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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Now that we’re out of the dreaded Woke Times billionaires are requesting federal troops to occupy cities they dislike for aesthetic reasons after hiring a private police force.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

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Auntie Fa @nananancy.bsky.social · 2h

No

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2h

was it ever in doubt

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

Auntie Fa @nananancy.bsky.social · 2h

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact — theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations ramp up across the country, so has misinformation. The Onion dispels common myths surrounding ICE raids. MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT:...

theonion.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 14h

Michael Dezer was born in Tel Aviv in 1941, came to the US in the 1960s after serving in the Israeli Air Force. He and his son keep close ties and lost a number of Zionist groups as “charitable” causes.

They gave hundreds of thousands to Trump PACs in 2016 and 2020.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9h

Will, regrettably, update the third-country removal tracker soon.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

Guatemala receives first flight from US with third-country migrants reut.rs/3W08Z6Q

Guatemala receives first flight from US with third-country migrants

Guatemala's IGM migration authority said late on Friday it had received a first flight from the U.S. carrying foreign migrants returned from the United States, as well as Guatemalan citizens.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 14h

Here it is arriving in Eswatini early Monday morning, 26 hours after it left the ICE hub airport of Alexandria, LA.

An ADSBx map showing N352BH arriving in Eswatini.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 14h

The jet was operated by Journey Aviation, who also participated in the South Sudan, first Eswatini and second Rwanda third-country removals.

Rich people lease their private jets part-time to companies like Journey in order to get a huge tax break from Trump’s first term.

A screenshot of the Dezers’ jet, N352BH, on the Journey Aviation website.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15h

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

SEN. @gallego.senate.gov on the terrible Milei rock concert: “Millions of Americans are about to lose their health care and have their insurance premiums double, but Trump & Republicans are giving this idiot $20 BILLION. Good job. Way to make America First, guys.”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11h

Finally! Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland has signaled she is inclined to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported and later brought back by the Trump administration.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12h

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone, I’m just <sniffs> I’m just so proud of us all.

We finally did it.

LibsOfTikTok finally targeted me.

<single tear rolls down cheek>

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long <unfolds acceptance speech> and first I want to thank everyone who made it possible: Harambe, Kony2012, my fa

A post from failed real estate agent and local ghoul Chaya Raichik aka LibsOfTikTok targeting me. Text of the post reads:

“Leftist CA State Assembly candidate Chris Kluwe, who promotes the harassment of ICE online, was ARRESTED at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting earlier this year.

Chris was protesting a proposed library plaque that featured a phrase similar to ‘Make America Great Again’

Chris called MAGA a ‘Nazi movement’ before leaving the podium and approaching the council member, where he was grabbed by police and carried out.

This unhinged lunatic wants to be an elected official…”

Thanks for the free advertising, Chaya!

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Auntie Fa @nananancy.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, but who needs Stephen Miller in their city.

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Auntie Fa @nananancy.bsky.social · 2h

In 1963 or 65, my dad was driving the station wagon around San Fran and pointed out the coeds with bouffant blue hairdos. So shocking! Old person memory.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Is Kid Rock ok? He's looking like an ad for a place called Thrifty Dialysis

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Auntie Fa @nananancy.bsky.social · 2h

Important PSA ⬇️

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

Inventive People of Portland Dressing as Animals:

Please don't dress as dogs. Your life will not be safe with psychopath Kristi Noem on the rooftops.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 21h

This is awesome.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council….

(Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: A senior ICE official testified today the WH Homeland Security Council — and not the State Department — informed him Uganda was the deportation target for Abrego Garcia.

DOJ then asserted presidential privilege over any other details about the call. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

DOJ asserts presidential privilege over details about how Uganda was selected in Abrego Garcia deportation case

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said third-country designations are typically made by the State Department.

www.wusa9.com

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It's Chris! @chrisd238.bsky.social · 9h

ice to the left of them
dhs to the right of them
fbi to the front of them
galumph galumph
boogied the frog brigade

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 12h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 11h

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Lisa Pierce @labsp61.bsky.social · 2h

Frogs are a sign of a healthy environment😊

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 18h

And he’s a dancing machine. Passersby are either delighted or just move on like they see dancing frogs on Clark Street every day.

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