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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everyone should be fighting for Universal Healthcare and disability rights. Health is fragile. You can become disabled or chronically ill in an instant. It’s not a moral failing. It can wipe out your savings and leave you destitute. Healthcare is a basic human right.
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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Repost @niecynash1 —— Straight like that💯💪🏾🎨 For the people in the back …. Artist: Jerell Gantt
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R Afubera Fox @rafuberafox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Repost @raquelmartinphd —— Imagine if we put as much energy into teaching people how not to violate consent as we put into teaching potential victims how not to become victims.
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@kylietcheung.bsky.social 's article in Jezebel from 2024
jezebel.com
Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
jessica.substack.com
Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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The Kansas City Defender @kcdefender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: Bodycam footage shows the police lynching of unarmed Black teen Saveion McConnell. A Missouri deputy shot at him 9 times. At least 6 of those shots came after Saveion was already incapacitated on the pavement. The prosecutor says it was legal. Watch. 🧵
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026
Abortion bans make exceptions for ectopic pregnancies, but some people still don’t get care. One doctor told a woman intervening in her pregnancy could land him jail time, according to a lawsuit. “I felt like my life was a risk he couldn’t afford.”
propublica.org
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) it goes to about 54:46 runtime of the panel before its the Q&A portion that wasn't livestreamed
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Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series)
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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revth0t @revolutionaryth0t.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh wow I preempted the recurrance of the "should leftists exercise?" discourse by over a week. Luckily the answer is already settled in this video! youtu.be/A3Zrq-_OKhk
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Should leftists exercise??
YouTube video by revolutionaryth0t
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
toolkit by Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth linktr.ee/KellyHayes
organizingmythoughts.org
The Understory Toolkit
Creating spaces of reflection, belonging, and collective care
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
After Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot and detained Carlos Ricardo Parias last October, the Los Angeles-based journalist will cross 300 days in ICE detention on Monday.
theintercept.com
ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.
With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I couldn’t make this up if I tried.🤬 “An anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit in Utah whose founder resigned after multiple women accused him of trafficking and sexual abuse has won a federal contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody.“
prospect.org
Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect
The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The absurd number of unneeded pressures, harms, and power dynamics we are putting generations through...No one deserves cruelty, abuse, or neglect. We have so many abusers and abusive/neglectful systems in positions of power and so much harm has been normalized. This is not okay.
3newsnow.com
OPD says its school resource officers have shock gloves at 29 schools and they've been used twice on students
OPD says shock gloves have been delivered to school resource officers at 29 Omaha area schools and used twice on students.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/08/2026
Y-I-K-E-S.
A full list of organizations is here. The researchers had high confidence that these organizations had their credentials exposed:

Nvidia Corporation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Samsung Electronics
samsung.com
Salesforce, Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
ServiceNow
Siemens AG
S&P Global
Airbus US Space & Defense
John Deere
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
Thomson Reuters
FedEx
Munich Remunichre.com
MediaTek Inc.
Volkswagen AG
Deloitte
The Kroger Co.
Siemens Energy
Thales Group
X Corp (Twitter)
Zscaler, Inc.
Epic Games
Orange S.A.
HP Inc.
Philips
Fortum Oyj
Vodafone Group Plc
Carl Zeiss AG
Deutsche Bahn AG
NGINX, Inc.
BT Group
Liebherr
Krungthai Bank Public Company Limited
Roku, Inc.
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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones. Hundreds of cop shops have federal waivers to launch advanced drones that navigate with AI, according to @eff.org. Drones that can peer into windows, follow you across town, and even carry weapons. But resistence is growing...
truthout.org
First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones.
Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI.
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
No one deserves abuse/neglect/torture and the amount of resources and support legalized abusers get is physically sickening.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Disability will happen to almost everyone. Most people are only temporarily abled. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not a choice people make. The human body is frail. It only takes one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck to forever change your health.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
With politicians/pundits bashing misleading caricatures of the left's views on police/prisons, it's a perfect time to remind people that reducing size and power of repressive bureaucracy is one of the most consistently popular ideas over 40 years of polls: equalityalec.substack.com/p/convention...
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Conventional Wisdom and "Popularity"
And a weird debate I just had.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is the reality inside ICE detention centers. Children are being forced into jail-like conditions while this Administration strips away their basic human rights. We cannot allow this stand. We must hold this inhumane Administration accountable!
