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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

Our volunteers have been 3D printing whistles for ICE watch. Make your own today at 7016 N Clark St in Rogers Park from 12-3pm!

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Girl in a Garden @kellygale.bsky.social · 8h

And they control the voting machines. Let that sink in.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15h

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 1d

We took the freedom of speech away

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 11h

Americans are dealing with crushing health care costs. Republicans in Congress chose to shut the government down instead of working with us on solutions.

I’m fighting to reopen the government and lower costs for Rhode Islanders.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani: This is a shameless act of political retribution. And instead of prosecuting Tish James for doing her job, Donald Trump should be doing his.…

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12h

They must be exhausted.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

A producer and editor for WGN-TV was violently forced to the ground this morning by two Border Patrol agents, before having her hands cuffed behind her back, during an ICE action in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Debbie Brockman has worked for the local television station since 2011.

WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action

A DHS spokesperson said that Debbie Brockman was placed under arrest for ‘assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ claiming the WGN employee threw objects at the agent.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

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 · 1d

"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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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 13h

House Republicans have been on vacation for 22 days.

The government is shut down and health care costs are exploding.

Cancel the vacation, and let’s get back to Washington. We have work to do.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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

Grab the popcorn.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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NPR @npr.org · 14h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 1d

Release the Epstein Files.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

🤷🏽‍♂️ 🇺🇸 💰

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Trump has officially lost the Nobel Peace Prize.

Instead, the Nobel committee is awarding the leader of the opposition in Venezuela for supporting “democracy over dictatorship.”

Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize He Shamelessly Campaigned For

The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday said the recognition would instead go to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

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Girl in a Garden @kellygale.bsky.social · 1d

Not Greg Abbott.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Girl in a Garden @kellygale.bsky.social · 1d

You are my new favorite! Pitch perfect.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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