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doe silvesther (they/them)

@silvesther.bsky.social
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queer muslim, white, trans nonbinary. formerly an academic librarian, disabled from chronic illness. an earnest silly-billy, writing a story. no ai abolish ICE & the PIC

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 2h
What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 23m
I am sure it’s been said but bowing to white supremacy is participating in white supremacy. There is no compromising with segregationists. They’d have been lucky to learn from @ruha9.bsky.social! But instead they tried to censor her work and words. Embarrassing and predictable.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
newrepublic.com
“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 3h
Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
espn.com
Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody
Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 15h
"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.
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doe silvesther (they/them) @silvesther.bsky.social · 6h
“…relying on AI also removes what the team called ‘productive struggle,’ which can lead people to find their research strengths and passions”. This is so bleak—ai is truly an existential threat to the mind and spirit.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 9h
last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.
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doe silvesther (they/them) @silvesther.bsky.social · 7h
543741-bright-sunny-day
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 06/10/2026
The crowd is cheering.
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Jess Keating @jesskeatingbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey yeah, friendly reminder that men denying or minimizing the work of women and taking credit for it themselves happens so much we have a NAME for it. (It’s the Matilda Effect.) 2nd fun fact: I’ve written many bios of women in STEM at this point and this is *always a factor in their history*
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2026
youtube.com/shorts/qiw4c...
youtube.com
The Cornell Rape Case & History
YouTube video by Hari Kondabolu
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 02/10/2026
The messages in which officers Daniel Valencia and Matthew Stewart strategized their reports were part of a longer string of texts that started one hour and 14 minutes after they’d killed Joshua Musselman from more than 100 feet away as he was fleeing into his apartment.
rangemedia.co
‘I’m hoping we hit him at least once each lol’: SPD texts from 2024 killing show lack of probable cause
In messages, SPD officers hoped they inflicted maximum damage when they shot Joshua Musselman, mocked the police chief’s response to the killing.
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doe silvesther (they/them) @silvesther.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
sunset glow on the tracks, just after a train went by
Train tracks leading toward the sunset, with some whispy clouds over the powerlines and trees.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.
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Lady Aranea @ladyaranea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capitalism seeks to alienate the worker from everything it possibly can, and now that's going to include actual popular culture. Individualized AI media is going to remove the actual purpose of culture, which is established common experiences and interpersonal communication.
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Brooklyn Rousseau (Spooky 365, not just October) 🎃 @glamgothcollective.mu.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
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ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here is @iamstevenhale.bsky.social, who I directed you all to be following earlier and was a witness tonight, reporting on what Tennessee did tonight. Just absolutely horrifying.
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doe silvesther (they/them) @silvesther.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Huh, Google proved they could update their search summary. The utterly false, antisemitic tweet preview from yesterday—which entirely misrepresents Mayor Mamdani’s actual X post—now includes a thumbnail photo of Mamdani’s face. wtf
The top result of a Google search of “mamdani talmud” shows a false, antisemitic preview of an X tweet from Mamdani’s official NYC Mayor account. The Google preview is not at all what Mamdani’s tweet actually says. Google’s preview reads:

“X • NYCMayor
32.6K+ likes • 1 day ago
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on ...
The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure.”

This false preview from yesterday now includes a thumbnail photo of Mayor Mamdani’s face.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay, seriously, what the fuck is this?
The top of the Google results when I went looking to see just what Mamdani's tweet that mentioned the Talmud actually said (a search for "mamdani talmud"). This top search reasult appears to link to Mamdani's Twitter account ("NYCMayor" on "X"), then has a truncated header ("Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on ...") and then it has a vile lying antisemitic screed that ABSOLUTELY DID NOT COME FROM MAMDANI and I can only assume is some typical-for-Elon's-Nazi-website antisemitism someone wrote *about* Mamadani's post, but it's presented in the Google search results as if it's from Mamdani.

(text of the screed below, if you want to read it)
The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure.
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Mamdani's post, linked from that vile preview, in full (but a screenshot, so it doesn't include the video). Text below:

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.

