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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 9h

There were 18 shootings in Chicago this weekend, while under federal occupation.

It’s clear they are deploying into these cities to make drama not to decrease violence.

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 10h

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. - Bryan Stevenson

Pic of the day

#photography

Loutro Beach on the island of Crete. A small boat with a man in it hovers on top of turquoise water. In the distance, brilliant white stores and homes line the cove. There are no roads to get here. Boat is everything.

#greece
#travel
#sea
#holiday
#crete

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔

Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 1h

There are so many more of us than there are of them, no matter how many signing bonuses they give with our tax dollars to people with the blackest souls imaginable

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 11h

He wasn't really a priest, so we should all be okay with the fact that they just headshot him with no due process.

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 11h

Would love to hear what point they're trying to make in the first place. He still has constitutional rights regardless of his reasons for being there. And the agents who fired on him violated those rights regardless of how many protests he's going to wearing whatever clothing he wants.

Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13h

Christians shocked and horrified when they see a Christian do Christian things

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The "Preist" shot with pepper balls at an ICE facility is a professional communist Antifa agitator who professionally gets pepper-sprayed in the face while wearing clerical shirts for photo ops. He's done this several times already.
Ice sprays directly in the face the lea Presbyterian in Chicago. This photo I in history.
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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 12h

Without a doubt

National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 13h

At this point you have to presume that anyone who is promoted to anything in ICE, DHS, FBI, or DOJ is the absolute last person you want even working there.

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 12h

It would be disingenuous to say they're not working at all though, they're out there putting on some near oscar-worthy performances on a daily basis creating richly detailed alternate realities that will go largely unchallenged by those we have charged to do so, for some reason.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 15h

These risks only apply to the No Kings protest, mind you. Not to any n*zi gatherings or violent insurrections or qanon platforms.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

Fox Propaganda is desperately spinning the "No Kings" events in fearful anticipation of their success.

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 17h

One thing I've noticed with Sora videos: people are very regularly generating them with CCTV timecodes, Ring camera watermarks and Axon body cam watermarks which is kind of fucked.

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 16h

Accurate.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 1d

More.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 1d

Accurate.

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 1d

This is especially true for GOP tradwives & Women, Latinos or PoC in the DHS. They may have let you borrow the boots because they need the numbers but you'll recognize the heel on your neck as belonging to your own pair when the time comes. You bought yourself a delay, nothing more.

Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 2d

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 1d

Yup that's why they did that first and everything else second

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The firehose of easily disprovable lies from Trump and his allies continues to get worse each month, with one statement after another completely untethered from reality, which is why it is so important for them to take ownership and control of media platforms & intimidate others.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Ghost Pirate Captain Revo @captainrevo.bsky.social · 1d

“I was on Facebook, and-“

Let me stop you right there, because I see the problem.

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 1d

Every governor should be at this point right now and it's absolutely insane that they're not

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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