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This is some bullshit.
gettingviggy.bsky.social Neil Vigdor @gettingviggy.bsky.social · Oct 4
The Salvadoran journalist was arrested in June while covering a “No Kings” protest outside Atlanta. Those charges were dropped, his lawyers said. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
Journalist Mario Guevara Is Deported After Being Held for Over 100 Days
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Insane
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 3
‘I use cannabis as medicine’: the US basketball player facing execution in Indonesia over $400 of gummies
‘I use cannabis as medicine’: the US basketball player facing execution in Indonesia over $400 of gummies
Unlike his fellow basketball player, Brittney Griner, Jarred Shaw has received scant attention after being arrested for a drugs offence overseas When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his apartment complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the medicine to ease his Crohn’s disease had arrived. It had – but so too had 10 undercover police officers. A video on social media shows Shaw, wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, shouting for help as the swarm of officers move to apprehend him. The Indonesian National Police did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Continue reading...
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October 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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shaktari.bsky.social
The Memphis Police Dept reports historic crime reductions:

*Overall Crime = 25-yr low

*Robbery/Burglary/Larceny = 25-yr low

*Murder = 6-yr low

*Aggravated assault = 5-yr low

*Sexual assault = 20-yr low

www.memphispolice.org/news/memphis... .
Memphis Crime Drops to Historic 25-Year Low Across Major Categories - Memphis Police Department
The Memphis Police Department reports historic crime reductions, with decreases across all major categories in the first eight months of 2025 compared to the same period in previous years.
www.memphispolice.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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They had to have been aware that, by a rough estimate, there were more than 25k years of accumulated military experience in that room. To be lectured on the basics of military leadership and qualifications by a SECDEF with a few years of active soldiering …. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Pete Hegseth Is Living the Dream
A man who retired as a major lectures hundreds of generals about the need to meet his standards.
www.theatlantic.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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bittersouth.bsky.social
This week,The BS rec’d a letter from MARIO GUEVARA, the only known journalist detained on US soil by ICE.

For wks, we’ve worked w/ his family to obtain Mario’s handwritten letter + the 2 drawings of his cell.

The letter is also available in Spanish. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
September 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Jeff Hiller AND Tramell Tillman! Love to see it. Both killed.
September 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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kashhill.bsky.social
Condemn political violence every time it happens. Do not incite it. Do not celebrate it. Do not call for more of it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
Screenshot of New York Times editorial about episodes of political violence in the U.S. over the last decade
September 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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“ …change Defense Department seals on more than 700k facilities in 40 countries and all 50 states… everything from letterhead for six military branches + dozens more agencies down to embossed napkins in chow halls, keychains and tchotchkes in the Pentagon store.”

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Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand — POLITICO
Employees could find themselves changing Defense Department seals on more than 700,000 facilities around the world.
apple.news
September 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City.

Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
September 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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bhh.bsky.social
With the AJC dropping its print edition, I feel compelled to share one of the greatest moments in print design history
August 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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US says it has started seabed mineral talks with the Cook Islands reut.rs/45CeL46
US says it has started seabed mineral talks with the Cook Islands
The U.S. has begun talks with the Cook Islands for research on seabed minerals exploration and development, the State Department said on Tuesday.
reut.rs
August 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Challenger explosion
utopiadistrict.bsky.social Utopia District @utopiadistrict.bsky.social · Jul 11
Name something you remember watching in this!
July 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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lizzieohreally.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho
July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
n.pr
July 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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But on that morning in March, Guardado got a strange phone call at work. Some sort of public safety officer had dialed her office and wanted her to come outside to talk. In the parking lot, three men in plain clothes identified themselves as Department of Public Safety officers, Correa told The War Horse. As Shirly approached, they said her car had been involved in an accident. But when she got close, they grabbed her and handcuffed her, telling her they were ICE agents. That's when Guardado's sister-in-law called Correa. He said the ICE agents refused to tell him where they were taking his wife. By the time
June 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card.