Our safety and our thriving are tied together.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
thecut.com
How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rape and pedophile party specifically use transphobia as a wedge to make *all* their intended victims more vulnerable, and Jeff Epstein literally advised them in many, many, many barely literate emails to do this.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"
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Catblossom @catblossom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seriously, fuck this guy. He better not run for president. Make it clear now that he absolutely doesn't have your vote.
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Fazia Rizvi @faziarizvi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is nationalized police force, unaccountable to citizens, that is disappearing people and it's happening here, in the United States, not a place far away and unfamiliar to you.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez.
Emiliano Tahui Gómez
@emilianotahui
X.com

Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such

Here in North Austin, where ICE agents appear to have shot an individual in his car. I spoke to two of the only witnesses.

Nedevia Bolaños and her husband, Carlos, own a business just off the intersection where the shooting happened. Shortly before 1 pm they says they heard what sounded like two gunshots. Carlos ran out first. A blue Toyota sedan and a black Escalade were stopped under the highway.Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such
 
He said he saw an olive-skinned man, seemingly in his 30s, leaning backwards against his seat. A masked agent was standing outside the car. The agent refused to answer questions. Within a few minutes as many as 10 other ICE agents arrived.

Carlos asked the victim if he was ok. "Yes," the man said in Spanish, but he looked exhausted. Carlos asked why they had shot him. "Because I didn't stop."Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such. 

Bolaños ran up next. She said she continously asked the ICE agents about why they'd shot him and if they were going to render aid. They didn't answer her. It was an APD officer who later arrived and cut open the young mans shirt, revealing a deep hole between his shoulder blades. The ambulance arrived about 10 minutes after and carried him off. "I've never seen all this. Thank God I'm a citizen," Bolaños said in Spanish. "Or I'd be living like this. In a dream of terror."
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fun fact: except in extremely rare cases (you will know if this applies to you), an extra MMR booster is completely harmless. So if your insurance won't pay for a titer check (some insurance companies are jerks about this), just go to CVS or Walgreens and get a booster!
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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Antifascist Militant @antifasictmilatant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
None of those people are going to be helped by sacrificing trans people Stop setting up trolley problems that don't exist
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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doe silvesther (they/them) @silvesther.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I was vaxxed as a kid, but my measles titers show that I have lost my immunity. I also have 2 illnesses which make it extremely risky for me to get the measles vaccine again, bc it’s likely to actually give me measles. Please get vaxxed—your vaccine also helps protect people who want to, but can’t!
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
"Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. (...) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios."
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 17/09/2026
"Enjoy the camps" is a succinct summation of the current moment trans people find ourselves in. People who insist they're allies also loudly proclaim they won't lift a finger to help us, will say nothing when we're attacked and even tacitly agree with the attacks, and still claim moral superiority.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is extremely, EXTREMELY, insensitive to descendants of the Holocaust to in any way downplay the seriousness of talking about people being "sent to camps", a statement that should not be normalized in any way at all. Ever. Because of all the people that died, Aaron.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 16/09/2026
is the unflinching support in the room with us right now
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
EPA no longer tracking pollution but will track....checks notes..."America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh my fucking gods. Folks, I don't remember seeing this before. James Talarico is pro-intersex genital mutilation. This. Is. Obscene. I'm going to link a couple of my old threads below so you can understand what Talarico voted to preserve and how I feel about that and why.
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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's always hilarious to me when people who have John Brown avatars talk like the kinds of white people Dr. King wrote about in Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
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doe silvesther (they/them) @silvesther.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It sure is ironic when blue-no-matter-who folks demand trans people “act as a team” w/ Democrats specifically in spite of Democrats advocating for excluding trans girls & trans women from team sports. You don’t get to use the word “team” as a political metaphor right now, actually
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As a Black American, I have always felt that the primary was my real election. Because at the end of the day, America is going to America. So for a candidate to switch up AFTER the primary? To advocate for my harm after agreeing to help me? That is a transgression deserving of punishment.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 13/09/2026
this is fascism, btw. "my enemies are worms that are beneath me" and also "my enemies are incredibly powerful and control the world secretly"
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Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Very disheartening to see more and more Dem politicians lean into anti trans positions and when trans people say "man, this sucks" they get swarmed by people yelling at them for handing elections to the GOP. Wish they had that energy for the politicians.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 13/09/2026
if you back transphobic democrats you are not fighting fascism. you are not resisting anything. you are a fascist. trans ppl are a primary target of contemporary fascism. any democratic candidate being transphobic is telling you they will lie down for the fascist machinery sweeping america.
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