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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Kelly Miller @sqirlgirly.bsky.social · 10h

#Canada
www.blogto.com/travel/2025/...

Canada was just crowned one of the top countries in the world

Canada has been highly rated by travellers from around the world in a new ranking. Condé Nast Traveler revealed its 2025 Readers' Choice Awards on Tu…

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LWS @momoxmochi.bsky.social · 11h

Stay weird, Portland 💖

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 11h

Dear Portland: your friends across the world are with you. Write up of “frogtifa” resistance in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, today. Stay strong, fuck ICE - and solidarity.

www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Amphibious assault: Progressive Portland’s protesting frogs take air out of Trump’s arguments

The citizens of a progressive northwestern US city have found a creative, humorous way to undercut Donald Trump’s assertions of lawlessness.

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Pia @cecallihelper.bsky.social · 11h

In harmony "This land was made for you and me" LIVE 🔴: Portland ICE Facility Protest 10/11/2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2W... And the ICE started shooting smoke or gas canisters 🤦 #law

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Stuart L. Riley @slriley.com · 11h

My drive through Portland last Saturday to get to the ICE facility. I don't recall seeing any burning buildings on my way. Kinda boring, if you ask me.

Driving Through the Portland Oregon War Zone 20251004

YouTube video by Stuart Riley

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

Portland 🔥

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Andrew Mercado @guru-merc.bsky.social · 13h

I was live on the ground as faith leaders marched to the Broadview ICE facility to bring communion to detainees. ICE denied them entry, so they held prayer outside instead. Later, police moved in to disperse the crowd. The night ended without incident, though a few arrests were made.

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Katherine @katherineintx.bsky.social · 13h

Larry Dowling wrote it on his Facebook page.
www.facebook.com/larry.dowlin...

Larry Dowling is with Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership.

I had the privilege this morning of leading a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia Church in Maywood, IL to the ICE Detention Center in Broadview. We went to pray and have a few of us clergy and religious women bring Holy Communion and the love of the Christian community to the men and women detained there under inhumane conditions.
Over 1,000 Catholics and other Christians marched in peaceful prayer and song, facilitated by the Maywood and Broadview Police Departments and the Illinois State Police. I cannot speak more highly of these public safety officers in providing us safe passage.
Upon arrival, it was a different story. There were no ICE or Federal representatives there. When requesting to talk with a representative from Homeland Security and ICE, the State Police reached out on our behalf to make the request over the phone, After a brief wait, the answer came back very clearly:
NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION AND PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE!
NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER ANY SOLACE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN FEARFUL AND SUFFERING INSIDE!
NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, THE LOVE OF GOD, INTO THIS PLACE!
No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.
What we have been able to do for detainees for the past several years, which is written into Illinois law, was refused by this current Federal Government.
"Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing."
"Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing. Touch their hearts and transform them from stony hearts into fleshy, life-giving hearts."
"Only through, with and in God will hearts be changed!"
The battle for hearts and minds, compassion and mercy, continues...

The battle for hearts and minds, compassion and mercy, continues...
Please pray especially for the children, for the mothers and fathers who are being treated inhumanely.
Please step up and speak out.
Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God's family.
Peace! Fr. Larry Dowling
[Below the post is a photo showing many people dressed in yellow t-shirts and several holding crosses, flags, or images of the Virgin Mary (La Virgen Migrante)].

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Chicago News @chicago.thesocial.news · 12h

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

#fox32

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees locked inside.

www.fox32chicago.com

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News 📰 @some-news.bsky.social · 11h

As demonstrators kept their fight going outside the Broadview ICE facility on Saturday, at the same time, a court battle seemed to put an end to federal plans to have the National Guard on Chicago area streets, at least for now.

Appeals court upholds ruling blocking Trump admin. from deploying National Guard in Illinois

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8647 @astrosma.bsky.social · 11h

#broadview
#chicago
#peace

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 3d

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

right-wing influencers standing for a photo together at the white house

(Left to Right)

Jack Posobiec - TPUSA employee
Seamus Bruner - Government Accountability Institute (GAI)
James Klug - TPUSA Ambassador
Jonathan Cho - TPUSA employee
Nick Sortor - Influencer
Julio Rosas - Former TPUSA, Blaze Media
Nick Shirley - Influencer
Andy Ngo - Human Events Media Group*
Brandi Kruse - Influencer
Savannah Hernandez - TPUSA employee
Katie Daviscourt - Former TPUSA, Human Events Media Group*
Cam Higby - TPUSA employee

(Human Events Media Group is closely tied to TPUSA. https://humanevents.com/about-human-events )

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19h

Jack smith would not have noted these specific examples in the presidential immunity argument if he didn’t have solid proof of these actions by Trump. 👇⬇️👇⬇️

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GraceCallahan @gratefulg.bsky.social · 18h

How I miss Jack Smith! I mean it. I really miss Jack Smith! And that f****** Supreme Court made him wait over 6 months to be told they wouldn't hear his case against Trump! What's happening?! Mitch McConnell is the 1st reason we have Trump in the White House & the Supreme Court gave him cover!🚫🇺🇲📜⚖️😭🤬

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19h

Here is a list of documents stolen by Trump from the indictment. Take time to read it and ask why exactly any former president would need these after leaving office. Jack Smith knows. It’s time for the truth to be revealed. Please share.

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Owenzowen @owenzowen.bsky.social · 14h

Release Volume 2 of the Jack Smith Report!

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 4d

Reporter demolishes the GOP wiretap fantasy. Call logs from Jan. 6 probes are not surveillance. Courts upheld searches. Even Judge Cannon did not deem Mar a Lago search illegal. Eight months in, they produced zero evidence of Biden weaponization.

'No evidence — they just keep saying it': GOP talking point smacked down by reporter

Major new GOP talking point smacked down by reporter

www.rawstory.com

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American Oversight @weareoversight.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Cannon imposed a gag order indefinitely barring the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s mishandling of classified documents.

Last week, we asked the Eleventh Circuit to vacate the order. The public deserves transparency.
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Groups press for release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump's classified documents case

A First Amendment group and watchdog organization is pressing a federal appeals court to compel the release of a Justice Department special counsel’s report on the criminal investigation into…

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

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Jenn Summers🍁 @jennsummers.bsky.social · 15h

Condolences to all the families and friends 💔 www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

No survivors found in aftermath of deadly Tennessee explosives factory, sheriff says | CBC News

Authorities said Saturday that a Friday blast in rural Tennessee that levelled an explosives plant killed 16 people and left no survivors.

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Kevin Carter @wapimaskwa69.bsky.social · 16h

apnews.com/article/tenn... people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says

16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says

Authorities say a blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors.

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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 15h

GOLD FOR CANADA 🇨🇦

This time in the pool at the World Cup in Camel, Indiana — Canada’s Ilya Kharun wins gold in the 200m butterfly tonight.

This comes a night after he broke the Canadian record in the 100m fly. A reminder this is a short course 25m meet.

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Kelly Miller @sqirlgirly.bsky.social · 14h

TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 1d

Ever ponder why the felon always screams that opposition protesters are fake & are being paid?
Here's why: everything is transactional for him. If he's not profiting,he's not doing it.
So he can't fathom that
protestors are unpaid volunteers.
More proof of his inhumanity
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 15h

It's crazy and sad that the only Republican willing to stand up to Trump is Marjorie Taylor Greene and she is legit crazy. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘putting blame’ on GOP congressional leaders for shutdown

Greene has continued to be a thorn in the side of Republican leadership in recent weeks, splitting from Trump and the GOP on a string of high-profile topics.

www.politico.com

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