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Thoughts and prayers mostly. Passionately Jewish, legally wed, on the verge of becoming a minor poet or something. Languages! Converted to Minnesota some years back. michaelgetty.com 🇨🇦

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/09/2026
We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Join the Nat'l Day of Action for Public Health Care on Sep. 1 Demand that the feds enforce the Canada Health Act and stop US-style health care in its tracks! Join actions in AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PEI Details: assets.nationbuilder.com/friendsofmed... #cdnpoli
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“This could end Canadian medicare as we know it.” “That’s the chilling conclusion of a recent report on Alberta’s push to create a privatized, U.S.-style health care system in the province.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli breachmedia.ca/pandoras-box...
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‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare ⋆ The Breach
Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
AB: Here is the EIP data (for ALL major EDs in the province) Indexed to Population growth. Obviously increased pop plays a role... but workforce, hospital and LTC capacity, complexity, technology, and GOVT POLICY make a massive impact. UCP GOVT POLICY has only made this worse! 1/2
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/06/2026
They were detained by ICE. Then they vanished.
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They were detained by ICE. Then they vanished.
Immigrants are frequently being sent all over the country, and often families and attorneys don’t know where they are.
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Nick Valencia @nickvalencianews.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Pepper balls and less lethal munitions were fired at demonstrators and press alike. At one point Friday night, DHS agents flanking state police began firing at us substack.com/@nickvalenci...
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You Need To Pay Attention To What's Happening In Newark, New Jersey at Delaney Hall
NJ State Troopers sent in by the democratic governor under the premise of protecting demonstrators are the ones who bring the violence. Press freedom and constitutional rights violated. We were live.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 27/05/2026
Tonight, as captives continue a hunger strike inside Delaney Hall—the ICE detention center in Newark—ICE mercenaries are brutalizing demonstrators on the street. This is about immigrants' freedom—and everyone's freedom. ICE are the front lines of an aspiring dictatorship. crimethinc.com/ICEmelts
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 16/04/2026
The Senate’s final vote on repealing the ban on mining near the Boundary Waters has been scheduled for Thursday morning. Sen. Tina Smith is expected to continue speaking then.
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Live: Smith holding Senate floor to oppose measure opening mining near the Boundary Waters
If passed, the legislation would head to President Donald Trump’s desk for a signature.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement
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Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center
When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children”
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
events really pushed this off the page today but I wrote about the public pressure building against concentration camps newrepublic.com/post/207116/...
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How to Dismantle a Concentration Camp
Trump’s drive to build a network of detention centers is being met with some robust public resistance.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026
“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)
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Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday
Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody deserve to be underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care? presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...
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The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage | Press Watch
The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting
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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A must-read if you haven't already: @kalish.bsky.social interviewed a dozen people, and sorted through 1,000+ pages of court documents and other records, to present a ton of new reporting re: ICE's cruel treatment of trans detainees. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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She Was Honored With A Human Rights Award. Then She Says ICE Tricked And Arrested Her.
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 09/02/2026
"He said he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men. He said detainees are constantly hungry because meals served at tables in the centre of the room offer only child-sized portions." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This story is chilling...not because it’s loud, but because it’s quiet. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Ali is a gorgeous writer, and the stories he returned with from walking this single block are extraordinary. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
She still finds herself in the market, reaching for the same snacks Ahmad and Rasha used to love. “Sometimes I whisper, ‘If they were here, I’d buy this for them.’”

She gestured around her unfinished room. “I feel like a queen,” she said, “because I have walls. Many people don’t even have that.”

