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Tim McGrath

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he/him | digital stuff for a CA health system | priors: the world, pri, globalpost | past life: phd, american studies, harvard | ๐Ÿ€bring marcus smart home๐Ÿ€

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A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed.

Learn more: boltsmag.org/how-vol...

04.05.2025 21:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1074 ๐Ÿ” 303 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10 ๐Ÿ“Œ 47
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Padilla gave this speech on the floor pretty much as the news of Brad Lander's arrest in New York was breaking. Two Democratic lawmakers tackled and handcuffed by federal law enforcement in the span of a week.

17.06.2025 17:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 6068 ๐Ÿ” 2049 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 123 ๐Ÿ“Œ 85

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

17.06.2025 16:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 36795 ๐Ÿ” 11671 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1095 ๐Ÿ“Œ 474
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

17.06.2025 16:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 11859 ๐Ÿ” 5277 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 821 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1320
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โ€œWeโ€™ve Been Sold a Story That Isnโ€™t Remotely Trueโ€: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream In her new book, โ€˜Bad Company,โ€™ journalist Megan Greenwell shows how the secretive industry has insinuated itself into average Americansโ€™ lives.

โ€œWeโ€™ve Been Sold a Story That Isnโ€™t Remotely Trueโ€: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream

@issielapowsky.bsky.social talks to @greenwell.bsky.social about her new book, "Bad Company"

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

09.06.2025 19:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 449 ๐Ÿ” 185 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

They're taking college students. Not criminals. We know the NYT won't ever write it this way, so it's time to be a forwarding Facebook aunt and send these stories to your family that still reads emails and make it clear that this has nothing to do with anything besides white supremacy.

12.06.2025 22:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 219 ๐Ÿ” 68 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Migrants, and a Pastor, Arrested Inside Manhattan Immigration Courthouse Dozens of masked agents in plainclothes searched for targets exiting the elevators.

Dispatch from 26 Federal plaza where plain clothes federal agents detained at least 7 people leaving immigration court, plus a priest attempting to observe the arrests. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/i...

28.05.2025 19:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 710 ๐Ÿ” 441 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35 ๐Ÿ“Œ 50

HUGE SHOUTOUT to @propublica.org's @sophiechou.bsky.social. Stories like this can't happen without data. But the data alone isn't worth much without data journalists like Sophie to find it, clean it, parse it and reveal the stories in it.

06.05.2025 17:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Man Iโ€™m just so fucking proud of all the people who didnโ€™t give up and arenโ€™t going to give up

24.04.2025 20:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 8378 ๐Ÿ” 1447 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39 ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

18.04.2025 01:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 20635 ๐Ÿ” 3958 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 283 ๐Ÿ“Œ 160

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

29.03.2025 12:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 31950 ๐Ÿ” 10207 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 949 ๐Ÿ“Œ 669
27.03.2025 23:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 3366 ๐Ÿ” 1666 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10 ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

congrats to everyone who equated anti-genocide protest with supporting hamas

26.03.2025 20:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1350 ๐Ÿ” 379 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Iโ€™m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

The headline doesn't, and can't, really get to the extraordinary detail of this.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

19.03.2025 22:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 61 ๐Ÿ” 25 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

18.03.2025 21:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 12994 ๐Ÿ” 6405 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 102 ๐Ÿ“Œ 275

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

๐Ÿšฎ

14.03.2025 22:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 86014 ๐Ÿ” 13844 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5040 ๐Ÿ“Œ 817

Collaborators.

14.03.2025 21:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"We don't give our names," say the brown shirts, one of whom is wearing a Marvel graphic tee while carrying out illegal orders.

14.03.2025 21:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to โ€œthe leftโ€ and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

14.03.2025 02:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 131876 ๐Ÿ” 24411 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4973 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1463
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Republicansโ€™ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Itโ€™s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

14.03.2025 00:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 16567 ๐Ÿ” 4383 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 610 ๐Ÿ“Œ 301
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Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.

www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

13.03.2025 12:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 5173 ๐Ÿ” 2420 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 163 ๐Ÿ“Œ 315
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Justice for Mahmoud Khalilโ€”Urgent Support Needed Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

(From a friend):

Your support is urgently needed to help Mahmoud and his familyโ€™s urgent and evolving needs as we work to secure his release and support his family during this incredibly difficult time.

chuffed.org/project/just...

11.03.2025 14:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 76 ๐Ÿ” 28 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.

Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confusedโ€”then said that was revoked too.

His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

09.03.2025 14:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 6006 ๐Ÿ” 2676 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 136 ๐Ÿ“Œ 476
A Los Angeles Times headline reads, "Large majority of homeless people in California are not illicit drug users, study finds."

A Los Angeles Times headline reads, "Large majority of homeless people in California are not illicit drug users, study finds."

Itโ€™s almost as if skyrocketing homelessness isnโ€™t caused by addiction or mental illness, but by millions of people being rent-gouged out of a place to live.

06.03.2025 18:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1624 ๐Ÿ” 487 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29 ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

iโ€™m sorry, iโ€™m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most youโ€™ll hear about โ€œintersectionalityโ€ is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

06.03.2025 13:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 14608 ๐Ÿ” 2418 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 420 ๐Ÿ“Œ 179

According to this story some Dems will be wearing pink, some Dems will be wearing black, some Dems wearing blue, and some Dems wearing yellow. Another masterful gambit from the Democrats! I'm sure this will finally take down donald drumpf the Cheeto in chief!

04.03.2025 21:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1016 ๐Ÿ” 90 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 61 ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

May these ghouls never know peace again.

27.02.2025 17:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hunter Schafer Speaks Out After Getting Passport Misgendering Her: "F*ck This Administration" In an 8-plus-minute video, Schafer connected the passport to โ€œhistorical rises of fascism and everything this new administration represents.โ€

โ€œI just wanna say, trans people are beautiful. We're never gonna stop existing. Iโ€™m never gonna stop being trans. A letter on a passport canโ€™t change that. F*ck this admin. I don't really have an answer on what to do about this, but I feel it was important to share: This is real. So, yeah. F*ck.โ€

21.02.2025 22:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 110 ๐Ÿ” 18 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening.

People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book.

Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

21.02.2025 00:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 25583 ๐Ÿ” 4582 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 764 ๐Ÿ“Œ 882

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

20.02.2025 12:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 14427 ๐Ÿ” 3559 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 168 ๐Ÿ“Œ 227