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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Alexis Mercedes Rinck has introduced a bill that would extend Seattle's civil rights protections to pansexual and asexual people, as well as to individuals engaged in consensual non-monogamy. seattle.legistar.com/LegislationD...

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SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: CB 121278

Title: An ordinance relating to civil rights protections for diverse sexual orientations and relationship structures; amending the definition of the sexual orientation protected class to recognize gen...

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Nathan Reed @reedbeta.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I knew about Manhattan distance, but I never heard of Chebyshev distance before

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Mike Sington @mikesington.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

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Eric Lengyel @ericlengyel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-...

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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 27/02/2026

What is this all about?? Let me try to explain. It's important, because it's actually about @seasocialhousing.bsky.social and it's about Alzheimer's and heart disease and asthma, and rich homeowners keeping you sick and housing rare and unaffordable. And what you can do about it THIS MONTH.

Particulate matter and ultrafine particles in urban air pollution and their effect on the nervous system https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/em/d2em00276k

apartment overlooking train tracks and big road in Interbay

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

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For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program

WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It's a war and the American people are the enemy. Can't do the fake "no they're just after the bad guys" after you shot two people for no good reason. bsky.app/profile/ndre...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support. 46% support 43% oppose 80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE. Independents are +8 on the question.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026

It’s worth walking people through the logic, because it doesn’t get repeated enough from the top: 1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.

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Greggory Grace @graceghughes.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

Minnesota National Guard bringing some relief and protection to the good and courageous people of Minnesota, an immediate de-escalating influence by the sound of it

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Minnesota National Guard rolled up, shot a hard stink-eye glare at the ICE goons, then stood with us, handing out pizza, hot chocolate, and coffee.

I am serious. The Guard literally just stood there, squared up to ICE: "You don't get to touch them."
But with us protesters, they let their guard down.
They were paying attention-not on autopilot— reading the room, noticing fear, cold, and exhaustion, then responding with food, warmth, eye contact, and respect. Their smiles and nods said: "I see you. You matter. You're not alone."
Seeing strength used as a shield instead of a weapon was incredibly moving.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This is great. For one thing, protesters are safer in the presence of National Guard soldiers by orders of magnitude. Second, the approach embraced by the Minnesota Army National Guard makes ICE and CBP look so incredibly small and weak.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

BTW, if Senate Dems want technical reforms, here's one: amend 8 USC 1357 so DHS agents do not have power to arrest without a judicial warrant unless they are GS-1811, grade of GS-13 or higher. Real criminal investigations would be unaffected, but CBP & ICE goon squads would be severely limited.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

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Jacqueline @jackiesuede.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I live an hour north of Minneapolis and they’re here too. They’re rounding up workers in chicken processing plants and breweries.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Ben Damberg protest volunteer: “None of us want to be doing this — I don’t, but we simply cannot stand by as other Minnesotans are being hurt — we will march, we will protest, & we will do it all peacefully above all else”

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Folks have really turned out this afternoon to speak against expanded surveillance in Seattle.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/07/2025

This is a staggering amount of money. It’s bigger than the Department of Transportation spending on all infrastructure. It’s bigger than all of the federal R&D done for both the military and all federal science agencies. Disgusting.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2025

anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We don’t live in a neutral marketplace of ideas. We live in an attention economy shaped by algorithms, tribal identity, outrage incentives, and profit models that reward engagement over accuracy.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

posters going up in Philly and some other cities

4 side by side posters on a graffiti'd cement wall, reading from left to right
Trump's $100M birthday parade could pay for 700 air traffic controllers
Trump's $100M birthday parade could pay for Healthcare for 7000 veterans
Trump's $100M birthday parade could pay for insulin for 238,000 americans
Trump's $100M birthday parade could pay for 1400 new teachers

6/14/25 nokings.org

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

printing out a copy of this post for every Member of Congress, hand-delivering it to every office, and then performing my own personal interpretive dance version in the House Rotunda just to drive the point home

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

these fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/04/2025

Republicans want to restrict access to the ballot and eliminate online and mail-in voter registration. Tell your senators to reject the GOP’s voter suppression bill (especially if your senator is listed here): KELLY (AZ) WARNOCK (GA) PETERS (MI) SHAHEEN (NH) HASSAN (NH) CORTEZ MASTO (NV) ROSEN (NV)

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Tell Your Senator(s) to Vote NO on the Silencing Americans Act

Republicans are once again pushing what we’re calling the “Silencing Americans Act”, a dangerous bill that would create unnecessary obstacles for millions of eligible Americans trying to register to v...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/04/2025

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous. As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime. As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear. By @rbreich.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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Sunday thought

The contagion of courage

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.

His girlfriend’s aunt Grace Layva says she and her family made numerous calls looking for him before they found out he was being detained in the Florence Correctional Center, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to detain people.

Another family member drove to the detention center, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, but said officials wouldn’t provide any information or release him.

ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the wrongful detention.

The family later provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card.

“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court and gave that to ICE and the Border Patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.”

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

lol. We’re hitting 13, soon to be 14

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Red tickseed @redtickseed.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Master and Commander/TNG Intro this was rendering all day while I was out lol

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

American colonists literally threw a revolution in part to prevent unjust penalties imposed by an overly punitive tyrant leader; 4 of 10 amendments in the US Bill of Rights are about rights afforded to people accused of crimes (5, 6, 7, & 8). Here we are again. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Supreme Court blocks Alien Enemies Act deportation of Venezuelan men

The Trump administration was planning to deport at least 30 Venezuelan men under a rarely invoked wartime statute before the court ruled to temporarily halt it.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Research by @chenoweth.bsky.social et al, shows that when 3.5% of a population rises in opposition, change happens. TWELVE MILLION IN THE STREETS. That’s the 🎯.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

It would take some time for this funding to really start getting off the ground but this would make ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States, and quite possibly the entire world.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 16/04/2025

"This malevolent quest towards supposed Jewish safety has always been predicated on endangering anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian students—including other Jews."

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Doctors for America @drsforamerica.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Doctors for America Calls for the Resignation or Removal of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unfit to serve as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and must be removed. The health of our nation depends on it. doctorsforamerica.org/statement-re...

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Statement - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Unfit to Serve as HHS Secretary

STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America Calls for the Resignation or Removal of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. DFA General -

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 15/04/2025

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/04/2025

It is time for Democrats to go on the attack, and take away tax-exempt status for every church that unabashedly campaigned for Trump. Take off the gloves, start to destroy the opposing institutions that fund the fascist movement.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 16/04/2025

Increasingly difficult to see how blue states and cities can continue working with the feds in any capacity. We're getting into Fugitive Slave Law territory.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Didn’t get a chance to post this earlier, but there was a huge turnout in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the federal courthouse. From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.

Outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, people gather in support of Abrego Garcia

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