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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 7h

Catch up Sunday. Potus never ceases to amaze:

“We settled the Congo with Rwanda, that was going on, and that was a machete war…We got that.”

www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/a...

Two countries signed a peace deal in Washington. On the ground, little has changed | CNN

In the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, new recruits are being trained for battle – and US President Donald Trump’s claimed peace deal for the nation feels like a distant dream.

www.cnn.com

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 8h

Poehler’s “oh my god” is worth a thousand words

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 9h

Omg yes

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ADC...

Emo Mom - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

m.youtube.com

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 23h

It’s worth reading the whole description

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 23h

At a soccer game today with my daughter, several parents mentioned witnessing arrests like these with their kids when driving around DC. This is happening daily.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 23h

And then telling others that they need to move along because bystanders are blocking traffic rather than the arrest blocking traffic

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 23h

And being so sure he’s got the law on his side!?

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 23h

Can you imagine being that officer threatening a man for speaking

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah, it’s not for kids

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 23h

JFC

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

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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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

Ok well now I’m gonna watch Looking for Mr. Goodbar! RIP Diane Keaton who I admired for being hilarious, smart and a feminist after all.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

So it’s clear that the charge against his father for “reckless driving” was drummed up to make it seem like there was a reason to arrest him besides his undocumented status, which there wasn’t.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

I would suspect that it is THAT rather than any proof of gang ties that led to the targeting of this building.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

It may be that all were put up during or after the raid.

I think the fact that some of the people in the building received rental assistance for asylum seekers from the state should be a lead to follow.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

There’s more, including maps and door stickers!

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 1d

“Inflammatory ravings of chagrined incendiaries” is pretty darn on the money.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

they need to be mocked relentlessly for this

oh did your special little guy not get his little prize? did your wittle boy not get his wittle trophy? is pee paw sad he didnt get his trinket? these people are a fucking joke

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

On the left is how the White House reacted to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

On the right is what President Trump posted about Maria Corina Machado back in January, just two weeks before nominations closed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Cheung * B @StevenCheung47
X.com
President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

But the law says that you first consider the country that the foreign national requests and then any other country that will take them.
So this is also out of order.

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 2d

... criminal sentence.
R: you have no idea whether that condition was imposed by US or Costa Rica. fair?
S: fair
R: you have no idea if costa rica would take him right now
Guynn: we will stip that costa rica is on the table if eswatini falls thru.
R: you have no idea if US reached out

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, that seems out of order, literally.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

WHUT.

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 2d

G: has US ID'd Ghana as country he'll be sent to
S: not at this time. a notice was prematurely sent to him.
G: why?
S: field office just trying to get ahead of things so if ghana did say yes removal would be quicker.
G: if court dissolved injunction , how long would it take to remove him

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

Just wow.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

Also worth mentioning that Bad Bunny is American.

Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 3d

Infinity more people will watch Bad Bunny, its not remotely close, these people are a very loud minority

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

Just unbelievably scary and out of control

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 3d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

These people he is killing are not even immigrants FFS

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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