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Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org · 29/09/2026

Yesterday Europe shined green in support of abortion rights for International Safe Abortion Day! 💚💚💚 This is a global call to action for access to timely, affordable, and quality abortion care. Read our recap of the day: bit.ly/4xLM1Rb

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 17h

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Spotted parked in front of a big single-family house in San Francisco this morning. Too early? Yes, too early

Red-and-white truck labeled "Christmas Light Pros" parked in front of an ivy-covered house wall

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even worse, ‘Dilley 2’ in Alexandria, Louisiana, aims to deport migrant kids as quickly as possible, some to third countries, putting them at risk of falling into “horrific cycles of trafficking,” Sen. Ron Wyden warned. 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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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Smile, it’s Friday! 😃 Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years! Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a human figure roughly carved from dark brown oak wood during the Mesolithic period about 5,400-5,300 BC. It is 12.5 cm tall with a long body with two finger-shaped indents on the right hand side (left in my photo), suggesting it was made to be held in the hand. The stylized head has deeply carved eyes, nose, and open mouth. The triangular shape of the mouth makes it look as if the figure is smiling, leading to its description as ‘The oldest smile in the world’. It is displayed against a black display case background at Landesmuseum Halle in Germany where the figure is currently on loan for the ‘Shamaness’ exhibition. It is part of the permanent collections of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Netherlands. It was found in a layer of peat in 1966 during the construction of a dock at Willemstad, North Brabant, Netherlands.

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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just some GREAT conversation here, a simultaneous profundity and lightness of touch

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Will Newsom sign the bill? Lawmakers are joining immigrant rights groups in urging Governor Newsom to sign a bill that, if implemented, would ban California police, sheriffs and other law enforcement from taking on second jobs that involve “arresting, detaining, transporting, or deporting” people.

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No moonlighting for ICE

CA bill could bar police from working for the feds

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia828.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

We are not letting this go #JusticeForNolanWells

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026

ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.

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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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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nacht Und Nebel

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 23/09/2026

The entire San Francisco Board of Supervisors signed a letter demanding Ho Yin Mo's release. ICE detained Mo, an aide to Assemblywoman Catherine Stefani and former London Breed campaign staffer, at a Las Vegas airport last week. missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...

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San Francisco elected officials call for feds to release Ho Yin Mo, detained assembly legislative aide

Former Chinese-language TV anchor, detained last week at Vegas airport, works for Assemblymember Catherine Stefanie and previously served as field organizer for Mayor London Breed

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Hairball 😡🙄😡🙄🌊✊ @hairball-redux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is horrific. This man was shot in the back by ICE and has been taken out of the hospital and put back in detention, *with the bullet still in his back and his entire left side paralyzed.* He was forced to sleep on the floor and given no pain medication. www.macombdaily.com/2026/09/22/i...

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Man shot by ICE in Texas is back in detention after leaving hospital, attorney says

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was being held Tuesday at a federal center in South Texas.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.

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Chloe Papadopoulos @chloespumpkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#Dostoevsky, #Khvoshchinskaya, foreign novels, publishing data, #19c literacy rates, and the story of the Russian novel's rise! And all in one short-ish interview. Had such a nice experience working on this and happy to share it with the community:

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.

Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 20/09/2026

ICE shot a man in the back in Austin this afternoon. But we're also learning this weekend about the death of Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year old man from Costa Rica who appears to have died at the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana after 9+ months in ICE detention.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We also don’t have a law that creates a presumption of citizenship. We need to change that - law enforcement (all kinds) should not get to require proof of citizenship based on biased factors, etc. The fact that they can do that right now is incompatible with a safe & just democracy.

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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

<<she wanted the second line of her obituary to acknowledge her role as a shop steward for SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents NPR's editorial workers. She wanted the line to say that her "proudest achievement" was helping convince NPR to increase its paid parental leave.>> 💔

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026

LIVE from the Kennedy Center! We’re just getting started. Join our live coverage so you don’t miss a thing: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Katuwestākos Göransson @seadogdriftwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A computer/online game in Hittite? Where you *learn* introductory Hittite? And with advanced options to read it in Cuneiform?! It is real. And it is free. @kaimonster.bsky.social, you've surpassed Suppiluliuma. You deserve all the laudation of a Labarna. May Istanu shine blessings upon you.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NICU babies are the most vulnerable a human can be, and it seems almost quaint to say it now, but we are supposed to build societies where the most vulnerable can count on others to not let this happen

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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy pub day to me! And to Jehanne. I hope she might be glad of my admiration for her: her jokes, her style, and her incredible grit. #medievalsky #skystorians. Come celebrate with me and @sarahweinman.com tonight or @harvardbookstore.bsky.social tomorrow @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"my client didn't show up to his final immigration court hearing this morning" would usually be imm lawyer nightmare fuel, but my guy was in ICE custody. They were supposed to put him on video and they just... didn't. Because no one could find him. He's still in there. Just, you know, missing.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They are so crooked! To go on national television and swear up and down that they don't arrest people at schools/school bus stops. Bingo! It happened!

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was sorry to hear that Bob Mackie had died today, surely the designer with the most sparkling of legacies. Here is just one of the countless dazzling garments worn by Cher in the late #1970s #JuliensAuctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A side by side image of a sparkling champagne coloured halter neck sequin dress with jagged hem worn by Cher in the late 1970s

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Brutal, anti-democratic bloodletting by the Hedge Fund owner of the once-formidable @sacbee.com as it laid off dozens of staffers of the formerly great #McClatchyNewsCo last week. 🥺📰 📉 Via @goldenstateorg.bsky.social goldenstatereport.substack.com/p/california...

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California loses another editorial board at the worst possible time

I went from wrapping up endorsement interviews for The Sacramento Bee to being laid off in another round of cuts at hedge fund-owned newspapers.

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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good review of a book I have loved. Don't worry about the complexities of the plot, just enjoy the ride

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

"That was a slap in the face. I’m here serving the country, and this happens to my own family," Hernandez said. "It's like a guessing game. Are my parents OK? Are my siblings OK? It's a lot mentally. Sometimes I have a hard time focusing because I'm just so stressed out."

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As ICE deports service members' families, the Pentagon turns to immigrant communities to fill military ranks

The Pentagon is recruiting from the immigrant community, including legal permanent residents, or green-card holders, at a rapidly growing pace.

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Kane Korso @godevils2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Women's rights are human rights. Keep your fucking hands off of abortion access.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/09/2026

The ceremony honoring Silverio Villegas González has concluded. Before offering communion to those in attendance, the Catholic priests leading the ceremony also told attendees to take one of these tomatoes, which have grown at the site of Silverio's memorial.

Tomatoes grown at the Silverio Villegas González memorial in Franklin Park, IL

A memorial to Silverio Villegas González in Franklin Park, IL.

Tomatoes on the vine at the Silverio Villegas González memorial in Franklin Park, IL

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Scotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No one I know in real life, and almost no one I know online, is talking about the profound generational evil of flying people to torture prisons in countries they've never had a connection to and where they have no protections from the monsters who do this kind of thing.

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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 11/09/2026

ICE is silently flying hundreds of detained immigrants out of WA, separating them from their attorneys, communities, and families. Nearly 500 people have been flown out since last August, some with as little as one night’s notice. This cruelty doesn’t belong in Washington. Or our nation.

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ICE flights out of Boeing Field surge, alarming families, immigrants rights' groups

Over the past weeks, the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights out of Seattle’s Boeing Field has increased. Their cargo is immigrants, many with long-standing ties to Washington state ...

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ICE awarded a more than $17 million contract to the company behind Alligator Alcatraz to run a converted warehouse on San Antonio's East Side. This kind of facility goes against San Antonio's values, and it would hold back an area that's already fighting for growth.

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Michael Broussard @michaelbroussard.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

Use AltText. It's the kind thing to do and it makes BlueSky more accessible for everyone. And actually describe the image you're posting in the AltText. To get reminded every time you post, go to settings>Accessibility>Require AltText. :)

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

5 years of writing, research, and reporting. 4 continents traveled to. 12 drafts. 18 months of revision. New subtitle. Finally finished. Can’t wait for you all to read it. More coming very soon.

Manuscript of forthcoming book Just Beneath the Soil: World War II Through the Eyes of Its Last Witnesses

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Kendall Powell @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Defending science has become just as important as doing research." - kinda says it all for US research right now. Find tips and advice on how to be an effective science advocate in this Q&A with neuroscientist Stefano Cataldi. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Why this neuroscientist is taking the plunge into science advocacy

As funding cuts reshape the US research landscape, Stefano Cataldi is turning towards policy and advocacy work to defend science.

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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The protests in Camp East Montana over conditions and long-term detention are not the first, there have been many since the site opened last year. The first one I was able to confirm was in December 2025. But so many of these protests are not known about due to the secrecy that surrounds the camp.

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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the detainees who participated in the December protest was placed in separation until Jan. 4. He witnessed the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at the hands of guards. He was deported to southern Mexico weeks later right as a judge ordered the witnesses of the murder remain in the U.S.

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He witnessed a migrant death at an ICE detention center, then was deported

A deported witness describes the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an El Paso ICE facility, alleging guards beat him while he yelled 'I can't breathe.'

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can’t let people see how many women died from the new abortion laws before they vote

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Last week, Danbury area residents showed up in huge numbers to draw the line on the brutal ICE tactics being used there - including traumatizing kids at school bus stops. It's action like this that saves our democracy.

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