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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
As the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. We’re showing you every incident we’ve confirmed — along with the receipts: propub.li/3TBuddL
500+ U.S. citizens detained since the start of the second Trump administration. 100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. At least 70 American children and teens detained, some of whom were handcuffed. 36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or family.
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404 Media @404media.co · 9h
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out. www.404media.co/cops-can-byp...
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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
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A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17h
“There is no excuse for a mistake of this magnitude...” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops who died during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the number of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10h
Haaaaahahaha I told you the best was yet to come!
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 11h
An off-duty ICE agent was shot by a 72-year-old California father during an alleged assault. Now, it’s the ICE agent who is facing felony assault charges. 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/ice-agent-sh...
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ICE Agent Shot After Bizarre 3:30 A.M. Attack on Senior
The late-night confrontation took a dramatic turn when the elderly homeowner pulled a gun and fought back.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sen. Tammy Duckworth flew helicopters in the Iraq War. Now she's pushing the Pentagon's investigator to look at the govt business going to companies backed by funds tied to Trump's sons. Their letter summed it up in six words: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-heros-we...
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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social · 1h
We also celebrate the history, culture, and contributions of Native American communities across our country that endure today.
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Native American Heritage Month | Smithsonian Institution
In November, celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Smithsonian events, resources, exhibitions, and podcasts.
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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social · 1h
Traces of these Native American sites have been uncovered all across DC — from the hills of Van Ness and Chevy Chase to the riverbanks of the Potomac and the Anacostia. On Indigenous Peoples Day, we honor the Piscataway, the Nacotchtank (Anacostans), and all who first made the District their home.
Sketch of the District of Columbia map indicating the location of Native American villages, quarry sites, archeological sites, and ossuaries.
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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social · 1h
Before the government buildings, federal monuments, expansive streetscapes, and residential neighborhoods of present-day DC, this land was lined with Native American villages, quarries, burial mounds, and hunting and fishing sites for thousands of years.
Horizontal, rectangular landscape painting depicting waterfalls with large rocky outcropping at their center. River bends at falls, flowing from background right to foreground right. Large tree frames left side. Dark clouds at upper right. Sun shining at left. Relatively high horizon with land sloping down to right.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 10h
A off duty ICE FUCK, who was drunk, was shot after confrontation with a 72 year old in Fresno, CA. Police found the ICE FUCK on the grass asleep & handcuff. No charges file against the 72 year old. youtu.be/0QVN7q0yTlY?...
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ICE agent shot by 72-year-old in Fresno confrontation, police say
YouTube video by CBS47 KSEE24
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now members of Congress are being denied the ability to see the damage at these bases because there's a coverup underway. There's a coverup underway to try to hide the cost of this war and the debacle it has caused in the region."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 21h
Unconfirmed social media in recent days have shown “what appear to be uniformed agents in bulletproof vests at construction sites in Madera; swarming parking lots at Dollar General stores in Chowchilla; and cars with missing drivers and smashed windows parked alongside the region’s vast farmlands.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Unmarked lunatics with guns attack your car when your kid is with you— you drive off too. Anyone who say otherwise is a liar. They almost killed the kid. What the fuck are we doing? 😳🇺🇸
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 15h
We knocked 5,366 doors for @tomperriello.bsky.social this weekend, bringing our total count to nearly 9,000 doors! In a city where ~16,000 people typically vote, we’re turbocharging turnout to unseat John McGuire and flip VA-05 blue.
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We were just discussing this in my grad-level Media, Technology & Democracy class yesterday.
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New Report Says WNBA Trans Debate Is Being Pushed Online For Profit: 'The Point Is to Sow Division'
The trans athlete fight feels inescapable online. Data startup GUDEA says the data shows a different story
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José Mauricio Umaña @joseumana.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A noticeable "Free D.C." rang out at Audi Field in the 52nd minute (when 51 appears on the game clock). It has been tradition with the @spiritsquadron.bsky.social since last year: wtop.com/washington-s...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15h
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 21h
They’re saying that I want to abolish prisons, but that’s crazy. After all, we need somewhere to lock up crooks like Ashley Moody. What kind of person steals $10 millions dollars from sick kids? #AngieForFlorida
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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 19h
One of reasons finance bros like Bessent hate Warren is misogyny of course but Also the fact that she knows their language and how the sausage is made in the financial world and routinely humiliates them publicly
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14h
Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...
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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base
From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 16h
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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 14h
We can and we must build more homes for all of us.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h
The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 17h
Now that’s how you do a reveal!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13h
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15h
This is not a trick: spooky season is taking over parks and rec centers across our city this month, from free haunted houses and pumpkin patches to Mad Science demonstrations and arts and crafts. We're building a city where every New Yorker can access joy and play.
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NYC Parks just released its 2026 fall festival lineup: Free pumpkin patches, harvest fairs, Halloween events & more
NYC’s 2026 fall festival schedule is here, with free pumpkin patches, harvest festivals, Halloween events and more.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h
Speaking of live-streaming executions… There were white people in America, particularly from the 1880s through the 1930s, who enjoyed watching Black people being lynched. They brought their families, took photos & collected pieces of the victims’ clothing as souvenirs. [1935 — Fort Lauderdale]
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h
Me and a bra at about 6:39 PM.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 14h
ok seriously, wtf tho
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NYC manhole mystery deepens as 3 more people enter sewer in Manhattan
HAMILTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan ( (PIX11) – The New York City manhole mystery continues after three people were seen entering a sewer system in Hamilton Heights early Sunday, according to police.…
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 13h
Capitalism treats every unfamiliarity as friction to be eliminated. The market is very good at learning what we already like and selling it back to us, when the most valuable experiences in life are the ones we wouldn’t have known to ask for. Even in a game.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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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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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20h
There’s also this piece from last year which points to similar cognitive effects. Asbestos of the mind is an excellent way to put it.
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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/10/2026
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote. www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21h
Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21h
I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21h
Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 21h
The biggest loophole that needs closing is getting prosecutors and police to actually care about sexual assault... www.courthousenews.com/ny-governor-...
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NY governor slams response to Cornell gang rape report
Governor Kathy Hochul said Cornell University police and the local district attorney's office failed to properly investigate the 2024 report, so she's tapping Attorney General Letitia James as an inde...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22h
THIS ENERGY!! 📢 🔥 ✊
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 20h
🧊✈️ HEADS UP VIRGINIA‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Richmond Air Wisconsin CRJ-200 Tail: N468AW – ETA 12:45pm
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23h
Do my eyes deceive me, or does this article that mentions the assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was not an elected official, not mention that Rep. Ilhan Omar was physically attacked less than 10 months ago?!?!?!
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 22h
Now that the weather has cooled down, Gilroy area tomato workers have to start work later because the cold makes tomatoes fragile and easy to damage. "Olga" says, "Switching work times based on the weather with kids to care for is difficult, but there is no option." #WeFeedYou
A Gilroy tomato field
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When we first joined the effort to flip VA-05, people told us not to bother — that it was a lost cause. Now it’s a coin-toss race. @tomperriello.bsky.social has the momentum and MAGA John McGuire is losing ground every day.
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Dems Might Just Have a Shot in This Very Unlikely District
Virginia’s 5th congressional district isn’t a natural fit for Democrats. But Tom Perriello is polling surprisingly well right now.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 21h
Day two crew!! Yesterday we knocked 3,600 doors for @tomperriello.bsky.social and today’s rain won’t stop us from pushing on toward our goal of 5,000 doors this weekend. Talk with you soon, Charlottesville voters!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"We want ICE the fuck out of our neighborhood." Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson delivered an impassioned, unfiltered address in Marble Hill following an ICE agent-involved shooting that left a man hospitalized.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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