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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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xoPEACHI 🍑 retro vtuber @xopeachi.com · 24/09/2026
This game has been on my Steam wishlist since December 2023. I AM SO EXCITED.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18/07/2026
We need to head out for now. But as we're leaving the march we catch one last chant go up: "¡El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!" "The people united will never be defeated!
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Lomi Kriel @lomikriel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The @texastribune.org is investigating this ICE shooting, along with that of Ruben Martinez last year in South Padre Island. We are seeking any cell phone footage of either events and you can share anonymously to me at 832-729-3421 or on Signal or WhatsApp.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/07/2026
Ten months ago. If you don't know his name, please learn it and remember it today.
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What happened to Silverio Villegas González
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/07/2026
Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU
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Eleven more Trump deportees arrive in Eswatini from the United States, lawyer says
Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a ​policy of sending them to third ‌countries arrived in Eswatini from the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. lawyer following the case ...
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The Daily Montanan @dailymontanan.com · 07/07/2026
A series of immigration enforcement operations across Gallatin County has left residents reeling, with community organizations estimating more than 100 people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. @jennamtphoto.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2026/07/04/i... #mtnews #mtpol #montana
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ICE raids Gallatin County sites, with as many as 100 detained • Daily Montanan
Gallatin County reported several immigration raids this week with as many as 100 residents disappearing into the Department of Homeland Security.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
OK everybody...still working out some kinks but... A new daily game, with boards written and edited by John Green. hankgreen.com/smush
hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 8
348 pts · ★★ pangram first
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Chron.com @chron.com · 08/07/2026
"My father did not deserve this."
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Son of man killed by ICE in Houston speaks out after fatal shooting
"My father did not deserve this."
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daviss @daviss.org · 07/07/2026
6 Months ago: thousands gathered on Portland Ave demanding justice after Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross while turning her car around. No one has been charged in her killing. After the killing, disgraced border chief Greg Bovino arrived for photo opp.
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Emily @wereherebecause.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
First little kisses of World Cup 2026 spotted!
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Emily @wereherebecause.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Morocco!
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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Berlin Zoo named their baby Hippo Brötchen. :) (Bread roll 🥖)
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
so small he only need 1 popcorn
small kitty doodle
small kitty doodle receiving a single popcorn from me
small kitty with his popcornhe ate the popcorn
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Lucy Blundell 💜💚 Wishlist Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam! @kinmoku.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This was a fun interview! I talk about how I went from One Night Stand to Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart, and how I came up with the characters! 💜💚
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A Chicago teen held for months in ICE detention centers has graduated from high school. blockclubchi.co/4ffuTxO
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Illinois State Police are opening an investigation into the ICE shooting of Silverio Villegas González. blockclubchi.co/4ewsH4G
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. Too many to add to ArtemisTimeline.com, so I just put up a tool at ArtemisTimeline.com/vote so that people can vote on small batches allowing for all of the images to be sorted! (yes, I posted this before, but I had to fix something!)
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Artemis II Photo Voter
Help surface the best photos from NASA's Artemis II mission. Vote on a random batch, or rank specific moments.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
All the major school districts in North Carolina are closed for May Day. Teachers organized and got school boards to close!
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 29/04/2026
this is amazing
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Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Welcome home, Sweet Prince 🤍 – Imani has also returned to Montrose! 🤍⭐️ The boys are back in town. Let's go!!! 📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani and Pippin, Montrose Protected Beach, April 13, 2026)
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.
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University of Minnesota School of Nursing @umnnursing.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Cities can now achieve “what was once thought impossible”: cutting air pollution by 20–45% in little more than a decade. 19 cities, including London, San Francisco and Beijing, cut levels of both PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by more than 20% since 2010. buff.ly/hsm3JlY #ShareGoodNewsToo
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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
An American kestrel perches on an "IMPORTANT BIRD AREA" sign in the Montrose Beach Dunes.
An American kestrel, a type of falcon, sits on top of a sign that says: "chicago park district IMPORTANT BIRD AREA (IBA)."
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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"The stories of the New York Commune are just the tip of the iceberg, though, and Project 2052 is the first step to widening the world." Read about PROJECT 2052, the latest from the authors of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE: @genderhorizon.com and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Thank you @chicagoreader.com!
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Imagining a world where the people win - Chicago Reader
The new digital literary journal Project 2052 invites writers, poets, and artists to help expand the universe of Everything for Everyone.
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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 12/03/2026
Project 2052 is an online platform for stories, poetry and visual art set in the world of our revolutionary speculative novel Everything for Everyone. This month, the week of 03/23, we will be launching the project by publishing the first five stories online. www.commonnotions.org/project2052
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Project 2052 (Everything for Everyone) — Common Notions Press
Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
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Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Quick little 3 colour risograph I printed today - I will be hiding these around a park in Toronto tomorrow for Art & Found Day!
A 3 colour risograph print using blue, yellow and fluorescent pink ink featuring a raccoon. It is walking across some grass covered in flowers, dragging a grocery back which is spilling out food. We see the words TORONTO in bright yellow letters above the critter.
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Emily @wereherebecause.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I had fun. What's My JND? 0.0088 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
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What's My JND?
Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/03/2026
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 24/02/2026
we are gonna make a better world. they don't want us to but we're gonna
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 23/02/2026
every name is a winner here.
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Emily @wereherebecause.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
watching heated rivalry is making me want to go back and relive a friday in year 4 in québec and play ringuette
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
Image of Charles Darwin quotes, with the recipient of the letter and the date the letter was written. He said "I hate every wave of the ocean" to W.D. Fox on 15 February 1836, "Oh my God how I do hate species and varieties" to J.D. Hooker in 11 March 1858, "I am very tired, very stomachy, and hate nearly the whole world" to Thomas Huxley on 10 September 1860, "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" to Charles Lyell on 1 October 1861, "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" to John Lubbock on 3 September 1862, and "I am languid and bedeviled and hate writing and hate everybody" to J.D. Hooker on 23 June 1863.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10/02/2026
I just want everyone to know that the creator of one of our favorite whistles (the micro bitonal) is a very nice man in Italy who has been messaging me asking if there are things he can tweak in the next version he is designing mostly to help us mass produce these more efficiently to fight ICE.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents
Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The Bean with a Beanie. Frozen February is here. This morning in Millennium Park with the Bean in reflection.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 30/01/2026
Minnesotans on Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in Minneapolis. Jan. 30, 2026. 📷: WCCO-TV
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Wilfredo Torres @wilfredotorres.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
For Liam.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another. linktr.ee/twincitieste...
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The twin cities are under siege. Every tenant needs a union. We are launching a twin cities-wide tenant union. Organize your neighbors. Join the Union NOW.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/01/2026
We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
Mustached man in green t shirtMustached man in teal T shirtMustached man in teal t shirtTwo federal agents in t shirts and vests
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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
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Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration.

Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest.

Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.
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“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE
Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.
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