Then she looked straight at me. “My message to the world: ‘Don’t let my children become numbers. Remember their names. Gaza has always stood for the world; now the world must stand for Gaza.’”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”
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Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak @alikodjak.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
www.propublica.org/article/minn...
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What We Saw in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene. w/ @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
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shimonides @shimonides.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
No deescalation here.
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ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
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Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Please help spread the word. We need to be aware of our surroundings, alert and cautious. #SheShed ICE is changing tactics radically in Minnesota to adapt to citizen organizing. Watch this short video by a local to learn what's happening! Repost on BlueSky or wherever: substack.com/@sugarrhi/no...
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SugarRhi~ (@sugarrhi)
PLEASE HELP ME SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE‼️‼️‼️
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Joe @joealv.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21/01/2026
A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Nasra Ahmed was shoved to the ground and detained by ICE agents, suffering cuts and bruises to her face and legs Ahmed, a U.S. citizen born in Minnesota, spent two days in jail before being released without charges
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St. Paul woman, a U.S. citizen, recounts her two days in detention
During her two days in immigration detention, a St. Paul woman who was born in Minnesota said she “put her faith in God” and prayed after suffering what appeared to be a stress-induced seizure and bei...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.
Defendants’ Unlawful Detention of Ali Dahir 49. Ali Dahir is a U.S. citizen of Somali descent who has lived in the United States since 2001. He currently resides near Karmel Mall, in a neighborhood with a large Somali American population in Minneapolis. On December 2, 2025, Mr. Dahir was leaving his apartment when he observed uniformed officers wearing vests and masks knocking on doors in his building. Mr. Dahir was detained after sharing an elevator in his building—a building primarily housing residents of Somali and Latino descent—with the ICE agents. Mr. Dahir did not speak to or otherwise engage with the agents while in the elevator. When Mr. Dahir exited the elevator and walked outside, the agents followed him,
called him over, and stopped him, saying that they needed to speak with him. 50. The agents took a picture of Mr. Dahir’s face with their phone and asked him for his identification. Mr. Dahir provided them with his Minnesota driver’s license. They asked Mr. Dahir if he was a U.S. citizen, and when he responded that he was, they demanded proof. Mr. Dahir provided his passport card, but the agents still did not let him leave. Instead, they took his driver’s license and passport card to their car. Mr. Dahir asked if he was free to go, but an officer said no because they were waiting for more information from their headquarters. The agents kept Mr. Dahir outside for at least 25 minutes in weather at or below 19 degrees Fahrenheit. When Mr. Dahir asked if he could leave to go to work, the agents told him he was not free to leave and threatened him with detention. 51. The agents also held a friend of Mr. Dahir’s. The ICE agents prevented Mr. Dahir and his friend from leaving until media and other people from the neighborhood started to gather, at which point one of the ICE agents stated, “It’s getting hot over here, let’s go, let’s go.”
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/01/2026
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
Eyewitness account:
Good morning,
My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction.
I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend.
As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it.
We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
pretty harrowing first person account of a Kavanaugh stop
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
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From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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cdlane.bsky.social @cdlane.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
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shimonides @shimonides.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
ICE OUT #TwinCities
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol goons came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/01/2026
this is worth reading. a longtime NYT insider confirms that the paper's abrupt turn into seething anti-trans bigotry came directly from the top: AG Sulzberg and his 2 deputies, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
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'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
lotta details (of the enraging variety) about Dash Sulzberger's anti-trans campaign transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
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'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Brutal kidnappings and exploitation aren't just 'news’; they are a lived reality. We have become dangerously desensitized to the unthinkable, and it is time to wake up.
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shimonides @shimonides.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I worry that we are so distracted, entire genocides are happening and we do nothing, say nothing, take little if any notice.
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Opinion | This Is What the Murder of a Whole City Looks Like
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
We been called conspiracy theorists in order to disparage our work. We report, regularly, on a vast conspiracy in Ontario to bankrupt the province, end public education and end public healthcare. We bring the receipts. Corruption is made up of collusion and conspiracy. www.corruptario.ca
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Connecting the dots on corruption in Ontario.
Newsletter that connects the dots on corruption in Ontario.
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John Asbury @johnasbury.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Inside CECOT - the spiked 60 Minutes segment
YouTube video by kala
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
It's a travesty that Bari Weiss (or David Ellison, or Trump) censored this report on CECOT, forcing Americans to watch bootleg Canadian versions of 60 Minutes to find out what our own government is doing.
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