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Laura Thomas

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
anyway as someone grappling with very fresh grief over the loss of a parent, can I just say read more poetry, folks. For millennia, we've been feeling pain and grief, and translating it into art and poetry, and its all there, waiting for us. There can be a kind of healing and comfort in that.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The Lebanese Health Ministry reports that Israel has killed 397 people and injured 1102 since yesterday's bombing of Lebanon began
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athena (who is really cool) @athenaisreallycool.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
MS paint graph:
Society on the y axis, time on the x
"society up to now" straight diagonal line
"if you give me all your money" makes the line go up
"if you don't" makes the line go down
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/02/2026
After Isabel was released from a Minnesota detention center, ICE didn't return her work permit, ID, checks worth $700, or her daughter’s US passport. She's one of many now missing key immigration and identity documents.
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ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back
Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 24/02/2026
i was once too broke to move from one apartment in a building down the hall to another post-breakup. moving isn’t cheap or particularly fun &, by and large, trans people aren’t doing great economically. 401,000 trans people fleeing their governments should be considered a fucking national emergency.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In the UK, Norway, France, and more, there's been real consequences for Epstein-associated politicians. What are we getting in the US? The Attorney General spying on Congress as they look through the Epstein files, and the FBI director pounding tall boys in a locker room thousands of miles away:
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First Draft: Getting Away With Epstein
Why do people only get arrested over the Epstein files outside of the US? Plus, Trump stops trying to prosecute some of his enemies, while Republicans come for one of their own.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Has everything on the internet gotten 500x dumber this week or is it just me? No platform seems immune. Not quantifiable but I can almost visibly see the radiation coming off the poison I'm injecting into my eyes now.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”
It’s a Wonderful Life bank run scene.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
Kazakstan leader: "I'd like to propose to establish a special President Trump award ... "
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Welcome to Disney World’s new Hall of Authoritarians exhibit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
odd scenes in DC as Trump's "Board of Peace" world leaders stand around waiting for Trump while his playlist blares in the background
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Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Don’t be fooled by Kushner’s Gaza fantasy. The plan is to confine Palestinians to hyper-surveilled prison camps and exploit them as cheap labor for luxury developments they’ll never live in, all built atop mass graves. My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Jared Kushner’s “Plan” for Gaza Is an Abomination
Kushner is pitching a “new,” gleaming resort hub. But scratch the surface, and you find nothing less than a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.
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The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🔔 Join us on Feb 23 for an online event 15 years since the Arab Uprisings. Together, Lina Attalah, @hamidmkk.bsky.social, Samia Errazzouki, and Razan Rashidi, moderated by Micha Tobia, will revisit these movements, reflect on their legacies, and imagine what's next: timep.org/2026/02/16/t...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026
Assuming a machine trained on a massively cultural database shot through with inequality will not reproduce that inequality is magical thinking on a level that I’ve rarely seen.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/02/2026
A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
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ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler
A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Sama'a's baby girl is sick, and Gaza is cold and starving. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/157569
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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
You are not entitled to the training and labor of your comrades solely because you want it and aren't satisfied with your own work.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I think it's perfectly understandable that many people feel a deep sense of resentment and disenfranchisement for the time capitalism has stolen from them, but the answer is not to embrace capital's machine that pretends to show you an inner life you aren't having.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
These are the Haitians attacked by Vance in 2024 at the urging of Canadian neo-Nazi Geoff Martin, aka "Captive Dreamer," who he appears to follow closely. They're currently here legally. The admin is abruptly making them illegal, then removing them in a 1940s-style militarized cleansing campaign.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/01/2026
5-Year-Old Girl Deported to Honduras Despite Being U.S. Citizen
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5-Year-Old Girl Deported to Honduras Despite Being U.S. Citizen
A 5-year-old girl and U.S. citizen was deported to Honduras with her mother earlier this month. Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos lived in Austin, Texas, with her mom and family, where she was in ki...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/01/2026
People held at the Fort Bliss immigration detention camp in Texas report guards have crushed their testicles, beaten them, broken their teeth, and more. We're demanding an end to this inhumane treatment and to immigration detention at Fort Bliss for good.
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ICE accused of overseeing "unfolding humanitarian crisis" at Texas detention center - Salon.com
A recent death at Fort Bliss in Texas has renewed criticism of the ICE holding facility.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/01/2026
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
one more statement from one more Dem about Trump’s ICE or how ICE isn’t law enforcement or some other bullshit about how this is not who we are I dare u working title for next essay: THIS IS HOW IT’S ALWAYS FUCKING WORKED Cohen489.substack.com
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Friends of Klompus @klompusjack.myatproto.social · 26/01/2026
NB: I will be automating posts for Palestinian families in Gaza that I am in touch with moving forward. I’m not sure how helpful this will be, but I will try something new and try other things if I need to. Below you will find survival fundraisers for Palestinian families.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 24/01/2026
UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.
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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Talking to legendary Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! about Trump's Board of Peace (arguing that he is taking us back to the dystopia of early Modern Corporate Capitalism - the Dutch & the British East India Companies), Greenland, Europe and Palestine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFtf...
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“An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is a casino resort built upon the bodies of thousands of dead Palestinian men women and children colonized by an international alliance. It will be a living monument to the failures of humanity
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 22/01/2026
if you can afford to spend 30 seconds chatting and trying to look nonchalant as you fumble with a gas canister, perhaps you are not in a scenario where chemical weapons are warranted
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Greg Bovino is out here in a green trench coat sieg heiling to his “troops” who are all out to hunt human beings by race and Corey Booker et al still doing close up videos of their concerned faces acting like the issue is body cams & “oversight” and too little training.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.
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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
here you go
will stencil apology form

reasons for behavior: 

i was raised to believe in the liberal world order

i misunderstood some charts

i didn't know palestinians were people 

i dug in when wrong bc people were mean to me

i posted while drunk 

i just like joe Biden

i am sorry for my behaviour 
-will stancil
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/01/2026
This is a big reason movements like BLM very often aren’t considered resistance or left movements and it’s *constantly* reflected in our rhetoric.
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