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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27m

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 2h

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3h

Putin consoles his useful idiot for not winning an award.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21m

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2h

ICE isn’t hiring the best people

It’s getting harder and harder to tell “law enforcement” from the criminals they claim to protect us from.

Opinion | ICE isn’t hiring the best people

It’s getting harder and harder to tell “law enforcement” from the criminals they claim to protect us from.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 22m

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27m

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Susan Eisenberg @susaneisenberg1.bsky.social · 12m

It’s incomprehensible!!

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 17m

Chicago Architecture Center's Open House Chicago returns October 18-19, offering free access to over 200 buildings across the city. Architectural columnist @leebey1.bsky.social shares his top five picks.

Open House Chicago returns next weekend. Here are the top 5 must-see sights.

This year's event includes 30 new places to gawk at, and while all of them are pretty good, there's a few worth checking out.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20m

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16m

Leadership exists:

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 28m

If you’re in El Paso, home to Ft. Bliss and Biggs Field, and need food assistance, the Mustard Seed Cafe (where I volunteered) provides hot fresh food Wed-Friday. No questions asked. It’s main purpose was providing meals in a restaurant and dignified setting for unhoused, but is now for all… free.

SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 2h

It’s heartbreaking that the richest country in the world needs food banks to feed its people but it’s unbelievable that our billionaire politicians have forced our military to feed themselves and their families from food banks.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #Military
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Food Pantry Visits From Military Families Climb Over 30% Since Government Shutdown Began

Military families are being encouraged to seek out food, other resources as the government shutdown has surpassed one week with no end in sight.

www.military.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

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Susan Eisenberg @susaneisenberg1.bsky.social · 31m

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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 2h

This is happening in Chicago. If you’re not familiar with the South Shore neighborhood, it’s about 3 miles from where the Obamas still have a home. They had their wedding reception in the South Shore Cultural Center (my parents too).

Who knew 1940s Germany was only miles away from where we live.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 33m

It looks as if they are trying to kill us

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Grampa Jody @jodywagner.bsky.social · 2h

A good news post for today. 😁

Amy B @abbarsha.bsky.social · 4h

So much bad news daily. It's nice to celebrate some good news!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 33m

The traffic out of DC last night was staggering. I typically remember shutdowns being low traffic, but I wonder if a lot of federal workers were leaving the city to visit family knowing that the shutdown will last at least til mid next week.

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Susan Eisenberg @susaneisenberg1.bsky.social · 33m

Anyone else having this issue where you don’t see people you’re following on your feed? 🤔🤨🤔

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7d

look at the map here -- more than 2000 protests planned already...

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions

"It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 5d

The US is destroying its chance of global leadership in electric vehicles. EU also lagging

Globally, EVs are on an expanding trend and the tech is set to be dominated by China

This was not inevitable, but the result of poor political choices by the West

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 1d

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”

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The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate

The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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