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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 3h

We also had SHARP. There were a lot of groups in the 90s keeping these people in check.

Come to think of it, there was a lot of anti-racism in the 80-90s that either didn’t exist or wasn’t as prevalent in recent years.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h

Just saw an announcement from a kids soccer group that ICE agents have been spotted in the area, so it’s OK to skip today’s games if people are scared.
The MAGA assault on our community is intolerable and has nothing to do with making people’s lives better.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 5h

With the attention Broadview is getting we should be publicly demanding Pritzker answer for the actions of ISP and other Illinois forces.

We have a lot of videos of ISP now we may as well use them. I think many want to give him a pass because they like his monologues.

ISP abuses are on him.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 16h

I bet many are told things like, “federal agent” or “works for the government”.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 1d

They think the Republicans who matter could afford paying out of pocket and international travel if necessary.

This is a class war. It’s about taking away benefits from the poor the rich can easily afford for themselves.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 1d

I disagree.

The opportunities to make good trouble increase with those risks.

Most Americans have never had to do non-violent resistance in the modern sense of the word.

They also refuse to read and learn from other countries. In this regard even the liberals are US exceptionalists.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad we have you to summarize our news for us.

So - what's your plan? Crickets?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Every single Democrat in Congress should’ve already had a post up by now about the Trump admin approving a Qatari air base inside the US.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

Did anyone get a good shot of the drone?

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

The Serbs figured this out years ago and wrote at least two books on it.

Glad to see America prefers almost a year of trial and error to picking up a book and learning about the successes of others.

American exceptionalism still alive and well.

Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

Is this him fearing our military will not follow his orders to attack us so he is importing a force which may?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

I like a lot of what Pritzker has done, but the free speech limiting and violent actions will be an Achilles heel for him going forward unless he finds a way to deal with it.

Broadview is definitely egg on his face and he deserves it.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

Make a new prize. Like a Nobel War Prize. Describe it with large words he wouldn’t understand but the rest of the world would find abhorrent.

“To Donald Trump for his advancements in extraordinary rendition”.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

Also - Here is Project 2025 broken down into line items. It is currently 48% implemented.

www.project2025.observer/en

Project 2025 Tracker

A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals

www.project2025.observer

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

What are the demands of the strikes? Strikes need measurable demands to know when to end it.

Also - there are many in this country who would go hungry by missing just part of a weeks pay.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

It's not written into it as a line item, it's the overarching goal.

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/proje...

Project 2025 Is a Blueprint for Canceling American Democracy

The Heritage Foundation’s document would gut the checks and balances that hold our republic together

www.sierraclub.org

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 2d

If this is a problem maybe they need uniform standards which state no beards like the military has.

They also prevent their gas masks from sealing.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

If ICE agents are willing to shoot a US citizen in broad daylight, as they did with Marimar Martinez in Chicago, imagine what they’re doing to undocumented immigrants.

They shot her in front of witnesses & with body cams turned on

The horrors facing those disappeared to camps are sure to be worse

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 3d

“You’re always playing the race card”

Anyone who says this has no idea how power dynamics work.

Race is not a card I can play. It is a hand I’m dealt.

Black people have never had the power to keep white people from voting, reading, or writing. If anyone’s had a race card, it’s white people.

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