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AJ

@psychopompastic.bsky.social
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writer; small time journalist; business owner; performer; artist; former caterer and server therapist; necromancer by fate; I'm here to be weird. occasionally I post a food science fact.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
It's estimated that there will be tens of thousands attendees at the No Kings Protest on Saturday around Southern California, and it's important to protect your community by reviewing your rights and being prepared in case violence breaks out. Full guide: lataco.com/protest-prep By Sheryl Turner
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2025
Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen. We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously. Here's how to get in touch securely 👇
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How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
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RichThompsonAK @richthompsonak.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Tuberculosis cases surge to outbreak levels in Bristol Bay, health officials say "Alaska has the highest rate of TB in the U.S ... Western Alaska has the highest rates of TB in the state ... Bristol Bay has the highest number of active cases in Western Alaska ... " www.kdlg.org/news/2025-10...
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Tuberculosis cases surge to outbreak levels in Bristol Bay, health officials say
Local healthcare practitioners say getting tested is the best way to help stop the spread.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.
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Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods
This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This is staggering. “The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off.” Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Imagine that
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/10/2025
Police say 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht was behind fire that destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood.
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Authorities charge man accused of starting deadly LA wildfire
Police say 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht was behind fire that destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵
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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Any block grant is a cut to Medicaid. Don't believe their messaging. Block grants are cuts. #HandsOffMedicaid
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
this is already a huge problem, and it’s about to get much worse as the economy goes into recession
WORKERS AT FOOD BANKS and pantries said that the canceled deliveries add to the growing challenges they face. Many staff members said they had seen a decline in private contributions and volunteers. Grocery stores and food manufacturers, which started managing their inventories more efficiently during the pandemic, now have less leftover food to give.
Other Trump cuts have disrupted AmeriCorps, which helps staff mobile food pantries and other services, and are ending the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, which provided food from local farmers.
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AJ @psychopompastic.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Its canning season! Water Bath for high acidity, Pressure Can for low acidity.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 06/10/2025
I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back. DHS did not respond to a request for comment. Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... Photos: Carol Guzy
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Support and protect this man, Chicago. ICE is vindictive.
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Brighton Park Gas Station Clerk Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds
Gas station employee Narendra Byrapuneni helped protesters who sought refuge in his Brighton Park store Saturday after they were hit with tear gas by federal agents near the site of fatal shooting by ...
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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The federal surge didn’t end in DC. It became entrenched. ICE is still riding with MPD. We have “local control” back & people are still being detained & deported. National Guard is still here with long guns pacing our streets.
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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 02/10/2025
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
To be clear, this motion (or a substantially similar one) is being filed in most non-detained cases today. See, for example, Washington v. Trump (Elections Integrity EO): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... San Francisco v. Trump (Sanctuary Cities EO): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Meteque currently under attack from water cannons
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The JewsforFoodAidforPeopleInGaza campaing is so so so close to reaching the $180,000 goal for our High Holiday Tzedakah campaign before Yom Kippur begins. If you haven't yet please give now! givebutter.com/FoodAidTzeda...
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
GNU Jane Goodall.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2025
Meta sent emails to 6 people informing them that ICE had served the company with a subpoena demanding extensive personal information about the users. The accounts, most notably StopIce.net, are part of a broader crowd-sourcing movement that works to publicly identify masked ICE agents.
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Trump’s ICE Turns Its Target to Activists, Not Just Immigrants
ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
ICE GOONS in military gear are now jumping out of unmarked vans to disappear protesters in Portland, OR
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 01/10/2025
More sightings are rolling in. They are highly active as is usual for a Wednesday since this surge began. Reports of vehicles seen at yet another NWS Home Depot. And at 31st and Cicero again, masked Border Patrol is seen alongside a propaganda officer filming an arrest:
Walmart parking lot feds
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 01/10/2025
This comes after CBP/ICE, assisted by large number of FBI and other feds, orchestrated a large raid on an apartment building late Monday night/early Tuesday morning. Immigrant rights orgs estimate at least *forty people*, including children and infants, were taken from their beds in South Shore:
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Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
7 ships have been intercepted according to the official Sumud Flotilla website ⬇️
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
One instinct in response to propagandistic lies is to try to fact check them away. Fact-checking can help maintain shared reality among those already not adhering to propaganda—but it is NOT an antidote to propaganda itself. Propaganda is IDEALOGICAL TRANSMISSION: Facts are secondary to narrative.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Another big move in Trump terror memo that must be explicitly named: expanding from “antifa” to “anti-fascist,” then naming state monopoly on violence—that’s the wonk term for its armed forces—as immune from charges of fascism. To call a cop a fascist, this says, is itself a crime.
There are common recurrent motivations and indicia uniting this pattern of violent and terroristic activities under the umbrella of self-described “anti-fascism.”  These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) as “fascist” to justify and encourage acts of violent revolution.
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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I am but a simple crepuscular bitch that loves a siesta
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This guy will now decide which jokes are appropriate.
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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
As Donald Trump sends the National Guard to Memphis, this video has gone viral with claims it shows residents stealing tanks. In fact, it shows a music video being filmed near Atlanta in 2020, two local rappers involved with the shoot confirmed to me. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A drawing of a hedgehog sitting next to a tree and knitting a long scarf. The caption reads, "doing what i can to reduce overwhelm today"
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 18/09/2025
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
First the grand juries, now the trial juries. This Admin is not winning.
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Jurors acquit anti-ICE protester accused of assaulting federal officer in Paramount
Brayan Ramos-Brito was the first of immigration protestors to go to trial in Los Angeles federal court.
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Rachel Hurley @rachelandthecity.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 18/09/2025
While it LOOKS like Trump is making everybody capitulate, you guys realize 6 people own 90% of ALL media in America? There are not tens of thousands of people capitulating. There are just a few old men—lusting for more power— & Trump is giving it to them! That’s what Kimmel's cancellation means.
https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 17/09/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Immigration judges aren't real judges; they are technically senior attorneys at the Department of Justice. So actually under longstanding legal precedent the government is already given the automatic presumption of reliability.
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It’s actually quite unstrategic to abandon vulnerable people in your coalition. It doesn’t make you look tough, it makes you look like a coward.
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Hi Bluesky! I just launched my Big Cartel fabric art shop, and I was wondering if you could help spread the word? All of my creations are designed, hand-sewn, and hand-embroidered by me. Any sales are colossally appreciated. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, a strawberry ghost bag, and a black creature with sharp teeth. There's a white egg with yellow embroidered flowers and purple eyeshadow and purple lips. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background. The watermelon creature and the watermelon ghost are sitting on metal doll chairs.Here's a lovely photo of the cosmic ghost bag. She's a black ghost with various stars and planets embroidered on her body. There are little white stars, larger white stars, yellow stars, purple stars, a dark purple planet, a light purple planet, a red planet with a yellow ring. She has a gray moon-like face with large sparkly black eyes and a little frown. She's wearing a black fabric witch hat. She's resting on my palm and there's green fur in the background of the pic.Here's a lovely photo of three fabric art eggs watching the tiny witch homunculus balancing on one foot on a small broom. The eggs are purple, pink and white, and they're covered with embroidered flowers. The eggs have mouths with lip colors that match their flowers. They have two flat teeth poking out of their mouths. The pink egg is wearing a small sun hat. The tiny witch homunculus is green with large sparkly red eyes and a little frown. There's green fur in the background of the photo.Here's a photo of fabric art creatures with a white fabric background. There's a cute and creepy mothman with a black body and a gray face with twinkly red eyes and sharp teeth. There's a green Kentucky goblin with a lighter green face and large pointy ears. He has twinkly yellow eyes and he's wearing a black party hat covered with red googly eyes and a big red poof at the top. There's also a red death worm with nine cream-colored eyes and sharp teeth. The tiny homunculus witch is sitting on the worm's head. She's very small, with large twinkly red eyes and a green body. She's wearing a small version of the party hat the goblin's wearing.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
you are enough. any more of you would be too much.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 17/09/2025
NEW Economist/YouGov Sep 12-15: Immigration % who say federal agents should | shouldn't be allowed to stop people based solely on factors such as race or ethnicity, language, or field of work U.S. adult citizens 19% | 66% Democrats 5% | 92% Republicans 40% | 37% today.yougov.com/politics/art...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Most Americans say immigration agents should not be allowed
 to stop people based solely on race or ethnicity, language, or field of work."

The chart's sub-headline is: "Should federal immigration agents be allowed to stop people based solely on factors such as their race or ethnicity, language, or field of work? (%)."
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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