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bubbaprog.xyz
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
Photo shared by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025 tagging @naomi.marie__, @nathanmiller612, @rubyscher, @holaarepa, @birksg, @chefjholig, and @haihaimpls. May be an image of text that says 'AS SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, I.C.E. PAID US A VISIT AT AREPA YESTERDAY. OUR GM NAOMI & TEAM MEMBERS FOLLOWED OUR ICE PROTOCOL PERFECTLY, THE AGENTS LEFT & NO ONE WAS DETAINED. tO WHOEVER NEEDS THIS: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO I.C.E. (1/5)'. christinanguyenmpls 11h We had an ICE scare yesterday and even though we’re afraid of the repercussions of being vocal, we feel that it’s also important to inform people that this is right at our front door. ICE is not some far away boogeyman. They are here right now, spreading fear in our community. We’re so grateful to our entire staff and their bravery. They did the right things and couldn’t have dealt with this situation in a better way. We are grateful to our community activists that came to support us from @miracmn @litosonlake and Monarcha. We hope that if you find yourself in the same situation, that you find these resources helpful. Peace and take care of each other ❤️ Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: UNLESS THE AGENTS HAVE A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT, THEY CANNOT ENTER A PRIVATE AREA LIKE THE KITCHEN WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION EVEN IF THEY LIE AND SAY THY DON'T NEED A WARRANT, STAND YOUR GROUND AND INSIST THAT YOU NEED PAPERWORK (2/5)'. Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: HAVE OTHER STAFF OR PEOPLE PRESENT RECORD THEM AND EVERYTHING THEY ARE SAYING. (PEOPLE DOING UNLAWFUL THINGS HATE BEING CAUGHT IN TH ACT) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to REFUSE SERVICE & YOU CAN ASK M tO LEAVE YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY IF THY DON'T HAVE A WARRANT. (3/5)'. WE ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES ARE BEING TARGETED AND TERRORIZED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS AND IT'S APPALLING. REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEGAL STATUS, THERE ARE SO MANY LATINOS & SOMALIANS WHO ARE AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED DUE TO MISTAKEN IDENTITY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY MIGHT NOT GET DUE PROCESS & A FAIR TRIAL. THEY WILL JUST END UP IN DETENTION CENTERS & A LEGAL PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A BLACK HOLE. WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COUNTRY. WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS, AMERICA IS NOT THE SAME PLACE. STAY SAFE OUT THERE & TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE, HOLA AREPA & HAI HAI (5/5)
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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janetlunde.bsky.social
From the June No Kings March, thousands of people in Pittsburgh chanting FUCK JOHN FETTERMAN!
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
yarrow-angelweed.bsky.social
Yes, retain the judges!
janetlunde.bsky.social Janet Lunde @janetlunde.bsky.social · Nov 3
I'll be showing up on Tuesday to vote YES to retain our judges in Pennsylvania! These PA judges have been protecting our rights, and it's important to return them for another term.

No need to remember names -- every statewide judge on the ballot is good! All are recommended by the Bar Assoc.
November 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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byzantienne.bsky.social
I am very sad. But 97 is a good life.

Tom Lehrer's music is the cultural soundtrack of my childhood and adolescence. (Lehrer, the Marx Brothers. I blame my dad for most of my sense of humor, as he played them both for tiny!me.)
maxgenecov.bsky.social max genecov @maxgenecov.bsky.social · Jul 27
among his many talents and virtues, tom lehrer had the generosity to put up all of his sheet music and lyrics in the public domain tomlehrersongs.com
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the
tomlehrersongs.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
yarrow-angelweed.bsky.social
I'm running it in with Shadowdark now.

Highly recommended!
July 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
yarrow-angelweed.bsky.social
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.
Book cover: Karel Capek's R.U.R., illustrated by a humanoid figure with copper skin partly covered by circuit-board traces
July 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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scottlinnen.bsky.social
Convenient how all the cameras are focused on downtown LA when all the looting is happening up on Capitol Hill
June 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Federal judge orders that hormone therapy and social accommodations be maintained for transgender people in federal prisons, blocking Trump admin policies.

Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, granted class certification and prelim. injunction in a lawsuit challenging the policies.
For the reasons contained herein, the Court concludes first that the plaintiffs' action is not barred by the administrative exhaustion requirements of the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA"); second, that the plaintiffs have demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on their APA claims, and that the Court accordingly need not assess the plaintiffs' constitutional claims based on the limited record now available; third, that the plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable harm absent a grant of preliminary injunctive relief, and that the balance of the equities favors granting such relief; fourth, that the plaintiffs' proposed class meets the requirements for certification under Rule 23(a) and Rule 23(b)(2); and fifth, that the President shall not be dismissed from the case as a defendant at this juncture given the potential availability of declaratory relief. In accord with these legal conclusions, the Court will ORDER that the plaintiffs' proposed class, with slight modification from the Court explained below, be certified 7 Case 1:25-cv-00691-RCL Document 67 Filed 06/03/25 Page 8 of 36 and that class counsel be appointed. The Court will further ORDER the BOP to make social accommodations available to all class members to the same extent they were available prior to the issuance of the Executive Order, and to provide hormone therapy to all class members who have been prescribed hormone medications by BOP or other medical personnel to the same extent as before the issuance of the Executive Order.
June 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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howdypolitics.bsky.social
We did it!!!

SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead.

We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege
May 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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nberlat.bsky.social
1 in 4 is a *lot*. People are super reluctant to admit they made a mistake in voting, especially so soon after an election. 1
May 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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markanthonyneal.bsky.social
"The citation comes with a bequest by the Pulitzer Prize board of at least $50,000 in support of Ms. Wells’s mission. Recipients will be announced at a later date."
eji.org/news/ida-b-w...
Ida B. Wells Honored with Posthumous Pulitzer
Ms. Wells was an anti-lynching crusader and pioneering journalist.
eji.org
May 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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seungminkim1.bsky.social
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of the nearly 400 books pulled from US Naval Academy library in DEI purge are back on shelves in latest shift.
May 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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marcofoster.bsky.social
NEW: 19 year old Ximena Arias-Cristobal who came to America at age 4 has finally been reunited with her family in Dalton, Georgia after ICE detained her for three weeks over a now-dismissed red light traffic ticket and was in the process of trying to deport her (Video: News Channel Nine)
May 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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wapotechguild.bsky.social
It's official: the ballots have been counted and we have officially been recognized as the Washington Post Tech Guild by the NLRB! In a 171-38 BLOWOUT vote, we voiced loudly that our union is important to us. That's 81%!
May 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
good news!! they fired the horrible racist! they gave her the opportunity to resign, which of course she didn’t take because she still doesn’t think she did anything wrong

tho this is kind of a weak article because it leans really heavily on one anonymous parent who you KNOW is a rich white mom 💀
Principal fired after racial slur controversy at Portland Catholic school
After weeks of controversy, a principal under fire for a heated confrontation with a family at a Northeast Portland Catholic school has officially been fired.
www.kptv.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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caylen.bsky.social
to anyone thinks that gaming communities can’t affect positive real world change with their collective actions

one full throat boycott & in less than 24 hours, one of the most popular games on Twitch reversed course on accepting major sportswashing Saudi money
May 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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mitchellepner.bsky.social
This is a small piece of good news. We will see if SCOTUS overturns the stay (as it has done frequently) if/when Trump appeals. Until last month, TROs were generally considered to be unappealable (because of their short duration). Now, Trump appeals them all.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
As a reminder, she didn’t even run a red light, something DHS harped on as her disobeying US laws. The cops eventually admitted they pulled over the wrong car.
marcofoster.bsky.social Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · May 23
NEW: 19 year old Ximena Arias-Cristobal who came to America at age 4 has finally been reunited with her family in Dalton, Georgia after ICE detained her for three weeks over a now-dismissed red light traffic ticket and was in the process of trying to deport her (Video: News Channel Nine)
May 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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daveandersen.bsky.social
This is lovely. The Pittsburgh area's libraries are a treasure.
wesa.fm WESA @wesa.fm · May 23
The $21 million renovation of the first Carnegie library in the United States — built by steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie — is complete. In honor of that first, the library will now be called Carnegie One.
Between the stacks at the $21 million renovation of Braddock Carnegie Library
The $21 million renovation of the first Carnegie library in the United States — built by steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie — is complete. In honor of that first, the library will now be called…
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May 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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threnody.bsky.social
hi, folks!

is calling federal electeds to ask them not to pass shitty legislation not doing it for you? i get it.

how about helping to bring about positive change that would materially help thousands of trans people? and that's actually possible?

