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Freelance editor, book coach, part-time faculty at The New School and The Loft Literary Center. Animal enthusiast. www.jessie-sholl.com She/her

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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

07.10.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 46801    πŸ” 17891    πŸ’¬ 1465    πŸ“Œ 1066

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead πŸ“š

07.10.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7263    πŸ” 2630    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 146
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This is what Democrats are fighting to STOP β€”

But Republicans shut down the Government to KEEP IT THIS WAY, to help their billionaire friends, lobbyists, and donors.

06.10.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

06.10.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3462    πŸ” 767    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 64

Powerful. This is the kind of leadership we need right now!

03.10.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

03.10.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 19485    πŸ” 5643    πŸ’¬ 411    πŸ“Œ 190

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan MuΓ±oz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

03.10.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 26554    πŸ” 13731    πŸ’¬ 768    πŸ“Œ 534
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Journalist Mario Guevara to be deported from US in unprecedented caseΒ  - Committee to Protect Journalists Washington, D.C., October 2, 2025β€”In response to news that journalist Mario Guevara will be deported on Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador, the Committee to Protect Journalis...

β€œThis case is chilling for us all,” said Free Press’ senior counsel Benavidez. β€œAnd that’s the point β€” the administration will stop at nothing, not even the First Amendment, to bully people into silence.”

cpj.org/2025/10/jour...

02.10.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

02.10.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 32290    πŸ” 15545    πŸ’¬ 655    πŸ“Œ 736

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

02.10.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8764    πŸ” 5543    πŸ’¬ 233    πŸ“Œ 221

People in the complex said they were zip tying kids and they didn't have names or anything. They took you first, then ran to see if you had any outstanding warrants - not just immigration. And the FBI helped them.

01.10.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 584    πŸ” 352    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

30.09.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5904    πŸ” 1738    πŸ’¬ 149    πŸ“Œ 97

Are you serious, @apnews.com? Do better.

01.10.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

30.09.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 12003    πŸ” 3159    πŸ’¬ 246    πŸ“Œ 169

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

30.09.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7810    πŸ” 2324    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 37
Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

28.09.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1473    πŸ” 421    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 22

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

27.09.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5627    πŸ” 1530    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 149
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How thousands of β€˜overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

β€œAI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. β€œThese raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

27.09.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

definitionally you can't engage in blood libel against people who are openly rounding people up and putting them in camps and disappearing them

blood libel is a whole different thing

26.09.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 508    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 2

so ICE is a jobs program for men who like to hit women and get away with it

26.09.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3379    πŸ” 893    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 72
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Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

What the fuck?

26.09.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9196    πŸ” 3350    πŸ’¬ 455    πŸ“Œ 298
A person in a gas mask plays guitar at a chaotic protest scene.

A person in a gas mask plays guitar at a chaotic protest scene.

This activist's guitar was destroyed by ICE today. ICE fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets at us, and the guitar was struck. I am trying to raise $800 to help replace their instrument, which they rely on for gigs. I bet someone out here can straight up cover the cost. DM me.

26.09.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 891    πŸ” 452    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 19

A very sweet kitty, if you can spare a few $$$. She was recently fired from the Washington Post for being a woman of color who had some things to say about Charlie Kirk.

26.09.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

24.09.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 57652    πŸ” 19522    πŸ’¬ 1863    πŸ“Œ 1000

Just NPR obeying in advance. Again. NBD.

24.09.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is amazing!

24.09.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

23.09.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 31554    πŸ” 19103    πŸ’¬ 1199    πŸ“Œ 1752

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23.09.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Hey, Minneapolis! 
Election day is Nov. 4th, 2025!

Let’s work together and Rank 3 For Change in the mayoral race!

Download, read & print this zine at bio.link/mpls2025

This project was made by community members in Minneapolis on a volunteer, grassroots basis, and has no affiliation or funding connection to the City of Minneapolis as an entity, or to any PAC or campaign.

Includes a mockup of the printed booklet (zine cover and interior) on a white and light blue gradient

Hey, Minneapolis! Election day is Nov. 4th, 2025! Let’s work together and Rank 3 For Change in the mayoral race! Download, read & print this zine at bio.link/mpls2025 This project was made by community members in Minneapolis on a volunteer, grassroots basis, and has no affiliation or funding connection to the City of Minneapolis as an entity, or to any PAC or campaign. Includes a mockup of the printed booklet (zine cover and interior) on a white and light blue gradient

Hi there! We're neighbors in Minneapolis who are so excited to rank Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis & Jazz Hampton for mayor that we made a zine about it!

Inside, you'll find information about ranked choice voting, the candidates, & why it's time for change.

Download, read & print: bio.link/mpls2025

19.08.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 18

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

22.09.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2385    πŸ” 564    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 28

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