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PastelWitch

@pastelwitch.bsky.social
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StudioHexe.crd.co AutoImmune, Neurodiverse, Latinx - Ey/Em, They/Them, Ella/Elle - Aro; Pan; Genderfluid; Polyam Queer as in Fuck Amatonormativity; Eternally tired of binarism & exorsexism 🔞 Minors DNI

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Magnus Johnson @nephropseu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The vulnerabilities of data centres and their attraction as targets should give all governments pause for thought.
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I just made a formal complaint to the BBC about this. If you'd like to do the same, here's the link: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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Make A Complaint | Contact the BBC
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Happy Coming Out Day. Especially to folks finding the strength to do so in this hellscape of a world. 🏳️‍🌈 Same to everyone who stays “in” for safety, not being ready to be out, or just not wanting to do so. 🏳️‍🌈
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PastelWitch @pastelwitch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is the point where things burn down with fuel and fervor when a fuckass govt claims they can do nothing at all
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Yeah. Here's the rundown of how we got to the point where PAX has killed 4 programs which helped BIPOC, Disabled &/or LGBT2SQIA+ people get badges, get seen, have support and have facilitated TTRPGs & other games to play in the only place that required safety tools. i-cch.medium.com/a-timeline-a...
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A Timeline and Overview of What Happened to The PAX Intersection
TL;DR: PAX has gutted programs designed to provide and improve opportunities and accessibility for Disabled, BIPOC, and LGBT2SQIA+ people…
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Candace the Magnificent 🔜 PAXU @thecandacemarie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@officialpax.bsky.social I really hope you do the right thing here. Some of us need your con for business opportunities, but that doesn’t mean you should treat the marginalized like we aren’t integral to your ecosystem. Our money spends just as well and our needs are just as valid.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
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Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 22/09/2026
Tomorrow, Discord will place everyone into an age group using account signals. They claim 90% of users won't have to confirm their age. They are also introducing new verification methods if you do need to verify that you are an adult, including Credit Cards and App Stores.
More than 90% of you won’t be asked to confirm your age. Since our last post about teen safety, we've had to launch age assurance solutions in more places, including Texas and Brazil. Laws requiring age assurance are expanding around the world. Rather than waiting to be told how to do it, we’re launching our own privacy-preserving approach: one that reflects your feedback.
You can check your age group status at User Settings > Account Status. We've estimated your age group automatically from account signals like how long your account has existed or the kinds of servers you're a part of. We don’t look at your messages, calls, or other content. We're launching this over the course of this week, so it may take a few days to reach your account.
If you're in the adult age group (18+), nothing changes. If you're in the teen age group (13-17), you can keep messaging friends, joining voice calls, and participating in non-age-restricted servers, but with additional safety protections that block age-restricted content, spaces, and settings. Otherwise, Discord works the same. More on this below.
We've added several new ways to confirm your age, including some that don't require an ID or selfie (including credit cards). If you're an adult but weren't automatically placed in the adult age group, you can confirm your age group at any time by going to User Settings > Account Status. More on the new options below.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 26/09/2026
I don't know if the movie is good, but if all the billionaires are colluding to make sure nobody watches it, I'll signal boost this for now. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heck yeah.
Human-made over 5 years

No AI has been used to generate any code or content in or about the game, and never will be. Slow Roads has been a labour of love since the project began in 2021, and has been built with a decade of experience in 3D graphics and creative software development. Textures are hand-drawn, sounds are recorded locally, and all systems are designed and engineered specifically for the unique context of the game. This is a solo-developed project that I take great care over, and I believe AI simply doesn't belong in creative projects like these.

Please note that procedural generation is not a form of generative AI; the procedures used to generate the world in the game are mathematical functions that have been derived and defined by hand, with direct creative intent.
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IntimateStrudel (18+ only!) - Team Rub! @intimatestrudel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She has literally found a hate group because of all the support she's gotten from passive fans / those who don't believe in boycott. There is other media out there to get inspiration from. Thank you for your time.
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed an emergency injunction to stop the removal of thousands of saguaros and other vegetation to construct a border wall. The removal of the sacred saguaros is scheduled to begin on Indigenous Peoples Day. www.modbee.com/news/nation-...
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Tribe fights saguaro removal in borderlands on Indigenous Peoples' Day
The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed an emergency injunction to stop the removal of thousands of saguaros and other vegetation to construct a border wall.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Breeedo @breeedo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I wanna be transparent about something. I've been going through a housing nightmare. Here's are some screenshot of what's been happening - no I'm not okay. No there haven't really been any solutions, I am safe.
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🪼 Bluu is HOOCHIE HEISTING 💙 @kyngvee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dealing with terrible, negligent property managers is never fucking fun and BEYOND stressful. Please support Breedo however you can: yes, even sharing helps. They're such a radiant person, and NOBODY should have to deal with this bs. 🫂💙 ko-fi.com/breeedo
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Support Breeedo ❤️
Become a supporter of Breeedo today!
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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Folks really be out here cutting corners on safety, creating artificial rushes and then be surprised when others are not willing to run themselves ragged at unnecessary risk for absolutely no reason. Breaking these capitalist white colonial patterns is VITAL if we don't wanna perpetuate harm.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 11/10/2026
this story happens all the time btw. like constantly. everywhere
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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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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 10/10/2026
Status update on the tea shop survival project: 1) We have added/trained more labor to the warehouse for online fulfillment, allowing more orders to process daily. 2) We have a win-win packaging change in the works: a shift to more affordable, domestically produced compostable packaging!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026
This man is pure evil. www.tmz.com/2026/10/09/e...
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Elon Musk Kicked Daughter Off Insurance After She Came Out as Trans, First Wife Says
Elon Musk is revealing the way he treated his trans daughter behind closed doors during their public falling out ... according to his first wife.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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danya @danyaa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THX logo, which would play before so many movies as a kid. The loud ass noise would make me hide behind the couch and cover my ears until it was over
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Chan @ LBX 411 @aluhnim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey Tacoma people, you want to be cool and anti-cop? Budget cuts are happening, but you can send your opinion by checking out this BALANCING ACT site, finding out how our city is spending and how YOU would adjust the budget. Submit your adjustments! Have fun being mad! tacoma.gov/government/d...
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Balancing Act
Explore the City of Tacoma's budget development process, including the Balancing Act tool for budgeting in priority areas.
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Chan @ LBX 411 @aluhnim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
conversations in my house
friend1: thanks for letting me know of the save feature on instagram so people don't see my likes...! I wonder if people still see them...
me: I haven't seen your but I've seen friend 2 like yaoi!
friend2: HUH?!
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 11/10/2026
Omg that’s so cool!
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For the love of Kirby please do not listen to anyone who says you should be doing two finished pages of comic book art a day. It is a recipe for burnout, misery, and eventually, the destruction of your career. Industry standard is one a day, five a week. Period. Got it?
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Racist far-right influencers like Brandi Kruse know they're lying. They don't care about the consequences their lies have on real people, because they're sociopaths. Human beings are just NPCs to them. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Seattle grocery fights back against right-wing influencer after viral video
After Nick Shirley posted a video accusing Lam’s grocery of fraud, the store has been fighting to clear its name against an onslaught of social media hate.
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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
this guy likes making movies enough to eat live cockroaches and they thought he’d take himself out of the equation????
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.
A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.
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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out these guys are real
A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile
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Steffi Graves ⚰️ @graves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Day 2 of Spawn’s countdown to her 18th birthday!! She’s back with more Dressmaker and she’s got lots of incentives and milestones to hit for her birthday fund!! twitch.tv/amongstgraves
SPAWN'S 18™H
BDAY WEEK
DRESSMAKER ALL WEEK!
STARTS OCT 5!
MORNINGS!
INCENTIVES
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$10 - SPIN THE WHEEL
$25 - NAME IN CARD
$50 - DRAWN PROFILE PIC
$75 - SPAWN PLAYS A NEW GAME
$100 - EGG ROULETTE
MILESTONES
r・・・......................……◆
$25 - TURN ON SABOTAGE
REDEMPTIONS
$125 - PUMPKIN CARVING STREAM
$175 - DMCA FREE MOVIE STREAM
$250 - OVERCOOKED W/LOCAL COOP
$300 - MOM CUTS MY HAIR ON STREAM

$50 - CHUBBY BUNNY

$75 - MERCH GIVEAWAY

S100 - LEGO BUILDING



$150 - FORTNITE STREAM



$200 - PIE IN FACE
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Julia Lundman 🩵🧚🦄🧌 @paintkatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Someone broke into my storage locker and stole all of my paintings and all of my merch. It’s all gone. 💔💔💔💔💔
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...
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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him
The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As first observed by Mike Myzak, Gheesling’s average viewership has dropped precipitously in the past month, falling by a whopping 71.5%, from 1,079 concurrent viewers in September to just 308 in October, according to third-party analytics site Twitch Tracker. While Gheesling did take some time off following the controversy in September, he’s been consistent in October, streaming several hours per day for most of this month. Where Gheesling used to regularly play multiplayer games with Letourneau and a rotating cast of friends (in addition to streaming on his own), he’s since been cut loose from that crew. One can infer, then, that the viewership drop is a direct result of Gheesling’s decision to stream with the US Army.
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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Intercept reports that eyewitnesses say the ICE agent was apparently disguised as a construction worker. theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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