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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 15h

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.

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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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 12h

ICE agents in Chicago kidnapped WGN-TV camera operator Debbie Brockman, loaded her into a van with a New Jersey license plate. @booker.senate.gov Can you help explain? @jbpritzker.bsky.social did anyone give permission for ICE agents from NJ to invade Illinois?

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 12h

Isn’t WGN-TV the longtime home of the Chicago Cubs? Abolish ICE.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: ICE agents just abducted a press camera operator in Chicago.

WGN-TV’s Debbie Brockman was dragged to the ground, cuffed and bundled into a van - which then rammed her vehicle to escape.

What the hell is happening in America?

(🎥 Original footage via Josh Thomas/FB)

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: ICE agents just abducted a press camera operator in Chicago.

WGN-TV’s Debbie Brockman was dragged to the ground, cuffed and bundled into a van - which then rammed her vehicle to escape.

What the hell is happening in America?

(🎥 Original footage via Josh Thomas/FB)

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 12h

💥 Democrat Peter Chatzky is running for Congress in New York. Send GOP Trump enabler Mike Lawler home. We can flip this seat! #NY17

Peter Chatzky for Congress @chatzkyforcongress.bsky.social · 12h

I am the only candidate in this race who is committed to not taking AIPAC money.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Mamdani Means Business

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Peter Chatzky for Congress @chatzkyforcongress.bsky.social · 12h

I am the only candidate in this race who is committed to not taking AIPAC money.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Mamdani Means Business

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Lynda Will Not Obey @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 14h

Omg. These psycho billionaires are targeting Greta Thunberg?

Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 14h

Peter Thiel is Palantir co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is president of Thiel Capital, and a partner of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm.

Everyone who remains in his circles is complicit.

www.commondreams.org/news/peter-t...

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams

Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

www.commondreams.org

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 14h

Nobel Committee said María Corina Machado had helped "keep the flame of democracy burning against a growing darkness." The committee praised Machado's "struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

NO Nobel for Trump.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

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Pop-Pop @dcdiversity1.bsky.social · 17h

So, you mean to tell me it really isn’t immigrants stealing ‘Black jobs’? (Proceeds to clutch proverbial pearls)

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Pop-Pop @dcdiversity1.bsky.social · 16h

““Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. Kornbluth wrote.”

Funding should be based on merit alone, you say? Well played, M.I.T.

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 14h

Peter Thiel is Palantir co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is president of Thiel Capital, and a partner of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm.

Everyone who remains in his circles is complicit.

www.commondreams.org/news/peter-t...

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams

Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

www.commondreams.org

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 15h

Cops have been killing dogs for DECADES. It's always something they do when they storm a person's house. Some cops have murdered dozens of dogs.

Their justification: dogs are potential threats. Except cops routinely kill dogs that are clearly incapable of hurting anything.

Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 15h

Why do Kristi Noem and her ICE agents keep KILLING DOGS?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 15h

Why do Kristi Noem and her ICE agents keep KILLING DOGS?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 15h

Portland gets the assignment
#OregonStrong

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 17h

This is awesome.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 19h

It is hard to like billionaires, but if there’s one I like, it’s her

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 17h

🔥 NEW: "D.E.I. Helps Everyone (White Men Included)

Trump administration’s funding cuts to DEI-related research will harm the overall health of underrepresented groups. And hurts white men too.

"When we shrink the scope of #science, we all lose." - Shikha Jain, MD

www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Video: Opinion | D.E.I. Helps Everyone (White Men Included)

It’s easy to understand why the Trump administration’s funding cuts to D.E.I.-related research will harm the overall health of underrepresented groups, including women, people of color and L.G.B.T.Q. ...

www.nytimes.com

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 17h

🚨 "Don’t believe the FALSE story that spread on social media that Coca-Cola has threatened to cancel its sponsorship of the Super Bowl if Bad Bunny performs during the halftime show. It’s FAKE and ridiculous and damaging." - CEO Hispanic Heritage Foundation www.linkedin.com/posts/antoni...

Don’t believe the FALSE story that spread on social media that The Coca-Cola Company has threatened to cancel its sponsorship of the Super Bowl if Bad Bunny performs during the halftime show. It’s… |...

Don’t believe the FALSE story that spread on social media that The Coca-Cola Company has threatened to cancel its sponsorship of the Super Bowl if Bad Bunny performs during the halftime show. It’s FA...

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SerraLee @serralee.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Oregon National Guard!!!

Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 2d

I’m an Oregon resident. Thank you to the Oregon National Guard for protecting the people of Oregon from ICE agents who attack us, violate our First Amendment rights.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Ian Johnson 🔆 @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 21h

This is how you do it

Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 21h

💥 It’s Banned Books Week! Penguin Random House is not afraid, does not bend the knee!

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#reading #books #bookish #bookishreccomemndations #booklovers #classics #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek #freedomtoread #readingforall #readingmatters | Penguin Publishing Group | 98 comments

📚✨ It’s Banned Books Week! Each year, we celebrate the freedom to read — and the stories, voices, and ideas that challenge, inspire, and connect us. Books that have been banned or challenged often d...

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 19h

🔥 NEWS: Thousands sign petition backing former Georgetown law school dean's DEI stance, after Trump admin attack.

"But this is a time when you also have to do the right thing," he added. "You have to stand up for your values and the values of the university."

www.ncronline.org/news/thousan...

Thousands sign petition backing former Georgetown law school dean's DEI stance

"This is a time when you also have to do the right thing," said William Treanor. "You have to stand up for your values and the values of the university."

www.ncronline.org

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 21h

💥 It’s Banned Books Week! Penguin Random House is not afraid, does not bend the knee!

www.linkedin.com/posts/pengui...

#reading #books #bookish #bookishreccomemndations #booklovers #classics #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek #freedomtoread #readingforall #readingmatters | Penguin Publishing Group | 98 comments

📚✨ It’s Banned Books Week! Each year, we celebrate the freedom to read — and the stories, voices, and ideas that challenge, inspire, and connect us. Books that have been banned or challenged often d...

www.linkedin.com

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 21h

MacKenzie Scott Isn't Backing Away From DEI www.philanthropy.com/article/mack...

MacKenzie Scott Isn’t Backing Away From DEI

The billionaire philanthropist has recently made large gifts to nonprofits that provide college scholarships to students of color.

www.philanthropy.com

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 21h

CEO Land O’Lakes on ICE deportation sweeps. “I want to make sure everyone’s paying attention,” Ford says. Especially those leading the federal government’s immigration crackdown, to whom she wants to say: “Listen, do you realize the risk there is with this right now?”

fortune.com/article/amer...

American farmers were already facing multiple crises. Then came Trump’s immigration crackdown | Fortune

Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford is calling for solutions to the problems plaguing rural America—even if they’re messy.

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen Miller-founded legal group filed a federal complaint against the Los Angeles Dodgers in July over their commitments to DEI. Filed just days after the Dodgers expelled ICE agents from their parking lot.

The Dodgers maintain their stated commitment to DEI.

#MLB #Dodgers

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 1d

Dodgers

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ALT: Jackie Robinson GIF

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