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Usdi Crittenden
@lilusdi.bsky.social
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Same doofus as on twitter. Ndn anarcho-judaism. Non-dirtbag leftist. Unemployed cell/molecular biologist with a powerful rage for health misinfo. Wants to see pictures of your pets. Wondering how long I can make a descri
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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · May 20
My policy on sharing campaigns:

I will automatically consider gfm campaigns to be legitimate. @mommunism.bsky.social has touched on this before, and I've seen it firsthand with a friend who is trying to help his fiance escape Russia: gfm heavily vets all campaigns. They often err on the side of
lilusdi.bsky.social Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · Nov 26
In-progress thread of my own Palestinian-made gift sources!
lilusdi.bsky.social Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · Nov 26
I definitely am seconding the recommendation of Canaan brand and Handmade Palestine (which is run by a delightful couple in Ramallah), but would also like to recommend the Al-Ard brand (run by the Anabtawi family) for their oils and foods. You can shop at alardproducts.com or look in your local
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jonthego.bsky.social
Yeah, and she’s been trying to hide it to keep from having to pay the family of the victims www.ktvu.com/news/west-po...
West Portal crash: Victims' family says driver concealed additional assets
The crash occurred in March 2024, when the 78-year-old suspect allegedly drove her car into a bus stop where a family of four was sitting.
www.ktvu.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124] In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent "grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26] In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27] The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in 2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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adashtra.bsky.social
These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill gizmodo.com/white-house-...
White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill
NASA has been forced to pause funds for Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other missions until further notice.
gizmodo.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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refrag.bsky.social
I'm assembling a team
A man with straight hair in a low ponytail, glasses, a bluetooth headset in one ear, seen in profile. There's no text but he's saying "Both." This is The Master Debater.
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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djolder.bsky.social
The genocide is ongoing.
mondoweiss.net Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 6h
Israel crammed 2 million Palestinians into displacement camps where 50 people share one bathroom per hour & sewage runs between tents. Now bacterial meningitis is spreading through Gaza's children. An 11-year-old got sick & died within a week. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/a-de...
A deadly meningitis outbreak is threatening Gaza’s children
Bacterial meningitis is spreading among children in Gaza, including those who are vaccinated. Officials say conditions in Gaza’s displacement camps, widespread malnutrition, and Israeli bans on the…
mondoweiss.net
February 14, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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barrelbucket.bsky.social
Judge rules ICE likely violated Minnesota detainees' constitutional rights
#ICEOUT #Whipple #FDT #Epstein #GTFO
thehill.com/regulation/c...
Judge rules ICE likely violated Minnesota detainees’ constitutional rights
A federal judge in Minnesota found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isolated detainees in Minnesota from seeing their attorneys, ruling the action likely violated their constitutional…
thehill.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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sweetrori.bsky.social
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.

Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
lilusdi.bsky.social
The pairs ice dancers have a trend this season of treating the woman like she's a fucking fushigi ball
February 14, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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esqueer.net
This level of depravity is monstrous.
mikehixenbaugh.com Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 12h
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
February 14, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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globalextremism.bsky.social
Professors are being surveilled, recorded, and punished for what they teach. Complaints boosted by Turning Point USA have led to suspensions and firings. As Project 2025 policies take hold, academic freedom is giving way to political oversight.

Read more:
Project 2025 February 10th Update
This week: the federal government strips the word “racist” from visitor brochures at the monument to a civil rights leader whose killer bragged about the murder; professors are fired for teaching chil...
globalextremism.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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cpsc.gov
brb

"When you're in the streets - take caution. Protect ya neck and ya noggin."

youtu.be/gozH72CON5s?...
We're Safety Now Haven't We - Full Album
YouTube video by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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February 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Also new since I was last here, I commissioned this oil painting of Fergus and I'm so happy with how it turned out. 🥹 The artist is Katya Minkina (www.instagram.com/fineart.katya/).
oil painting of a brown tuxedo tabby cat with an angelic face against a blue background.
February 14, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Hey I'm back! As some of you know, I experienced some scary harassment here last month when a user threatened me and the sanctuary I work for and I was shocked when they received only a 3-day suspension for that. I have now been assured that the offending account is permanently suspended, and
February 14, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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jayapal.house.gov
Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.

Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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propublica.org
“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.
Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
www.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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douglasmack.bsky.social
watching the double luge and my wife just made a great point: they should keep going.

three people. four. five, if the physics works and they don't topple. build the human jenga stack.
February 12, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
joro.bsky.social Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 2d
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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windowseat.bsky.social
It is 8:30 p.m. in Minnesota & I don't know about you, but I am tired.

Did you get enough food today? Are you drinking enough water? If you take meds, have you taken them?

Maybe it's time to take a break (even from this place) & relax if you can. Watch or read or listen to something fun. 💜
It is 8:30 pm in Minnesota Fuck ICE in a purple font with white edges on a background which has shades of purple
February 12, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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serife.bsky.social
Google gave ICE this British STUDENT JOURNALIST's personal info bank account numbers while they were trying to detain him for attending a protest at a job fair at Cornell for just 5 minutes. Not a crime. He fled to Switzerland & EFF is representing him now. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
theintercept.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 AM
lilusdi.bsky.social
Despicable, hateful losers
February 12, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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thatchriswalker.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/vir...
Virginia Senate Passes Bill to Join National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Nearly 6 in 10 Americans say they would prefer a system in which presidents are elected based on the popular vote.
truthout.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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thatchriswalker.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/fed...
Feds Remove Pride Flag at Stonewall Monument, Sparking Outrage From NYC Leaders
New York City leaders have vowed to restore the Pride Flag to its original spot on Thursday.
truthout.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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itsbabs.bsky.social
i truly hope you can make the connection between what you've just posted and businesses trying to keep their shared air a little less pathogenic. to further underscore this point, it behooves us not to forget who is most impacted by some of those airborne pathogens...
CIDRAP Study details higher COVID death risks in undocumented people Lisa Schnirring, July 28, 2025 Topics: COVID-12 Undocumented group had 55% increase in death rate For the study, the team examined death certificates for all California residents ages 25 and older who died from natural causes in the state between 2016 and 2023. The death certificates included birth country and whether decedents had a valid Social Security number, which allowed researchers to ascertain if people were documented or undocumented immigrants. They also included a range of other factors, including sex, age, race/ethnicity, educational attainment level, and occupation type. Then the group looked for differences in pandemic-era survival outcomes, modeling absolute and relative excess mortality from March 2000 through May 2023, based on prepandemic mortality and other seasonal variables. For potentially undocumented immigrants, researchers estimated a 55% increase in death rate above the prepandemic level, compared to 22% for immigrants who appeared to be documented and 12% for US-born citizens. The Guardian Texas Calls to shut down Texas ICE facility for children grow amid measles outbreak At least two cases confirmed at detention center for children and their parents in Texas Melody Schreiber Thu 5 Feb 2026 07.00 EST At least two cases of measles have been confirmed at a major immigration detention center for children and their parents in Texas as cases of the dangerous virus in South Carolina, Arizona, Utah and other US states continue growing and alarming experts. The American Prospect Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions. Whitney Curry Wimbish by Whitney Curry Wimbish August 18, 2025 Credit: Stephen Smith/AP Photo Consumption is flourishing in immigration detention centers across the country, yet another sign that America is grinding its way through a second Gilded Age. It’s better known now by its other name, tuberculosis, and it’s the most deadly infectious disease in the world, the World Health Organization says, responsible for killing 1.5 million... GuardianUS 'Petri dish for disease': attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at 'Alligator Alcatraz' A respiratory disease is running rampant through Florida immigration jail, according to attorney of a detained person Richard Luscombe in Miami Tue 12 Aug 2025 09.00 EDT He added: "Based on what multiple detainees have told me, in the last 72 to 100 hours, there is some respiratory disease which has made the majority, or I would even say vast majority of detainees, sick in some form. "There are people who are losing breath. There are people who are walking around coughing on one another. Their requests for masks from the guards are denied, and they only are allowed to shower once or maybe twice a week. "I said to Luis, 'pass the phone. Let me hear it from somebody else. I just want to make sure that people's stories are straight! And unfortunately they very much are." The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired. "We had to use the porta-johns. We didn't have hot water half the time. Our bathrooms were backed up," the woman told NBC6 News after being granted anonymity to discuss conditions there. "[The detainees] have no sunlight. There's no clock in there. They don't even know what time of the day it is. The bathrooms are backed up because so many people [are] using them."
February 12, 2026 at 1:17 AM