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A federal agent shot a pastor in the face with a chemical weapon. What can California do about it? A violent response to an Oakland protest raises the same legal questions other states are grappling with as Trump’s immigration crackdown intensifies.

“Being a federal officer is not a ‘get out of jail free’ card that excuses all wrongdoing committed while on the job.” -- @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Dean Erwin Chemerinsky via @berkeleyside.org, @oaklandside.org

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/30/f...

I’ve written all 37 donors for disclosure of who solicited their donations, how much they’re contributing, what corporate interests are served, & more. Americans deserve answers. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

I truly believe the best thing you can do right now to support opposition is to give money to a food bank or mutual aid

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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Woman in a dress and blazer stands in the street giving two middle fingers while blocking a HSI/police vehicle in New York City.

New Yorkers never disappoint #NYC

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.

The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.

Hello! Have you made something recently? A drawing, an object, a game, a meal, a child, whatever? May I see it and will you tell me about it? I need to counterbalance the terrible shit everywhere all the time

YouTube video by Sesame Street Sesame Street: Kermit and Joey Say the Alphabet

"Children don't remember what you try to teach them," Jim once said. "They remember what you *are*."

Look a child in the eye when you speak with them. Don't talk down to them. Love and support them. And remember: they're smarter than you think.

Oh, and make them laugh. ALWAYS make them laugh. /7

A Story from the Feral Class Every now and then, this is where I’ll explore what Feral Class means to me, as both a working-class identity and a shared experience. Most posts will weave together personal reflections and respon…

A Story from the Feral Class. By Marc Garrett.

Personal notes on the book “Feral Class,” which I recently published with Minor Compositions.

marcgarrett.org/2025/08/04/f...

Prison Break

Self-portrait of artist Frida Kahlo standing on a block, holding a Mexican flag, in a landscape with mostly ancient & natural Mexican features on the left (plants, pre-Columbian artifacts and architecture, a sun and moon) and on the right elements from an industrialized United States, including smokestacks and an American flag

As an art historian, I'm loving that your 8yo is interested in Frida Kahlo. Do they know this painting? It's one of my favorites: Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico & the United States, 1932

Rounding the Horn
Terry Watkinson
2020

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

Here's how to support my work:

I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social.

The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again

tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader' Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

7. At all of the shelters visited in the middle of the night, ProBAR staff witnessed children who had been pulled out of their beds. They were confused and scared. At Hands of Healing Los Fresnos, one young girl was extremely distraught, crying and repeatedly saying that she could not go back to Guatemala. At New Hope McAllen, one young girl was so scared that she vomited and asked to speak with a clinician. At Urban Strategies Alamo, one young teenager was scared that he might end up murdered like one of his family members. At Compass Connection in Harlingen, an attorney was able to meet with only one child. None of these children’s parents in their home country had requested their return. ProBAR’s client and named Plaintiff ARMD was at Compass Connection, but he was transported to a plane without notifying me as his attorney of record.

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.

Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

lol

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Courts Let Trump Strip Collective Bargaining Rights From Huge Number of Federal Workers Just days after a federal appeals court cleared the way for President...

Feel like it should be a bigger deal that 379,000 civil servants—more than 2.6% of all unionized workers in the United States—lost collective bargaining rights in the past week.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-f...

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Really badass graffiti spotted in town

Summer sunset sky as seen from the 6 Train in New York City.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing:

"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."

YouTube video by HBO HBO 1983 Opening Credits

HBO is never going to top the old opening sequence:

youtu.be/i1NKoMNy5bY?...

i'm crying oh my god mamdanitimes.com

Space invaders On day 32, they came for our parks

“Suggesting it looked like a film set is far too generous. LA Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson accurately described it as ‘staging for a TikTok video.’ Even the name was dumb: Operation Excalibur.” www.torched.la/space-invade...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.