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tzeddek32.bsky.social @tzeddek32.bsky.social · 5h

Or us.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

They took entire families from their beds in the middle of the night.

None of us deserve peace.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 5h

We cannot allow an American Gestapo to become normalized.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5h

…participating in immigration enforcement. Last weekend there was video of a 15 y/o grave’s in her yard that showed local cops involved. But that’s been rare. For the most part federalism & local control have been dunes worth of sand in gears.

But the other thing…/3

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 7h

Evanston votes on banning ICE officers from using city property as staging areas and strengthening it's welcoming cities ordinance.

Unanimously passes.

Biss says staff will begin implementing it immediately.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5h

…all that they’ve thrown at us. Part of it is people around here just aren’t as upset about living w brown people like you find in other parts of the country. You also have the results of activists who lobbied legislators, & Dems who passed laws, that prohibit state/county/local police from…/2

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5h

This is an important thread. There are probably several hundred Federal agents who were sent to Chicagoland last month. They have inflicted cruelty & misery, they’ve gassed, & even shot & killed people. Every person they kidnap is a tragedy

But they actually haven’t got man people considering…/1

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 6h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 7h

Evanston votes on banning ICE officers from using city property as staging areas and strengthening it's welcoming cities ordinance.

Unanimously passes.

Biss says staff will begin implementing it immediately.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner.

They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Solidarity is the only way

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12h

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 1d

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

capitalbnews.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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tzeddek32.bsky.social @tzeddek32.bsky.social · 5h

And none of it was binding. Madrid Oslo and then the Jordan peace agreement had to be signed separately 10-20 years later.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

An Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange is underway, so they at least agreed to something. But the signing ceremony for the bigger agreement, with plans beyond a prisoner exchange, was US, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey; no Israelis or Palestinians.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

Israel and Hamas both releasing people they've been holding shows they agreed to something. But the signing of the bigger deal—the one envisioning a longer-term plan for Gaza with an international stability force—didn't include Israelis or Palestinians.

I can't think of any other case like that.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

Israel-Hamas peace deal signed in a ceremony by leaders of the US, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, but not Israel or Hamas, nor any other Palestinians.
Has that ever happened before? The famous US-Japan peace signing ceremony featured US and Japanese leaders. Sadat and Begin signed the Camp David Accords.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

How immigration enforcement turned sleepy Broadview into a chaotic, militarized town

An intensive immigration operation ordered by Trump has quickly transformed Broadview, Illinois, into the beating hot center of the resistance.

How immigration enforcement turned sleepy Broadview into a chaotic, militarized town

An intensive immigration operation ordered by President Donald Trump has quickly transformed Broadview, Illinois, into the beating hot center of the resistance.

www.nbcnews.com

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 8h

Average operator attempting to conduct a raid with the Anduril google glasses NODs flashing 38 different icons in front of their face:

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Mockler: Trump on his first day issued a historic and he has been subverting congress… He has absolutely been consolidating power by appointing loyalists

Jennings: All presidents appoint their supporters…

Mockler: Do they then ask their supporters to indict people…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 6h

I’ve read this tweet from GOP Rep. Mike Lawler 20 times, and the only conclusion I can draw is that in his heart of hearts he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act in its entirety, leaving tens of thousands of his constituents without healthcare.

Take note, #NY17 voters.

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 8h

Andrew Ross Sorkin and I agree: "The pattern is familiar, stretching back to 1929: Whenever access expands faster than safeguards, charlatans rush in and ordinary investors are often left holding the bag."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/m...

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?

www.nytimes.com

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