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ACLU of Indiana @acluindiana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
South Bend: Join us Oct. 16 for a free, one-day Popular Education Summit! ☕ Breakfast, lunch + refreshments provided 📍 La Casa de Amistad 🕙 10 a.m.-4 p.m. ET Space is limited! Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/acluin/event/1018495
Event poster featuring "Power & Purpose Training" with the phrases "Learn. Build Power. Take Action." It lists the location as "La Casa de Amistad, South Bend, IN" and the date and time as 10 AM to 4 PM, Friday, October 16. Logos of La Casa de Amistad, ACLU, and National Immigrant Justice Center are displayed. The background includes an image of a person speaking into a microphone.
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Greater Lafayette Indivisible ❌ 👑 @lafayetteindivisible.com · 07/10/2026
indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/10/07/y... Lotsa good advice here!
indianacapitalchronicle.com
Commentary: You’re not crazy. Voting in Indiana is intimidating. • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Voting in Indiana is not an easy process. Doing your civic duty requires optimism and nimbleness.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was one of the more diabolical Trump admin moves on immigration; ordering ICE to stop taking biometrics for detained immigrants seeking immigration benefits from USCIS, which meant that the agency would deny their applications by default.
In December 2025, USCIS announced that DHS would stop collecting biometrics related
to USCIS immigration applications for people in its custody. ECF No. 14-2; ECF No. 14-3 at 2-
3. In its press release, USCIS said that going forward DHS "generally will not take biometrics of detained aliens unless they are in removal proceedings and have a pending application or petition filed with the Executive Office for Immigration Review." ECF No. 14-2. That means DHS would continue to collect biometrics only for certain applications for relief, including those that can be made to immigration courts (which fall within the Executive Office for Immigration Review), but not for applications for many kinds of immigration status, including the plaintiffs' applications
(which must be submitted to and determined by USCIS). See 8 C.F.R. § 245.2(a)(1) (adjustment
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Probably preaching to the choir on bluesky but it really is an indictment of the entire American people and project that the most politically salient point against the Iran war isn't our rank imperialism or that we started it by bombing children, but that it's driving up gas prices
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h. biff bowie @hopebowie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#HoosierSky
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ACLU of Indiana @acluindiana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
South Bend, this one’s for you! Join us October 16 for a free, full-day Popular Education Summit focused on organizing, immigrant rights, coalition-building, and turning urgency into action. Space is limited, sign up today: www.aclu-in.org/event/south-bend-po…
Power & Purpose Training: Learn. Build Power. Take Action. Location: La Casa De Amistad, South Bend, IN. Time: 10 AM - 4 PM on Friday, Oct 16. Bright blue and neon yellow graphic with a person speaking into a megaphone. Icons for La Casa De Amistad, ACLU of Indiana, and the National Immigrant Justice Center.
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Terry Mark @terry-mark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Something Hoosiers need to keep in mind as voting begins: www.aclu-in.org/campaigns-in... #HoosierSky #INelections
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Welcome to the Era of Presumed Guilt: Public Question 1 - ACLU of Indiana
This November, Hoosiers will decide whether to rewrite Indiana’s Constitution to expand when the government can jail someone before trial. Taking away someone’s liberty before conviction is one of the...
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MADVoters @madvoters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For the public questions, MADVoters opposes public question 1, because it would expand a judge’s authority to keep people behind bars before they’ve been convicted of a crime. ACLU of Indiana has an excellent resource on this: www.aclu-in.org/app/uploads/...
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/10/2026
An underappreciated part of the two abortion pill cases filed last week: they target not just mifepristone, but also *misoprostol.* That's the second drug in a typical regimen, but it's effective on its own. Louisiana says the cases would prevent mailing "back-up drugs" @autonomynews.co
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Three States Try Express Lane to Supreme Court Over ‘Shield’ Laws: October 5 News Roundup
Complaints filed last week target access to both mifepristone and misoprostol, a back-up abortion pill method.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/10/2026
Louisiana's lawyer says it right here: The case against the providers would end the "ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send ANY abortion drugs" to ban states, and the case against the states would strip providers of protection to prescribe "back-up drugs"
screenshot letter sent to the Fifth Circuit:
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
Respectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana

pages 1 and 2 here
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.229553/gov.uscourts.ca5.229553.407.0.pdfscreenshot complaint against providers filed in district court:

A. Abortion Drug Manufacturers Encourage Abortions in Plaintiff States.
70. This story begins with abortion drugs themselves. The abortion drug mifepristone
causes an embryo or fetus to detach from the uterine lining, killing the embryo or fetus.16 Mifepristone
commonly is dispensed in conjunction with the drug misoprostol, which initiates contractions to expel
the dead embryo or fetus. Misoprostol also can be used standing alone to effectuate an abortion—
and some defendants in this case have threatened to switch to a misoprostol-only regimen if they lose the ability to mail mifepristone.17 Accordingly, the terms “abortion drugs” and “abortion-inducing drugs” in this complaint refer to both drugs individually and together, as well as any other drug intended to cause an abortion.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.223571/gov.uscourts.lawd.223571.1.0_2.pdf#page=21
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/10/2026
• What can I do to safeguard my vote? • What are my rights if I face election interference? • What if bad actors try to disrupt the election? Our experts answered your most pressing questions about the midterms.
aclu.org
Your 2026 Midterm Voting Questions Answered
Is voting by mail still safe? Can the president cancel an election? ACLU experts answer your questions about voting in the 2026 midterms.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026
Since July 27, brave people have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree to block the construction of Trump's border wall, which is destroying the region's ecology. This morning, Border Patrol raided the camp, arresting a number of people and killing the tree. Background: crimethinc.com/lochiel
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The Border is an Open Wound
A report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
11-yo Andrés lived with his dad in Texas—but was deemed “unaccompanied” by ICE and sent to foster care. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids and keeping them in government custody,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The decision that attempted to establish judicial supremacy wasn't Marbury v. Madison. It was... ...drum roll... Dred Scott. Truly. Raises issues.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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The Journal Gazette @journalgazette.net · 03/10/2026
Voters in three northeast Indiana counties will see casinos on their ballots this fall. Sherry Slater gives a look at the measures. Also, Ashley Sloboda explains more as school board candidates declare party affiliations. Go to www.journalgazette.net/elections to read these stories and more.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let’s be clear: this is *the* fight.
jessica.substack.com
EXPLAINER: Shield Laws Under Siege
Everything you need to know about the two new lawsuits targeting abortion providers & pro-choice states
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
bonkers
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a big f’ing deal. Story at the newsletter right now, and full explainer coming soon (so make sure you’re subscribed to AED) Three anti-abortion states are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to extradite abortion providers from pro-choice states.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.
latimes.com
His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Letter to the editor: Why choose between solar power and farming when the same land can provide both? A reader asks why agrivoltaics isn’t getting more attention in water-stressed East Anglia.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Letter: Why aren’t we considering agrivoltaics?
Letter to the editor
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Oh hey look: exactly what a bunch of us said was already and would keep happening— data centers being placed in spaces where their harms will fall on those already most marginalized— is, in fact, happening.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/10/2026
President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally change Title IX. LGBTQ students continue to be protected from discrimination under federal civil rights law. With the administration's continued cruel anti-trans actions, schools must not waver in their commitment to protecting queer students.
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Trump's Title IX Announcement Is Cruel. But It Does Not Change The Law
“Schools can and should continue to include transgender students equally in all educational programs,” writes Chase Strangio.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
States will start to pay a larger share of the bill to run the food assistance program, as federal funding for operational costs shrinks. trib.al/NaRdnSM
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SNAP's funding model is starting to change. Here's what that means for the program
States will start to pay a larger share of the bill to run the food assistance program, as federal funding for operational costs shrinks.
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h. biff bowie @hopebowie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because $$$ to rip communities apart is such boon to public safety? Ya'll all of this ICE/DHS money was originally meant for American healthcare. 416K Hoosiers already dropped from HIP. Another half million expected to lose their insurance in Jan 2027. This is some villainous shit. #HoosierSky
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The trans women in sports panic has got to be one of the GOP's most successful manufactured culture war campaigns. Somehow they got a lot of people who would otherwise say they support trans rights to somehow fear "fairness" in sports. It's a non-issue.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What men who try to intimidate me don't know is that I have PTSD from my physically abusive father. They can't kill me in any way that matters. When they puff up, I feel the silent focus of the berserker descend upon me. I fucking dare you, dude.
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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But maybe, just maybe, short traumatized women should not be the bravest soldiers on the front lines against men being dickheads in public. Maybe that should be their peers.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Winter is coming.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/09/2026
Feedback from healthcare providers in response to the AI pilot program has been scathing, with one calling it “a disgrace to the human race” and reporting that they saw patients crying in pain as they waited for care.
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, that feels like it has to be twelve kinds of illegal, right? So who’s going to prison?
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The department’s assistance line, on average, automatically disconnected 74 to 81 percent of the calls coming in during the first six months of 2026, according to the 19-page complaint." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/m...
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Thousands in Massachusetts are losing food assistance because of disconnected SNAP calls, lawsuit says - The Boston Globe
The state's Department of Transitional Assistance automatically disconnected 74 to 81 percent of incoming calls in the first six months of 2026, complaint alleges.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 22/09/2026
I first started reporting on Texas’ systematic heat torture of prisoners over a decade ago. It’s taken far too long to get here, and 2029 is far too long a time to allow this suffering to continue. Nonetheless, it’s good to finally bear witness to this ruling.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is like how I recently found out that people with a uterus have an entire organ under our ovaries that they think impacts hormones but which THE EFFING VICTORIANS decided was "useless" and so removed it from medical textbooks. Rete Ovarii.
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This reminds me so much of the time Republicans claimed that pregnant people were regularly getting "partial birth abortions." They just love making up strawmen in order to take away marginalized people's body autonomy.
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