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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 1d

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

Police Departments Tracked Activists in the 1960s and 70s — Then Erased Records by Joshua Clark Davis

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6h

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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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h

I think that's part of it but the other part is it's men -and in this case especially rich men - and they already don't do those tasks, so they don't see them. This is why we're getting Samsung TV's with ads and not fridges that remind us to eat the lettuce before it spoils

James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 8h

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 8h

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 10h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 8h

Judge Ellis pointing out that Trump sunk his own case re: the 10th Amendment/Posse Comitatus with his batshit social media posts. "The POTUS' promises ... are to be treated with great respect." 🤣

Plaintiffs offer substantial evidence in support of their concerns that the scope and
purpose of the National Guard’s deployment in Illinois could intrude into the general police
powers generally reserved to the states. That evidence primarily consists of President Trump’s
social media posts concerning crime in Chicago. In one post, just about one month before
President Trump authorized the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois, the President
promised: “I will solve the crime problem” in Chicago, “just like I did in DC,” where the
President previously deployed the National Guard. Doc. 13-10 ¶ 59; id. ¶ 44 (similar, in August
2025). President Trump further stated: “Chicago will be safe again, and soon.” Id. The following
day, in a fundraising email, President Trump stated: “I turned our Great Capital into a SAFE
ZONE. There’s virtually no crime. NOW I WANT TO LIBERATE CHICAGO! The Radical
Left Governors and Mayors of crime ridden cities don’t want to stop the radical crime. I wish
they’d just give me a call. I’d gain respect for them. Now hear me: WE’RE GOING TO DO IT
ANYWAY.” Id. ¶ 60.
The President of the United States’s promises on official matters are to be treated with
great respect, particularly those made during his Presidency and respecting specific matters of

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 7h

Luckily this industry isn't carrying the entire economy right now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of information out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on information on AI."

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Lis M @radiancelis.bsky.social · 7h

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov, if you’re actually in favor of fighting the Trump administration’s fascist shit, you need to address the fact that state and other local cops are effectively supporting the fascist shit. 🤨

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 7h

NEW — Both Broadview police and Illinois State Police aggressively pushed demonstrators back behind the barricades during today’s demonstration.

They didn’t deploy teargas or any other chemical agents, but some carried pepper ball launchers.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/no-t...

No troops in Broadview yet, but anti-ICE protestors say state and local police used intimidation tactics in crowd control • The TRiiBE

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Broadview to continue calling out the federal government for its aggressive immigration enforcement and the treatment of detainees at the facility.

thetriibe.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 12h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14h

There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.

“Why don’t we tattoo a Star of David on the forehead of every terrorist we have to release?” - My daughter

Proud father.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Outside the Broadview detention center, ISP + Broadview PD are still blocking Harvard + 25th. It's officially after curfew.

One organizer is urging some remaining protesters to leave (they are mostly ignoring the plea). It's truly mostly press here now, including a number of far right/chud media.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking about this one with the WGN producer arrested this morning.

Later released without charges.

Where’s the accountability?

Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 13d

28. If the cops arrest you but then no charges are brought, there should be a small penalty for the cops.

Currently cops can just threaten to arrest you bcs arrest itself is a deterent to most people.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 7h

The Vice President follows that account

onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

setting aside the fact that they just don’t know what jokes are, this gives a big insight into the mind of white nationalists. they are deeply paranoid about the idea of being percieved as anything other than Epic Stoics

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

also a sign of how far trump has checked out-there is zero chance in the old days he would countenance anyone else taking credit, even in a slip of the tongue

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 9h

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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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 9h

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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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 8h

nothing these guys are mad about is comprehensible to a normal human being

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11d

EVERY DAY I WAKE UP AND THERE'S MORE TARIFFS

[crying]

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 8h

The frogs have landed in Chicago! (2025)

YOU ARE NOT

ALONE IN THIS

ABYSSAL DARKNESS.

I AM HERE, AND WE

SHALL FACE THE

CHASM AS

BROTHERS.

Here comes that fellow
"My goodness, how do you do?"

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 11h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 8h

Scenes from today's Communion service outside the Broadview ICE facility. 🧵

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 8h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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