These are all photos by Heidi Levine, the @washingtonpost.com photojournalist assaulted by Israeli attackers today in the West Bank. She was covering Palestinian families picking their autumn olive harvest. Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop the violence. washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.

When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.

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Petition to convince Amy Klobuchar to hire DHS goons to work for her campaign so she'll actually subject them to the anger and abuse they deserve.

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew

BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

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Thank you, Brewers!

Dodgers ELIMINATED

Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

If these frat boys were holding up "Stop The Genocide" signs on campus instead of raping women, universities would have expelled them and banned the frats already

I admit that I don't know enough about Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Like, not enough people know that Heather Heyer was not just some person who randomly showed up in Cville, she was an activist and paralegal who spent her time helping families facing evictions.

One day closer to Dodger Elimination Day!

N. Calif high school students of good heart protest a football captain's misogynist comment re Cornell case & admin's lack of action www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/10/09/2...

'Scary and disappointing': Hundreds of Piner High students walk out over football captain’s ‘Cornell 7’ comments

The students protested a classmate’s social media post that seemed to indicate support for a group of men accused of sexually assaulting a Cornell University student in 2024.

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is this the guy running his students over with his car

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3d ago

Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff knew in 2024 that a student had reported being gang raped at a fraternity house, but never followed up to learn what had happened to her or whether any of the accused students had been punished. https://to.pbs.org/4ypJJaO

Reds fan 🤝 Giants fans

I'm going back to back to Cali Cali #NLCS #BeatLA

With a new $100 million domestic spy program, ICE aims to map your social relationships. The goal is not just to terrorize immigrants, but to repress all dissent. As the Democrats look to return to office, we must make it clear that anyone who does not oppose this by all means is an accomplice.

ActivistChecklist.org@activistchecklist.org · 3d ago

ERO ONE agents will [do a type of] analysis that involves researching not only a target, but also every other person to whom they’re connected, including household members, family members, friends, acquaintances, or the person with whom they carpool to work. prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...

On the same day an AI company clutches its pearls about an employee sneaking a recording device into a conference room, my doctor's office surprised me with this. Oh the irony.

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · last wk.

It's been a struggle for reporters to get DHS to provide the names of officers who violate people's civil rights. Now, in our case against DHS's construction-site raids, the government is arguing in court that its employees names are "confidential" and should not be made public during litigation.

there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.

AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News

A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...

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that’s right

Truthout@truthout.org · 4d ago

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

@stefanpaetow.bsky.social@stefanpaetow.eurosky.social · 5d ago

That's nice and all, but much of this is performative, *especially* when corporations are cowed by shareholders and anti-LGBT+ activists. The likes of Costco who gave anti-DEI activists the middle finger should be celebrated because they stand for diversity even in the face of shouty assholes.

"And when they died there they didn’t just die for me, but they died for you because your freedom is shackled in chains to mine. And until I am free, you are not free either." Fannie Lou Hamer, 1971

Ilhan Omar@ilhanmn.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

I stand with Ilhan Omar.

Ilhan Omar@ilhanmn.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

If you haven't already, take the time today to read this really compelling story from Hopkinsville. @kentuckylantern.com founding editor @jamielucke.bsky.social with the byline: kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/12/k...

‘Killing him over and over’: A Hopkinsville mom’s battle for the truth about her son’s death • Kentucky Lantern

She didn’t know it at the time, but on that night almost three years ago, Nancy Tucker was beginning an odyssey to uncover the circumstances of her son’s death.

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If you understand that political antisemitism was not just the hatred of the Jew qua Jew, but an entire worldview in which the Jew stands in for border-crossing cosmopolitan ideologies that threaten the nation-state, then you understand why the Israeli right had to reinvent it from first principles.

I should have started a business as an outfitter for NYT chud safaris.

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d ago

Amid ballooning inflation and corruption, it's getting harder and harder to find MAGA diehards in the diners of Trump country. But after much effort, we did. Here are their personal stories, their opinions, and what Democrats must do to understand them.

all those people who called me "irresponsible" for advocating air strikes against specific data centers better be eating crow.

Gabriele Svelto@gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 6d ago

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

I’m so tired of old white guys trying to stay relevant by telling us what to say and what to think. And I’m an old white guy.

I wonder what would have happened if folks had taken seriously the rise in political violence and threats against women, trans, Black, and antifascist organizers and figures back when we were all getting swatted and sent photoshops of ourselves beheaded

Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · 6d ago

A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

"Kennedy would never be able to do the trial in the US because of its significant ethical concerns, Offit added. “He’s taking advantage of a developing country … Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?”" Yes. That is evident. That and the fact "Bobby" is an evil man.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.