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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

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Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 1d

Help out a Chicago organizer and buy this book and learn some useful things appropriate for our troubled times 🙏🏻

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 1d

I just bought my copy and thank you so much for all you’re doing for the great city of Chicago ❤️

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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 2d

From the latest Q&A by the ever-wise and frank @sarahkendzior.bsky.social (via her free Substack).

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Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 4d

thank you for sharing! I needed that laugh

Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 4d

This is so so funny and good. The Epstein Files!

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Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 4d

lol this is really funny, well done! 🇺🇸

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 4d

This is very good

Desert Flower @crystal159.bsky.social · 4d

Polls have been clear: more Americans blame Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown then Democrats. Every poll that I’m aware of has shown this. Republicans now say the latest polls show the blame divide narrowing in their favor.

The Shutdown, Zombie Politics and How Trump Stumbled Into Not Being All-Powerful

It’s always a complicated matter to say who is “winning” a shutdown...

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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 4d

This act of violence by Trump’s masked DHS agents against a minister peacefully protesting reminds me of the darkest days of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Now as then, we will not be intimidated.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 4d

She is so horrible, the mind reels

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.

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A Budget truck with about five armed men seen inside. It's dark out and the taillights are lit. The photo is attributed to KT O'Loughin.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 6d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 6d

Shocked!

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Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 7d

Goodies from @moviejawn.com , I’m a fan! 🙌🏻

The cover of a zine called Moviejawn with a creepy looking bug guy on a red and black background. The zine is being held by someone with a very lovely ceramic tile floor.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7d

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 7d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 8d

Easy to understand words for all in power

Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 8d

In politics, the party that generates the narrative wins. The party that chases behind with corrections loses.

Dems need to be united and they need to control the narrative with boldness, truth, & standing up to the bullies. Never let them off the hook.

In other words, the alpha messaging wins.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 9d

ICE agents arrest Alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest a person at Humboldt Park Hospital.

“He has Constitutional rights.”

“No.”

ICE’s exact mindset: no one is allowed any rights now.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9d

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER

In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Melly Rockwell @melisg.bsky.social · 10d

A good one from him, for a change. Keep it up!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10d

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.