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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🚨🚨🚨A 15 year old opens the door to the vehicle, but ICE monsters proceed to throw her around like a rag doll — because they can. Notice the police drive away, just out of view of the camera. Uploaded ~ 2 hours ago. 1/2

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 11h

Meanwhile they’re firing federal workers for having a rainbow flag at their desks

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem orders a video in which she delivers a political speech attacking Democrats to be played on continuous loop in airports all across the US. This is a violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits civil servants from engaging in political activity inside federal buildings or while on duty.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for Trump's shutdown rolling out at TSA security checkpoints across the country.

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 8h

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“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 14h

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John Raftery @johnraftery.bsky.social · 15h

Maureen Dowd, “…moral indifference that will prevent him from ever getting a Nobel. You can’t get a medal for promoting democracy when you tried to overthrow the democracy you were running.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Peace in Trump’s Time — Except Here

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 14h

“MAGA culture is rewarding a certain kind of woman that beauty pageants reward,” Mifflin said. Both “revere conventional, traditional representations of women.”

bethbutler504.bsky.social @bethbutler504.bsky.social · 14h

Hitler’s rise to power was fueled strongly by the use of the repeated imagery of blond-haired, blue-eyed, physically fit, and biologically prosperous versions that eventually became ideas that people believed to be facts, which is the naturalization of ideas. www.wsj.com/politics/the... via @WSJ

The Beauty Queens of MAGA World

From cabinet secretaries to state legislators, many women in today’s GOP have one thing in common: they got their start in public life by winning pageants.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 14h

Story from earlier this week: Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over 'warrantless arrests' www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/f...

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’

A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring ICE to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the agency repeatedly violated the 2022…

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 14h

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Linda Arbuckle @lindaarbuckle.com · 14h

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s Crisis Construction

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 14h

www.elciudadano.com/portada/nobe...

Nobel de la Paz no da el ancho: el premio a Machado choca con su apoyo a tropas de EE.UU.

La opositora de extrema derecha venezolana María Corina Machado fue galardonada este viernes con el Premio Nobel de la Paz 2025. El Comité Noruego del

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 14h

www.elciudadano.com/chile/el-apo...

El apoyo al cien con Jeannette Jara: Masivo banderazo se vivió en metro Universidad de Chile

Banderas, gritos y hasta un corpóreo. Esa fue la tónica del último banderazo en plena Alameda al que llegaron más de cien personas para apoyar la

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 14h

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Exministro Nicolás Eyzaguirre: Kast "provocará una recesión económica" con su recorte de 6 mil millones de dólares

En entrevista con Radio Cooperativa, el exministro de Hacienda Nicolás Eyzaguirre, advirtió que el recorte de 6 mil millones de dólares en el gasto

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 15h

www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/sin...

Trump intensifica su cruzada contra Bad Bunny para evitar que actúe en el Super Bowl

Lo que fue inicialmente una oleada de rechazo de figuras del movimiento MAGA por el anuncio de Bad Bunny como estrella del espectáculo de medio tiempo del Super Bowl, en febrero próximo, ha escalado a...

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 15h

www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/mun...

Presidente Boric se reunirá este lunes con el papa León XIV en el Vaticano

En una visita de tres días a Italia, el Mandatario se encontrará con el pontífice y con el presidente Sergio Matarella. Además, sostendrá encuentros con la FAO y conmemorará los 50 años del atentado c...

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 15h

Reclamo mapuche contra la operación militar norteamericana "Tridente" | Las comunidades enviaron una carta al ministro de Defensa, Luis Petri - www.pagina12.com.ar/864907-recla...

Reclamo mapuche contra la operación militar norteamericana "Tridente" | Las comunidades enviaron una carta al ministro de Defensa, Luis Petri

Alertaron sobre el daño ambiental que pueden generar los ejercicios de las tropas extranjeras en las bases navales de Puerto Belgrano, Mar del Plata y Ushuaia.

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 15h

Un proyecto para desdesaparecer a los desaparecidos | Adriana Lewi presentó su libro "Estoy, estamos" - www.pagina12.com.ar/864860-un-pr...

Un proyecto para desdesaparecer a los desaparecidos | Adriana Lewi presentó su libro "Estoy, estamos"

Cuando tenía un año y medio estuvo secuestrada en el Olimpo con sus padres. Con el acompañamiento de los trabajadores del sitio de memoria, empezó en la pandemia a preparar en una carpeta con la histo...

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 15h

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‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 15h

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Trump ICE official tells court U.S. has talked with numerous countries about accepting Kilmar Abrego Garcia

ICE's John Schultz said he's "confident" that once the administration receives approval from a third country to accept Abrego Garcia, he could be deported within 72 hours.

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 16h

Qué sorpresa. El New York Times publicó un artículo sobre la Violeta. www.nytimes.com/es/2025/10/1...

Violeta Parra, madre del folclore que redefinió la música latinoamericana

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 16h

El flujo de drogas a EE. UU. no se detendrá por atacar embarcaciones venezolanas www.nytimes.com/es/interacti...

El flujo de drogas a EE. UU. no se detendrá por atacar embarcaciones venezolanas

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 16h

Heads-up. Share this everywhere. ICE has created a fake "Stop Ice" app. They're trying to ensnare people to enter their information, so they can go after them.
Do NOT use stopice./org.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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diane52a.bsky.social @diane52a.bsky.social · 17h

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'No Kings' movement issues warning ahead of next anti-Trump protest

The protest group is hosting security and safety trainings ahead of its next event.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's "Swiss[Chinese]-made" watch grift can be traced back to a shell LLC with an address in a strip shopping center in Wyoming. The company also sells Viagra-laced “Male Enhancement Honey” products, which the FDA has warned Americans not to use.
www.cnn.com/2024/10/17/p...

The curious hunt for the company behind Trump’s new ‘Swiss-made’ watches | CNN Politics

CNN searched for the maker of the candidate’s new ‘Swiss-made’ timepieces. The search dead-ended in a Wyoming shopping center.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 1d

WGN statement: “Earlier today, a WGN-TV creative services employee was detained by ICE. She has since been released, and no charges were filed against her. Out of respect for her privacy, we will have no further statements about this incident.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

It's been 200 days since masked government goons abducted Rümeysa Öztürk for writing an op-ed they didn't like.

She's no longer behind bars, but they're still trying to deport her, and they still don't want the public to know why.

The U.S. government is hiding Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting

If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed

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