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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ossining, less than a week ago, was the funeral of an 18yo Ecuadorian local grad who died tragically in a car accident. ICE took a man from downtown and arrested him at the high school directly across the street from the wake, also within view of a school soccer game. It’s terrorism. Abolish ICE.

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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

At the risk of being disrespectful, this protest song about murderous corporate malpractice would also make a catchy theme song for this site: “If I work all day on the Bluesky mine…” youtu.be/Ofrqm6-LCqs

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Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine

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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Had a dream last night. Urgency, something about the president?, quick check the news, tv folks pretending to be solemn, now what? #whenithappens

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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

You can tell I am a very cultured person because I mix up Emil Zola and Baron Zemo

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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 bear

witness, 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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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Clown in Armor — Robert Remsen Vickrey, 1961 egg tempera on gessoed panel

Grumpy looking middle-aged man with a white cap over his skull in a suit of armor with spikes

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 03/07/2025

This isn’t a bill, it’s a declaration of war

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

In China we refer to this kind of power play as 指鹿为马 “pointing at a deer and calling it ‘horse’.” In 1984 it’s “2+2=5.” Let us be like Jean Luc Picard and shout, “THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS.”

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

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Soylent D Cracker🏳️‍🌈 @cinemacultist.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Absolutely love this Behind the music clip

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. -- Louise Glück

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Allie @rally.luckyraven.cc · 12/04/2025

The government is supposed to be there to serve you, to support you, to help make your life easier. You shouldn't need to earn it, we all pay into it so it can help support people's needs. It shouldn't be profitable or business-like, because it's not a business, it's a service you are co-owner of.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I cannot understate how appalling and helpless it feels as a Jew that this is being done under the guise of fighting antisemitism.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

“Thank you for defunding Medicaid and social security… those grandmothers don’t need all that money…” @waltermasterson and others disrupt an @repmikelawler fundraiser

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Sometimes, when things feel extraordinarily bad - like they do these days! - it becomes more important than ever to watch this video of the coolest kids on earth absolutely *rampaging* through Fugazi's "Waiting Room" www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZD...

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32 - Fugazi: Waiting Room

YouTube video by wdiprod

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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

Tim Roth bloody in the back seat in Reservoir Dogs: “I’m okay.”

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I think about this almost daily.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Plenty of sangria, brandy & oblivion.

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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Working out my new film scanning process, here are more shots (sprockety ones). Thanks to @keithdevereux.bsky.social for the heads up on the Lomo camera sale. #ShittyCameraChallenge #believeinfilm

Photo of a stone bridge over a stone bridge over a walkway along a creek

Photo of an intersection with buildings from maybe the 1800s?

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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The Pig-Dog / Nathan walking From a trial run of a 4-lens toy camera, on expired Tri-X 400. #ShittyCameraChallenge #believeinfilm

4 photos of a boy standing outside, hamming for the camera and swinging long hair

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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I home-developed my first couple of rolls for #ShittyCameraChallenge after years of digital only – worked out well! Scanning to digital is proving to be more of a process. Here’s a shot of Ossining’s double bridge that I took on my new panoramic Sprocket Rocket. (I’ll rescan as a seamless image)

Black and white photograph of a large stone arch bridge. over a smaller stone arch bridge, over a brook with a walkway along it.

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Eddie Robson will be at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription

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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

For #ShittyCameraChallenge Day 1, I don’t have anything new because that’s the way film works, kids. But here are a couple of bad scans of old 120 negatives from a Brownie. Downtown Northampton, MA, circa 2009.

A photograph of a church tower, with a couple of other churches’ steeples in the distance.

A photograph of a small town street, with cars, pedestrians, and a steepled church.

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J. Sh—vitz @jforjacob.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I’m coming out of lurker mode and trying this thing out for #ShittyCameraChallenge. I only have some extremely expired film so we’ll see what happens.

An unmarked plastic 35mm film camera, with 4 small lenses in a grid and a flipped up rectangular hole for a viewfinder.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

let's all try to be aware that the vibes are real off rn

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