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Truthout @truthout.org · 04/08/2026
Migrant children incarcerated at a now-closed facility next to an Air Force Reserve base in Miami were exposed to toxic chemicals such as arsenic and lead, which are linked with developmental harm and cancer, according to thousands of pages of records released as part of federal litigation.
truthout.org
Migrant Children Were Exposed to Toxic Contamination at Florida Immigration Jail
The now-closed facility was located next to a Superfund site. Kids incarcerated there were exposed to arsenic and lead.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 02/08/2026
🗞️ @democracynow.org’s Amy Goodman, the subject of new documentary @stealthisstory.bsky.social @sheffdocfest.bsky.social, speaks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about surviving a massacre, Trump, and the current threats to the media www.thenerve.news/p/amy-goodma...
"We Go Where the Silence Is". Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on Trump, violence and thepower of bearing witness

Goodman pictured holding a microphone aloft, against a black background with a red circle
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This new study finds that the total death toll in Europe during the June heatwave exceeds 20,000 people. "This result highlights the accelerating threat of mass heat mortality events in Europe despite previous adaptations to heat." Pre-print here: zenodo.org/records/2108...
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michael mezzatesta @michaelmezz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
capitalism has always required cheap labor and resources from a periphery, and the West has maintained that imperial arrangement through violence. it’s imperative that we transition to a post-capitalist economic system. @jasonhickel.bsky.social on the Better Future Pod:
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media has obtained a coaching guide that Flock surveillance gives to police about “how to speak to city councils about public safety technology.” @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read the full story here: www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“These children, some too young to speak for themselves, will be forced to face trained government attorneys by themselves, in a language they may not speak, in a system they cannot navigate without help.”
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
futurism.com
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 03/08/2026
This week’s main story is about how police use surveillance tools like cameras, microphones, license plate readers, “cell site simulators,” and the practice of “predictive policing,” to create a world that has been lovingly described as “Big Brother on steroids.” Full segment at the link in our bio.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.
politico.com
‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating
The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It does not have to be this way. Abusers do not care if you suffer or die. Abusers just want control and blind obedience so they can do harm until depletion.
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For people in Florida
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Here is how Flock cameras are tracking people, not cars Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xSe...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Certain grocery stores are now scanning every customers' face. Some Grocery Outlet stores are using facial recognition software from the company SAFR Guard to identify people on retail watchlists. As you enter these stores a sign reads "Face matching software being used to prevent shoplifting."
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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Epstein survivor Roza Gilles: "I ran around New York City as a child trying to get an STD to kill a pedophile, because I didn't believe the government would ever stop him." Absolutely gut-wrenching.
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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is an incredibly difficult story to read about children who are sexually abused by kids, and grow up to abuse kids themselves. (And a church where you either forgive or go to hell.) Careful, painstaking work by @jeremykohler.bsky.social and Andy Mannix. I could not stop crying as I read this.
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Fuck abusers. No one deserves abuse or neglect or cruelty. Abusers need to be held accountable.
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
youtube.com
Beaver Dam resident shares her heartbreaking testimony on the impacts of a local data center
YouTube video by UpNorthNews
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New from 404 Media: police clearly want armed drones. New Orleans cops published a policy document outlining how weaponized drones would work, before quickly walking it back. We got a copy of the original. www.404media.co/new-orleans-...
404media.co
New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones
Cops and drone companies seem increasingly eager to put weapons on their drones.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI' www.404media.co/ai-companies...
404media.co
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 16/07/2026
ICE agent who shot man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer 
pressherald.com
ICE agent who shot man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer 
Public and court records show that David Brouillette, 37, has worked for the VA in Togus, the Maine Correctional Center and the Manchester fire department. 
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
In April, we published our first story about the surveillance machine at Madison Square Garden—an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. Read that here:
wired.com
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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The Void Between @spectre-8.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
cbc.ca
'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC News
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16/07/2026
Ninety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.
apnews.com
Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten.
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Oliver Larkin @oliveralarkin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's the middle of July, but the Summer doesn't stop our campaign or volunteers! Here are the phone banks and canvasses we have scheduled for this week. Don't forget to sign up using the mobilize link below!
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I explained this dynamic after previous public executions by ICE: www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/al...
democracynow.org
From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing
As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening...
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Another cold blooded execution by ICE today in Maine, just days after the murder in Houston. The only acceptable position for politicians is eliminating the agency. Do not for one minute tolerate any politician calling for "training" or "body cameras." The demand is clear.
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Belly of the Beast @bellyofthebeastcuba.com · 09/07/2026
As the U.S. oil blockade deepens fuel shortages, elderly Cubans are adapting to a new reality: cooking with charcoal, sitting in the dark and waiting for the lights to return.
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Watch Ronaldo Salgado’s heart-wrenching statement after his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas on July 7.
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Video shows ICE agents slamming a man’s head against a stone wall. He was reportedly taken to the hospital. Agents are then seen threatening to shoot legal observers with tasers. The incident reportedly occurred outside the Kane County Judicial Center in the St. Charles suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
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