Hey Baltimoreans, I would LOVE to get more folks on this Wednesday evening's @fullstorybaltimore.tours ~Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point~ tour! If you know anyone who'd be interested, can you please let them know? &/or share this Facebook post link, if you're on FB? www.facebook.com/share/p/17cX...

the ICE watch chat for Baltimore is really starting to go off in the past week or so pls get trained and linked up bsky pals if you have not already xo

☃️☕ You’re invited to a CFPB Union rally! 🪧💈 HOW THE VOUGHT STOLE YOUR MONEY 1-2pm Thursday, Dec 11 CFPB HQ, 1700 G Street NW, Washington, DC There will be hot cocoa, good people and good vibes, as well as a special holiday performance.

He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him

‼️

Cc @archivesgig.bsky.social

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

9. For more scientific and culturally competent ways of covering trans issues, reporters can consult the Trans Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide—a tool for newsrooms to bolster their coverage of trans people and the stories that affect them. styleguide.transjournalists.org

if anyone hears of any World AIDS Day gatherings happening to honor everyone we've lost and to protest Trump's decision not to observe it, please let me know

80 percent!

Big news today: Chris Duncan, who spent decades on Louisiana's death row on 'junk science' until his conviction was overturned this spring, is being released today. You'll remember this story from a few months ago, when his conviction was overturned: boltsmag.org/chris-duncan...

I haven't seen it reported this way, but my theory is that Trump fired Carla Hayden so he could have his hand-picked replacement at LOC fire Perlmutter, and that she was the real target all along bc of work to reign in IP violations of AI

Baltimore, MD: PT Archives & Records Management Technician (short-term contract), Baltimore City Archives

Since the start of this year, some 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE, according to government data — the highest number since recordkeeping began a decade ago. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Recently I was eating at a sushi bar and a guy delivering for grubhub came in and sat down to wait for his order - listening to something very chaotic on his phone at full volume in this tiny restaurant

Statement From ALA: Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s www.ala.org/news/2025/11... #libraries

The reason 300,000 Mississippians do not have health care through Medicaid expansion today is because the Supreme Court interfered with a president's signature policy.

Come through @redemmas.org 11/28 and hang w/ @baltimoredsa.org for a screening of WTO/99 and discussion with @prophetkotto.bsky.social, @jessdouglas.bsky.social, and @bsoderberg.bsky.social! $10-$15 suggested donation to @baltlegal.bsky.social: bit.ly/WTOBALT RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/wto-99

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

Baltimore, MD: 2026 Spring Intern – Records Shelf Survey Assistant, Baltimore City Archives & Records Management Center

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

For a second I thought they were gonna share Prince's library card data, like stuff he checked out of the library, and I was very excited

BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stops the scheduled execution of Tremane Wood today, commuting his sentence to life without parole. In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.

Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman's temporary restraining order governing conditions in Broadview's ICE facility is in. Follow @KadeHeather on Twitter for details from the courtroom and read the full order here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/4f/4a/384ff4...

WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."

Geuvara says she is testifying from Honduras. She says she has a 9-month-old baby and a 5-year-old girl — and they are living in Chicago with her brother.

Felipe Agustin Zamacona is now testifying in U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman's courtroom about conditions in the ICE facility in west suburban Broadview.

Pablo Moreno Gonzalez is testifying in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman about the conditions inside the ICE facility in west suburban Broadview. Gonzalez says he is 56 and was born in Mexico but has lived in Chicago for 35 years.

NEW: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is committing $62M so that SNAP participants get full benefits in November. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

"Which financial products are most likely to attract predatory practices? Auto loans, payday loans, mortgages, credit repair services and a host of fintech products are prime candidates." #CFPB #SaveCFPB www.forbes.com/sites/jeffka...

In this study of 220 #trans adolescents who received gender affirming medical care, only 4% expressed any regret about treatment, and half of those continued with treatment, suggesting the benefits outweighed the downsides. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39432272

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

My son’s school (86% English language learners, 70% below the poverty line) lost funding for their vegetable box giveaway for families. If you want to help close the gap, check out this link. I can verify its source as legit. gofund.me/46f2a1400

Grateful to @bmorecourtwatch for humanizing the cost of our broken criminal justice system 💔

NEW: Voters think affordability is a bigger problem for the U.S. than declines in meaning and community, except for one group: men who voted for Trump in 2024.

Extremely concerning reporting from @cnsmd.bsky.social

U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino is on the witness stand in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis. He is wearing his typical Border Patrol uniform. "Good morning, your honor," he says.

Share if you have any folks in your life who don’t understand how food assistance works.

ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers. "What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder. "The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back. Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.

Organizing still works — Avelo Airlines is feeling the heat for profiting off Trump’s terror tactics by running secretive (often illegal) deportation flights. You can take action to help ground “ICE Air”: www.groundavelo.org?utm_source=b...

"ANDALE"

BREAKING: Over a sharp dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan & Jackson, the Supreme Court will not stop Alabama from killing Anthony Boyd tonight. Sotomayor tells the reader to count to four minutes on their phone. "Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating."

A few things to consider, Mr. Boyd's court appointed attorney told the judge he didn't feel he had adequate time to prepare for the trial and didn't present alibi evidence in favor of his client. The jury was NOT unanimous, voting 10-2 for guilt and the death penalty.

A man who by any measure did not receive a fair trial will be executed tomorrow in Alabama. You have a chance to speak out today.

This case was brought by 12 students. Go students!

Want to know what’s going on this week? Check out our weekly run down ➡️ www.facebook.com/share/p/14JS...

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist