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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 01/10/2026

Mexico is now a sending, transit and receiving country all at once. Organizations that used to help migrants heading north are shifting to resettlement after deportation. Field notes from Mexico City: austinkocher.substack.com/p/notes-from...

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Notes from Mexico City: The View from the South Side of U.S. Deportation Policy

Mexico City is on lots of people’s radars these days, and for good reason: it’s a hip, world-class city with a warm, bohemian exuberance, all the art, culture, and cuisine you can handle, and it’s an…

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧊🛩️ AFRICA 🌍⛓️ 😲 A Talon Air G5 (tail: N59JE) departs Arizona, trafficking humans in chains via Puerto Rico to Africa 👀

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Rumneek Johal @rumneeek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Disgusting, ghoulish behaviour

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 09/09/2026

flying some planes into some buildings to commemorate 9/11

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Rumneek Johal @rumneeek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Where are all the white nationalists who are vocally against violence at religious institutions? Awfully quiet at the moment. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

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2 men stabbed during morning prayers at Edmonton gurdwara, 1 arrested

Two people were stabbed at Nanaksar Sikh Temple on Friday, the Edmonton Police Service has confirmed.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New at The Watch: More on how and why Democrats should make it possible for victims and their families to sue Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and other political appointees for violence inflicted by immigration agents.

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Suing Stephen Miller

It's time to put everyone from Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to the most recent ICE hire on notice: a reckoning is coming

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The Sikh Coalition @sikhcoalition.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

As students prepare for the upcoming school year, we are excited to share the Sikh Celebrations toolkit! Share this resource with teachers and school staff to help support inclusive classroom learning --> www.sikhcoalition.org/resources/si...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/07/2026

ICE flights. Saturday, July 4, 2026. At least 85 flights on 28 planes. At least 12 removal flights, 6 to Mexico alone. One year ago today, ICE sent 8 men to South Sudan. Only 3 have been released. Still jailed: Enrique Arias-Hierro, Kyaw Mya, Nyo Myint, Thongxay Nilakout & José Rodriguez-Quiñones.

An ADSBx map of the Americas showing 28 planes doing dozens of flights branching out from Louisiana and Texas toward northern cities (round-up flights), Central America (removal flights), and going between ICE detention hubs (shuffle flights).

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 27/05/2026

I've been monitoring the situation since before you were born.

Swift on Security talking about Ken Paxton and 2016

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

YOU - By the way, I'm a fascist. THE DESERTER - You're not. You're part of the meat shield surrounding the *real* fascists, while they rape children. That's what *you* are.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

POV it’s dinner time and grandpa’s calling from the wrong P.F. Chang’s

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

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SPOOKY ZAIYA 🎃 @saintzaiya.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026

Rfk Jr is perfectly normal dude in the Bloodborne universe “My family found a dead demi-god on the side of a road near a quaint fishing hamlet. Of course, we took it home and ate it.”

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing -- just by accident.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My latest from my @hilltimes.com column “No matter what the unnamed government official said, we can be fairly certain that there are agents of the Indian government who could pose a direct and credible threat to Sikh Canadians.” www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

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Carney’s cold calculation

No matter what the unnamed government official said, we can be fairly certain that there are agents of the Indian government who could pose a direct and credible threat to Sikh Canadians.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.” JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

MEASUREHEAD - PINKNESS IS A RACIAL QUALITY THAT HAS TO BE EARNED THROUGH CENTURIES OF ADVANCED BALLISTIC WARFARE AND CULTURAL DOMINATION THAT THE GRAAD PEOPLE HAVE UNDERGONE FOR DRINKING AL GUL AND SMOKING THE DEGENERATE *TABAC* HERB... AND FOR EATING *POTATO*.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 23/12/2025

The Trump admin says that people can avoid CECOT by voluntarily giving up their rights to be in the US and self-deporting, even when there's no legal basis for deporting them. All US admins say that innocent Black men can avoid the harms of prison and jail by "confessing" to crimes they didn't do.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 23/12/2025

A page in Maxim magazine from the early 00's. Featuring Tucker Carlson and Alan Dershowitz!

Should We Torture the Enemy?
Obtaining tactical info with a piping-hot side of "Get that goddamn dog off me!"
ou would think a decade of reality television and boy bands would have desensitized the American
people to torture. But when the public found out that Uncle Sam roughs up insurgents and terror suspects at Guantänamo Bay, in Afghanistan, and alleg edly at secret locations that don't take visitors from the Red Cross, the people piped up.
Since the war on terror began, interrogation techniques have included every thing from sleep deprivation to close encounters with attack dogs (and even one sur ly West Virginia woman). But the United States has signed numerous treaties, starting with the Geneva Convention in 1929, unconditionally outlawing the practice of tortur ing enemy captives. The Bush White House, however. views terrotists as "unlawful com-batants"-since they don't fight by the rules of the Geneva Conventions, the rules do not protect them. But human rights activists and some U.S. politicians. Sen. John McCain in particular, disagree. McCain's
Detainee Treatment Act of 2006
was designed to put an end to interrogation by torture.
After ratifying the law, Rush issued a "signing statement" that allows him to interpret the act as he sees fit. The verbiage adds up to. "It's a war. I'm the president. Send a box of thumbscrews to Baghdad."
b it acceptable to beat a detainee within an inch of his life on the slim chance that he possesses vital information?
Is torture OK even though we signed a pact that states. "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war exist to allow the practice? You do the moral math.
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Tucker Carison, host of Tucker With Tucker Carlson on MSNBC in 1995 Filipino authorities arrest a guy named Abdul Murad. They torture him.
He admits that he was planning to being down
11 American airliners..
Torture is bad. Keep in mind, some things are worse. And under certain circumstances, it may be the lesser of …