This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press.

www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...
Mario Guevara, the metro Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter who built a mass audience with his coverage of immigration raids, could be deported following his arrest at a protest over the weekend, according to his attorney. A lawyer for Guevara told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged what is known as a “detainer” against the journalist, which is often the first step in deportation procedures.
June 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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What could go wrong?
statnews.com STAT @statnews.com · Jun 17
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Private equity firm will finance Harvard research lab, in possible template for future www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/h...
Private equity firm will finance Harvard research lab, in possible template for future
A private equity firm will finance a Harvard University research lab, a possible template for the future as schools nationwide absorb federal funding cuts.
www.statnews.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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nbcnews.com
More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle.

Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.
Tribal communities risk losing local libraries and the history they hold amid DOGE cuts
Federally recognized tribes say the Trump administration cut the grant money they use to sustain the local libraries that serve as anchors in their most rural communities.
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May 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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fat shot drug / pot kettle black
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 12
Trump: "A friend of mine who is a businessman. Very very very top guy. Most of you would've heard of him. Highly neurotic. Brilliant businessman. Seriously overweight. And he takes the fat shot drug."
May 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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This shit is nuts
phillipanderson.bsky.social Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · Apr 15
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
April 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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amysiskind.com
The entire staff of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Pentagon’s decade-old technology development office, is leaving by the start of May, with nearly all individuals resigning, after being sidelined by Musk’s DOGE www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse
Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.
www.politico.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
The stupidity in Trump’s new tariffs is apparently limitless.

He has introduced a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The only inhabited island there is Diego Garcia, home to US service personnel.

TRUMP HAS PUT A TARIFF ON A US MILITARY BASE

🤡
The White House publication showing the tariff schedule. BIOT is listed with a 10% tariff. A photo from above of the US military base on Diego Garcia. A runway is the most visible landmark.
April 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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dandrezner.bsky.social
I know Trump is busy ensuring the U.S. economy commits seppuku right now, but FYI Tufts University just issued a declaration in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.

It’s a pretty strong declaration. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk
University Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...
www.tufts.edu
April 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: ACLU's filing on Friday also shows the impact of these bad gang tattoo claims. Specifically, remember Andry, the gay make-up artist we sent to rot in a prison in El Salvador?

Here are the tattoos that an ICE officer declared were "Consistent with those of a Tren de Aragua member."
A screenshot of MSNBC showing Andry with a client, with the chyron "Immigration Attorney Says Asylum-Seeking Client Was Deported Because of Misreading Of Tattoos." To Be Completed By Interviewer INTERVIEWER Inmate/Resident's demeanor being interview: Uncooperative Interviewer's Comments: ON INITIAL INTERVIEW DETAINEE HERNANDEZ STATED THAT HE WAS NOT A MEMBER OF ANY GANG. UPON CONDUCTING A REVIEW OF DETAINEE HERNANDEZ'S TATTOOS IT WAS FOUND THAT DETAINEE HERNANDEZ HAS A CROWN ON EACH ONE OF HIS WRIST. THE CROWN HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE AN IDENTIFIER FOR A TREN DE ARAQUA GANG MEMBER List and describe location of scans, brands, tattoos or other identifying marks of body CEPT ARTROES SNAKET LEFT WRIST CROWN DAD T-RIGHT WRIST MOM T-LEFT LEG ROSE BUTTERFLY T-LEFT BUTTOCK FLOWER Determining factors to conclude reasonable suspicion DETAINEE HERNANDEZ PORTS TATTOOS CROWNS THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THOSE OF A TREN DE ARAQUA MEMBER Andry's wrists are focused, palms facing the camera. On his right arm, there is a tattoo of a royal-looking crown with "Mom" written under it in cursive. The "o" of Mom is a little heart. On his left arm, the word "Dad" is written in cursive. The "D" is wearing a little crown hat.
March 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM