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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

United Farm Workers union condemns brutal
ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Head Start works. For over 60 years, it's been the gold standard for early childhood education, helping children & families thrive. Now the Trump administration wants to dismantle the very standards that make it successful. I wrote to Secretary RFK Jr. urging him to withdraw this dangerous proposal

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/10/2026

After President Trump urged people to "fight back" against Somali immigrants in Minn., mosque leaders and neighbors are taking steps to protect their communities. They're renewing patrols that started during Operation Metro Surge and reminding worshipers about emergency exits and safety procedures.

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Mosques step up safety after Trump's comments targeting Somali Minnesotans

Clergy and some elected officials around the state are calling for additional security at mosques after President Donald Trump called on non-Somali Minnesotans to “fight back” against the Somali commu...

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wisconsin congressman Derrick Van Orden has been releasing fake, AI-generated videos of his Democratic opponent in the state's tightest race www.jezebel.com/wisconsin-ho...

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Why Not Just Release Deepfake Videos of Your Political Opponent, If the Law Won’t Stop You?

A Wisconsin GOP congressman has been trying to deepfake his way to victory, releasing fake ads of his Democratic opponent.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Senegalese basketball player for Kentucky State University was detained on August 7 at an airport while traveling with her team and has been in ICE custody ever since, despite her removal order being rescinded by an immigration judge.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to open within an airport in Louisiana in order to speed deportations – raising concerns about risks of child trafficking, writes @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

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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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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/

A screenshot of the Mississippi today headline: Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez from Mexico died while harvesting sweet potatoes, according to the Chickasaw County coroner

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1904: A train filled with white, Catholic orphans pulls into Clifton, Ariz. Enraged that the children are being adopted by Mexican American families, a white mob abducts the children from their new homes at gunpoint and redistributes them to white families. /1

Some of the Irish Catholic orphans who arrived by train in Clifton, Ariz., in 1904. The Arizona Orphan Abduction of 1904 remains one of the most explosive and revealing chapters in the history of race relations and family law. The aftermath permanently altered the trajectory of child welfare. The Supreme Court ruling codified race as the most critical factor in child placement, cementing the doctrine that non-white parents had no legal right to raise a white child. The case normalized a practice in which social workers matched children to parents based on racial categories, a standard that lasted into the late 20th century. Eastern charities drastically scaled back sending children to western territories, shifting instead to localized, legally sterile foster systems. The children stolen in Arizona never returned to New York and never saw their Mexican mothers again. They grew up as white Protestants, their identities rewritten by a flashpoint of frontier racial panic.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICE shot Wilber Perez in the back. Now, Wilber can’t move the left side of his body. How does paralyzing a DoorDash driver make anyone more safe?

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The absolute silence - and stated approval by many Republicans - about these murders from our elected leaders in Congress is abhorrent.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🧵 Today, we're going to delve into the remarkable story of James Forten—a Revolutionary War veteran and former P.O.W. He became one of the most influential Black abolitionists in early American history. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 19/09/2026

As a genre, microhistory has become synonymous with popular books on certain commodities or everyday objects. But Carlo Ginzburg envisioned a different approach, using notations, confessions, and the private lives of ordinary people to illuminate the past. thebaffler.com/latest/carlo...

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Carlo Ginzburg, 1939–2026 | Emma Claire Foley

Carlo Ginzburg’s work centered and subverted the very idea of insignificance.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 15/09/2026

Two American teens were on their way to enlist in the Marines and serve their country, only to have their basic human rights violated. They were pepper sprayed, physically assaulted, and detained for 8 hours for the “crime” of filming ICE agents as they detained parents outside of a school.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Jose" shares, "I work in Delano, CA, picking grapes. I've been doing this work for 13 years. It's very tiring right now because of the high temperatures. Today the high was 92°. We leave everyday exhausted. These are the trays of some of the grapes I've picked today." #WeFeedYou

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Jody with a Y @jc72.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So disappointed I can't be at Corbett vs. Dempsey for the Sept 19 event/performance. Fascinated to see how they represent Pope.L's adventures in sound. See the exhibition if you're anywhere within striking distance of Chicago -- it's up through October. art.newcity.com/2026/09/11/w...

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When Pope.L Played in a Band

Resurrecting the musical legacy of the late legendary visual artist.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026

This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters.

