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catz @whenwearebothcats.bsky.social · Aug 27

this is why i keep bringing immigration into talk of putting trans rights on the chopping block. backtracking on their pro-immigrant stance didn't save them in the last election & here they are trying to compromise with the gestapo. "sacrifice a little now so we can fight for you later," is a lie.

New Dems @newdems.bsky.social · Aug 26

New Dems just released our Immigration & Border Security framework—a plan for how we can pass commonsense, bipartisan policies that fix our system & address the issues Americans care most about.

Read more about it in @washingtonpost.com ⬇️

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

These House Democrats seek a new middle ground on immigration

The New Democratic Coalition unveiled a plan to win back voters on immigration but they need the party’s support.

www.washingtonpost.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 5h

Like, sorry to folks who believe you should never criticize a politician you think does some good sometimes, but if they're in charge of the guys wearing brown shirts clubbing people with giant wooden bats and they're not putting a stop to it, they're doing something wrong.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 6h

Allowing fascists to control the narrative and continually shift the Overton window by saying "no we want to fund the cops MORE than you, we'll give ICE even MORE money, etc" to appease them and try to win them over helped land us here. They enjoy watching people get brutalized on the news.

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 4h

"Do not come" she said. And who was blamed? Latinos! We are not complicit in our genocide, it was a racist smear by the 14 words estate.

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 6h

Dems were literally doing Trump''s dirty work for him right before the election! Harris was running on being tough on immigrants! This is what you voted for!

Pushed by public opinion shift, Democrats adopt immigration restrictions

President Biden has issued a number of immigration-related executive actions that mimic those of the Trump administration, and VP Harris has promised she'll continue restrictive policies.

www.npr.org

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when liberals were in favor of abolishing ICE and even ran on it in the midterms? Then Crime Bill Biden got elected, and all of them went dead silent. Everything you're seeing now could have been prevented.

These Democrats want to abolish ICE | CNN Politics

More Democrats have joined the growing list of names who want to abolish US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more commonly known as ICE.

www.cnn.com

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 7h

"pritzker is fighting for us"

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

A small number of demonstrators attempted to protest/march in the street.

Massive number of ISP troopers in riot gear responded by blocking 25th, threatening arrest, shouting into megaphone about an unlawful assembly.

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catz @whenwearebothcats.bsky.social · 7h

at the very least he shouldn't be running cover for them by telling people they're, "coordinating to ensure public safety." the people being disappeared ARE part of the public.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 7h

These are state police, under @jbpritzker.bsky.social’s control. The great khan.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 8h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 12h

I feel like this theory also explains why the “Trump is weird” approach that Walz hit on last year was so effective and why everything fell apart once the consultants got involved and told him to act normal.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 13h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 15h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12h

In a sane world the material rewards bestowed on any one of the 100% talentless, dumb Trump kids would have destroyed the meritocracy myth forever. The fact that there are now 4-5 Trumpling wastrels shows that our current system is fucked beyond redemption.

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catz @whenwearebothcats.bsky.social · 1d

that one's trying way too hard.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

the joy of tik tok

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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404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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catz @whenwearebothcats.bsky.social · 1d

yeah it used to be funny any time one of these losers would @ the fbi or something and get flooded with the "mods mods i spill juice" memes, but now the entire administration is actually as cringe and terminally online as them.

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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 1d

Just an FYI it has been explicitly confirmed that Newsom has bot farms on his payroll astroturfing discussion about him with this exact set of claims “he’s the only one protecting queer people” “the left is to extreme for its own good” “not supporting Newsom is supporting MAGA”

Bye-Bye Mars @bye-byemars.bsky.social · 1d

He's the only one willing to protect them but you're too busy pushing extreme narratives that you'll let MAGA win again.
The left is too extreme for its own good

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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catz @whenwearebothcats.bsky.social · 1d

if i was nearly done in by a milkshake, i think you couldn't even torture that embarrassing information out of me.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15d

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

she supports trump sinking the boats

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

Arrest her?

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 3d

Good. Bye. 👋

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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catz @whenwearebothcats.bsky.social · 2d

mhm

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