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Mike
@otterscholar.bsky.social
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Colorblind artist, social worker, abolitionist. Paying bails with Emergency Release Fund. Building the beloved community. Trying to make my momma proud. Board games, birds, and sports. Bulls / Liberty / Celtic FC
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Canal St spooky quiet this morning, no surprise people don’t want to get snatched off the street by some asshole in a mask. Few vendors on the side streets, but this isn’t normal.
A photo of an intersection in NYC. The sidewalk is almost completely empty, there is only one person, which is unusual in the busy neighborhood along Canal st. The buildings have graffiti on the walls, and the sky is bright blue.
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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NYPD flying a surveillance drone over the anti-ICE rally in lower Manhattan. NYPD collaborates with ICE to kidnap our neighbors #abolishICE
A photo of a crowd of protestors in a plaza. They hold signs against ICE. An NYPD drone is visible in the sky flying over the crowd. The buildings in the background are classical government facades, with large columns.
September 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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“Report Problem Seals” 🦭 as seen at a dive shop in Hawai’i.

Also bummer of a realization that this is a NOAA affiliated sticker, so the person who helped design this gem has been fired by DOGE interns.
A vinyl sticker on the glass door of a diving shop. The sticker is white featuring a grey seal and a dive flag (red with a diagonal white stripe). There is black text at the top “Spearfishing Around Seals - for your safety protect your catch - report problem seals” with a hotline phone number for snitching on seals
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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9am shift lets go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
A fanned out packet of campaign literature for Zohran Mamdani. The papers are blue with a yellow text and a smiling headshot of a young Indian-American man. There is a rainy city street in the background.
June 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Might have been a SORT team, hard to tell from the pics but the diagonal patch and square patch on the sleeve looks a lot like the ones I saw at MDC Brooklyn in 2019. Also interesting detail - none of the fed shooters in 2019 had faces covered.
A zoomed in photo from a protest outside a federal prison in 2019. There are two guards in the photo. One is a large black man wearing all black with a police badge around his neck. The other is a bearded white man - a SORT (special operations) officer, with an extensive tactical kit including a 40mm grenade launcher. You can see his SORT unit patch on his sleeve.
June 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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I’m glad my king gets to be part of a competent basketball team, but damn do I miss Caruso on the Bulls :(
A photo of Benny the Bull, the mascot of the Chicago Bulls. Benny is a fluffy red bull wearing sneakers and a red Chicago jersey #1. He is holding a printed poster with the Wolverine photo meme that has been edited to show the Los Angeles Lakers staring longingly at a photo of Alex Caruso. PS- I miss Alex Caruso :(
May 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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NYPD Patrick Fogarty taking pictures of the protest with his personal cell phone. #badcopnodonut #acab
Screenshot of a police records database (50-a.org) for officer Patrick Fogarty showing his salary (197000) and complaint re use of force
February 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM