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Meggan

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Neurodivergent public defender and mom with lupus

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 7h
St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 9h
Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 9h
Also mutes take alt text into account. If you mute a word and it shows up in alt text, you won't see that post. I deeply appreciate people who use alt text!
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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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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nic Cage:
He continued: “How do you survive AI? Amazon is a very AI friendly company to the tune of 50 billion dollars invested to OpenAI. I am not an AI friendly actor. I didn’t sign the waiver to let them use AI on Spider-Noir. It’s kind of like I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again. But that’s OK. So I got to get with these young directors who are Gen Z and they’re going at it their own way, whether it’s through the YouTube culture or whatever it is. They’re doing it from scratch and by hand. I want to get with that.”
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 9h
Good god that sounds bleak. It mimics the way kings and billionaires get their brains turned to jelly by being utterly indulged at all times.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.
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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are two types of people
Megatron saying: I suffered! Why shouldn’t they?

Optimus Prime saying; I suffered? Why should they?
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 17h
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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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13h
I wonder what would have happened if folks had taken seriously the rise in political violence and threats against women, trans, Black, and antifascist organizers and figures back when we were all getting swatted and sent photoshops of ourselves beheaded
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’
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Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
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Muppet Pictures @muppetpictures.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
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Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture
Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
People getting mad about this probably don’t remember AEDPA, the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which passed the senate by 91-8, and the House 293-133, and was signed into law by Bill Clinton.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You can lie to yourself every day that this horseshit doesn't make you lazy and stupid, but reality comes at you pretty fast
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Breakfast time
The tails of my kitties eggsy, benne and jimmi pickles as they eat breakfast next to each other
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No one remembers this, but *everyone* took COVID seriously until the new York times reported that black americans were being disproportionately impacted (bc of less access to remote work) Suddenly masking became political
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Right after Justice Kennedy retired, #SCOTUS materially shifted its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, moving away from a test tied to "evolving standards of decency," and toward a static assessment of what was cruel and unusual in 1791. That shift will matter a *lot* if there's a challenge in Hasan.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
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Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody
Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh, and Pete Hegseth announced a live-streamed execution by firing squad.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I, too, feel revulsion over recent events. But part of me also feels anger that so few people even seem aware of the fact that Trump carried out 13 executions in the last 6 months of his first term. I was in Terre Haute, IN for all of them. And for much of that time, they felt utterly invisible.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been.
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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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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE shot a man in New York City today while he was in a vehicle with a 5-year-old child. Abolish ICE.
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ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City (Gift Article)
The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If people really want to see live executions they should just follow ICE agents around.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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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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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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stuart @shwinchester.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*sees something american happening in america*: seems kinda Muslim to me
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is a militia of serial abusers.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 08/10/2026
Some nights you really don’t want to read that book to your kid. It’s been a long damn day and you don’t have it in you. Do it anyway.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 08/10/2026
Reading to your kids is one of the best things you can do for them developmentally. And a big part of that is the bond you build and the back and forth you have when reading. Them reading audiobooks alone doesn’t have any of that
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John Breen @breen.tech · 08/10/2026
Being there for your kids and your partner are what it’s all about. If you don’t do that, and you don’t love doing it, what even is the point?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/10/2026
Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive. cnn.it/4zgcsQc
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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
whenever there's a big protest overseas you see a contingent of americans going 'see that's what *we* need' and then when that energy does show it's tut tutted online, demonized on tv, and sprayed with chemical agents on the street. it's language policed and/or police policed down.
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Muppet Pictures @muppetpictures.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anywho, I've been disappointed in most abortion rights organizations in the U.S. for decades now. The orgs that have acquitted themselves the best have been the abortion funds. You should direct your support and money to them.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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🏃‍♂️The Runner🏃‍♂️ @therunnner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hegseth removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington Cemetery. Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list Only white men were left in place.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
stating that Israel is engaged in an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people is a basic fact. It's uncontroversial. It's true.
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yuzuBOO @yuzupool.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
nobody pulls the trigger on no-contact over trivial bullshit and every article written about this shit pretending its some fad phenomenon executed for paltry reasons is a blight on existence itself
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i feel this more and more every day
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
white evangelical Republicans whose experience of Catholicism is limited to people like JD Vance assumed that their allies on abortion would be their allies on everything and miscalculated so badly here. even the most conservative US bishops cannot function without their immigrant parishioners!
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More and more convinced that the reason AI is being pushed so hard is that it allows tech CEOs to do things that a person would be sent to jail for doing, but with the excuse that it was the robot that did it on its own
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One of my all time favorite Tumblr bits
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