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Diana Alonzo Watkins (she/Ella)

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Latina jefa, former New Yorker, #DCStatehood, Internationalist, #RadicalPhilanthropy and political junkie #DiverseCityFund #Instigator for #Justice, #GlobalSouth #MovementPower #PeoplePower

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
Imagine four of the most frighteningly irresponsible people in America deciding how AI will be put to use in the most frighteningly irresponsible way. Well, no need to imagine it — because it's happening now. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
FLASHBACK: “Any thoughts on that Wilson County ICE detention center? Core Civic’s 4 prisons loophole? Core Civic having a high death rate and failing audits?” @GovBillLee’s execution-botching TDOC Commish Frank Strada wasn’t thrilled to talk to us 🤷🏼 (He had issues in Arizona too)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15h
A Democratic-led coalition of cities and states, including Hawaiʻi, is suing the Trump regime for repealing rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
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US states and cities sue over Trump EPA’s repeal of emissions rules
Democratic-led coalition says gutting key protections will set US back decades and worsen climate crisis
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 9h
This is incredibly hard to read. So many people are trying their best and still we are failing these dear children. Cruelty doesn’t have to be the intent to become the result of our collective priorities.
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They were promised protection. Instead, these kids with disabilities died in foster care
Disabled kids make up the largest group in foster care. They have the worst outcomes. They stay in foster care longest. They're the most likely to die.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
Starting today, some of the cruelest changes to food stamps and Medicaid from Trump and Republicans' big, ugly bill go into effect. Here's what you need to know.
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Is This Trump’s Biggest Scam Yet?
The Trump-Republican “Big Beautiful Bill” is actually a “Big Ugly Nightmare.”Much of what’s included in it will begin in
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 2h
🧊🛩️ SOUTH AFRICA 🌍⛓️ 😲 After earlier stops in Ghana & Tanzania, a Talon Air G5 (tail: N59JE) delivers chained humans to Johannesburg 🇿🇦
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 41m
This is just delightful. Former Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin spent more than a decade building a city full of architectural marvels that would put any Trump property to shame. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_p...
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EP 1: ROOFTOPS, PENTHOUSES, AND URBAN LIVING
YouTube video by Mike Tomlin
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 17h
DoorDash and Amazon have both issued public apologies *just today* for the ways they have disrespected DC. Join authors Katie Wells + Declan Cullen tonight for a conversation about Silicon Valley vs. Home Rule, with @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social + Deflock DC freedcproject.org/event-list/s...
Text reads: "Silicon Valley vs. Home Rule. How tech billionaires are trying to take over DC. With Katie Wells & Declan Cullen. 10.01.26 at 6:30PM. Bol Co-Op, 716 Monroe St NE, Studio #11"
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 1h
This is the scene outside Bard high school this morning — FBI agents and armed soldiers acting as if children going to school on a Friday morning is some national security threat.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 2h
The FCC Targeting Disney is Another Trump Attack on Press Freedom | Opinion
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The FCC Targeting Disney is Another Trump Attack on Press Freedom | Opinion
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18h
This is crazytown. Why are they taking our money to run illegal ads? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump buys ads on CNN, MS NOW as he fights to bar them from the White House
Taxpayer-funded ads denouncing the “deep state” and “globalists” aired locally on the two cable networks Trump has sought to ban from White House grounds.
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brainthink @brainthink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why winning the Senate matters: - Only it can remove a President from office - Only it can approve treaties - Only it approves cabinet Secretaries - Only it can approve military promotions - Only it can approve judges - Only it can remove Supreme Court justices - It must approve all legislation
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky
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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax
There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 16h
If ashli babbitt's family can get $5 million after she literally broke into the Capitol to overturn an election, Renee Good's family should get at least triple that for ICE agents murdering her in the damn street.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12h
You mean when the Trump administration called off a major SEC investigation of Justin Sun after he bought huge amounts of Trump crypto?
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 16h
JFC! 😡
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15h
Senior leaders at Customs and Border Protection were left out of the decision to use their agency’s funds for a national ad campaign featuring Trump. They found out from a news report. Trump isn’t smart enough to come up with this himself. Our guess? Stephen Miller.
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CBP leaders cut out of Trump ad buy decision
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott and other leaders at the agency learned from a news report that national ads highlighting Trump were paid for with CBP funds.
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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 19h
It’s time for men (and the society forming them) to wake up….or as I have consistently been urged to do DMs from Christian fundamentalists: REPENT
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Dear men, it is time to wake the hell up
All this is horrible, but there’s one fact about this case that ought to keep you awake at night worried about the future of the world:
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14h
On this episode of #VibeCheckPod, we unpack the Cornell University gang rape case. Then, we get into the viral Massachusetts lesbian bar story. Also, I talk about #ADifferentWorld, Jasmine Guy and why aging is a blessing.
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Rape Culture Has a Group Chat
Podcast Episode · Vibe Check · September 30 · 1h
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h
When white nationalist are a part of your voting base
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 11h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10h
Hell yes, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to oversee the Cornell 7 rape case after DA Matthew Van Houten failed to do his job. Those 7 rapists are fucked and I’m so here for justice to be served.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21h
DoorDash, a $15 billion company, has issued a formal apology for their decision to back a GOP attack on DC Home Rule in July. Organizing made this happen.
washingtonsun.com
DoorDash Apologizes for Siding With GOP Bill Targeting D.C.
The company still wants the D.C. Council to make changes to a new delivery fee taking effect Thursday.
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CosmicHomicide @cosmichomicide.bsky.social · 17h
"We gave billions of dollars to 40 year old nepobaby whose daddy has funded his Hollywood fantasies. How could this have gone so wrong?" Dolts.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h
JUST IN: Governor Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h
A new kind of redlining just dropped
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As the President attacks the Kennedy Center, the free press, & the Smithsonian, his intentions are clear: He wants to rewrite our history, & control how it’s told. That’s why I joined Rep. Jackson and Rep. Mfume to introduce our Smithsonian Integrity Act: To keep our museums & history in OUR hands.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22h
Data collected by Pape as part of his work as founding director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats found that 90 percent of those charged with crimes arising from the attack held no affiliation with militias or militant organizations.
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The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer
Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22h
The attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not conducted mainly by extremists or fringe militia groups. It was, according to the data, the work of normal Americans.
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The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer
Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17h
This ICE flight has landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Immigrant passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 18 hours.
An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Accra
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23h
It was 96° at 11:00 a.m. in Lamont, CA. Farm workers were bent over harvesting Asian leafy greens. "Erik" shares, "Our work is being done in direct sunlight and requires being bent over for hours at a time. By the end of the day our back hips and knees hurt." #WeFeedYou
Workers in a field bent over harvesting Asian leafy greens
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h
“.. a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt. .. The paper losses for the investment-grade notes alone topped $100 million, according to an analysis late Thursday ..” @bloomberg.com $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21h
New York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...
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Map shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 21h
‘Just hours after Paramount Skydance issued $52B of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions in losses, triggering a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses
Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 21h
NOTE: these positions are now CENTER in the US...
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🧊✈️ Thursday ICECAST – 1 Oct 26 🐰🐇 8am — Houston, Buffalo 9am — Denver 10am – Memphis, St George UT, Fort Worth, Birmingham 11am – Richmond, Adelanto CA 🇬🇹, Detroit/Willow Run 12pm – Twin Falls ID, Indianapolis 2pm — Miami 🇭🇹 3pm — State College PA Outbound 🇲🇽🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇪🇨🇩🇴🇭🇹
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The visa is a “designation for certain immigrant children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected that provides humanitarian protection, his lawyer said.” The Trump regime is now further traumatizing him. #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds. The men in Maine and Florida were not even ICE’s intended targets for arrest – they became ‘collaterals’, as agency officials call them.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“He says the military viewed Catholic clergy who advocated for social justice and human rights as communists. He was detained, beaten and hospitalized, he says.”
"A moral obligation"

