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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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My 60-something in-laws were asking where its happening in Chicago bc they are visiting and might go. These are people who have NEVER protested.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it's going to work out in the way they think because what they are doing is to actually promote the protest and the date in a way that the organizers can't on their own. So lots of people will now be searching: October 18 protest who would have had no clue before.

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Evil work

Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 1d

"Days before the raid, the man who sheltered the mother and her daughter saw someone he believed to be a worker from the building taking pictures of the units “where the Venezuelans lived.”

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Read more books @birchbot.bsky.social · 1d

AMEN AMEN

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

When i say that Black church Christianity is a completely different expression of Christianity

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Read more books @birchbot.bsky.social · 2d

No punishment severe enough for this

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 2d

This is Berwyn, my red line station ❤️
Imagine instead of this city block wide jewel parking lot, we instead see more storefronts with entrances facing the sidewalk and housing built on top

Strip mall in background. Jewel parking lot. Berwyn red line station in foreground

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Please note: as of 11:30AM today, agents have restrictions on chemical weapons / "less lethal" munitions they are *supposed* to follow (🫠). This isn't limited to preplanned protests, it also applies to neighbors and rapid responders. If you see pepper balls fired...note it

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Chicagoans won a temporary restraining order today that prevents federal agents from using tear gas, pepper spray and other weapons against journalists and peaceful protesters.
We’re fighting back peacefully in Chicago because — unlike Trump — we believe in the rule of law.

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

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Read more books @birchbot.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know seems back when Federal DOJ lawyers outright lie to judges...

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Federal agents have been confronted with by “coordinated, complex violence,” Hamilton says.

Hamilton specifically mentions the Saturday incident where he says federal agents were “rammed by 10 vehicles.”

That claim is highly contested — only two people have been charged in connection with that.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Surgeon General???

Not a surgeon … barely a doctor… but go off white sis

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Read more books @birchbot.bsky.social · 2d

so essentially...feds can start violence any time for any reason and then use the public's response to engage in further escalations of violence?

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry asks again whether, if the inability to execute the law is b/c of the feds' "own provocation, does that matter under the law?"

Hamilton: "No, if that were true, the fact still remains that we are seeing sustained violence against federal personnel and property in Illinois."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry turns to the fact that drugs have been dealt in Chicago for decades in violation of federal law.

Perry asks if that means "the president has had the authority for decades to deploy the National Guard here?"

(I also believe she prefaced this hypothetical with "riddle me this.")

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Read more books @birchbot.bsky.social · 2d

I don't about greatest, but my favorite is absolutely Neko Case.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 6d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 2d

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Read more books @birchbot.bsky.social · 2d

This album is SO GOOD. The lyrics, the music, obviously hayley can sing like nobody's business. I can't wait till she goes on tour.

Sam Raimi & The Midnight Sons @rochardscott.bsky.social · 2d

“They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all their children

They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face

So they don't have to pray to
someone they deem lesser than them

The South will not rise again
Til it's paid for every sin”

Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2d

I think people on the broad left need to stop getting in front of themselves like this and be able to trumpet a victory for people won by beating the fuck out of the GOP until they cave *as a victory for us and for Americans* rather than as a secret GOP win.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 3d

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”

Daily Beast: lol Republicans’ polls suck

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I love people's creativity and the various ways they have found to support each other. I've seen several examples of people doing this in Chicago. If you know a local vendor, can you do the same for them? Sell their goods so they won't be vulnerable to ICE?

A Facebook post by Jaime Andrade promotes a tamales and champurrado sale for Ms. Maria on Thursday, October 9th, at Kedzie & Byron to support her family. The flyer features tamales, a mug, and contact/payment info.

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Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · 5d

This weekend was record breaking for our mutual aid efforts! On Friday, the team got up bright and early to send home vendors. 6 vendors supported, over $500 worth of food. Saturday, we bought 100 tamales from 2 vendors! All distributed right back into the community. We keep us safe! #BikeChi

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

I spoke to another pastor after publication, Rev. David Swanson.

He's only been to the facility once (last Friday), and wasn't shot w/pepper balls.

Instead, he says senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino just walked up to him — in full clerical garb — and began shoving.

He put it this way:

I've been at many protests in our city over the years for a variety of different things, in my clergy attire, desiring to be a presence for peace in situations that can get volatile, desiring to be a person who different sides can be able to approach and talk with and have conversations with. I do think this is one of the important roles that faith leaders can play in contentious public situations.

This was the first time that I felt like there was absolutely no regard and no respect for a person who was visibly associated with the faith tradition. It did not seem like it made one iota of difference.

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Read more books @birchbot.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I do think he is smart enough to know that getting confrontational with the ISP is not going to work, but most people don't know that or don't care and want him to anyway. People are pissed so I hope he gets a bit more ACTIVE

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3d

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Congressional Democrats Find That Taking a Stand is Popular

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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