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Teri G
@terilg.bsky.social
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Info junkie, native Chicagoan. Music, dogs, progressive politics. Worried about what’s left of democracy. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ☮️ Married. Will block MAGA, crypto, creepy internet suitors, fake profiles & uninvited DMs. Xitter refugee. Can be salty. F*ck you fElon.
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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · Aug 31
Get ready #chicago Save and share this image. It will be helpful when the #iceraids begin
Illinois Coalition for immigrant and refugee rights family support network, for ICE sightings, arrests, immigration legal help 7am-9pm: 855-435-7693 Cook County public defender’s arrest response hotline, free lawyers for people in custody or in court Chicago/Cook County 24/7: 844-817-4448 First Defense Legal Aid Help Not Jail Hotline: 1-800-LAW-REP4 / 529-7374 National Lawyers Guild Chicago, free lawyers if arrested during protests or for political activity while in custody or in court: 872-4NLG-CHI / 872-465-4244
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
JD Vance says the fact that Biden and Obama haven't been prosecuted (yet) is proof that Trump's DOJ isn't targeting its opponents.
Vance's soul left his body long ago. He's just a robot spewing disinformation at this point.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
WELKER: Is the DOJ acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?

JD VANCE: No ... You know who we haven't prosecuted? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ... he's allowed to have opinions about law enforcement
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2h
How the media sanitizes Vought, via @thomaszimmer.bsky.social

steady.page/en/democracy...
So, what does the New York Times’ flagship podcast tell its millions of listeners about Russell Vought? They present him as a devout Christian with an incredible work ethic who grew up with parents struggling with the burdens placed upon them by an overbearing state and channeled that experience into working tirelessly to help the American people; a proper “small government” conservative who, while perhaps being a bit radical in his approach sometimes, loves the free market and therefore tries to rein in the sprawling government bureaucracy. Remarkably, I don’t think there is anything in The Daily’s profile that Vought himself wouldn’t agree with. They are accepting at face value everything Vought claims, resulting in a portrait of Vought that must be almost entirely in line with the regime’s preferred version of who he is and what he does. The Daily’s bizarrely credulous approach to Vought matters because it is indicative of a much broader tendency to normalize the assault on the modern state, democratic self-government, and the constitutional order – to sanitize those who are responsible for it and the extreme ideas that are animating them. Russell Vought embodies the radicalization of the conservative movement; his example captures how far removed from democratic politics the Trumpist Right is. Vought is convinced to be fighting a noble war against a vast leftist conspiracy that has supposedly taken over the country and is destroying the nation.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
Mike Johnson manages the House of Representatives with such amazing efficiency. He specializes in keeping his members out of Washington as much as possible. And it's all because of Epstein, apparently.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
"If you believe, as Ellison does, that Americans will be better off when they are subjected to 'supervision at all times,' then buying microvideo platforms, enterprise software, streaming services, cable networks, gaming developers, and internet publishers is just buying supervision capacity."
The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother.
If your feeds, subs, streams, games, and sports don't ensure you are on your "best behavior," your school and its EdTech partners will.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h
ICE went after folks coming out of a Rogers Park laundromat on Thursday
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h
ICE is up. Feds have been spotted in Rogers Park. Video is also circulating of Border Patrol grabbing someone near their usual hunting ground at the Home Depot in Cicero.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h
Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h
New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
donmoynihan.substack.com
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2h
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 20h
At least 6 vehicles racing through a quiet suburban neighborhood; multiple agents, all of them armed and masked.

the excessive response plus the violence against this 15 year old girl is outrageous.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 21h
Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3h
Let's not let anyone get away with pretending ICE is at any disadvantage here. These guys travel in big packs- usually 6+ unmarked vehicles; carrying dozens of war zone ready men, masked and heavily armed. ICE is the predator going after regular people and peaceful protestors.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h
I want a president who cares more about Chicago and Portland than about Qatar and Argentina. Trump’s “America First” slogan is a sick joke.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h
Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 17h
Tonight, in Broadview — a suburb outside of Chicago where Illinois state troopers are doing crowd control near the ICE detention center.

Read the thread from @unraveledpress.com
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h
Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h
What does Tony Blair have in common with Donald Trump? A deep relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that he badly wants to keep secret. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Tony Blair met with Jeffrey Epstein while he was prime minister, new documents reveal
Lord Mandelson described Epstein, then 49, as ‘vibrant and young’ and ‘safe’ according to emails released by the National Archives
www.independent.co.uk
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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 16h
I vote for both.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16h
F*cking idiots or liars? Or both?

Firing the CDC’s top measles experts actually squares with the trump/kennedy anti-science, anti-vax strategy so it’s possible
this is more about responding to the massive blowback than fixing an error.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
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Maple Mama @maplemama20.bsky.social · 18h
The man @jollygoodginger.bsky.social is currently in Chicago. He's working with Pilsen defence & Access patrolling schools to try snd prevent ICE from kidnapping parents and children. Not all heros wear capes but anyone protecting kids is a hero in my book.
#VetsAgainstTrump
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 18h
MO & OH Dems need us to help Rally support!

A commissioned poll shows nearly 1/2 of MO voters oppose the maps

The Dem committee needs over 100,000 valid signatures across multiple congressional districts before the state’s 90-day window expires on Dec. 11 to let voters decide on the maps.
Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they’re largely on their own.
Despite relatively little investment from Washington, Missouri and Ohio Democrats are looking to block new Republican-drawn maps through uncertain avenues.
www.politico.com
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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 18h
Now this
Not only Texas, all over our Country
Students and teachers
Curriculum Project 2025
So upsetting Alan.
(ht @sifill.bsky.social ty)
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 21h
It was better when the Chinese owned the app

They just took our data but not our freedom
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d
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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h
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David Cay Johnston @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social · 1d
The Trump administration has found a devious way to force local governments to submit to ICE and end DEI.
This is a story that YOU can do something about.
Please read my column below, watch the very brief video and then help us as a Citizen Journalist: www.dcreport.org/2025/10/11/t...
Trump Using Small Grants to Force Deportation Compliance
Trump’s team is embedding anti-DEI and deportation mandates in small federal grants - forcing towns to choose between funding and freedom.
www.dcreport.org
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Arturo R. Garcia @aboynamedart.bsky.social · 1d
And as Ruth Ben-Giat mentioned yesterday, it's easier to control the population when everybody's sick.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d
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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