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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h
this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
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rnjt2024.bsky.social @rnjt2024.bsky.social · 19h
I'm an er rn at a small community hospital and the amount of heartbreaking situations I see on a daily basis of people sacrificing time money energy happiness to caretake for sick ones or putting off tests until they're almost dead due to a lack of healthcare makes me insane
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Protest continues in Lochiel, at the Tierra Libre tree sit resisting border wall construction. One person has locked down and border patrol is attempting to remove them. See a live feed here: instagram.com/tierralibre_noborders/
Armed border patrol officers next to person locked down to a construction truck on a dirt road.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
The ICE Air Operations official handbook allows minors as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. We don’t know this girl/young woman’s age, but if she is over 18, it probably isn’t by much. I don’t know how those flight “guards” sleep at night.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Conflicts of interest? Really? That's what we're calling crazed corruption and betrayal of US national interests these days?
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/10/2026
Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Lauren @oglauren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the vapers www.propublica.org/article/mari...
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Colorado Marijuana Company Voluntarily Recalls Dozens of Contaminated Products Amid State Regulatory Delays
After state officials failed to implement stricter testing protocols that were planned to take effect in July, a marijuana manufacturer recalled dozens of products when a third-party lab found contami...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026
Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City
Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up
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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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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"We know that fossil fuel interests won't step aside on their own. For decades, Big Oil has treated the atmosphere as an open sewer -- and cashed in on the consequences," said United Nations chief Antonio Guterres in a withering attack on Big Oil at the UN on Tuesday. www.afp.com/en/un-chief-...
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UN chief says 'Big Oil' treats atmosphere as open sewer
Major global oil companies are treating the atmosphere like an "open sewer," the outgoing United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Tuesday in a withering attack on the energy...
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gavin Newsom is just another Republican with a “D” after his name. www.gov.ca.gov/2026/02/06/g...
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Governor Newsom proclaims Ronald Reagan Day | Governor of California
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 21/09/2026
every single thing about this off brand patrick bateman motherfucker sucks and fuck everybody who supports him or defends the concept of him running for president. this is the toxic slime from ferngully in a person suit, only not voiced by Tim Curry so nothing about it is cool.
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s certainly a choice to hang a piece celebrating your assassination attempt in the Kennedy center.
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More than 220 people have lost their lives in these strikes without ever facing a trial. Their families and the American public deserve answers. Hold Hegseth and all others accountable under the law, which they should have applied to the people whose lives were taken. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@lolgop.bsky.social and I are reissuing our podcast on how the 2016 Russian attack led to fascism. www.youtube.com/shorts/8piSZ...
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How Putin grabbed Trump by his balls
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I wonder if some elected Democrats are aware that a chunk of voters don't know that Republicans control every branch of the Federal government right now. Might be good to mention this in speeches...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
I also think that he is simply fascinated with death and intoxicated by the idea that he can inflict death.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Probably the scariest and also most intellectually rigorous uncanny novel I have ever read. My review for the NYT. Free link. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...
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Book Review: ‘The Rouse,’ by China Miéville (Gift Article)
“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to raise and weaponize the dead.
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Pat Casey @patcasey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We’re just letting this guy destroy our whole civilization. He’s got the IQ of a horse
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 14/09/2026
Over 200,000 children are estimated to have a parent detained by ICE. Millions more live in families losing access to medical care, food, and other programs that support children’s health.
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A Generation of Kids Suffer as Trump Destabilizes Immigrant Families - KFF Health News
Children in immigrant families are facing health threats from President Donald Trump's policies: separation from parents detained or deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, economic and housing instability, withdrawal from health and nutrition ...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.beautifulpublicdata.com/wwii-japanes...
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WWII Japanese Mass Incarceration collections
Haunting photos document a shameful chapter of America’s history—the forced displacement and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/09/2026
Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. Here are a few scenes from the nearly 3 hour meeting. Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/09/2026
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.
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bennync.bsky.social @bennync.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
wait so instead of my tax payer money going towards social security, healthcare. schools and child care. i have to pay people to vote for republicans who want to take this all away for me and my family???
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 09/09/2026
"deportation" barely even begins to cover what is happening here prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...
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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect
‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 09/09/2026
DOUBLED www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026
The alarms are all flashing red.
Screenshot of a thread on X by user Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) detailing his resignation from Anthropic.
​The first post reads: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
​The second post reads: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."
​The third post reads: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."Screenshot continuing the thread on X by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess).
​The first post reads: "A common response is 'if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?' At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk."
​The second post reads: "Accepting this race and entering the 'endgame' is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available."
​The third post reads: "I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities."
​The fourth post reads: "If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because 'it’s happening anyway' - or take this moment to call for different conditions?"
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026
“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
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wizardkitten @wizardkitten.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"It is estimated that nearly 1,000 representatives from all 12 Anishinaabe Tribal Nations in Michigan came together Monday to stand for the water and against the continued operation of the Line 5 pipeline." This was the group leading the walk. It appears MLive is the only outlet to report on it.
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Michigan tribes lead Mackinac Bridge Walk in united stand against Line 5 pipeline
Roughly 34,000 people participated in the 2026 Mackinac Bridge Walk on Labor Day.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 08/09/2026
#BREAKING 12 countries including France, UK, Canada say to sanction trade with Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank
File photo shows an Israeli soldier on guard near the newly established Israeli settlement outpost in Beit Sahur, in the occupied West Bank, on August 14, 2026
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orithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
OMG did yall know that man in the White House is changing East Potomac Park (including Hains Point) into a “championship golf course”?! They’ve already started cutting down the trees. And some of the cherry blossom trees that are only found one place on earth, DC.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
PG&E basically blackmailing California, saying it delay $2 billion in grid investments to support renewable energy and housing if legislators don't get back to work protecting its finances: www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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PG&E says it will scale back planned work after California wildfire reforms fail
PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said delaying the investments means the utility won’t have to borrow as much money at high rates that end up raising bills for customers.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026
I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures
Supplemento al dizionario italiano, by Bruno Munari, a white paperback with a photo of a hand giving the classic Italian finger-purse “Che vuoi” hand gesture
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