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@grinhoyz.bsky.social
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Nonprofit tech / digital leader. History nerd, film and comic geek, writer of stuff. Survivor of early 2010s Twitter.

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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
OpenAI proudly announces new contract with US military… with obvious loopholes that seem intended to quietly permit the same abuses at which Anthropic balked
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Our agreement with the Department of War
Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Received secondhand report of active ICE raid in Harrison, NJ. Agents reportedly blocking one or more streets with checkpoints on both ends. Treat as unverified.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They must have had an expose of something really bad planned by the staff.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
NJ Governor: We won’t let ICE into a few specific spaces without a judicial warrant, so we’ll collude with them to help facilitate kidnappings elsewhere
nj.com
Murphy signs law to create ‘safe zones’ to block ICE agents — but rejects 2 other bills
On his way out the door, Murphy signed a law making hospitals and schools safe zones from ICE but rejected broader protections that advocates wanted to shield immigrants.
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Carving up the spoils
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Trump wants nations to pay $1 billion for permanent Board of Peace seats
The Trump administration wants nations to pay $1 billion to remain on his Gaza peace board, reports show.
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Still from a video showing an ICE agent firing three shots at Renee Nicole Good’s head as her vehicle is clearly moving away from the agents
Photo of ICE agent in Minneapolis firing at Renee Nicole Good as her vehicle is clearly moving away from the agents
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/01/2026
With an annual budget that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending for the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history. Here’s what they are buying. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/04/2025
Harvard just scrapped it's office of Diversity Inclusion and Belonging and has renamed it the office of campus and community life. They will move focus from underrepresented minorities to first generation and low income students instead. Resegregation comes to Harvard.
A letter from Harvard University addressed to the Harvard community. It discusses the institution's historical commitment to expanding human knowledge and building a diverse community. It cites President Garber’s message, emphasizing the need to comply with the Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which makes it unlawful to use race in admissions decisions. The letter stresses the importance of embracing diversity legally and fostering empathy, understanding, and a culture where differences become sources of learning.Continuation of the letter from Harvard University. It references findings from the 2024 Pulse Survey, noting that while many feel a sense of belonging, fewer form relationships across different viewpoints. It stresses the need to foster connections and create a culture of belonging. The Office of Community and Campus Life will refocus on providing forums for schools, expanding programs for engagement, and enhancing support for first-generation and low-income students. Signed by Sherri Ann Charleston, Chief Community and Campus Life Officer.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Dana Bash: “Well, you’ll let us know if you get a response to that letter.”
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...
huffpost.com
Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Well, this is horrifying.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/04/2025
New interim guidance from the UK "Equality and Human Rights Commission." Trans people are effectively banned from all bathrooms. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
A list outlining policies for the use of public workplace facilities by trans individuals. Key points include that trans women (biological men) and trans men (biological women) should not use facilities designated for the opposite biological sex, as this would make them no longer single-sex. In some cases, trans individuals may also be restricted from using facilities of their own biological sex. It suggests the provision of mixed-sex facilities where possible and allows for gender-neutral use of lockable single-person rooms.
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Release the Kraken.
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AFK - ON SABBATICAL @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 25/04/2025
This is crazy. ICE didn’t have event have a warrant to arrest the guy! The judge asked for it and they said “we have an administrative warrant” (not a real warrant). She told them to kick rock and now the FBI is charging her with obstruction the arrest ‼️
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The ADL's latest antisemitism audit sounds the alarm over non-Zionist Rosh Hashanah observances... while the organization continues to defend Elon Musk's literal Nazi salutes New from @benlorber8.bsky.social in @religiondispatches.org
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Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches — Including an Embarrassing Failure to Recognize a Jewish Ritual
This week, the ADL released its annual audit of antisemitic incidents. Predictably, the organization repeated its familiar mantra that the Palestine solidarity movement was the chief culprit behind a ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
This should be a huge story
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klaudia @kaludiasays.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The first issue of Nemik's Weekly Manifesto, the newsletter I'm working on with @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social to mobilize Star Wars fans into real life action around #Andor season 2, is here! Let's get what inspired these episodes, and what you can do right now: bit.ly/NemiksManife...
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“The Empire cannot win. You’ll never feel right unless you are doing what you can to stop them. You are coming home to yourself. You’ve become more than your fear. Let that protect you.” - Cassian Andor, Andor Season 2 Episode 1, “One Year Later”
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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Your regular reminder that the COVID pandemic is NOT over. Please use the proper language when talking about it. Please don’t say “During COVID” or “When COVID.” We are still deeply in it. People are still dying and becoming disabled from Long COVID.
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Houthi airstrike defense estimated to have destroyed over half a billion dollars worth of American military hardware
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What Air Defenses Do The Houthis In Yemen Actually Have?
The loss of nearly 20 MQ-9 Reapers, increasing use of standoff munitions, and the deployment of B-2 bombers point to the Houthis' air defenses being a real problem.
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads
starbucks.com
Contact Us: Starbucks Coffee Company
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I love when the NYT rewrites my entire story and doesn’t cite it until the 16th paragraph
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/04/2025
This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Good to see @newrepublic.com showcasing quality independent journalism, especially with this important story
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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.”

Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges.

“I first thought they were going to try to sell me something. But as soon as I opened the door they said, ‘Are you Clayton Jackson?’ I think I shook my head or said ‘yeah,’ and then I heard, ‘We have information that you are obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation.’”

Jackson says alarms went off in his head. “My first instinct was to want to know what this was about. That it must be a misunderstanding. So I started to tell them about how I’ve been involved in some pro bono work. Then this voice in my head kicked in and just said, you need to shut the fuck up — don’t say anything.”

The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside.

“I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.”

Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.”

There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.”

About 15 minutes after the interaction at his front door, Jackson’s Wifi was up and running again.
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Data Against Fascism @dataagainstfascism.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Also on the tracker a man arrested yesterday in this poster's hometown of Columbus, Ohio. As a reddit commentor in the story in r/Columbus said.. "I'd believe there are hot local singles in my area before I believe an ICE Social Media post." ICE claims without proof that he is in Tren De Aragua.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Tim Pool is in the White House briefing room today and the top producer at 60 Minutes has resigned because he doesn't have journalistic independence anymore. Bleak times for journalism.
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Good job team America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/04/2025
The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that a trans teen cannot legally change their name until they turn 21 solely because they are trans despite having the support of both parents. This is unconscionable. www.advocate.com/law/mississi...
advocate.com
Transgender teen can't legally change name until age 21, Mississippi Supreme Court rules
The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that a 16-year-old trans boy cannot legally change his name even with the support of both his parents.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Live in NY? We have a #NoNYMaskBan phone zap tomorrow care of @bendthearc.bsky.social or call on your own. It is key to call your state assembly member and state senator.
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Make a Call: Jews say NO to a NY mask ban
NO MASK BAN — Phone Zap Instructions Find your state senator and assembly members and NY State leadership’s phone numbers Make a call using our call script, and check out our FAQ After each call, fi...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Today marks 83 years since the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In the words of Marek Edelman, last surviving leader of the uprising and lifelong anti-zionist: “To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
something like 75% of the people on that plane were proven to have absolutely zero criminal records, and they ALSO have House reps, and those House reps have offices to picket and phone lines to tie up "So-and-So just did ____, why can't YOU do that???" is a pretty good attack in these cases!
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Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/04/2025
oh fuck there's been an E. Coli outbreak and the Trump administration essentially hid it
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
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Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature pa...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It would take some time for this funding to really start getting off the ground but this would make ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States, and quite possibly the entire world.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Fantastic piece by Jews for Mask Rights excoriating @governor.ny.gov. Sharing evidence that these bans are abused by law enforcement, a violation of civil rights, and go directly against Jewish beliefs. “using Jews to justify stripping civil rights doesn’t make us safe — it makes us a scapegoat. “
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Don’t ban masks for ‘Jewish safety’
Behind closed doors, New York lawmakers are advancing a dangerous statewide mask ban. Gov. Hochul first proposed it in June 2024, framing it as a measure for “Jewish safety.” But using Jews to just…
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A vote for Cuomo is a vote to put Trump in charge of NYC
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
“37% of Americans agree that while they would hate being British, they wouldn't mind having a British accent.” rosencomet.com/changelingti...
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Changeling Times || e-Zine by the Chameleon Club and ACEWinterstar: Draft index
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Abe @grinhoyz.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Without providing evidence, the Trump administration asserts for the first time in writing that Abrego Garcia is still alive
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.
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Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border
President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday giving the U.S. military jurisdiction over federal lands at the southern border.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Rather than cite “DEI”—write out the words. Diversity Equity Inclusion Because if you’re against DEI, THAT’S what you’re against. Don’t let folks hide behind the initials.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“Jewish people came to America to escape generations of similar predations... The images of Ozturk’s arrest in twenty-first century Massachusetts evoke the oppressive tactics... that many ancestors... left behind in Odessa, Kishinev, and Warsaw.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
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Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE
More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I just confirmed myself this satellite image (1:48PM ET 4/11/25) of one of the yards at CECOT. I have no idea what this is, but those saying it is bodies and blood certainly are not getting that idea entirely out of nowhere. It may well be.
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