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die. He had this to say about the experience:

Excerpt from Magnum. The text is by Anderson:

"“A couple of days into our journey, the boat began to sink. We were doomed and we knew it. We started saying goodbye to one another. Strangely, it was quite calm on the boat. There was not much to do except resign oneself to the inevitability of it all. Up to that point, I had not taken many pictures. Everyone on the boat knew I was a photographer, but it somehow had not felt right. It’s difficult to explain. But as the boat sank, David, the Haitian whom I had followed on this journey, said to me, ‘Chris, you’d better start making pictures. We only have an hour to live.’ And so, without much thought, I began making pictures.

We were saved at the last moment by a US coast guard cutter that happened upon us, but that’s another story. Much later on, back home safe, I reflected on this question: why make pictures that no one will ever see? The only explanation for me was that the act of photographing had more to do with the explaining of the world to myself than explaining something to someone else. The pictures were about communicating something about my experience, not about reporting literal information. This would be the single most transformative moment of my photographic life.”"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The photographer on that boat was Christopher Anderson, who, 25 years later, snapped the famous photos of the Trump administration for Vanity Fair.

A photo of Stephen Miller for Vanity Fair.

Excerpt from The Washington Post interview with Christopher Anderson:

"Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?

I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The men on the boat were so dehydrated this point, one slipped in and out of consciousness, unable to stand. They were all resigned to their death. Luckily, they were rescued by the US Coast Guard.

Members of the US Coast Guard board a boat.

A man looks tired as a Coast Guard member is behind him.

A man sleeps as a Coast Guard member is behind him.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

In a boat powered by nothing but a sail, they somehow made it from Tortuga Island to the Bahamas (about a 90 mile distance). Then from the Bahamas, they set sail again. But a few days and some hundred miles later, their makeshift boat began to sink.

Two men on a boat. One is reclining with his hands behind his head, relaxing.

A chaotic moment when a bunch of Haitians on a boat look scared.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Some photos of Haitians running in the streets. There's smoke in the background. It looks like political disorder.

A Haitian man stands next to a wall with some barbed wire behind him. The original Magnum caption said the man felt Haiti was a prison and he dreamed of making it to the United States. He wanted to be a rapper.

Some men take a break from building a boat.

A boat sets sail far off into the distance.

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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The woman that said he's a gentleman

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 13/11/2025

Realizing we didn't need all this fucking red string at all

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/11/2025

Ben Shapiro was just ratioed by Nick Fuentes on X after Shapiro called out Tucker Carlson and Fuentes for their antisemitism. The neo nazi right is fully taking over the republican party.

Screenshot of an X post by Nicholas J. Fuentes replying to Ben Shapiro.
Fuentes’s post lists a series of rejections: “No to Ben Shapiro, No to the neocons, No to dual citizens, No to Benjamin Netanyahu, No to cancel culture, No to genocide and ethnic cleansing, No to the Christ-hating Talmud, No to Greater Israel, No to our Jewish oligarchy,” followed by “AMERICA FIRST. AMERICA FOREVER 🇺🇸.”
Below, it shows Ben Shapiro’s earlier post saying, “No to the groypers. No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash. No to those who champion them. No to demoralization…,” along with an image of Shapiro speaking into a microphone on his show “The Ben Shapiro Show.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/11/2025

I've long said I believed Ben Shapiro to be the canary in the coal mine for when the far right begins to explicitly push Jews out of the Republican party. The canary just metaphorically died.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

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He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks

Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

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$andhu @singhitis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It’s quite amusing how this country really operates. The law passed by Congress is simply disregarded, while executive orders are treated as the supreme law of the land. Democracy, eh?

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Trump signs ‘Saving TikTok’ order to start resolving its big ban problem

The deal values TikTok’s US operations at $14 billion.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Trump’s inability to pronounce “acetaminophen” raises new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state.

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$andhu @singhitis.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

“Free admission to Lolita Island, AKA Epstein Island of the South, Mar a Lago.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Put the late night shows on the block chain. by Andrew Yang

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$andhu @singhitis.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

the reporters should have to apologise individually, they sure were excited to out their names on the byline, why hide behind the institution now

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$andhu @singhitis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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Blue's News @bluesnews.com · 10/09/2025

U.S. NIH head RFK, Jr. says studies are being initiated to blame the epidemic of mass shootings in the U.S. on over-medication of children and/or video games, reminiscing about how in his day kids were encouraged to bring guns to school. More: www.bluesnews.com/s/288828/

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U.S. NIH Looks to Scapegoat Video Games (and Meds) for Gun Violence - Blue's News Story

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$andhu @singhitis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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$andhu @singhitis.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

@kaye.zone @duckfeedtv.bsky.social I’m guessing that y’all are aware that old podcast episodes keep popping up as new in our feeds? Not a big deal, just a little annoying because my podcast player doesn’t let me delete them all at once. I have to delete them one by one. Just making sure you’re aware

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

again we’re seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them

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