Michelle ✧˚ · .

Michelle ✧˚ · .

@michelleruiz.bsky.social

Design & Social Innovation 🇪🇨🇲🇽🇺🇸 she/her/ella CHI → LDN

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Ken Schwencke
@schwanksta.com

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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shawn
@mulchy.bsky.social

new: in chicago, fresh water is abundant. but in nearby communities, drinking supplies are already starting to run dry. that's not stopping data center developers from flocking to areas like joliet and minooka—stoking fears about water use/availability far beyond chicago. via @siric.bsky.social:

chicagoreader.comData center developers want a taste of Chicago’s abundant waterTwo massive data centers are eyeing drinking water from Lake Michigan. Advocates and experts are unsure if that’s the best way forward.

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Erin Griffith
@ering.bsky.social

Librarians hosting anti-AI workshops say "the anti-AI movement isn’t about rejecting technology altogether so much as it is about advocating for more control, agency, and freedom in how people use technology" techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...

techcrunch.comLibrarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunchAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

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The Pastels
@thepastels.bsky.social

The Radical Resurgence Of UK fanzines and taking the long way round. Claire Biddles on community-building and resisting the algorithm... www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

theguardian.com‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punkFive decades since punk bible Sniffin’ Glue, DIY magazines are in rude, rich health. Their creators talk fandom, community-building and resisting the algorithm

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Larry the Cat
@number10cat.bsky.social

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

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Lynn Becker
@cmgiulini.bsky.social

Everybody wants to be there to be there to get their picture taken at the ribbon cutting ... and then they disappear. For the Reader, Olivia Hunter Willke documents the shameful neglect and deterioration of James Turrell's Hard Scrabble Sky at UIC. chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/...

chicagoreader.comUIC has a James Turrell, and it’s falling apart - Chicago ReaderHard Scrabble Sky by James Turrell was not only the first free, public Skyspace, but also the first in an urban environment.

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Michael Lobel
@mlobelart.bsky.social

On Bob Dylan's birthday, a thread about the story behind the remarkable photo below: Dylan driving away from Andy Warhol's Factory with one of Warhol's Silver Elvis paintings—a painting now worth millions of dollars—on the roof of his car

Michelle ✧˚ · .
@michelleruiz.bsky.social

I picked up bass guitar as a hobby during lockdown and I tell you what it is SO satisfying/stress relieving to play along to something like “Sick of Myself” by Matthew Sweet on a big electric thing plugged into an amp.