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taliajane.bsky.social
Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.

A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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chiitan.love
You can love someone you love even if you don't love yourself🏳️‍⚧️
But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold.
So take care of yourself.
Your soul is beautiful.
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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popbase.tv
Zohran Mamdani will become the next mayor of New York City. (NBC News)
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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spacetwinks.bsky.social
there's all the usual motivations of policy, ideology, and of course class interests, but i still think not enough gets said about how much raw spite factors into dem seniority's behavior
qasimrashid.com Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Nov 1
Chuck Schumer has refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani, and now refuses to even say he’ll vote for him as Mayor. Just a breathtaking new level of cowardice.

Won’t someone please primary this spineless failure of a leader?
November 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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gofrankgo.bsky.social
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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primalux.thedeadbird.club
Here is the image with alt text
tuckermaymysteries My name is Tucker May. In April I married the love of my life, Barbara Marques. Right now I fear for her life. A week and a half ago she was taken by ICE at our properly scheduled green card meeting at the Federal Building downtown. At the end of what we were told was a successful meeting, the officer used the excuse of a broken copier to trick her into walking away from our lawyer. Once separated from her legal counsel, she was arrested. The reason for her detention was a missed court date from 2019 which my wife was never notified about. We have been working with lawyers since that time to correct the situation. The Adelanto detention center has actively been keeping my wife from correspondence with her lawyer by delaying in giving her documents that were mailed to the facility. Last night, she was taken from the Adelanto facility to an undisclosed destination despite our lawyer having filed a temporary restraining order to stop this from happening. They could be sending her anywhere in the world and we have no way of knowing. I'm asking for help in bringing to the attention of media and authorities these multiple lapses in due process and proper procedure through the unwarranted deportation of a woman whose legal marriage has been duly recognized as legitimate by immigration through the 1130 petition process. Please, if you have any contacts who could help, send them this information.
September 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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discoelysiumbot.bsky.social
VOLITION - Subdue the regret. Dust yourself off, proceed. You'll get it in the next life, where you don't make mistakes. Do what you can with this one, while you're alive.
September 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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decombest.bsky.social
Chicago keeping art alive:
August 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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kpend80.bsky.social
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July 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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olliedreamer.bsky.social
Happy Birthday Final Fantasy X 💙
July 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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penacolada2293.bsky.social
Mamma Mia! it’s that time of the year again!
Amanda Seyfried as Sophie in the iconic Mamma Mia! (2008)
July 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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sodomymcscurvylegs.bsky.social
Sony engineers designing the ps2's emotion engine
July 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
rowblox.bsky.social
Now that I understand sudoku I haven’t been able to stop playing 😭
July 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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taliajane.bsky.social
“the things he’s offering will never happen man you’re getting scammed” all the mayor has to do to freeze the rent is appoint a rent guidelines board that will vote to freeze the rent. deblasio did it his entire tenure. adams appointed pro developer dickheads. this is not pie in the sky stuff.
June 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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yuhline.bsky.social
As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you.

Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.
June 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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taliajane.bsky.social
Full press alert from ACLU on Khalil’s release. Be advised release from detention does not equal case dismissed — that continues on. But he will be reunited with his family, and get to be with his newborn son as case continues.
NEWARK, N.J. - A federal court today granted bail to Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student and lawful permanent resident targeted for deportation by the Trump administration because of his Palestinian rights advocacy. He will be able to return to New York to be with his wife and newborn son while his case proceeds. "After more than three months we can finally breathe a sigh of relief and know that Mahmoud is on his way home to me and Deen, who never should have been separated from his father," said Dr. Noor Abdalla, Mahmoud Khalil's wife. "We know this ruling does not begin to address the injustices the Trump administration has brought upon our family, and so many others the government is trying to silence for speaking out against Israel's ongoing genocide against Palestinians. But today we are celebrating Mahmoud coming back to New York to be reunited with our little family, and the community that has supported us since the day he was unjustly taken for speaking out for Palestinian freedom." Last Friday, the government informed the court it would continue to detain Mr. Khalil in a remote ICE detention facility in Jena, Louisiana, over false allegations related to supposed omissions on his green card application. The government's new reliance on the "misrepresentation" allegations comes after the judge ruled the government could not keep detaining him on the grounds that his speech had adverse foreign policy consequences. Since being detained on March 8, Mr. Khalil has missed the birth of his first child, their family's first Mother's Day and Father's Day, and his graduation from Columbia. "No one should fear being jailed for speaking out in this country," said Alina Das, co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law, who argued before the court today. "We are overjoyed that Mr. Khalil will finally be reunited with his family while we continue to fight his case in court." "This is a joyous day for Mahmoud, for his family, and for everyone's First Amendment rights," said Noor Zafar, senior staff attorney with ACLU. "Since he was arrested in early March, the government has acted at every turn to punish Mahmoud for expressing his political beliefs about Palestine. But today's ruling underscores a vital First Amendment principle: The government cannot abuse immigration law to punish speech it disfavors." "It is an enormous relief that Palestinian human rights defender Mahmoud Khalil can return to New York while his case proceeds. Now, Mr. Khalil will thankfully be reunited with his wife and newborn - a bond that never should have been broken in the first place," said Donna Lieberman, executive director at the NYCLU. "Ideas are not illegal, and no administration should ever incarcerate people for expressing opinions they disagree with. We are heartened and relieved that Mr. Khalil can return to his family, community, and counsel, and the NYCLU will continue to fight back against Trump's unconstitutional attacks on free speech and dissent." "We are relieved that Mr. Khalil can finally return to his family and community," said Amol Sinha, executive director of the ACLU of New Jersey. "This is an important step in vindicating Mr. Khalil's rights as he continues to be unlawfully targeted by the federal government for his advocacy in support of Palestinian rights. We're confident he will ultimately prevail in the fight for his freedom." "We are so relieved Mahmoud is finally out of his cruel, remote detention, but equally outraged that it took this long and that Mahmoud had to fight this hard to challenge such outrageous and unconstitutional government conduct," said Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "All Americans should be grateful that Mahmoud had the fortitude to defend basic first amendment principles - and his pursuit of justice for Palestinians - against the administration's autocratic tactics, which threaten us all." "By ordering Mr. Khalil freed today, the court vindicates not only his rights but also recognized what has been plain to everyone, the government has detained Mr. Khalil to punish him for his speech in defense of Palestinians. We look forward to Mr. Khalil returning to his wife and son, as we pursue this fight in federal and immigration court for as long as it takes until justice is served," said Ramzi Kassem, professor of law at the City University of New York and Co-Director of CLEAR, a legal non-profit and clinic. Mahmoud Khalil's legal team has submitted multiple briefs and expert statements, and letters of support to the New Jersey court, outlining the irreparable harm he and others will continue to suffer as long as he remains illegally detained in Louisiana, thousands of miles away from his family. In addition, Mr. Khalil submitted his own declaration, factually disproving the government's allegations and highlighting the fact that the government abandoned reliance on the so-called "misrepresentation" allegations in closing arguments in immigration court. The motion for release further explains that the court previously recognized that continued detention, based solely on the sorts of misrepresentations alleged by the government, is exceedingly rare and, the motion argued, is clearly only in further retaliation for his speech on Palestine. Mr. Khalil is represented by Dratel & Lewis, the Center for Constitutional Rights, CLEAR, Van Der Hout LLP, Washington Square Legal Services, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of New Jersey, and the ACLU of Louisiana.
June 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
rowblox.bsky.social
Bought a speedo i feel so moaning sounds
June 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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taliajane.bsky.social
New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested at federal immigration court (26 Federal Plaza) while providing escort to people leaving court as ICE stakes out hearings to arrest people as their cases are dismissed.
June 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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nadiaoh.bsky.social
Is this real? I thought it was the onion 😭
leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social Lee @leewilliamdesigns.bsky.social · Jun 17
Christ. What a ridiculous headline - not surprising though, for the Daily Mail. Managed to find someone in the community who wants to support targeting us/our events.

Pride is for everyone. No one is stopping this person celebrating pride. The old ‘hijacked’ claim is so tedious.
'Why I, a gay woman, can't celebrate Pride Month now that it's been hijacked by leather daddies'
June 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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petitephd.bsky.social
Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥
A series of tweets from Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney: BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored. YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out." MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling." YOUNG still going: "I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?" "I have the protection that the founders wrote into the constitution, along with imposing upon me a duty to speak the truth in every case. I try to do that. What if I didn’t have those protections. What if my job was on the line, my profession... Would I have stood up against all this? Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color. The constitution will not permit that." "Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"
June 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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nepeteaa.bsky.social
NO KINGS 🇺🇸
June 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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taliajane.bsky.social
If in NYC you can look up badge numbers at @50-a.org.

White shirts do not have badge numbers, only name plates. Uniform collars have pins with pct or department (ex: “DB” = Detective Bureau; 8 = 8th Precinct). White shirt shields have title in the shield, hard to read from a distance.
tits-up.bsky.social ⚠️ Zäraphine Transmegistus @tits-up.bsky.social · Jun 13
Let's start chanting "What's your name?" at the cops.
taliajane.bsky.social talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · Jun 13
Yelling “what’s your name???” at people getting arrested for a violation while surrounded by cameras is a great way to dox them.
June 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
rowblox.bsky.social
This is absolutely crazy and disgusting
gxldsociety.bsky.social Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · Jun 10
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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taliajane.bsky.social
Activists working to help protect people from ICE arrests tell me they’ve pivoted from distributing immediate alerts to mobilize in response to isolated incidents to instead spreading awareness of ongoing ICE activity so that people don’t tune out asks for help, as the need is so constant.
June 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM