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents

More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 11/09/2026

On 09/11/2001 I woke up in a punk house in PDX to hitchhike across the country. Saw the towers on tv, had some mix of indifference, understanding of it as retribution, and fear for an endless war to come. Then hit the road as young trans femme, to get stuck for too long by a road in Idaho

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 05/09/2026

I haven’t been able to finish Battlestar Galactica because of how self absorbed and annoying I find Gaius Baltar. They give him way too much screen time for so little depth. en.battlestarwiki.org/Gaius_Baltar

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Gaius Baltar

Doctor Gaius Baltar is a brilliant scientist, legally-elected President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, and, later, a revered religious figure for the remnants of humanity. An amoral person who has ...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/09/2026

my latest: Massachusetts is one of the safest states for trans people—but multiple hospitals preemptively ended youth trans care over Trump admin threats to cut fed funding. on Wed, trans activists took their HRT at a govt office and refused to leave without a commitment to fight those hospitals.

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Even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it

Activists are calling on the state attorney general to take action against hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care programs after Trump retook office

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

By joining the pile-on against Hasan Piker, Democrats & liberals are running the Right's disinformation playbook for them-- the same playbook the Right uses before every election. This time around the moral panic was created by a far-right pro-Israel account named Max Nordau/

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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/08/2026

In a first, Starbucks Workers United and its 12,000 members are calling for a boycott of the coffee chain, after spending nearly 5 years pressuring the company to negotiate a first contract since the first location unionized in 2021.

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In First, Starbucks Workers United and Its 12,000 Members Call for Boycott

“[I]t is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers,” the union said.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(3/3) Dolly called and asked if there was any way to help with this tragedy. Abumrad replied she was on a vaccine research team but it was expensive and they were still seeking grants. When Dolly heard this she replied "Well I have money" and donated $1m. Abumrad's team produced the Moderna vaccine.

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okie (they/them) @okie.gay · 25/08/2026

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Take care everyone. Live your life in such a way that people are genuinely sad when you pass on.

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 25/08/2026

I’ll always remember Dolly Parton for the fact that she donated $1 million in 2020 to the research that led to Moderna’s COVID vaccine, as well as millions more for childhood vaccine and cancer research. She was an immensely talented, kind, and giving person.

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

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SEIU District 1199 WV/KY/OH @seiu1199wvkyoh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

STRIKE DELAYED! Cleveland Public Library's Negotiating Committee has reached a tentative agreement that we are presenting to the membership for a ratification vote on Wednesday, Aug 26. If you are a member at CPL, please check your messages for more details regarding the vote.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 24/08/2026

Anti trans figures aren't just tangentially overlapping with the attempt to defend the white supremacist eugenicist wing of the academy from backlash, they are integral to it.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/08/2026

I love Minneapolis

Jake Lang, a Nazi asshole, getting his ass picturesquely whooped in downtown Minneapolis by a person dressed as Spider-Man

I cannot overstate how much this photo looks like a comic book cover

Photo credit Chris Juhn Photography

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