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love is my sword and truth is my compass | san fran born & raised | tar heel bred | chicagoan | abolitionist | she/her

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Difficult people in your life might make you age faster, study suggests — The Washington Post New research suggests that difficult people, a.k.a. “hasslers,” contribute to chronic stress and elevate epigenetic biomarkers associated with aging.

Difficult people in your life might make you age faster, study suggests - The Washington Post

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09.03.2026 03:45 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 4

We post people are who are struggling with overdue bills/rent/evictions/groceries in the Black Community. It’s cleared the goals of 240+ people so far. We’re trying to get faster to help more people per day, so please follow & repost.

08.03.2026 17:40 👍 61 🔁 70 💬 1 📌 1

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

07.03.2026 23:20 👍 614 🔁 256 💬 8 📌 8
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How ICE deportations are impacting people experiencing homelessness in D.C. ICE arrests in D.C. spiked at about 30 per day during the federal takeover in August, and remained high through the following weeks.

"After years in the homelessness services system, the man was just a few
weeks away from having permanent housing."

"In August, [ICE] deported the man."

"Last month, someone murdered him in El Salvador."
#WashingtonDC #USA #ElSalvador #Housing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

08.03.2026 22:10 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

Update: Sarah Afzul, the woman's sister, told me that Naqvi has been released from a detention facility in Wisconsin, where she was transferred overnight and they've been reunited with her

07.03.2026 13:50 👍 1553 🔁 451 💬 21 📌 28
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The March 15, 2025, killing of Ruben Ray Martinez drew almost no public attention.

But Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Trump’s second term. https://wapo.st/4lbpGYC

08.03.2026 20:00 👍 1186 🔁 557 💬 21 📌 21
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Cook County Chief Judge Warns of Scam Demanding People Pay Fake Parking Fees Chief Judge Charles Beach’s office said some residents have received fake notices purportedly sent by the court that threaten recipients with potential legal action.

Cook County’s chief judge is warning residents of an ongoing fraud scam in which victims are falsely told they must settle unpaid parking charges. https://to.wttw.com/4r4COA4

08.03.2026 18:38 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Outside the Chicago area ICE facility in Broadview this afternoon, people are gathered for what should have been a relatively uneventful press conference explaining what happened with US citizens detained by CBP on Friday.

Folks are now running down the street bc their vehicles were just towed.

08.03.2026 19:28 👍 455 🔁 225 💬 9 📌 12

Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be.

The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.

08.03.2026 02:26 👍 865 🔁 520 💬 25 📌 21

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 👍 25191 🔁 8067 💬 783 📌 329
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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

06.03.2026 18:25 👍 10176 🔁 2902 💬 175 📌 352
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Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

05.03.2026 22:51 👍 1885 🔁 771 💬 42 📌 88
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 👍 12280 🔁 7420 💬 293 📌 337
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points were made.

05.03.2026 21:01 👍 159 🔁 69 💬 1 📌 19

know what would’ve helped…
not promoting the ceo to board president for his f*ck up…
not promoting a 23yr veteran coo to ceo, you were at the same table when the decision was made 🙄

they really think we’re stupid….

05.03.2026 19:26 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

before y’all get too excited:

“[trump] added that noem, who he said ‘has served us well, will take over a new role called ‘envoy for the shield of the americas.’ the president described that position as one that will lead ‘our new security initiative in the western hemisphere.’”

05.03.2026 19:26 👍 22 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 5
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Mar. 5, 1959 | 21 Black Boys Burned to Death While Locked into Neglected “Reform” School Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1959, 21 Black teenagers burned to death in a building fire at a segregated and neglected “reform” school in Arkansas after being left alone and locked inside their dorm.

05.03.2026 14:00 👍 61 🔁 58 💬 1 📌 10
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Reform in reverse at the State’s Attorney’s Office - Chicago Reader Eileen O’Neill Burke promised to protect pretrial justice. One year in, her policies suggest a return to the politics of punishment.

From Rev. Otis Moss, vital facts about Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke's administration. We are at a time nationally when we simply cannot afford this regression.
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05.03.2026 11:32 👍 14 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 3
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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

05.03.2026 03:14 👍 5555 🔁 2678 💬 284 📌 586

To maintain the Montgomery bus boycott for 382 days, Montgomery's Black community organized an elaborate car pool system with 40 pickup stations giving 10,000-15,000 rides a day coordinated by volunteer dispatchers (Rosa Parks was one for a time). It required a tremendous amount of fundraising.

05.03.2026 01:26 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

That's it. Nothing a woman could possibly do to cause me to be a deadbeat. ask my oldest about all the lies and deception. And ask her how she figured out it was lies and deception. "What she said just didn't match what i kept seeing as i got older." Show up. For their whole life. That's the job.

04.03.2026 19:41 👍 92 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 4
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

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04.03.2026 04:01 👍 2419 🔁 1540 💬 62 📌 158
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BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

04.03.2026 15:54 👍 26268 🔁 5614 💬 696 📌 477
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Indiana lawmakers are once again trying to weaken child labor laws: Bill sponsored by business owner would enable employers to hide child labor violations Coordinated, industry-backed campaigns to weaken child labor protections continue to target state legislatures in 2026. Yesterday, the Indiana Senate passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements...

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.

If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

04.03.2026 21:55 👍 492 🔁 299 💬 31 📌 52
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Presence without courage isn’t power. 

No more settling for access without real action. 

No more silence for the sake of comfort. 

We’re done acting like being in the room is the reward. 

We’re here to change it.

04.03.2026 17:14 👍 55 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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A strike on a girls' school in Iran has killed at least 175 people.

Investigative journalist Nilo Tabrizy details what is known so far about the massacre.

04.03.2026 14:34 👍 235 🔁 111 💬 10 📌 9

The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

03.03.2026 18:39 👍 2013 🔁 781 💬 10 📌 6
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Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care Operation Metro Surge is leading some Latinos to delay or cancel HIV prevention or treatment appointments.

NEW: In Minneapolis, @cameronoakes.bsky.social and Sam Donndelinger report, ICE’s Operation Metro Surge is preventing Latino patients from accessing HIV care. This story was produced in collaboration with @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social, an investigative LGBTQ-focused nonprofit news publication.

03.03.2026 17:12 👍 218 🔁 132 💬 2 📌 3
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Cleveland police say two young girls were found dead in suitcases The girls, believed to be 8 to 14 years old, were found buried in shallow graves, and neither has been identified.

“the bodies of two young Black girls were found stuffed inside suitcases and buried in shallow graves on the east side of cleveland, police said tuesday...no clear indicators of the cause of death of the two young females, don’t know how long the juveniles had been at this location.“

04.03.2026 09:50 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Israeli forces bomb hotel in Beirut, residential building in Lebanon's east Israel hits Comfort Hotel in greater Beirut without warning; more residents displaced across Lebanon.

Israel hits Comfort Hotel in greater Beirut without warning; more residents displaced across Lebanon.

04.03.2026 07:30 👍 121 🔁 89 💬 7 📌 14