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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 11h

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
—James Baldwin

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 21h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 13h

We're already at the hiding people from the secret police phase?

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

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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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 12h

honestly how are we supposed to just go about our lives knowing the president is completely deranged

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 12h

So the US president can't get reliable intel on the burning-or-not status of an American city?

But we're supposed to feel comfortable with this guy having the nuclear codes, knowing *no one* can call off a strike on a foreign country if he decides to launch based on some AI disinformation slop?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

This is a real video of a journalist in Chicago being arrested.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 12h

Why NYT whyyyyyy

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“As someone who played a part in the compact’s initial formulation,” the financier Marc Rowan writes of the Trump administration’s plan for universities, “I would like to offer what insight I can into the motivation and need for the compact.”

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

The government should not use public funds to support a system that fails to serve the public good.

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 12h

The author is the CEO of Apollo Global Management, which is behind the for-profit University of Phoenix. Hardly a credible source on reforming American higher ed.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 1d

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d

Lindsey Halligan indicts Letitia James on one count of bank fraud in EDVA. We are in an absolute nightmare.

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

MAJOR new restrictions on federal government use of riot control weapons -- and even requiring them to display identification in many circumstances. I expect a very rapid appeal and request for a stay from the 7th Circuit.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, he reached this number using the famous mathematical equation:

(Boat + Drugs(Maybe)) + Boom = 25,000 Saved Americans

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "You can't even find any boats in the water anymore. You had boats -- we were like a subway train loaded up with drugs. Every single boat that you see getting taken out kills 25,000 Americans."

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 1d

wow

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 2d

So they're invading and indefinitely occupying Chicago, in other words?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Noem: "With your authority, we're purchasing more buildings in Chicago to operate out of. We're gonna not back off -- in fact, we're doubling down. We're gonna be in more parts of Chicago in response to the people there. We're looking at facilities we can deploy more law enforcement out of."

Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 2d

A good interview. The conservative misrepresentation of what anti-fascist really means has dire consequences: this professor must now flee the country simply for researching the subject.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 2d

The White House posted a 'Chicago' video—of Florida.

"However, the Daily Beast can reveal that much of the footage was actually filmed in April in Florida, the state home to Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence-with a big giveaway being that it features palm trees, which are not known to grow in Chicago."

Trump and White House Busted Using Florida Palm Tree Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago

The president posted the deceptive high-octane ICE raid video to his own social media account.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

when you are worried that THIS supreme court will rule against you on invoking the insurrection act, a statute that famously gives enormous deference to the president ... maybe that's a sign that your military deployments are pretty baseless

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 2d

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 2d

"Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America. Identifying faceless ICE agents. Mutual aid for jailed protesters. Calling JD Vance a fascist. The war on ‘antifa’ is a war on free speech, and it’s just getting started." www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America

But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.

www.theverge.com

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 2d

Yes and Miller did not misspeak here; he believes Trump has this kind of power. I think he simply caught himself saying too much.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On Sept. 20, Trump meant to send a private message to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging her to prosecute” Comey.

“.. Trump believed he had sent Bondi the message directly .. and was surprised to learn it was public, the officials said.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 2d

We certainly know they don't care about widespread suffering or threats to democracy or millions losing healthcare, etc. but yeah, money? That could actually get their attention. They do still need us.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

wat

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Elder Millennial @od-at.bsky.social · 2d

So, does that mean they're going to drop bombs on US citizens? 🤔

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 2d

It's certainly what they're implying.

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