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Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 1h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 53m

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 2h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 49m

My neighborhood. Sick.

Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 17h

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 1h

The Trump-Vance administration blocking Catholics from receiving the Eucharist. The Trump-Vance war on Catholics and Catholicism.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1h

As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Iridium Wolf @iridiumwolf.bsky.social · 8h

Michigan friends, Michigan citizens, please fight this. For yourselves, and so it doesn't become a model for the rest of the states.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

While this is going on here, ICE has been spotted on foot + in vehicles across SW + NW sides of Chicago. Can't verify reports rn, but also presuming suburbs. Yesterday was brutal. It's not lost on us they have more agents free for weekend kidnappings now with their facility secured by state police.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Juliess31 @juliess31.bsky.social · 3h

Has to be at a minimum a THREAT of force: www.justice.gov/archives/jm/...

1565. Forcible Act Required -- 18 U.S.C. 111 -- Application Of Statute To Threats

This is archived content from the U.S. Department of Justice website. The information here may be outdated and links may no longer function. Please contact [email protected] if you have any question...

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 6h

Anyway, today is World Migratory Bird Day, so I invite you to spend a minute contemplating those extraordinary journeys, perhaps by looking at the European Migration Atlas. migrationatlas.org

Bird Migration Atlas

This online Migration Atlas covers the huge geographical area represented by two continents, encompassing the flyways between Eurasia and Africa. Movements in time and space of 300 bird species are ma...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Matlock-ing @matlock-ing.bsky.social · 7h

Watch as the ICE kneeling on this woman TAKES A TROPHY PICTURE assaulting this woman

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 20h

I love this image.

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rad uncle Ieftist @raduncle.bsky.social · 4h

Not at all surprising how quickly they went from "the worst of the worst illegals" to "American citizens who get too close".

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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 4h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov @ltgovstratton.illinois.gov @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @mayorofchicago.bsky.social

Do something to stop this

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 4h

It’s like this collective amnesia about what being the president meant before Trump. All the expected norms and laws that previous presidents were held to… never existed. No memory.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Watching the news report on the president's greasy little grift as a customer satisfaction story and not, you know, This is Deeply Unconstitutional and Also Fucking Embarrassing as Hell

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Watching the news report on the president's greasy little grift as a customer satisfaction story and not, you know, This is Deeply Unconstitutional and Also Fucking Embarrassing as Hell

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 10h

“The president is being fed a steady diet of AI generated propaganda videos from his team so they can direct his energies and signatures towards their own goals” is a real and true statement about America in 2025

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 5h

Max Ernst, The Sea (Marine), 1928
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134775

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 6h

Curious whether the judge would say this violates the consent decree…

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6h

"Just grabbing people, checking IDs. They arrested like, what I seen, a bunch of people. They had vans and stuff like that.”

Immigration enforcement agents interrogate, detain rideshare drivers at O'Hare Airport

Federal agents detained several rideshare drivers on Friday at a parking lot at O'Hare International Airport, the latest target in immigration enforcement across Chicago.

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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 6h

Teens are so great.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 6h

It’s considered impolite to use language like this, but “evil” is the best word for what these folks are doing. It’s bad enough to screw over workers to attack political enemies. But here, doing so will literally kill people and lead to avoidable disease.

open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

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