do you know about washington state's HB 1971?🧵
Washington State Just Made Stocking Up on Hormones Much Easier
On Wednesday, the Washington State Senate passed HB 1971, a first of its kind bill from House Rep. Nicole Macri that compels insurance companies in the state to cover up to a year’s supply of ho...
www.thestranger.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
A HAPPY UPDATE! Mahmoud Khalil was allowed a "contact" visit—without plexiglass divider—with his wife and newborn son this morning before his immigration hearing, ACLU tells me, so I think we can safely assume that he was finally able to hold his child for the first time.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · May 21
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys urgently ask Judge Farbiarz to order ICE to permit Khalil to hold his newborn son today "for the most elementary human reasons." ICE has so far denied the request, despite his wife and child having made the 1,500-mile trip. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dear Judge Farbiarz: Petitioner respectfully writes with an urgent request for this Court's intervention regarding his ongoing detention. Specifically, and for the reasons set forth below and to aid in his habeas and proceedings, Petitioner requests that this Court issue an order: (1) requiring the LaSalle Detention Facility to permit Mr. Khalil to have a private contact visit with his wife, Dr. Abdalla, and newborn child today, May 21, 2025, for two hours' and/or (2) at a minimum, permit Dr. Abdalla to join a contact visit currently scheduled with immigration counsel at LaSalle so the legal team can discuss legal strategy and facts known collectively between Dr. Abdalla and Mr. Khalil and which is relevant to his pending habeas case and for pending motions in his immigration proceedings. One of the first orders issued in this case was to direct the U.S. Attorney's office to ensure that DHS would provide regular access to counsel, Khalil v. Joyce, 1:25-cv-01935, ECF 29 (S.D.N.Y.), which is an equitable power this Court retains and authorizes the relief requested modest as it is as compared to the painful costs of denial. As the Court is aware, the Khalil family welcomed their first child one month ago, on April 21, 2025. In order to provide the most indispensable human connection and to help Mr. Khalil prepare for his ongoing habeas proceeding and for the upcoming immigration hearing, Petitioner's wife and his newborn baby have traveled over 6 hours and 1500 miles to visit Mr. Khalil in detention, which will be the first time he will be able to see or hold his family since his arrest and transfer to Louisiana, over 10 weeks ago. As this Court well knows, Mr. Khalil is purportedly in civil immigration detention, where he cannot be subject to punishment or retaliation; yet currently, routine legal or family visits only occur in a confined space permitting muffled communication through a full plexiglass window that permits no human touch. Petitioner's counsel have made repeated requests for a contact visit to occur between Mr. Khalil and his wife and baby to the relevant ICE and GeoGroup administrators at the LaSalle Detention Facility in Jena. Such a visit is necessary for the most elementary human reasons and given the ongoing strain of his pending habeas petition, this visit is critical to ensure Mr. Khalil, who is an active participant his legal case, can continue to meaningfully contribute to the proceedings before this Court. The relevant administrators have responded that they are unable to accommodate this request, including a confirmation of this refusal this morning. (Email correspondence attached as Exhibit A). ICE policy authorizes contact visits between detained individuals and family members, subject to the reasonable discretion of DHS officials? The refusal to permit a contact visit is not reasonable and is further evidence of the retaliatory motive behind Mr. Khalil's arrest and faraway detention as well as the ongoing punitive nature of his detention. Petitioner, his wife and infant son are, as all the evidence in this case demonstrates, the farthest thing from a security risk It is the government who chose to detain Mr. Khalil and send him 1500 miles from his family rather than detain him, as they could have (and as we have requested in seeking a transfer there), in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where counsel confirmed with an EDC official that family contact visits are ordinarily provided on a daily basis and where a parent is permitted to hold their child. 3 In addition, a legal contact visit has been authorized for today between Mr. Khalil and his counsel, from 11-3pm CT. It thus appears the facility can accommodate contact visits absent a plexiglass barrier. Thus, the facility should make accommodations during or after this time for a private in-person visit where the family can be alone together for the first time. In addition, and at a minimum, counsel needs to meet with Petitioner …
May 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
Wow, the “New Right” is going to blow a gasket: “Split US Supreme Court blocks taxpayer-funded religious charter school” Amy Coney Barrett recused. 5/22/25 1/ www.reuters.com/world/us/spl...
Split US Supreme Court blocks religious charter school
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a major case involving religious rights in American education.
www.reuters.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the administration to reinstate employees fired in a mass termination.

This can't happen without cnogressional approval, she ruled.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM