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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So looks like Betar USA believed Khalil was on a student visa and takes credit for giving his name and info to the Trump admin. This goes back weeks:

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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” Given that Rubio just designated a bunch of Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, will opposition to a U.S. war in Mexico also qualify you for disappearance by ICE?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 25/02/2025

actually maybe don’t pee on my leg like saying “yeah okay” is not a normal response to someone peeing on you

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 22/02/2025

New Yorkers, use this tool to contact the Governor and your legislators demanding restoration of visitation, limits on solitary confinement, and other important protections for NY prisoners: p2a.co/LmdrvPI

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Governor Hochul & NY Lawmakers: BRING BACK VISITS & BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS TO OUR LOVED ONES NOW!

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Ava Ayers @avaayers.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

Officers have also struggled to meet their quotas because immigrants are refusing to open their doors when ICE officers knock. The enforcement teams generally do not possess criminal arrest warrants that would allow them to force their way into their targets’ homes. ICE officials say they can’t afford to leave teams of officers waiting around for targeted immigrants to exit their homes.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Democracy dies in daylight

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

These headlines certainly tell a story...

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 16/02/2025

ppl need to stop sleeping on teen vogue like this story .. is so amazing important impactful showstopping

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 13/02/2025

let this serve as the first—though unlikely the last—example that actually no, the courts cannot and will not save us. they’re a valuable tool! but they cannot sustainably go toe to toe with fascistic government takeovers.

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theslowfactory.bsky.social @theslowfactory.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Inhumane, harmful, and solves absolutely nothing. This is an attempt to disappear problems without addressing any underlying issue.

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 12/02/2025

rising from my deathbed to say the flu is not cool and not fun and people should mask more and get their shots (granted i do both of those things but this is a group effort)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2025

i am 100% certain that they are weekend at bernie-ing trump and just handing him papers to sign, the content of which is determined by whoever happens to want something to happen

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 06/02/2025

4/4 final thoughts: folks should threaten legal action if this is indeed illegal, everyone should have delete me, this is so fucked! 😀🫶

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 06/02/2025

3/ their website also notably lacks a privacy policy, any terms and conditions, or just any information beyond a video demo and a thread showing their tool misidentifying a columbia student…twice. and that’s a white student—let’s not forget facial recognition generally worsens with more melanin.

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 06/02/2025

2/ even while assuming Stellar Technologies isn’t some big data brokerage, i know similarly structured products like ClearView AI—which literally contracts with law enforcement agencies—provide folks with a simple way to opt out because they have to to be in compliance with these opt-out laws.

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 06/02/2025

i’m not a digital rights lawyer so i can’t speak definitively, but im like 99% sure that campaign as described violates multiple states’ data privacy laws — namely in their outright refusal to disclose how people’s data is being used 1/

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

NEWS: USAID is shrinking its essential worldwide staff to 294 — a massive decrease from 14000. An internal breakdown shows the agency being left with just 12 people assigned to Africa, 21 to the entire Middle East, and 8 to Asia.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This means that USAID will have just 12 people to assist as more than 25 million people starve in Sudan. 21 to assist as 2 million people try to return to their destroyed homes in Gaza.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

FACT: The entire federal civilian workforce accounts for 4 PERCENT of the federal budget www.ft.com/content/3bb3...

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The US payroll costs taxpayers $271bn annually, or roughly 4 per cent of the $6.3tn in federal spending during fiscal year 2022, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The government spends far more on contractors at $750bn, a total union leaders say will rise after mass lay-offs.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

When you’re making your calls today, ask them also to be on the lookout for HR 86. OSHA cut the number of workplace deaths in SIXTY PERCENT. I’m a construction manager, & OSHA frames how I do my job. The call I never wanna make EVER to a family member is “your person is not coming home tonight.”

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

For a party that says we’re in the middle of a constitutional crisis, they sure don’t act like it

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Han 💛 @hannahisoverthis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Do you know how insane it is that our government is currently being dismantled by a bunch of bitchless, frat reject, edgelords. These boys could be getting laid and instead they’re couping the government. But no DEI is the problem…

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 05/02/2025

call me a cynic but isn’t it much more wasteful to have 10,000 people who typically do life-saving work be put on leave and get paid to Not do said life-saving work ………

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 05/02/2025

looks like the website has a tipline … interesting … www.deiwatchlist.com/tipline

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DEI Watch List

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 05/02/2025

can someone define essential quickly

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 03/02/2025

Still processing the fact that the richest man in the world, who was not born in America and holds no position in government, is currently destroying all elements of the rickety federal policy infrastructure that insulate working class Americans from harm

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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

New: Musk and his minions have illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories, according to an OPM staffer www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-assoc...

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Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees

The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The corporate coup is global. Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it. They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule. They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/02/2025

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

9. I understand from our Office Manager, however, that as of Sunday,
February 2, no funds have been deposited to our bank account. We have checked our accounts multiple times a day since January 29, but no funds have been transmitted. We have received no information or explanation from the Administration for Community Living about the interruption in funds.
10. In short: we have received no federal funds since the OMB Freeze Memo was issued. Our Center had enough money to meet payroll on Friday, January 31, and to cover outstanding bills. But we did not have enough money on hand to cover another two-week pay period at full staffing.
11. Thus, on Friday, January 31, the Board of Directors voted to lay off three of our five employees and drastically reduce services to our customers. This presented a dire situation for our customers, who have immediate needs.
12. For example, on Monday, February 3, we are scheduled to take an
86-year-old woman to dialysis treatments (which we do for her every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). Our agency is her only way to get to these life-sustaining appointments.

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The minions, as we call them, look to have gone to bed. We’re heading home…for now. FYI-Shutdown DC is organizing morning protests at OPM every day this week. If you want to get more plugged into these protests, check them out. (will provide socials when I can)

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Nathan Bernard @nathantbernard.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Fascists Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon release plans to replace NPR with Nazi propaganda machine led by Laura Loomer, Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson.

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 02/02/2025

during black history month too this is such a travesty

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sofia ong'ele 🍉 @sewpheeyuh.lol · 02/02/2025

i hadn’t been thinking about how the tariffs were going to personally affect me until my mom reminded me that most braiding hair comes from china…

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2025

🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/

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