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Caro Swan

@wereswan.bsky.social
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Editor, birdwatcher, and lover of fictional crime. She/her.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GIRL DINNER GOALS
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Batogato @batogato.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this might be the most minnesota thing that ever minnesotad.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’m still processing this 2 days later. I was sitting in a kayak when this baby beluga decided to play with me. Other whales joined in and you can see what happened next. What isn’t on camera is that one then started pushing me around the river for five-ish minutes. It was an unforgettable moment.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 28/07/2026
I remember this insane story from a few years ago. Ebay employees trying to shut down this couple's little newsletter that was criticizing the company went completely batshit: sending them live spiders, posting ads for sex parties at their address, tailing their car, sending them death threats.
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ain’t no rule says a squirrel can’t play baseball
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Earlier this week, Biddeford City Council had their first meeting since ICE agent David Brouillette shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Guerrero.
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"It’s not a game for us here in Biddeford"
On Tuesday, Biddeford, Maine’s city council held its first meeting since ICE agent David Brouillette shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Guerrero.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
With the Four Corners region now receiving monsoon rains, the bulk of the West's wildfire activity has shifted to the Northwest where an outbreak of more than 15,000 lightning strikes sparked dozens of fires in Oregon and Washington the past two days.
sfchronicle.com
15,000 lightning strikes ignite dozens of Northwest wildfires. Here’s where the smoke is going
At least 100 fires were burning across Washington and Oregon following an unusually strong burst of lightning.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Streets should be safe for children, including children who are porcupines.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
He died at Irwin, the detention center made notorious by allegations of unwanted gynecological procedures, and that Biden had shut down. Trump reopened it. Now it’s the site of yet another death in ICE detention following claims of medical neglect.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
story says they killed him in front of his home, his 3yo daughter saw him bleed to death, they've going to have to be stopped sometime and today's a good day to end this
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
#Florida pickleball mascot Pickles the Rooster is missing. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/pickles... via @miaminewtimes.com
miaminewtimes.com
Pickles the rooster, South Florida pickleball mascot, is missing
"He would never leave," one pickleball regular insists.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026
WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣
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dennis-the-menace.bsky.social @dennis-the-menace.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This image got hidden as adult content and I almost missed this amazing story! I love love love science using paintings of animals.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This does not get old to me
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/06/2026
Now you can't "loiter" on the National Mall, the most public of all public land in the United States.
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Archangel Beth @archangelbeth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
@ravensnpennies.com Punctuation. It's Important.
A tweet (or maybe skeet) by Lincoln Michael @TheLincoln:

Sending this to my students to explain why you put titles in quotes...

Quoted post is by Manley @LordManley, who is saying "That took me a moment."

And finally, the image of a woman with blond hair dyed scarlet at the ends, wearing a black leather and lace top, and a "Happy New Year" tiara, posted by AvrilsCult. The caption is:

Avril Lavigne singing Bite Me On The Dick [carriage return]
Clark Rockin New Years Eve 2022 Show.

(The carriage return is very visually important.)
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
uhhhh so my mom and all of my hometown lost power because the gigantic American flag hanging from the WWE headquarters in Stamford blew loose and got caught in a major power line
greenwichtime.com
A storm-torn flag knocked out power to thousands in Connecticut, officials say
As of 6:45 p.m. Sunday, outages had dropped to 210 in Stamford and 190 in Greenwich, Eversource reported.
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I’m going to have try this!
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Whoa www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
medpagetoday.com
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A mighty hunter using his natural camouflage.
My neighbor’s black and white cat sits at the edge of some bushes, attentively watching for prey. His white front is strikingly visible against the greens and browns of the yard.
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I love baby dinosaur season!
Great blue herons in nest
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badsagittarius.bsky.social @badsagittarius.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Everyone please watch this baby condor try to get in its box like a miniature drunk person in a chicken costume.
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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
While local cops are turning in residents for Trump’s ethnic cleansing program, law enforcement in the Twin Cities has also become openly hostile to legal observers of ICE. Here’s some new reporting from me about that.
misfitsmedia.press
Minnesota cops help ICE work in secret
With the reduction of federal forces in Minnesota, local cops are now protecting the feds as Trump loyalists go about their kidnapping duties in the state.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"For the first time in more than 100 years, evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota was documented in video captured by the University of MN's Voyageurs Wolf Project (youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU). The videos, shared with the MN DNR by the project researchers, show a female cougar with 3 large kittens"
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First footage ever of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota
YouTube video by Voyageurs Wolf Project
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The protest GOAT
A goat on a leash wearing a tiara and a pink cloth bearing the words EQUALITY FOR ALL
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...
nytimes.com
A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 17/02/2026
Answering the question, how many truckloads of federal agents does it take to arrest one good samaritan? youtu.be/_xd8jWdGkYk?...
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ICE tactics questioned after Brooklyn Park man lured from home, detained
Jesus Flores was arrested by ICE agents in Brooklyn Park last Thursday after two women claiming they were having car trouble knocked on his door. The arrest unfolded on a neighbor's security camera.…
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
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Norah Woodsey @norahwoodsey.com · 10/02/2026
Monsters.
"All I'm asking is for clarification, who are you and why am I being detained," recalled Romero, who said the men responded: "I'm gonna [expletive] blow your head off"
"They kicked me, they punched me, they stepped on me,"she said.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Every white guy who looks like a Trump voter needs to be very clear and open about their beliefs and what's happening in this country. It actually lands harder when it comes out of faces like this. Signed, Guy With a Face Like This
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“…he finally got a dose of medication late Sunday, but that federal authorities have not been giving him his medication at the correct time and they are missing doses.”
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Local angle!
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is just part of patrol. ICE threatens you, points guns at you, brutalizes or kills someone in front of you. Every day it's somebody new in our circle. We gather around them while they work through the stress and fear and then, to the person, they go back out. My friends are so insanely brave.
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Caro Swan @wereswan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This is a very good dog and I would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
A miniature bulldog wearing a sign that says TAX THE BIG DOGS!
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
pressherald.com
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
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Ken Chia, some guy online @kcchia80.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Friend who's part of a neighborhood watch group says their car was just surrounded by ICE. Is fine but obviously rattled.
Text: "Yes, home until I stop shaking then I'm going back out"
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
They abducted this person from Mayo Clinic and not even an elected rep has been able to get them the anti-rejection meds they need to not die AFTER AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Just heard back from DHS on why they abruptly expedited Ramos' asylum hearing: “These are regular removal proceedings. This is standard procedure and there is nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. He will receive full due process." (This is not standard procedure.)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
futurism.com
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
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