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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1h

Less than 72 hours out from the federal court order meant to stop feds from doing this.

Shows you about how seriously the small army of masked, unaccountable feds in Chicago are taking it.

Language of a federal court's temporary restraining order meant to rein in federal agents' violent behavior, including the wanton deployment of tear gas.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

“America First.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 57m

The federal food program helping more than 1 in 4 young children access fresh produce, milk, and formula will run out of funding next week.

Over 5 million children could lose food assistance — all thanks to the Trump-Republican shutdown.

The cruelty is endless.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 57m

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons @guthriegf.bsky.social · 7h

A brutal attack on a pastor outside an ICE processing center tells us all we need to know about the administration's regard for religious freedom and protection.

My new @msnbc.com column >> www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ICE's violent tactics are an assault on faith-based dissent

A brutal attack on a pastor outside an ICE processing center tells us all we need to know about the administration's regard for religious freedom and protection.

www.msnbc.com

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Students Demand Action @studentsdemand.bsky.social · 1h

It has been a particularly violent weekend at schools across Mississippi: Last night, one person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting near Alcorn State University. And during a tailgate at Jackson State University, a child was wounded in shooting outside the football stadium.

At Least 1 Dead and 3 Injured After Shootings at Mississippi Universities

The shootings at historically Black institutions occurred within about 24 hours of three other shootings across rural Mississippi that left at least eight people dead.

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 37m

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10m

Trump just installed Michael Ellis as CIA general counsel, possibly to green light legally dubious CIA ops to do this as an end run around congress.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19m

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3h

WIC, which helps feed babies and new moms, is facing critical funding issues.

But ICE’s mass deportation operation—which has attacked faith leaders in Chicago—is raging on uninterrupted during the GOP shutdown. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us,” said Rev. Black.

Priorities.

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 4d

"While new moms worry about formula for their infants and furloughed federal workers stress about next month’s rent or mortgage, the administration’s mass deportation obsession will continue uninterrupted," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

This says everything about this administration’s priorities.

ICE Rages On During Shutdown As Federal Workers Go Without Paychecks and American Kids Face Potential Hunger

Priorities.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h

No Kings Day is almost here.

The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them.

But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2h

ICE is “kidnapping American citizens, kidnapping people that are here legally, abusing people because of the color of their skin. It’s disgusting.”

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

www.motherjones.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1h

Smithsonian museums, research centers, and the National Zoo temporarily closed Sunday due to the federal government shutdown.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 7h

12 October 1892 | Edith Stein was born in Wrocław. She was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism & became a theologian & a Carmelite nun.

She was murdered in #Auschwitz in August 1942.
Stein was beatified in 1987 and canonized in October 1998.

Black and white portrait of Edith Stein seated with hands clasped, wearing a dark blouse and a wristwatch, looking directly at the camera.

Black and white photo of Edith Stein wearing a traditional Carmelite religious habit, featuring a solemn facial expression.

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The Birthday Fairy Project @thebirthdayfairy.bsky.social · 15h

Patricia should be 41.
She was kind, loving, genuine, & full of joy & life.
She left a prestigious job to obtain her PhD &to mentor students.

Patricia and 2 other UNLV professors were killed on campus by a man who should not have had access to a gun.
#honorwithaction
Demand #sensiblegunlaws

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14h

Just remembering how Rush Limbaugh would start his show every day with "America Held Hostage Day 982" or whatever in defiance of the radical Marxist agenda being carried out by noted leftist iconoclast Bill Clintonout

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Trump doesn't remember/believe/understand HE was president on January 6, 2021

This is how unstable, how mentally unbalanced, how much of a dangerous mixture of dishonesty and insanity Trump is:

"Biden's FBI?" By Jan. 6 2021, TRUMP had run the FBI for 1,448 days #25A

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 17h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 9h

The meager and unsuccessful deportation efforts could lead to Abrego being released from immigration detention within days, if U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis concludes the government hasn’t shown it’s making a sincere and substantial effort to find a destination for Abrego.

Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 9h

Trump administration has failed to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Africa

Three African nations won’t accept the Salvadoran native, who was already deported illegally once and then brought back to the U.S.

www.politico.com

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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 3d

The Trump administration said Americans would fill farm jobs vacated by undocumented workers.

That's not happening, the Department of Labor now admits.

Trump's Labor Department admits that Trump's immigration crackdown is causing a shortage of farm workers

With fewer immigrant workers available on American farms, there is a risk of "supply shock-induced food shortages," the Labor Department says.

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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 9h

Coca energy drinks soon at a store near you?

After WHO said coca leaf is safe, a UN re-evaluation in December could be a game-changer for Bolivia

LATEST for PWS by Niko Vorobyov www.piratewireservices.com/p/coca-energ...

Coca energy drinks soon at a store near you?

After WHO said coca leaf is safe, a UN re-evaluation in December could be a game-changer for Bolivia

www.piratewireservices.com

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