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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 12h

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Mamdani: This is a shameless act of political retribution. And instead of prosecuting Tish James for doing her job, Donald Trump should be doing his.…

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JP Morrell @jpmorrell.bsky.social · 5h

Tomorrow is Election Day, so let's have one more talk. It's been an honor fighting for you these last four years. Let's finish the job, New Orleans.
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HelenaHQ @helenahq.bsky.social · 11h

One more sleep ‘til Election Day!!!

Read Helena’s plans in detail at HelenaMorenoLA.com/vision

VOTE Helena Moreno, #23 for New Orleans Mayor, TOMORROW October 11 from 7 AM to 8 PM.

More information at HelenaMorenoLA.com/VOTE

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 22h

in case you want some non bullshit about antifa here is something i wrote

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We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa

This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 1d

This right here.

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 2d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

America is a competitive authoritarian state now. More than a few scholars of democracy are saying this

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America Crosses Into Competitive Authoritarian Rule Under Trump

Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the United States has transitioned into a competitive...

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Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 1d

NEW-ish: Louisiana is suing FDA over its 2023 REMS change for mifepristone, which removed the in-person dispensing requirement. That change allowed mail or pharmacy dispensing of mife after significant data showed it was safe and effective. A few things to note about this new lawsuit.

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 1d

This part as well, yes.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I joked about it but it may actually be worthwhile for every Dem who gets on tv to start saying Stephen Miller is the real president

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

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Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn’t sound extreme at all, you’re just accurately describing their actions.

Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone claim Burgundy yet?

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wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.

Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called
their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at
their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 1d

I’m crumbling and blowing away as I type this….

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 1d

That’s how you know it’s a good and accurate headline.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so damn spooked by this headline

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 1d

Tell that child cows were invented in 1985 and let it play out

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 2d

I used to think this was tin foil hat stuff from the left, but then I lived in New Orleans for 16 years and learned how many "legal" ways there are to steal people's homes from them.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 1d

Just an endless array of ways.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2d

NEW: A report from pro-voting groups warns that if the Supreme Court rules to gut a key safeguard against racial gerrymanders this term, it’ll be “enough to cement one-party control of the U.S. House for at least a generation.”

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns