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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2h

Given your lack of substance in pushing back I’d say this is what YOU are doing, but whatevs

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3h

Educate me as a dumb Pennsylvanian. Why is it OK for his state troopers to rough up journalists (full disclosure: I an a journalist) and peaceful protesters? Explain why this is good

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3h

of course. And i get that. But I’m not a partisan, I’m a journalist. My job is to hold people— including journalists— to the highest moral standards

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 3h

I would say, with more respect than your quoted twoot, that we don’t say “ACAB” because every cop is literally a bastard but because the problems with American policing are deeply structural. It is the job of cops in our society to rough up protesters and reporters.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3h

I’d love to hear your brilliant analysis on why a Democrat governor’s state cops are brutalizing peaceful protesters

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3h

I love this. Don’t you understand that this is the cops’ job in our society, to rough up peaceful protesters and journalists. Don’t be a naive socialist simpleton

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 4h

Please shut the hell up

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3h

one of my favorite movie scenes ever. RIP Diane Keaton youtu.be/ZtL6kbYiP-w?...

Now who's being naive Kay

YouTube video by Crazy Cinephilias

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 4h

All the defensive responses to this are basically "Pritzker doesnt control the cops!" which has some ring of truth but is actually a sign of a much bigger problem.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4h

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

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

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

love that dirty water

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5h

Broadview.

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Thomas Janecek @twocatfarm1.bsky.social · 5h

The first Dem Governor that truly puts up opposition, (instead of just yapping) including have state police both protect protestors and arrest ICE personnel illegally grabbing people off the streets will easily be the next Dem Prez nominee.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Steve Yelvington @yelvington.com · 5h

MLK gravesite vandalized

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed – WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 6h

We’re already at the Anne Frank stage of things. It will get much worse if it can’t be stopped.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 9h

In person, she was a gem. RIP variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79

Diane Keaton, who starred in "Annie Hall," has died. She was 79.

variety.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 9h

America's collapse in one swath of the NYT homepage

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 9h

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shot-in-th...

Shot in the head with pepper spray

This is Trump's America

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10h

Right — “Bloody Sunday” in 1965 in Selma, but ALSO ABC interrupting ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ to show Bloody Sunday to the nation

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 12h

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11h

“Put every Philly jawn in one headline…”

Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 12h

@farfarraway.bsky.social does it again:

www.inquirer.com/columnists/s...

Philly’s Scrapple Sculpting Contest was won by a Delco tattooer who carved the Tush Push

Philadelphia Art Museum director and CEO Sasha Suda, who judged the competition, said the winning sculpture pushed scrapple "to its absolute limits."

www.inquirer.com

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 12h

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

While this is going on here, ICE has been spotted on foot + in vehicles across SW + NW sides of Chicago. Can't verify reports rn, but also presuming suburbs. Yesterday was brutal. It's not lost on us they have more agents free for weekend kidnappings now with their facility secured by state police.

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