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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is fucked up
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 08/10/2026
3 years into the genocide initiated by Israel in Palestine, the number of reported people killed has passed 74,000 and over 175,000 injured — a culmination of decades of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. (www.gazaindex.org)
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am not shocked. I am not surprised. I expect that this is what this country's leaders will do because they have a blood lust that is enabled by the country's people.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 08/10/2026
“City Councilmember Tiffany Cabán also condemned the shooting and called for ICE to be abolished. ‘We need to get ICE the hell out of our city, abolish ICE, and hold this administration accountable for the horrors they have inflicted on our immigrant communities,’ she said in a statement.”
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23h
The regime knows they’re on track to get demolished in the midterms, so they’re about to reach as far into the dictator’s toolkit as they can reach. They know they’re cooked, but they’re going to try to break everything on their way down.
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Open to candidates who are residents of the Palestinian Territories (East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank), and Palestinian refugees registered in Syria, Lebanon & Jordan www.geog.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...
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Palestine-Oxford Scholarship in Geography and the Environment
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: Trump wants to transform the 2030 census in ways that'd dramatically skew representation. So we asked you to send us your questions. And we invited an expert on the census, who just published a new book interviewing 100s of census workers, to answer you. I learned a ton reading her replies:
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Trump's Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
The Trump administration plans to upend the census. They’re proposing to exclude noncitizens from the count that determines the distribution of congressional seats, a move that would subtract politica...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026
If you are outraged about this (and you should be, and I bet you are if you're reading this) and you want to do something about it: crank up that VPN and search for "ICE watch" or related activities + wherever you live. Get your Signal login going. Sign up for everything.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines
RFK Jr saying that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & the Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid—these are 2 dangerous lies
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Civil war in Ethiopi bubbling up again. Deathtoll hard to verify--but probat least 600 k, last half decade or so. Imperial fuckery in that land--Soviet, then U.S., up to the recent present--runs deep. This isn't separate from you. Read my pal @annneumann.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2023...
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Falling Like Leaves, by Ann Neumann
The war in Ethiopia and its crimes against civilians
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026
Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
fucking horrendous
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Kevin Morris @socceralt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Welp, it was a good run here in the second half of the season Austin FC. But "we offered her a complimentary t-shirt" is not quite doing it for me here for some reason. If she's banned for 12 months, maybe the rest of us should take a 12-month break too. www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...
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Woman banned from Austin FC games after wearing anti-ICE T-shirt on Hispanic Heritage night
The incident came less than a week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Austin shot Venezuelan migrant Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez in the back.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Priyansh @privaricate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'International college athletes are among the most exploited campus athletic workers in the current political economy of US college athletics...' @nkalamb.bsky.social, Simran Kaur Sethi, & @derekcrim.bsky.social shed light on the case of Aminata Seck who was abducted by ICE in August this year
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 25/09/2026
The trailer is even gutting. 500 innocents killed to get one target. That math is incomprehensible to me. Meanwhile, yesterday Netanyahu claimed what’s happening is “the opposite of genocide.”
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare you
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UK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence halls
The University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings.
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Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I had a student tell me that they lost close to $5,000 that they did not actually have to DraftKings, and their parents had to stage an intervention. Shame on the universities partnering with these parasitic monstrosities. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”
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Summit Up @summitup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Scoreboard Vision of the goal. (Complete with working pixels!) #SummitUp
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So, in the copyright literature, some people argue that maps don't/can't require originality (in the Feist v. Rural sense) because the goal of a map is to be "accurate." But cartography has always required intellectual work. And choices. And yes, even creativity.
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Defector @defector.com · 17/09/2026
Rory Dames—the women’s soccer coach currently banned for life from the NWSL, and who has been accused of abuse by more than a dozen former youth players—is no longer listed in the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s centralized disciplinary database. defector.com/rory-damess-...
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Rory Dames's SafeSport Suspension Has Ended | Defector
Rory Dames—the women’s soccer coach currently banned for life from the NWSL, and who has been accused of abuse by more than a dozen former youth players—is no longer listed in the U.S. Center for Safe...
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 16/09/2026
"When asked why no documents existed, Illinois and Washington gave answers to Defector that indicated the results were being delivered via presentation—meaning no records are being generated." AH, that old tactic!
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good news everyone: AI is *not* going to kill us all! But don't take my word for it -- I talked to (real) experts, and dug deep into the logic of an "AI apocalypse" and found it wanting. That doesn't mean AI companies are off the hook, though. (gift link) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
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Forget the AI Apocalypse—the Real Threats Are Already Here
Airplanes, elevators and restaurants all have regulations to ensure their safe operation. Many experts argue for similar conventional measures for AI.
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This guy is an energy pricing expert. Currently chief energy advisor at Gulf, long time contributor to various NPR shows. Incredibly distressing.
The next 24 hours will see staggering increases at the pump for both gasoline & diesel. Fuel margins have yet to catch up with previous wholesale hikes.
Watch for huge increases in Great Lakes and Rocky Mountain states in particular.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My (35M) support acts (43M, 29M, 37M, 24M) have unionised!
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1. UPDATE Four of Ed Sheeran’s supporting acts have dropped out of his tour after Macklemore was pushed out due to pressure from stadium owners and the promoter.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 14/09/2026
For years, GM had been collecting all sorts of data on its customers — such as how often they sped or whether they drove at night — and selling it to brokers to generate risk profiles for insurance companies. Drivers were usually unaware of the degree to which their data was being collected.
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Your car is selling your data
The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/09/2026
I would have gone out and found like an 8th generation Texan family who had an adult trans kid who fled Texas and cut an ad with them going "i voted the way i did to keep this texas family together, but Ken Paxton drove them apart. When the government reaches into the home, I begin to question it."
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona - new report this week unicornriot.ninja/2026/treesit...
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Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona - UNICORN RIOT
Santa Cruz County, AZ – On a cool, cloudy morning in the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona, a young person popped their head over the edge of a platform in a tree, perched fifty feet above the rol...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/09/2026
The CDC has declared the cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce over. Nearly 13,000 cases in 21 states have been linked to Taylor Farms lettuce. 570 people have been hospitalized and two have died.
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We are in the fucking process of curing cancer and half of America is like nuh uh.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
true story: i went to mizzou for work last year and was chatting with the shuttle driver to the airport. he told me his nephews went to KU and he never forgave them “because of the rivalry.” i nodded, thinking sports/forgetting the history. then he adds “you know, because of the civil war.” me: 🫪
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 10/09/2026
Really proud to have had the Texas Observer's cover story earlier this year about why trans inclusion in sport is good, actually.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Grist @grist.org · 10/09/2026
More than 70% of new solar is being built in states that voted for Trump
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More than 70% of new solar is being built in states that voted for Trump
Trump-supporting states are driving the solar boom even as Republican policies complicate its future.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can’t let people see how many women died from the new abortion laws before they vote
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Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 09/09/2026
Lexington's General Government & Planning Committee received more information on a zoning ordinance text amendment for data centers.
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Lexington’s proposed new rules for data centers take another step forward
Lexington's General Government & Planning Committee received more information on a zoning ordinance text amendment for data centers.
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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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Jeff Kassouf @jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#NWSL TRANSFER: #USWNT forward Jameese Joseph is now with the Utah Royals. Chicago Stars get $750,000 with add-ons up to $840,000 in intraleague transfer funds. Pre-playoff boost for Utah. A long rebuild ahead for Chicago.
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Guthrie “NCAA Soccer Jon Rothstein” @guthrieedson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Have to include his historic 2025 season since the press release missed it” YIKES
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