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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICE is set to open a new detention facility for kids at an airport in Alexandria, Louisiana, in order to speed deportations. The Trump regime is putting kids at risk for trafficking, a multi-billion-dollar crime industry. Who is profiting from trafficking migrant kids? bsky.app/profile/anat...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CNN is granted access inside an immigration court hearing where dozens of children facing deportation, some as young as three years old, appealed to stay in the United States. Many of them facing the judge without an attorney representing them.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The judge later asked a group of 15 minors without attorneys: “Is this your first time in immigration court?” They all answered, “Yes.” “Do any of you want voluntary departure?” the judge asked. No one raised their hand. Another child stretched her hands playfully toward the sky.
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Inside a Texas immigration court where children fight to stay in the US | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump & ICE have done this to 25,000 people & counting. The government is abducting our neighbors and disappearing them to places with abhorrent human rights records. Often, they’re stranded there without money or identity papers. These aren’t deportations - they’re renditions.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sen. Ron Wyden: Trump "has been going out of his way to endanger migrant children and leave them at risk of falling into horrific cycles of trafficking," and Alexandria is "another black box location for the Trump administration to disappear migrant children." www.thequeenzone.com/exclusive-to...
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Exclusive: Top Senate Dem Responds to Christian Faith Group's Plea for Oversight of New ICE Facility for Kids
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, has responded to a Christian faith group that...
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Au contraire Peter Thiel…your #Palantir software helped to kill 123 kids in Iran….which is both incompetent AND evil 🤷‍♂️ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes!! Remember this!! This is a big part of what must change.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Scotland and Ireland cherish their creative folk. Seems South Korea does too.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ABC: “A 36yo immigrant from Costa Rica died last week in ICE custody… Carlos Josue Marchena-Marchena marks the 55th such case during Trump’s second term… second person to die at the detention facility in Louisiana this year.”
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Costa Rican immigrant died while in ICE custody, agency says
A 36-year-old immigrant from Costa Rica died last week in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to an agency notification sent to lawmakers on Monday.
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Never ever!!!
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Drag queens ain't done shit to you
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...
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Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes she mingles/ Becoming one with the mist/ The grey horizon #haiku
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
to people who are concerned that this suggests that 'Kavanaugh is not smart,' as opposed to 'Kavanaugh is evil,' I want you to rest assured that these things are not in opposition he is both evil and a dumbass
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Misha (entrepreneurial clown) @mishacopyninja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm sure that liberals and self professed leftists getting increasingly comfortable with queerphobia and ableism is not going to come back bite them in the ass.
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy equinox Bluesky friends!! You can hear the bees/ Hum, you can feel the flowers/ Grow in the garden #haiku #garden
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/09/2026
Incredibly important message from the heroes protesting NYU Langone's denial of health care to trans youth: "WAKE UP, WAKE UP, THIS IS YOUR FIGHT TOO "WHEN THEY'RE DONE WITH US, THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU"
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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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GorgonGoddess_The @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Disability advocacy is MORE than cost. It is reverence for personhood. Honest compassion. Dignity for those society would prefer to disregard to resist facing their own vulnerability. It is facing the true fragility of life and the corporate disregard for such! Demanding better thru accountability!
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Big update: Trump just erupted at CNN for still covering him at the United Nations. Meanwhile, Republican Senators have broken and are demanding an investigation into Trump Jr.'s Russia ties. Trump TV ratings flop. The DOJ tried to scrub all of Trump's pardons today. I archived it first. Subscribe:
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NEWS: Trump Erupts at CNN for Still Covering Him, GOP Senators Ask to Investigate Trump Jr., DOJ Scrubs Pardon Information (I Archived It)
Good morning, everyone.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“[The prosecution] was intended to silence speech about Palestine, and for everything that they threw at this case, they have failed.” quoted: Amy Zhai, one of the five students targeted in the prosecution www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Charges dropped against Stanford students over pro-Palestine protest
Students faced prison terms and thousands of dollars in restitution over campus protest against Israel’s war on Gaza
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/09/2026
this bigot is a republican
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Who let these cats in/ Clawing scratching in my heart/ Anxiety #haiku
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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The most important thing peer support gave me wasn’t advice. It was the experience of sitting across from another autistic human and not having to translate myself. I want other people to have that too. All the time. We need more people in peer-support work.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Since Trump claims that it was “the military” that requested to use the arch to store sniper ammo & drones, these are the times when a Democratic majority could bring Gen. Dan Caine before Congress to find out from him if that is true & why. As usual, Republicans will do nothing.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Schumer and Jeffries HAVE said a few things: 1. No Impeachment proceedings against Trump. 2. No Medicare 4 All 3. Continued "support" for Israel Feel free to add the other things you've heard them say on TV etc... over the past 6 months. THAT is the agenda.
