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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 7h

I'm normally a big "yes this administration still follows court orders, until they are overturned by his sycophant SCOTUS, but you're absolutely correct that ICE Agents in the Northern District of Illinois have very specifically NOT been following court orders.

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https://derkoolschrank.com/ @derkoolschrank.bsky.social · 7h

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Joe sent me @joeszep.bsky.social · 8h

Judge needs to specifically say the body cams must be turned on and "they just malfunctioned" is not an excuse.

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 7h

ICE has begun shooting US Marshals though, so it might behoove them to choose a side soon:

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 7h

Courts can appoint marshals if the more-formally-hired nominal US Marshals choose lawlessness

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

To be clear, Judge Cummings ruled that ICE agents must wear body cameras AND have them turned on AND also cannot arrest anyone complying with their appointment dates at immigration courthouses.

Judge Cummings is Federal Judge for the N Dist. of IL. Every Judge nationwide should be ordering this.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

Federal Judge Jeffrey Cummings has found that ICE agents violated the terms of a consent decree by detaining people without proper warrants. He ruled that as of this week ICE must wear body cams at all times and can face arrest and contempt proceedings if they conduct unlawful, warrantless arrests.

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 13h

BEST SIGN AWARD! 🔥🏆🔥

#RESISTFascism #Pinks

Protest sign that reads:
We wanted huddled masses, not hooded asses!

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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 7h

… 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 early & very incomplete info (it’s waaay worse) 🏦💰💰💰🪙💶

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Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social · 7h

Criminalizing abortion is about the subjugation of women. By insecure men and judgmental subjugated women. It's never been about concern for children. Not ever. (Oklahoma 👇👇)

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · 14h

Most excellent. Let’s get it moving along.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

NEW: AZ AG Kris Mayes and Adelita Grijalva have filed suit asking the court to declare Grijalva a member of the House once she's sworn in, and if Johnson won't do it, to allow someone else to. www.abc15.com/news/state/a...

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · 14h

This really is something that should not be pushed aside. This money that was already approved should be going to those projects/states. All of it.
Like Pete says, this could have a severe impact all over, in this case, if the tunnel fails.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Buttigieg: This is about political revenge. The president has been very clear about that. And the really dangerous thing is the revenge is on you—on ordinary Americans and commuters who depend on these tunnels.

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So'Westerner gone AWOL @3elo.bsky.social · 11h

If I can't have love give me money.

So'Westerner gone AWOL @3elo.bsky.social · 11h

Not that that excuses his adult actions. Just wondering what drives him so hard. The energizer cannibal rabbit!

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So'Westerner gone AWOL @3elo.bsky.social · 11h

The brute's insatiable.

You know, money is a proxy for food--instinctively we equate being broke with starving.

This armchair shrink knows Trump was starved for love as a child, as were all the Trump kids.

But perhaps he was also deprived of food as punishment? Or for Dad's sadistic pleasure?

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The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 12h

Random thought... I don't know why, but my brain remembered this, and I was INSTANTLY PISSED all over again🤬

Epstein
#SheShed
Snap
The East Wing
Trump shutdown

youtu.be/oMspOEVxWfM?...

Van Jones: Donald Trump Became President of the United States Tonight

YouTube video by NTK Network

youtu.be

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So'Westerner gone AWOL @3elo.bsky.social · 11h

Distract . . . Delay . . . Degrade.

He keeps hoping we'll forget!

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The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 12h

Good.
www.axios.com/2025/10/21/t...

Trump nominee Ingrassia bows out amid GOP pushback

Ingrassia is the latest in a recent string of troubled nominations.

www.axios.com

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Chele Lea @chelelea.bsky.social · 18h

They allow it because they get what they want. They’re dividing up our resources and selling them off. No other president in our history would do such a thing. He has no honor, no respect and no empathy. His a malignant narcissist. We aren’t REAL to him. We are things. Never forget that.

LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 23h

It is shameful that Republicans & the Supreme Court are letting an Adderall addict with the IQ of a Q-tip and man who thinks he has ended 8 wars, destroy America, the Constitution, Democracy and the White House.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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merryone50.bsky.social @merryone50.bsky.social · 17h

Calling out fascist actions is not 'violent rhetoric.'

DOING fascist actions is violent.

The inability to tell the difference is #MAGAMentalIllness

If you don't want to be called fascist stop doing fascist actions.
#ActionsSpeakLouder

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

ICE violence caught on camera featured among evidence in new lawsuit

Rachel Maddow relays reports of a brutal, militaristic raid on an apartment building in Chicago, and shares video included as exhibits in a new lawsuit showing ICE agents violently attacking a Presbyt...

www.msnbc.com

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So'Westerner gone AWOL @3elo.bsky.social · 17h

Flash bang grenades and children, used in the same sentence, is an obscenity.

Waking those kids in the night, zip-tying them naked, putting them in unmarked vans?

So beyond obscene I'm wordless.

We all need to be Anti-Fascist, and vote accordingly.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h

Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.

“He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 17h

Oooooof.

Really says something that he talks so much about military indoctrination and then shrugs off getting Nazi tattoos as "just a military thing."

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Justin A Levine @justinalevine.bsky.social · 17h

Agreed, but there have been a few state-level pols who straight up got elected and then switched parties once in office. So some people are doing the switch intentionally

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 17h

Could a journalist investigate why we seem to be getting so many right-wing ringers running as Democrats for senate? Fetterman, Sinema, now this guy? Is there a link in their teams somehow? I wish I was a journalist!

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