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Sarah Kendzior • 4m I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Here are the at least 6 House Democrats, 3 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 4 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

Hey, simple tip for ya’: don’t trust a bunch of fascists, pedos, and known serial liars. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Does calling out your D colleagues by name make you uncomfortable @chrismurphyct.bsky.social? Is your discomfort more serious than millions of people losing healthcare?

The claim from whom?! Stop playing cutesy: name and shame! Be specific or you are just as culpable!

👀 @democrats.senate.gov

Oust @schumer.senate.gov from leadership immediately!

Signed,
his unfortunate constituent

Standing up means saying “hard” things out loud and taking action, not trying to be cutesy and shady on the internet, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social.

Call for leadership (@schumer.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov et al) to step down immediately. Otherwise your pretty words about tyrants are meaningless.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Visibility Brigade After Dark with Jackson Heights Indivisible!

Love those honks!

#visibilitybrigade #indivisible #jacksonheightsindivisible #jacksonheights

Here’s your sign to go plan an ICE 🧊 safety kit making party with friends.

Ideas 💡 for what to include in the kits:

• whistle
• KYR cards
• instructions on how to use the whistle and the SALUTE acronym
• lists of resources in your community for legal assistance & mutual aid

#handsoff #fukICE

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KEY TAKEAWAYS (1/3) 1. This is a marked escalation and change inICE's tactics: ICE racially profiled community members, abducting any Latino -looking men who walked by. 2. We also have not seen this kind of rapid cycling of agents, kidnapping so many people indiscriminately in such a short period. For scale: this is just 2 fewer people kidnapped than at the Canal Street raid on October 21, 2025. 3. We need to treat ICE and non-ICE federalagents as the same. We cannot separatethe NYPD from this analysis. November 1, 2025

KEY TAKEAWAYS (2/3)3. (cont'd) The NYPD is widening the dragnet they create in our communities; this is a direct and widening pipeline into the deportation and international carceral machinery. It is not a stretch to say that deportation is a death sentence for many. 4. Militarization does not happen overnight. It is a spectrum, and it has already taken root in our communities. Many of us havenormalized it: in NYPD checkpoints and the criminalization of small things like turnstile hopping, in the vice raids targeting street vendors and sex workers,in the National Guard troops in trainstations, so on. November 1, 2025

KEY TAKEAWAYS (3/3) 4. (cont'd) We must accept that enforcementmay never look like LA or Chicago, and we must respond to the conditions that the state is creating for our communities. 5. Now more than ever, it is critical that westay on the ground in our communitiesand have longer conversations with more people. Talk to as many people as you can on the block and surrounding businessesand encourage your neighbors to buildtheir relationships amongst themselves. This incident was a reminder that the block is often watching and protecting itself. November 1, 2025

Queens Neighborhoods United, a group representing Corona, Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights posted a statement about the abduction of 7 community members from the same corner in Corona, Queens. They describe that federal agents cycled in and out of the block kidnapping ppl throughout the afternoon.

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Philadelphia - Denver - El Paso - San Diego - Seattle/Portland - New Orleans Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed. Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino. ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations. I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: "ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?". Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results. Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio : "While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country." 7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2025 · 29.6K Views

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

This is an absolute abomination.

New York! Remember to avoid filming community members’ faces if at all possible.

Focus the camera on the kidnappers. Try to get as much information about them as possible, even if they are masked. Document distinctive patches on clothing, tattoos, license plates, vehicle make and model, etc!

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

🚫🧊

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who jus...

Sudan’s famine is the biggest and most intractable in the world.

Anyone else in Queens confused by all the ballot questions + judge races this year? 😅

We’re doing a one-hour Ballot Breakdown to explain it all.

📆 Thurs 10/16 | 🕑 6:30pm | 📍 Jackson Heights Library

RSVP: tiny.cc/ElectionEd

Andrew Cuomo * @andrewcuomo X.com In a democracy, the rule of law must be sacred - impartial, objective, and above politics. When the law is weaponized or manipulated to advance political agendas, it erodes public trust and weakens the very foundation of justice. Whether it comes from the right or the left, from prosecutors or politicians, the politicization of law enforcement is dangerous and corrosive. We must restore faith in fairness, facts, and due process - because once justice becomes partisan, everyone loses. 3:56 PM • 10/9/25 • 41K Views

Andrew Cuomo keeps saying he’s the only candidate who can take on Trump once he’s in office.

Yet in his statement about the indictment of Letitia James, the highest-ranking Black elected official in the state, he doesn’t even mention Trump by name….and, more importantly, he doesn’t mention James.

No National Guard 💂 No ICE 🧊 no FBI 🕵🏼‍♂️ in NYC 🗽

Hands Off NYC!!!

Sign up to be part of a coalition coming together to organize against a possible Federal takeover of NYC.

And don’t forget to sign up to march at No Kings Oct 18. Go to NoKings.Org ❌👑

This is how we defend liberty and democracy!

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

This is fascinating. I would bet trump doesn’t care if we see photos of him with topless girls - but he certainly does not want us to see them laughing at him and pointing.

Omg

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, 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

Hi @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social, @schumer.senate.gov, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Have you heard about the NYers sailing on a humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean Sea? 👀 They are approaching Gaza now, under threat. Will you speak out & act to ensure their safe passage? #globalsumudflotilla