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Avoiding the horrors by reading horror. I like comics and movies and books and history. I don't like politics but it's happening to me anyway. Warning: bad at social media.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1h
This is fucked up and I don't believe any politician who claims to oppose this unless they call for prosecution of the people doing this, and I think pseudo-opposition to this is part of the problem.
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 4h
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Rod Serling Introduces The Twilight Zone
Alt: Rod Serling Introduces The Twilight Zone
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 8h
While Americans struggle to buy groceries, ICE is burning through nearly $14,430,000 per day on the detention of 65,000 people.
Bar graph showing the daily cost of immigration detention ($222), alternatives to ICE detention ($2), federal prisons ($129), U.S. Marshals detention ($128), pretrial detention ($13), and release ($0).
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 9h
It is shockingly common for child welfare agencies to remove children from parents because they can't afford housing. Billing them for the foster care really is just beyond the pale. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”
All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15h
The next in @us.theguardian.com's series on Ice this summer. Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15h
Trump & ICE have done this to 25,000 people & counting. The government is abducting our neighbors and disappearing them to places with abhorrent human rights records. Often, they’re stranded there without money or identity papers. These aren’t deportations - they’re renditions.
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Ryan Ottignon @ryaninevanston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UPDATE ON ICE IN EVANSTON LAST WEEK: Just got a FOIA back for 911 calls, police dispatch audio, and police reports associated with the arrest. There's a lot to unpack. 1/ 🧵
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Case Keenum holding it down for millennials
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Target got its shit rocked by becoming conservative-coded and Target actually has a large conservative customer base
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
IT'S OFFICIAL. The progressive members of the Chicago City Council (looking at you, @andrefor40th.bsky.social) stopped ICE's cruelest, most notorious charter airline, Omni Air International. news.wttw.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Firm Set to Buy Chicago’s Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out Deportations
More than a dozen progressive members of the City Council said they would not vote in favor of the deal unless the firm sold Omni Air, threatening the completion of the deal involving the city’s 36,00...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the guy Ezra Klein platforms on his podcast & the NYT refers to in passing in the most euphemistic terms possible when writing puff pieces about the Manhattan Institute & how it is going to stop “the Mamdani agenda”: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh awesome, great news, I'm sure this will develop well. Once again, I don't understand what the Usha/Kash/Vivek contingent of the GOP thinks it's flirting with here. Proximity to whiteness won't save Desis. In fact it's cited as evidence of "The Problem".
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🧵 ICE is facilitating trafficking of migrant children. "The government announced earlier this summer it is building an immigrant camp at an airport in Alexandria, Louisiana, for families" and unaccompanied children "who choose to “self-deport.” www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/22/t...
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How Trump and ICE’s Latest Tactics Target Immigrant Children
Officials claim to target the “worst of the worst.” But several agencies are now focusing on tracking and detaining children.
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
ICE is now raiding homes and abducting children from foster care. Many of these kids are victims of human trafficking. via @aaronparnas.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That we know of. ICE is disappearing people EVERY day. It is likely trafficking and abusing young kids and women every day. This will be like Nuremberg. The truth will be so much worse than we even thought. We will spend MILLIONS investigating and tracking down people lost to this monstrous
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Evanston RoundTable in my Chicago suburb interviewed 2 people who saw ICE agents beat up a citizen and leave him lying on the ground last weekend. One witness said the man “was screaming ‘I'm a U.S. citizen. Leave me alone.’” Another witness said the feds told an “absolute lie” about the case.
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Witnesses recount Sunday's ICE incident: ‘He was screaming, "I’m a U.S. citizen. Leave me alone."' - Evanston RoundTable
When federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempted to detain a resident — who they later discovered was a U.S. citizen — last Sunday
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's so weird how "I really don't think I've heard this particular song" gets under some people's skin
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars. (Published May)
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Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.
In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 27/09/2026
it’s actually a very normal experience to not have heard a song that tops the charts, and you can read about why right here! www.typebarmagazine.com/streaming-mu...
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Streaming Music, The Illusion of Choice, and You
Maybe it’s time to change our relationships to music streaming services.
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I understand saying "wow it's weird you haven't heard this popular song". I don't understand getting this mad about it? I'm not aware of hearing this even in grocery stores or waiting rooms or whatever. Maybe the paid news hits & playlist placements aren't filtering into the rest of the world?
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 27, 1972. Workers represented by the United Auto Workers at the General Motors plant Norwood in Norwood, Ohio, ended their strike after 174 days. Let's talk how workers fought the horrors of automation and the speed-up in American auto!
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wooooo Resident Evil... Fun ride.
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can't even put myself in the mindset of people who would want to do this to children, let alone people who take sadistic glee in it.
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm really trying to get my spouse to agree to cancel all of our streaming services and just see which ones we actually miss. I have a feeling we'd get by fine with Tubi, Plex, and the library.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cops put this woman in solitary for three days on the strength of Flock "evidence" that she had killed people in a hit and run. Her car, meanwhile, had zero visible damage. But cops told her the "damage" was consistent with the accident. They believed Flock over their own eyes.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/06/2026
This plane took 35 shackled people from the DC-Baltimore area — 28 men and seven women — to an ICE gulag near Alexandria, Louisiana tonight. They paint them all white so you don’t know it’s Air Wisconsin.
A CRJ commuter jet painted all white taxis by a chain link fence at BWI
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a terrible ruling, but it is limited in scope. States will need to voluntarily participate in Trump’s voter purge scheme. So Republican run States will do it, most Democratic States will not. Now is the right time to yell at your State’s Secretary of State to not rig the election for MAGA.
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Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system
The US Supreme Court revived on Friday an expanded immigration database that President Donald Trump's administration said aims to combat voting by noncitizens but critics contend could disenfranchise ...
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah, I don't think the "I bought it before he went crazy" bumper sticker is going to cut it from here on out. Buying or driving a Tesla is an ideological statement.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"According to numerous complaints filed by workers, plant management routinely used the n-word and reffered to the rank-and-file as “slaves.” That horrifying pattern of rhetoric earned the facility a reputation as a “plantation” among workers."
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW: The Census Bureau's internal watchdog says problems with the mobile app workers used for the "2026 Census Test" delayed some interviews with households, putting at risk the accuracy of test results and potentially making the test more costly www.oig.doc.gov/management-a...
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Management Alert: Technological Issues Observed During the 2026 Census Test
Home > Reports > Management Alert: Technological Issues Observed During the 2026 Census Test Date Issued September 23, 2026 Report Number OIG-26-029-I Report Type Audits / Evaluations, Census Reading ...
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Follow That Bird, the Sesame Street tie-in that's weirdly dark and packed with 80s alt comedy stalwarts like a Paul Bartel movie.
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Big Bird's Truck Ride on Sesame Street
Alt: Big Bird's Truck Ride on Sesame Street Follow That Bird
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
holy shit, dems actually have a chance to flip the PA Senate and NC leg to get trifectas in both states I have updated the optimized state donation list so we can donate to these candidates that just need a little bit of $ to take advantage of what could be the biggest blue wave in history
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...
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Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Thousands of detained immigrants with “Final Orders of Removal” have had their records hidden or deleted from ICE’s tracking system, leaving families and lawyers unable to locate them.
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ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.
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Gijs Brekelmans @gys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta removed a video by a satirist wearing Meta glasses asking unrecognizable Meta personnel about Meta glasses. Meta's ground for doing so - and please appreciate the irony here - is... harassment.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People really need to go back to the original Jurassic Park and look at the rather disturbing ways in which InGen's management of it now looks prescient
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is human trafficking on a massive scale.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
Scamming is now one of the largest and most lucrative crimes in the world, fueled by huge advances in AI and cryptocurrency. In a project by The Associated Press and FRONTLINE explain the world of scams, what can be done about them and how to protect yourself.
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World of Scams
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's good to see this rhetoric coming from official Dem accounts
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Massive thank you to all the people who continue to amplify this story within their networks and support those who are working to get Amina home. The Trump administration has inadvertently hit Senegal’s women’s basketball programme hard this year and this is the worst of many incidents. #wnba
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Ok - Now what @ok-now-what.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our plan to salvage our waning popularity is to kick off something called [checks notes] ... an "insurance death spiral"??
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