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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 07/01/2026
Grok’s public media tab has been flooded with images depicting previously clothed women in various states of undress. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social on how Elon Musk’s Grok AI is abusing women and children online. Read: zeteo.com/p/-musk-grok...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar
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Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Don't let new developments in American aggression around the world take focus away from other places like Palestine. Instead, always remember that all of these conflicts are connected, and we need to end all of this imperialism or it will happen again People are still starving and shivering in Gaza
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/01/2026
"While the ability to alter images has been available for decades, the rise of A.I. has made it easier for anyone to alter or create such images with little to no training or experience," Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said in a news release. to.pbs.org/3LsjbTS
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AP report: Rise of deepfake cyberbullying poses a growing problem for schools
Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. Here are key takeaways from AP's story on th...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/12/2025
CBS pulled the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, but Canada aired it anyway. The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦 My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable. 1/5
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/12/2025
When Customs and Border Protection and Commander Gregory Bovino move into town, so does Whistlemania. These activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby. And it's working.
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The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15/12/2025
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir's statement that the “Yellow Line” dividing Gaza will be Israel's new border shows that Israel's Gaza policy is a continuation of its history of redrawing its borders through ethnic cleansing and land grabs. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/isra...
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Israel is recycling an old colonial plan in Gaza
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir’s statement that the “Yellow Line” dividing Gaza will be Israel’s new border shows that Israel’s Gaza policy is a continuation of its history of redrawing its…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/12/2025
The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process.
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TSA is forwarding names, photos, and flight info to ICE
The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/12/2025
There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 14/12/2025
This is not normal, and continued and ever-increasing rhetoric like this should not be treated as normal. #holdfast #steadystate
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/12/2025
Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It shouldn’t too much to ask that elected officials don’t prematurely make social media posts with inaccurate information in crisis situations
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/12/2025
When the streets start telling the truth, it’s because the institutions won’t. What’s become painfully obvious is that ICE agents aren’t trained to make us safer. They’re just recruits who thirst for power, violence, and cruelty. [street art from around the country]
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/12/2025
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/12/2025
A lot to unpack here about class, gender, and caring work 19thnews.org/2025/12/ice-...
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ICE arrests are forcing American moms to leave their jobs
A new analysis shows that increased immigration enforcement is reducing labor in the child care workforce. The ripple effect is impacting mothers with young children.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/12/2025
Hundreds of kids in S Carolina are being quarantined right now because of a measles outbreak. I don’t have patience for niceties when it comes to this crap, so if you’re an anti-vaxxer, keep your damn kids at home and don’t travel for the holidays. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/12/2025
For ProPublica filmmaker Mauricio Rodríguez Pons, Yineska and her family represent the many Venezuelans who’ve come to the U.S. seeking safety and opportunity — and, in many ways, his own immigration story. Watch “Status: Venezuelan,” out now.
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They Came to the U.S. Legally. Then Trump Stripped Their Status Away.
Yineska and her family are trapped between a homeland in ruin and Trump’s mass deportation campaign. “Status: Venezuelan” is a story of them trying to stay together — and stay in the U.S. legally.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/12/2025
At the same time that ICE continues their terror campaign, the American people continue to step up to protect their communities, even in the cold.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/12/2025
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/12/2025
Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too? A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this. It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/12/2025
On Sunday, US lawmakers released the annual defense policy bill authorizing a record $901 billion in national defense spending in 2026. The bill was somehow $8 billion more than Trump requested, and bans transgender women from competing in sports at military universities.
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Congress moves to ban trans women from military academy sports
The move is part of several anti-trans measures directed by the Trump administration.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
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ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
The figures don't include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Sudan: RSF strike on Kordofan kindergarten kills dozens, mostly children - www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-rs…
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RSF strike on Kordofan kindergarten kills dozens, mostly children
Doctor group says attack killed 50 people, but the final death toll is likely to be higher
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/12/2025
Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid — a meal, a bed, gas money — to anyone visiting someone detained in remote rural Georgia.
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In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge
Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid — a meal, a bed, gas money — to anyone visiting someone detained in remote rural Georgia.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
So gratuitously and pointlessly spiteful and petty.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/12/2025
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
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Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 06/12/2025
"The only certainty in U.S. foreign policy from the last helicopter out of Saigon in 1975 to the Kurds after the Gulf War in 1991 to the 2020 Doha Accords and the Afghan evacuation in 2021, is that American loyalty comes with an expiration date."
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Fellow Unit Member Says Alleged D.C. Shooter Felt Abandoned by CIA
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/12/2025
This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice. 📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
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ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
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Fund Public Goods Not State Violence @mkranz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This is constantly happening. A paramilitary force is violently enforcing second-class status for nonwhite people the United States with the support of police forces across the country. Sure, ICE must be abolished, but so must every institution that supports such brutality. & this cannot be reformed
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
University of Alabama suspended publication of two student-run magazines, claiming they weren’t in compliance with federal guidance on DEI “This is an attack on the student press and nothing less”
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University of Alabama shuts down student magazines for Black students, women students
University officials told editors of Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six that they believed they were out of compliance with Trump administration guidance on anti-DEI policies.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/12/2025
“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/12/2025
1/4 🧵 We’ve posted a lot lately about CDC denying reasonable accommodations to disabled employees -- e.g., telling a paraplegic person who normally teleworks to report to the office immediately or use leave. Yes, that’s really happening. Let’s talk a bit about why everyone should care.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/12/2025
Amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, a mass wedding for more than 50 Palestinian couples took place in Khan Younis as hundreds gathered to celebrate.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025
“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust
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🦇 Ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"The playbook here is familiar," @parkermolloy.com writes for HW. "Find a trans person in a position of minor institutional authority. Manufacture or amplify a confrontation. Blast it through the conservative media ecosystem until it becomes national news. Watch as institutions capitulate."
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A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
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