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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 13/01/2026

Under Trump's watch, a DHS agent shot a protestor in the face with a non-lethal round at close range, fractured his skull, and then dragged him around as he choked and bled. He is now permanently blind in his left eye.

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Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says

A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/01/2026

Minnesota officials renewed their calls on Friday for state agents to be allowed to help investigate the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer earlier this week. State investigators so far have been denied access to evidence, they said. trib.al/Iqy2KA4

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

True indeed. I wish that all cities had a better model though. Most major cities such as a Los Angeles does not. New York City has done a decent job of it with the outgoing mayor. But the city of Providence in Rhode Island is horrible!

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Why did that make me bust out laughing but it was no laughing in that lol😖😑🤪

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

To a certain degree, you learn to live with it. But most days you are furious what is the kind of fury that you have to keep keep in check because if you don’t, you will spiral out of control.

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It’s really nice to have one with folk that are open minded and not one-sided now off to start my day another day another fight✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

No need to apologize. This is the most I set on this app since I’ve been here lol also a conversation that definitely needed to be had most people don’t even want to have the discussion.

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It’s almost like trying to tell a sick person how to feel sick or what sickness should look like on them if that’s not your lived experience how would you know? It’s again the policing of others whose experience may not be yours. How can you tell them how to feel? Not you per se

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Although I understand completely what you’re saying and in RI they had the tanks in the street and teargas for a peaceful protest youth included! However, it’s hard to tell people who have had the lived experience how they should feel &what they should say & how they should express that experience

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It is also a “justifiable” way that black and brown communities can be over policed. We have seen this both locally as well as nationally. As if crimes doesn’t occur anywhere else just in our neighborhoods.

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Local communities don’t get to make the decision about that. And when we advocate and state, that military weapons should not be used in local communities. We are looked at as if we are crazy! It’s more like what is interpreted as more than what it sounds like. Fear mongering.

usedinlocal.com

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If we cannot mind our business and give money to other countries to bail them out, surely we can take care of our own problems here at home! All of it is enough to give you a headache😖

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

As someone who does this work on a national level, it is very disheartening to see the same atrocities in every city and state. But only in certain areas if you know what I mean. And it is all the areas where ICE seems to be. They are more of a hindrance because they are definitely not there to help

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Meanwhile, they’re homeless issues are out of control. Their schools are under a state takeover in the capital city of Providence, but we got tanks! And yes, the fire department is definitely underpaid and so is EMS and if we’re gonna say it so our nurses and doctors especially at local hospitals.

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Police departments have more money than God! Trust me in the state of Rhode Island, which is the smallest state, they have tanks for their local police department! Why? Do you know what that money could’ve been used for? I do not disagree with you, but that is crazy

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

What we are saying is there is money for over policing but no money for education, housing, better healthcare after school programs, libraries, etc. but as long as there is a tank at every police dept it’s all good …..smh. And yet with ICE look at where we are now! Raggedy.

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Most organizations that are saying “defund the police“ are on board with that type of speak if you will. Unfortunately, that does not support the narrative that wants to be told. So that’s what everyone runs with the narrative. We’re not saying take money away and get rid of police dept.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/11/2025

No health care, no deal.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

RFK Jr. fired Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (the institute led by Anthony Fauci for 38 years), after she filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that the Trump regime had undermined vaccine research and defied court orders.

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Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

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BONE Spurs Revenge. @bonespursrevenge.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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☀️Sunshine☀️ @missmielle.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025

Let the resounding silence about what just happened in Chicago serve as your reminder that no matter what white people are *claiming* right now, they have not changed, do not care, and will continue to let this go on. They know ICE isn’t running up in their subdivisions

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

FYI for job seekers- LinkedIn will mark jobs as “no longer accepting applications” after it reaches a certain number of applicants through LinkedIn. That does NOT automatically mean that the employer actually stoped. Go directly to the company site to verify if the role is still available or not!

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Read With Mama K @readwithmanak.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Visiting The Legacy Museum today was what I needed to shift my focus back to where it should always be, on my people. Black people have sacrificed so much just to thrive in hostile territory, but here all I felt is peace amongst the painful truth of our existence in America.

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” — James Baldwin

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Never before have I seen a US President pick an entire group of people to be a murderer with no evidence, and then proceed to recommend a crackdown on said group. If you didn't think you had fascism in the USA, you are about to find out.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The FBI right now could probably use all those experienced senior career professionals with decades of investigative experience that they fired for absolutely no reason.

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His Imperial Majesty @treg2cole.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I refuse to spend an ounce of energy attempting to humanize someone who spent their entire life profiting off of spreading hate, peddling lies and propaganda against people who look like me. I take solace in knowing that there is no hate in my heart. Only indifference towards hate mongers.

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thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social @thepilarmccloudexp.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This Labor Day, remember that Black Americans are the most overworked and underpaid group.

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Jamila B. Me @amomentwithmila.blacksky.app · 13/07/2025

I don't know who needs to hear this, but when someone says they are struggling, that's not an invitation for you to tell them that somewhere, someone has it worse. Stop minimizing someone else's pain just because it's not that deep to YOU. You don't need to feel it to validate it in someone else.

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His Imperial Majesty @treg2cole.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

As time goes on I find myself being disgusting more and more with these "Golden Era" hip-hop dudes. Many haven't aged well. So many ignorant, misogynistic, cooning, sexual deviants and not enough stand up ones. Most lack any morality and the majority of them will do anything for $$$ now. Just sad.

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Ms. Good Vibess✨ @goldenthanggg.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

For anyone in grief today I hope you feel loved and comfort today 🤍

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