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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 17h

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MSW in the House @braverymatters.bsky.social · 19h

So masculine.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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MSW in the House @braverymatters.bsky.social · 19h

They're just bad people. Good people, normal people, wouldn't post something this petty and stupid, especially on a serious and heartfelt post. Deep down he knows he's trash.

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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MSW in the House @braverymatters.bsky.social · 1d

President Miller is obviously not going to fire himself, God.

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MSW in the House @braverymatters.bsky.social · 1d

I understand people have to flatter him to get what they want, but this is insulting. Give the damn thing back then. When you cozy up to an authoritarian, whatever the reason, you have lost the moral high ground.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 2d

They killed their father in cold blood and sent the kids to IDAHO for foster care. Are you telling me there were ZERO available foster families in Chicago to take them??? Did they make ANY effort to find their family? @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @quigley.house.gov Bring them home.

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3d

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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MSW in the House @braverymatters.bsky.social · 3d

Does he know there's a praying mantis in a blonde wig standing behind him?

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 3d

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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MSW in the House @braverymatters.bsky.social · 3d

Fourth generation grifting trash. So impressive!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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MSW in the House @braverymatters.bsky.social · 5d

How they stand there and lie this way again and again... just despicable.

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MSW in the House @braverymatters.bsky.social · 5d

The brain drain has started and will accelerate rapidly. Researchers, top students, all going to other countries. Such stupid, stupid people destroying everything.

MSW in the House @braverymatters.bsky.social · 5d

Accomplices to the murder of innocents are also murderers. If the God they claim to believe in exists, they will have some explaining to do. I hope it haunts them.