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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 4h

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 4h

We had green bubbling mimosas

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 4h

We ran into a pirate and a fairy

Photo of a woman dressed as a pirate and another woman dressed as a fairy on SUPs

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 4h

It’s important to have continue to fun and spend time with loved ones. Today friends and I did a witches’ paddle on the North Branch—with some anti-ICE signs of course.

Me dressed as a witch on the dock with my kayak and a sign: “putting a hex on ICE”

My friend on a SUP in witch hat, cape, and green gloves

Me in my kayak on the water with another sign on the front: “witches against fascism”

Another friend in a kayak dressed as a witch

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 12h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Anthony J. Rivera @anthonyjrivera.bsky.social · 15h

Some messages are printed on 18-by-24-inch yard signs or smaller placards; others are drawn ornately by hand on paper or written in chalk. The few who will talk about the signs they created say the urgency of the moment compelled them to act.

(🎁link below)

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Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 3d

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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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 16h

They expected integrity lolololol

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Christopher Reader @xopherx.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans are declaring war against Americans. They're going to kill people and claim they were terrorists.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

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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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 16h

Going out for a witchy paddle on the river today

Photo of a witch’s hat and a sign that says “putting a hex on ICE”

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone remember the cop who grabbed a woman’s breasts while arresting her during a (I think) BLM protest? These guys are bad, bad news.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · Aug 26

THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

This story is NUTS

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

when this is done, it’s going to come out that there were entire rape gangs

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

Figures

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

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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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

Which one of you did this 👑

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

An agent testified in federal court in Chicago today that Bovino needed an MRI and is on two weeks bedrest for "a groin injury" he sustained during last week's protest

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

Is that Hawkeye

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

Quad stretches seem to be helping fwiw

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in menopause (officially just last month)—and my knees started hurting right about then—wtf

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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