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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16h

Having healthcare tied and partially administered by employers is a shackle to both workers and companies, which have to bear the 15-20% annual price hikes or cut benefits.

It's insane.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 17h

if healthcare was not tied to employment in the USA what would you be doing differently in your career?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 21h

Call them propagandists, not provocateurs: @gregsargent.bsky.social on the difference between "plucky showmanship" and "industrial-strength" MAGA agitprop meant to help Trump invent emergencies so he can expand presidential power. Starring Noem and Miller, of course. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 20h

House republicans are on vacation. Vacation.

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 3d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 20h

People in Basra are now safer from unwanted US military intervention than the residents of Chicago.
That’s after the GOP run US Senate voted to repeal the authority to use the military in Iraq

BUT Senators voted NO on limiting use of our troops in American cities and to requiring them to wear ID.

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 20h

And now they’ve gutted the CDC to cause democrats pain. A more honest claim would be these cuts hurt everyone but only democrats care.

I’m old enough to know that both parties do outrageous things, but in this moment that seems like a quaint and outdated way of thinking.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Fearless journalists & vigilant residents are telling Chicago's story. The shocking images show ICE agents out of control, people in danger AND people standing strong. Don't look away from this unprecedented abuse of federal power. My latest:

jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/fearless-j...

photos taken in Chicago over the past few weeks showing ICE agents, and Chicagoans reacting including a man with a flag walking through tear gas clouds, a pastor being sprayed with tear gas, an ice agent pointing a gun out a window, a bike messenger being chased by ICE

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 1d

Freelance reporter @leighgiangreco.bsky.social was on assignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social, covering Sept. 19 protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview, IL, when federal officers shot her with pepper balls.

The newsroom has since filed suit and won a temporary restraining order.

Freelancer struck by projectiles at Illinois anti-deportation protest

Freelance reporter Leigh Giangreco was shot with multiple pepper balls by federal officers while covering protests outside a U.S. Immigration …

pressfreedomtracker.us

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 1d

Talked with @mikenellis.bsky.social about how much we both love Chicago and what people can do to support our city as it endures this weeks long ICE attack. I hope you'll give it a listen:

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

New: Judge Perry's ruling against Texas troops in Chicago is a banger.

1. Invokes Hamilton
2. Rips into ICE for lying
3. Says "law enforcement officers who go into an event expecting 'a shitshow' are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the event prepared to de-escalate it.

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 1d

Talked with @mikenellis.bsky.social about how much we both love Chicago and what people can do to support our city as it endures this weeks long ICE attack. I hope you'll give it a listen:

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 1d

Saturday: How blue states can play hardball, the RFK jr disaster, what Americans think about sending Natl Guard troops to cities like Chicago & more with:

+ @clarajeffery.bsky.social
+ @curtisherteljr.bsky.social
+ @gelliottmorris.com
+ @amymaxmen.bsky.social

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🤳Stream bit.ly/3DAcG8s

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 1d

ICYMI: @eisendrath.net hosted @meredithshiner.com to discuss the government shutdown and how the Democrats need to stop pretending that the normal way of doing politics is possible during abnormal times.

Subscribe and watch, now:

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The Forever Shutdown? | It's the Democracy, Stupid Edwin Eisendrath & Meredith Shiner

This is not your normal government shutdown.

www.lincolnsquare.media

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

I’m so looking forward to this!

Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 1d

As Chicago continues to be the epicenter of the fight for democracy, I'm looking forward to talking to journalist @meredithshiner.com today on @lincolnsquare.media. She joins me LIVE at 12pm CT. I hope you'll tune in.

It's the democracy, Stupid with host Edwin Eisendrath and Guest journalist Meredith Shiner. Lincoln Square Live Friday at 12CT

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 1d

As Chicago continues to be the epicenter of the fight for democracy, I'm looking forward to talking to journalist @meredithshiner.com today on @lincolnsquare.media. She joins me LIVE at 12pm CT. I hope you'll tune in.

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 3d

Our resistance is peaceful, but it is not weak. We will not stop until Donald Trump gets his masked battle-armed thugs off our streets.

Read the latest from Chicago native @eisendrath.net for Lincoln Square

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/chicago-is...

Chicago Is the Frontline in the Battle for American Freedom

Our resistance is peaceful, but it is not weak. We will not stop until Donald Trump gets his masked battle-armed thugs off our streets.

www.lincolnsquare.media

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 3d

Big morning in Chgo news
-judge finds ICE in violation of consent decree.
-grand jury refuses to return an indictment against a couple who legally had a gun at a protest against ICE
- Trump calls for the governor and mayor to be locked up
-TX guard troops show up
-shutdown causes delays at ORD

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3d

“Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown. Otherwise, enjoy having your health care subsidy debate in the gulags these people would happily send us all to. I hear that poll-tests great.”

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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