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Will @willgarcia820.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Looking forward to this from Matthew, who is always on point on one of our most pressing fights: health care for those who need health care most.
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Join me 09/21: Fighting for the public health we deserve | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
We’re living through an unprecedented public health emergency that is disproportionately harming disabled Americans — public health is being
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
Hostile architecture is evil.
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I want you out/ Far enough, a mile from/ under my skin #haiku
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... (cartoon from the archives)
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No more ICE and NO MORE KID PRISONS EVER!!!
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This CA state case was the precursor to Brown v. Board of Education just 7 years later. Thurgood Marshall tested Brown arguments here. Also, the Mendez family was originally recruited to the U.S. to replace European and Asian workers who the racist 1924 Johnson-Reed Act barred from entry.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watching the kids grow/ Letting go while loving more/ a weightless treasure #haiku
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
A thought exercise for transphobic Democrats: replace the "transgender" with "Jewish" in the ads and notice how uncomfortable you suddenly get. There is slightly more trans people in the U.S. (0.95%) than German Jews (0.75%) before the Holocaust. Can't you see how dangerous your slippery slope is?
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Jinti is Making Passive Notice Checks @jinti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
y'all should push for Universal Basic Income 'cuz artists that aren't stressin' over rent and groceries and taxes all the time WILL draw freakier, more unmarketable shit
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RobinJP @robinjp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
First light arrives on tiptoe. #7SyllableSquad #7SyllableSentence #Tiptoe
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The bluebirds found us/ Their very presence compels/ A meal worm run #haiku #birds #nature
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In response to this, the DeSantis administration releases a statement saying that they'd make this outrageous cage "even smaller if we could." The Department of Homeland Security's own Inspector General said it violated every detention standard and posed a significant danger to health and safety.
"At least ten million illegal aliens entered our country under the Biden administration. Florida decided to do something about it," Lanfranconi said. "The left-wing media wants to focus on a confinement area for violent criminal aliens who have proven they cannot remain peaceful while awaiting deportation. While it adheres to all federal standards for criminal confinement, we'd make it even smaller if we could."
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yeeorcas poems 🌱 @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pause with me release the syllable count watch these clouds drift as late-summer heat clings to your blanketing clothing kissing your cheeks as you inhale birds chirping in the grass cars wooshing with your exhale repeat with me "All I have is now" #poetry
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:
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Mayor Mamdani was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end. It started at 8:40 AM, and concluded close to 12:30 PM. Most of the other current electeds left at various times. Former Mayors Bloomberg & Giuliani stayed.
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Mamdani stayed until the end of the memorial ceremony at which point he was seen talking with 9/11 victims' family members. All of the other senior elected officials left the 9/11 Memorial before the reading of the names concluded.
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The source tells me that V.P. Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began "schmoozing." At some point, Mayor Giuliani's people started "bringing people over to talk with him." CORRECTION:I used photos in a previous similar post that were from 2025
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have spent the week with many of the leading cybersecurity people in the world. Literally none of them expressed any worry at all about this. In case you wanted to be concerned about, you know, actual risks.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Watch my banned interview with Jimmy Kimmel on YouTube: youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026
see, it’s not that hard
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kaarstenf.bsky.social @kaarstenf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You almost tricked me/ You almost swallowed me whole/ Earnest blue nice guy #haiku
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