Rivas grew up in El Salvador during another tumultuous era. A military coup in 1979 led to a deadly decade-long civil war between the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government and a left-wing guerrilla group backed by Cuba. 

Rivas decided to become a Catholic priest at age 27. He says the military viewed Catholic clergy who advocated for social justice and human rights as communists. He was detained, beaten and hospitalized, he says.
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 01/10/2026
Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE’s ‘Enforced Disappearances’ of Noncitizens | “Disappearing people into a network of remote detention sites, hiding their whereabouts, and cutting off their access to outside help is the definition of an enforced disappearance.”
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Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE's 'Enforced Disappearances' of Noncitizens - Bucks County Beacon
The practice involves withholding the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation from families and lawyers.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧊✈️ BOYS ARE BACK IN YOUNGSTOWN 🧐 The first two ICE flights depart out of YNG Wednesday morning after the completion of summer runway reconstruction: 🛫 8:55am — Eastern N808TJ ➡️ AEX ➡️ VSA 🇲🇽 🛫 10:30am – Eastern N804TJ ➡️ IND ➡️ AEX
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Superintendent: SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S
A MEMO THAT MAKES CLEAR IT IS LAWFUL FOR YOU TO JUST KILL PEOPLE IF YOU THINK THERE ARE DRUGS ON THE SAME BOAT?

Principal Skinner: yes

superintendent: May I see it?

Principal: no
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ICE Is Still Targeting the Haitian Community in Springfield truthout.org/articles/ice...
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ICE Is Still Targeting the Haitian Community in Springfield
Hundreds of Haitians in the Ohio town are being forced to wear ankle monitors while they await immigration hearings.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Yep! I wrote about this in @ballsandstrikes.org last year after I was like hmmmm this legal argument sounds......familiar! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Anti-Abortion States Are Trying to Enforce a Modern Fugitive Slave Act
A Louisiana prosecutor’s decision to indict a New York doctor for mailing abortion bills calls to mind one of the ugliest chapters in this country’s history.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A truck with a sign ‘Palantir tracks, ICE attacks!’ led the crowd through the streets of downtown.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lot of independent college daily newspapers show what journalism could be in the absence of corporate control.
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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