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"It’s almost three months that [my husband] has been detained in solitary. And within that time, not only is his mental state just broken, but I had to give him the news that I had lost my pregnancy while him in solitary. That’s not something that I even knew how to handle. I am still grieving."
Gabriela Soto Links Miscarriage to Stress of Husband’s ICE Detention
Soto, whose husband was moved to Elizabeth Detention Center, speaks out after third death at Delaney Hall ICE jail.
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"The bridge is shaky, and the railing is small ... Everyone starts talking about what would happen if we fell into the lake. We are shackled from head to toe and there is a locked gate barring us from the front of the bus where the emergency hatch is located. We'd drown[.]"
The Marshall Project@themarshallproject.org · yesterdayDemetrius Buckley’s long-awaited transfer to a lower-security prison means more time outside of his cell and a chance to see his daughter. But the transport process was like everything else in prison: slow, confusing and casually cruel.
Making Black people feel menaced and unsafe is as critical to the dogma of full-spectrum white safety as being accommodating of all white demands, desires and delusions.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23h agoFor the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
112 coffins were recovered in Gaza today after 986 days under the rubble, out of 308 people who disappeared after a bombing in November 2023. Many more martyrs remain under the rubble.
"The systematic removal of rubble at this pace conceals the evidence of appalling crimes Israel committed in Gaza, especially those related to genocide, such as summary executions and killing unarmed civilians," says @euromedhr.bsky.social.
Israel 'Destroying Crucial Evidence of Genocide' in Gaza: Monitor
"The systematic removal of rubble at this pace conceals the evidence of appalling crimes Israel committed in Gaza, especially those related to genocide, such as summary executions and killing unarmed civilians."
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I've been irate at how little national coverage the killings of four Black men in Memphis by federal agents have gotten -- and even how little in Tennessee. The root? State lawmakers who wholeheartedly approve of the occupation of Memphis.
Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout
Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?
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Who would have thought, a scholar of Homeric poetry has a deep understanding of genre…
Ash Flanagan@ashflanagan.bsky.social · last wk.lmao no it is not. It just isn't. It is fully within the norm for a negative review where the writer feels strongly. This is Roger Ebert.
The IDF collaborates and trains with ICE, CIA, FBI, and police/security/border security around the world. Alligator Alcatraz may be closed, but it was a model to be exported, just like how Atlanta’s Cop City is modelled on the IDF’s Little Gaza
STOP COP CITY from Atlanta to Palestine: A Syllabus
The fight against Cop City connects anti-colonial struggles across the world, from Atlanta to Palestine and beyond. In solidarity with the…
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat the actual fuck
My experience is of every American COVID-19 mitigation effort being obviously insufficient, and ended far too soon. To see people now argue that they somehow were too much, going too far? Not anti-vax or MAGA people, but folks just out here on Bluesky? It staggers me.
"[T]he pogroms have been constant ... [T]he West Bank, as well as Gaza and East Jerusalem, are illegally occupied. There is no possibility for Israel, settlers or soldiers, to invoke self-defense there, because the International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to dismantle the occupation."
Truthout@truthout.org · last wk.Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, said, “The United States is actively contributing to make the international criminal law architecture that it has been building, from the Nuremberg trials up until now, crumble on our head.”
Alam 24: Total events from midnight on Sunday August 2 2026 until five in the morning in the Gaza Strip. #Gaza #TheyLiedToYou
Update from Quds Feed: Mahmoud Muhammad Fatayer was martyred in a bombing that targeted Abu Areef Street in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip this afternoon. #Gaza
...and if you don't believe me, here's a quote from Riley Gaines herself explicitly stating that decision to ban trans people from sports are merely a stepping stone to more anti-trans discrimination: bsky.app/profile/jayw...
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 3w agoI found this quote from Riley Gaines to be really striking. Straight-up conceding that the purpose of trans sports bans is to normalize transphobia, and to give "ordinary" people "more cover" expressing it in public. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...
We’re back! In our latest, we speak with Vicky Osterweil @vickyacab.bsky.social about the Trump administration’s declaration of a renewed red scare, painting the left as “deformed,” a “fatal cancer to civilization,” and a threat to “normal, healthy, ordered living.” www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...
Trump’s New Red Scare w/ Vicky Osterweil (07/27/26) | The Death Panel
Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the Trump administration’s recent statements declaring a renewed red scare, painting the left as
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#Sudan: '“...or if the services hadn’t broken down, maybe my sister would still be with us... People think war only kills those struck by shells. But the truth is it also kills when it prevents a patient from reaching treatment. My sister was one of them.”' www.dropsitenews.com/p/el-obeid-s...
Drone Strikes Are Destroying the Infrastructure of Survival in the Heart of Sudan
In El-Obeid, RSF drone strikes are destroying fuel, electricity, and water that keeps the most fragile patients alive.
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General Dynamics is even more pronounced than RTX.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · last wk.I'm going to keep sharing this graph. The genocide in Occupied Palestine has made literally billions of dollars for RTX (formerly Raytheon). Guess who stands to benefit most from the provisions in the NDAA to "merge" our militaries?
Israel is owned entirely by these Technofascists, it wouldn't be doing any of this if it weren't for the drive to have a state independent of international law but still "Western" to use as a testing ground.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · last wk.I'm going to keep sharing this graph. The genocide in Occupied Palestine has made literally billions of dollars for RTX (formerly Raytheon). Guess who stands to benefit most from the provisions in the NDAA to "merge" our militaries?
“Words cannot describe what we went through.” 60 Palestinians who were kidnapped and held captive by Israel have returned from its torture camps where over 9,600 Palestinians, including children, are being beaten, starved, and sexually assaulted.
Sixty Palestinians detained by Israel return to Gaza, describe abuses
The freed men, some in wheelchairs, describe horrific abuses in Israeli detention.
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The most stagnant fund today, last donation 🚨 July 22 🚨: Mawasi families project is a small grassroots effort providing food and water for 50+ displaced families in Mawasi. https://linktr.ee/mawasifamilies
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is continuing to support mutual aid work in North Darfur and Kordofan and has recently started supported the tea vendors union as they rebuild their livelihoods. To support go to: www.sudansolidarity.com.
Everyone saying Israel is controlling the United States needs to look up what the US did to Hawaii and the Philippines, because our genocides there followed the same playbook. Hell, Texas was an "independent country" too that we absorbed because we wanted the land,
![In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ty2kxmxjmtealqi2kc7f4pww/bafkreiej6o22cdapxm6lj3rgrrznhhijzm5kpcjmvscemg2g7vg4tzm7na)
