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SETI Institute Launches Discovery and Futures Lab to Explore the Human Dimensions of Life Beyond Earth

New initiative bridges science, society, and the future of discovery in astrobiology and SETI

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Congratulations to @notnotrocketscience.com for launching the Discovery and Futures Lab at the @setiinstitute.bsky.social ! The Lab "unites experts in astrobiology, SETI, social science, ethics, law, communication research, futures studies, and more" to prepare for discovery of life beyond Earth

HOLYMOLY YOU DID IT!! after last night's blizzard of folks giving to/entering the raffle, we are over goal to keep Raymond & his mom housed!!! www.instagram.com/p/DWRa1nWlVw...

Thank you so much for sharing @unraveledpress.com 😭 ❤️ i am absolutely stunned by the support pouring out for Raymond and his mom, thank you so much everyone!! i'm almost never on here but i'll keep y'all posted ❤️❤️❤️

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 5mo ago

Hi hello there's a lot happening, but want to draw attention to an urgent need in the community— 78 yr old Raymond & his 95 yr old mother are facing eviction *immediately* if they don't pay back rent to the tune of $3200. Fundraiser is sitting at 27%. More info here: instagram.com/p/DWO2QUoldVX/

Hi hello there's a lot happening, but want to draw attention to an urgent need in the community— 78 yr old Raymond & his 95 yr old mother are facing eviction *immediately* if they don't pay back rent to the tune of $3200. Fundraiser is sitting at 27%. More info here: instagram.com/p/DWO2QUoldVX/

Lucian Walkowicz on Instagram: "FIVE MORE DAYS to help Raymond & his mom stay housed 💜 for the next few days I'll be highlighting some of the amazing prizes (full list in the last slide). Info to ente...

21 likes, 0 comments - rockettolulu on March 23, 2026: "FIVE MORE DAYS to help Raymond & his mom stay housed 💜 for the next few days I'll be highlighting some of the amazing prizes (full list in the l...

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this is why i have been so insistent that activists here in chicago rethink "close broadview"-- broadview, the only stop before detainees get moved out of state-- as an organizing goal. it's not that i don't want it closed, it's that we must think strategically about the downstream effects

MdDoogie3@mddoogie3.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

For folks asking: yes, the person shot has died. Just announced. The video circulating shows what can only be described as an execution.

At 26th and Nicolett in Minneapolis this morning— Feds have just shot another person in the streets. Furious community members are gathering. State police and conservation cops here in front of ~50 federal agents.

Outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis tonight— Around 100 protesters are gathered across from the facility. Some vehicles with masked agents inside have been periodically arriving. DHS agents just gave another warning to stay out of the road and driveway, called out press as well.

Zac Kinney shared this photo from the second of two ICE deportation flights at MSP today - one of the 47 deportees was still in their Amazon uniform. (I counted 127 deportees on the first flight)

ICE has everything to do with law enforcement. It's literally the same private prison contractors, running the same private prison facilities, implementing programs designed by the same government officials using the same tactics. Cops fire tear gas + rubber bullets directly at people's faces too.

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is an image of a federal agent shooting chemical munitions at a crowd at point blank range in Minneapolis on the day Renee Good was executed Whatever your feelings on law enforcement, understand they don't apply here whatsoever because ICE categorically *has nothing to do with law enforcement*

Claim: These aren't cops! Cops don't fire less lethal rounds in people's faces! That's dangerous! Someone could lose an eye! Reality: Cops blinded 8 BLM protestors in one single day, by shooting multiple people in the face with tear gas cannisters, bean bag rounds, and rubber bullets.

Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, who shot Marimar Martinez five times (she survived) as she drove her car in Chicago on Oct. 4, is also a firearm instructor.

ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, per Testimony

Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.

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Hey Minneapolis ❄️—we're indie reporters here from Chicago. If there's anything you'd like us to know about community actions, vigils, or fed activity, please drop us a line on Signal at unraveled.66 📱

In Minneapolis this afternoon— Hundreds are streaming across the snow and ice into Powderhorn Park for a rally and march demanding ICE leave Minnesota. It is bitterly cold. There are hardcore Midwesterners out here making their way in with trekking poles.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps

Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

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Feds encountering loudmouthed Chicago women

calls to abolish ice didn't start when trump got elected in 2024 or even in 2016. ice has operated the detention center in broadview, illinois, for ~20 years. the chicago field office, which covers six states, surveilled 20,000 people on electronic monitors as of sept 2024.

More immigrants are under surveillance by ICE's Chicago field office than ever, data analysis finds

The number of people being electronically monitored by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in six states, including Illinois, has grown from 2,921 in 2019 to 19,160 last month. No other ICE field...

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An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...

It appears Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has arrived for the morning's inspection, along with a team of attorneys. "Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly. "They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.

Dave Byrnes@djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Good morning from the "free speech zone" in front of the ICE facility in Broadview, IL. A federal judge and a team of attorneys are set to visit the facility this morning, per a class action lawsuit alleging poor conditions and inhumane conditions inside.

#PPOD: When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the surface. The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured these dust avalanches on the slopes the night before Christmas in 2023. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS 🧪

You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org

Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

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You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org

Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

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Same guy has a WSJ column which he has occasionally used to criticize me, personally I always find out via the hate mail that starts rolling in

Aura Bogado@aurabogado.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky." drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...

Good morning from Judge Jeffrey Cumming's courtroom, where he's considering a motion to release 100s of "Midway Blitz" arrestees on EM who were subjected to "warrantless" arrest. ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...

Federal judge appears poised to order release of at least some ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees

A Chicago federal judge appeared poised Friday to order at least a portion of the thousands of people detained in “Operation Midway Blitz” released on electronic monitoring while litiga…

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///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.

For years I've reported on the tech and tools that bounty hunters have access to. I think people would be shocked it is often essentially what cops can have too, w/ less accountability - license plate reader databases - credit header data - smartphone location data www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

dan sinker@dansinker.com · 9mo ago

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.