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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1h

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

4. Splurge - spend lots of money on military, whether legal or not

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 20h

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care.

ICE Is Putting Pregnant Immigrants — and Their Children — at Risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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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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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 1d

You should not control a nuclear arsenal if you cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. The story needs to be told through the lens of mental illness

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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🅰️bacus 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇹🇼 @tradersabacus.fellas.army · 1d

"There are terrible things happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men
women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared." -Diary of
Anne Frank - January 13, 1943

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is not the only person in this administration’s cabinet who thinks they are actually the ones in charge.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

More winning.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 1d

In order to stop this fascist proliferation the legal system must be able to stop this regime’s violence, Constitutional violation of rights, it must hold these mercenaries accountable for their crimes against freedom. If it can’t, then they can do whatever they want. It’s that simple.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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South Carolina Democratic Party @scdemocrats.bsky.social · 1d

Military families are missing paychecks, food pantries are overwhelmed, and kids are losing after-school programs, all because of Trump’s shutdown.

Our troops deserve better than this chaos.
Read more here: www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...
#TrumpShutdown #SCDems #SCpol

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

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

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 2d

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Joan ❌👑 @still4dems.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that this baseless indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is part of Donald Trump’s corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 2d

This is tragic! How Trump's research cuts affect a 4-year-old in heart failure.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

VIRGINIA CALLER: “As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party, and I'm very disappointed in you… I am begging you to pass this legislation. My kids could die... the audacity of someone who makes 6 figures a year to do this to military families is insane.” #TrumpShutdown

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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 2d

This is where our hard-earned New Yorker taxes are going—incarcerating priests whose only act was singing in peaceful protest. #Pinks

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

A good example of Dems not adapting to MAGA war mindset is that they keep telling reporters they can't engage on Trump's military occupations because it's a "trap" to entice them into a losing debate about crime. That concedes too much up front and plays by old rules.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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