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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13h

It would be great, wouldn’t it? But this is an alternate universe version of the Democratic party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 11h

An ICE Air flight (OAE3674) left Phoenix, Arizona late Wednesday evening and made deportation stops over 30+ hours—in Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan—with people on board inhumanly shackled for excruciating long hours.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 16h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

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

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 11h

Yep. Most of the cities they're going to have experience with this.

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 11h

Frogman has been through this before then, since he lifted his arms in perfect sync with them backing up.

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 14h

The frog video blows my mind because I cannot for the life of me figure out WHY they backed up and away from the frogman. My brain says it can't be real but it is and it's incredible.

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 23h

Also it lightens people's hearts, giving them a nice boost to keep fighting the fascism. Freakin' doomers.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 23h

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1d

This is the clearest sign yet that Democrats are winning this argument. Nobody is going to buy this desperate B.S. I’m honestly surprised, but the Democrats have managed to back Johnson into a corner.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Every day it's just helicopters all day long now and people are somehow still unsure whether to call this an occupation

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 23h

This isn't even a first. They indicted LaMonica Molver over the Newark ICE facility and of course Comey. Why do Americans have ZERO memory?!

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

If I see one more rich person say “if it could happen to my powerful friend it can happen to you” my head will explode.

It’s already happening! What you think your rich friend with the great lawyers was prioritized first??

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 1d

Well I might have stressed myself straight into a fibromyalgia flare up so I downloaded an app to limit my social media and news.

I feel like a weakling, but trying to remember that part of resistance is not burning out.

If I want to amplify other voices, I cannot shout myself hoarse.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 1d

“You’re always playing the race card”

Anyone who says this has no idea how power dynamics work.

Race is not a card I can play. It is a hand I’m dealt.

Black people have never had the power to keep white people from voting, reading, or writing. If anyone’s had a race card, it’s white people.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. Maggie Haberman's mother was one of the main Rubenstein publicists handling Epstein, Trump, Kushner...all of whom received years of puff pieces at the NYT. One would think this would be a conflict of interest in hiring her to cover the Trump campaign/presidency, but the interest was coverup.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I would go further and say that everyone deserves basic necessities to live whether they have a job or not.

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 1d

2025 is about reading the most dystopian bullshit you've ever seen and then having to still go to the store.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway state and city governments need to do everything they can to block and/or nullify federal tax collection yesterday

www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-point-...

The Point Of No Return

We Are At War, Whether We Want To Be Or Not

www.bannedinyourstate.com

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 2d

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 2d

Why are they asking him these things?! What's next, "have you given any more thought to killing your enemies?"

Madness. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @morelle.house.gov we have WAY bigger problems than a few Healthcare provisions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 2d

Alas, my elbow is still being a shit, so I wonder if I got tendinitis again.

Now, getting tendinitis in my sleep would be a bit new, but I likely rolled my rib in my sleep a few years back so I'm not shocked.

Hypermobility: 2/10, fun party tricks, not fun lifelong pain and injuries

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

There's been a fair amount of talk, some I think a bit overeager for what it would really mean, of Guard units refusing unlawful orders, of open defiance. But there's a radical escalation here in the White House and Pentagon openly sending the message to them, acting as though it were happening.

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