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Intertribal Timber Council @intertribal-tc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🌲 Introducing "Forests of the First Stewards: Menominee Nation" — a new film series & K–12 curriculum on Indigenous forestry leadership, from ancient tradition to modern stewardship. ITC is proud to sponsor this project. 🎥 forestproud.org/forest-of-the-first-stewards #forestproud

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Not wanting to attend a large public event in the presence of a Muslim man isn’t a valid opinion, even if something terrible and tragic happened to you. You are free to feel it, but not free to have it treated as acceptable

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

illustration of two farm workers loading the crop onto a truck, with “Happy Labor Day!” text, UFW eagle emblem in a red circle, and 09.07 date.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)

The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 07/09/2026

“Bruno Chery, 34, said he had more than $6,000 on him when he was arrested at a court hearing in Massachusetts. Immigration authorities had put the money in an account, he said, but upon his release … he did not receive a debit card with the balance. “‘I lost everything,’ Mr. Chery said.”

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Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded

Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 05/09/2026

'Tigers and Magpies' Shin Jae-hyeon

Shin Jae-hyeon, Tigers and Magpies
Joseon Dynasty

a central stylized extremely cool looking tiger surrounded by smaller tigers and magpies

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There are so many forms of violence here: the spectacular violence of last year's South Shore raid; the slow violence of profit-driven landlords allowed to let housing rot; and the violence of state abandonment, or what this story calls "a virtually nonexistent safety net for the working homeless."

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Nearly a year after the South Shore raid forced him from his home, one former resident is still homeless

The military-style raid was one of the definitive moments of Operation Midway Blitz. It also set off a chain of events that laid bare the precariousness of Chicago’s housing system for low-income rent...

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My very controversial opinion is that nobody should be allowed to do this in a democracy and in fact if people are allowed to do this you don't actually live in a democracy

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Jody with a Y @jc72.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“I am desperate for our cultural institutions to have an intellectual spine … when the political currents are eroding access to terrible truths … I thought museums were where these hard considerations were supposed to happen.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...

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Opinion | Cancel the Met Gala Instead (Gift Article)

The Met shouldn’t have canceled the Galliano exhibition.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I feel like I’m going to throw up

Screen shot of an Instagram post that says the academy of natural sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries

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🦋marciebp Be a Dolly 🇨🇦 @marciebp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Whistle -Blower sounds the alarm about White House and the Post Office’s plan to disenfranchise millions of voters despite Court Order. Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail (Gift Article)

A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 31/08/2026

📣 “Civilian oversight plays a pivotal role in shining light on misconduct and bringing transparency to police actions in communities,” said NYCLU Assistant Policy Director Michael Sisitzky. “We’ve seen what happens when police investigate and hold themselves accountable. They simply don’t.”

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Police oversight boards promised after George Floyd often never materialized in New York

About half of the proposed civilian review boards were never created in New York, while others lack the power or visibility to hold police accountable.

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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This review I published when I was EIC by Dexter Thomas, was the article that made it clear that Kusama anti-Blackness permeated her work, and even more disturbing, the art market was trying to cover it up in all sorts of ways.

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What the Art World Doesn't Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama

A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 28/08/2026

Every face on that wall was a person. Someone loved them. Someone misses them. They should still be here. #SheShed 🎥 IG: defiancedispatch

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today would be a great day to double check your voter registration. In most places that will be the Board of Elections in [name of the county you live in]. In other places it will be the Secretary of State's office. ✅✅🗳️

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Maandag: Check Check Dubbelcheck

ALT: Maandag: Check Check Dubbelcheck

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/08/2026

Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, giant of resistance art, dies aged 79 aje.news/2xzmvt

Suleiman Mansour was among the Arab world’s most renowned visual artists and the creator of the iconic Palestinian painting Mount of the Bearers. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]

Rituals under Occupation (1989), one of Suleiman Mansour’s most prominent works, captures the suffering of Palestinians living under occupation and their daily resilience. In this oil painting, a highly symbolic funeral scene unfolds: vast crowds carry the coffin of a Palestinian, draped in the Palestinian flag and depicted as a large cross, evoking the Christian narrative of the crucifixion of Christ. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]

The Portrait (Portrait of a Man; 2017 and 2019), clay and acrylic on wood. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]

Olive Grove depicts a natural landscape of stone terraces and olive trees. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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

(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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