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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 1h

Man attempts to evade police using cartwheel

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Man attempts to evade police using cartwheel

YouTube video by Daily Slaps

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 13h

It's wild that liberals with have things like "antifa" in their bios, while their skeets indicate support for cops and they endlessly cheer for Dem politicians like Pritzker that are literally responsible for this. They don't seem to understand that fascism is a bipartisan phenomenon.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

Video shows the immense level of destruction left behind by Israeli forces in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.

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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 2h

this year was the first time i experienced any side-effects from the flu vaccine, outside of the normal sore arm at injection site. i developed a mild cough that has persisted for days. not bad, just interesting. i wear a mask anytime that i leave the house, so i don't think it's a cold.

Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 2h

Your Favorite Apps are ICE Agents

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Your Favorite Apps are ICE Agents

YouTube video by Michael Burns

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 20h

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 12h

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 22h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3h

The right-wing consolidation of corporate media continues.

Who Is Bari Weiss? Pro-Israel Pundit to Head CBS News as Billionaire Ellisons Expand Media Empire

We speak to journalist David Klion about the Trump-affiliated right wing’s increasing grip on mainstream news media, as “anti-woke” pundit Bari Weiss takes the helm as the new editor-in-chief of CBS N...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h

I’m by no means an expert but feels with a reminder that antifa is a) real b) one expression of antifascism c) not merely a synonym for antifascism d) again, real, as opposed to the bogeyman version in MAGA’s imagination and executive orders, which are meant to target basically any regime opponent

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 7h

Would like to hear from some of the people who genuinely fell for this shit (i think most platformed people knew it was bullshit and didn't care, but others). Anyone a bit mad?

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

One of the earlier and most-viewed examples was an animation of Al Shifa Hospital, published in October 2023.

The “underground command room” was recycled from a 2022 IDF animation of an UNRWA school in Tel Al-Hawa; the street above was built from prefab @kb-3d.bsky.social storefronts

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 3h

See Cuba Through Our Eyes | Belly of the Beast’s First Guided Trip to Cuba

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See Cuba Through Our Eyes | Belly of the Beast’s First Guided Trip to Cuba

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

we need to abolish this shit

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 1d

There is no leader of Antifa.
There is no girlfriend of the leader of Antifa.

They are creating imaginary people so they can justify going after real people.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16h

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16h

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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