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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 11h

I mean really there’s no reason for anyone to have this person on their tv

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 15h

Historian here, late to this but @jamellebouie.net comparison between Republican authoritarianism today and the Slave Power of the 1850s is in the mark. They spout states rights and small govt but unleash the repressive powers of the federal govt when it suits them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | It’s Not Government They Don’t Like

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14h

The goal is to make America so unpleasant for documented immigrants that they leave too (or never come). And unfortunately I think they are doing a good job on that front.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 17h

Yep. I'm in Skokie and shop at this Home Depot. Just wild.

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 17h

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David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social · 17h

Across the street from where I have coached at least a hundred little league games. Games are getting canceled for fear of players getting nabbed off of second base (not in a good way!). This is no way for us to live.

ICE agents detain two in Evanston Sunday morning - Evanston RoundTable

Federal immigration enforcement agents detained two people on Sunday morning outside the Home Depot on Oakton Street in southwest Evanston, according to

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 17h

This is basically around the corner from me.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 17h

Just got this news alert from the Evanston Roundtable, a local news organization. It will never not be shocking that blue regions are under attack by their own federal government, using their own tax dollars.

ICE in Evanston: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained two people Sunday morning outside the Home Depot in southwest Evanston, according to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Mayor Daniel Biss. At about 10:30 a.m., ICIRR's Rapid Response Network said agents "abducted two people at the Home Depot on Oakton." AYSO
Evanston notified families and coaches, who were given the option to cancel or postpone games. "James Park is directly across from Home Depot," the AYSO email said. "If you do not feel safe playing your soccer game today, do not go!"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

One of Trump’s few consistent positions is pro-corruption.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 20h

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 21h

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 1d

While Israel tried to avoid comitting formally to ending the war, Hamas did all it could to avoid handing over all the hostages and in one go.

A lot of blood has been spilled to achieve this.

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 1d

ICRC received last 13 living hostages from Hamas, and is heading into Israel. No more living hostages in Hamas' hands. 28 dead still to be handed over.

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 1d

There's a headline you don't see every day

nypost.com/2025/10/12/u...

Hillary Clinton heaps rare praise on President Trump for handling of Israel-Hamas peace deal: ‘I really commend’

Clinton’s comments came just a day after Hamas agreed to Trump’s peace plan in a stunning move that is expected to end the two-year war that’s ravaged the Gaza Strip.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 1d

HE…IS…THIRTEEN

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 1d

a woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant with the word samesies written on the bottom of her face .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant with the word samesies written on the bottom of her face .

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Samesies

Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1d

Dear AI pushers:

You cannot force me to use AI, no matter how many weird pop-ups and icons and auto-settings you generate in your apps, browsers, and search bars. I can work around you, and if it comes to it, I am happy with pen and paper.

Fuck off very kindly,
Courtney

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 1d

So much this

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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 1d

“Your research: suddenly relevant.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 1d

Don't confuse the Speaker with facts

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 2d

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 1d

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are national treasures who Trump will definitely try to indict www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSfC...

Pam Bondi Hearing Cold Open - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 1d

He’s been in the U.S. for two decades with no criminal history, and his 5-year-old som has brain cancer. ICE is intent on deporting him.
www.inquirer.com/news/ice-rai...

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 2d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

This government is a well-oiled machine that’s definitely not suffering from internal power struggles hastily papered over as technical mistakes

The employees "were sent incorrect
notifications, which was fixed last night and this morning with a technical correction," a senior administration official said. "Any correction has already been remedied."

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