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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

chicago.suntimes.com

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Border Patrol propagandists filming their operation yesterday

📸 @mkaplanphoto.bsky.social

Feds in camo with tear gas launcher, rifle
One agent in olive has what looks like DSLR camera
Nondescript man in black shirt red hat with matching gas mask filming with larger camera

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

One commenter replied, “based song choice,” which was liked by the Border Patrol account. Another commenter wrote, “if you know you know.”

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs

The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.

gizmodo.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

One factual tidbit from last week’s SASC confirmation hearing for the nominee to be Army GC.

Senator Reed: “In fact, one of the attacks, the missile strikes, were followed up by a helicopter using .50 caliber machine guns to shred whatever was left.”

Confirmation helicopter used in one attack.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 1d

If you read the precedents Abrego Garcia is citing in seeking release from detention, you begin to realize the unreported horrors Trump's DHS/ICE is quietly committing throughout the country. Take Zavvar v Scott, for instance. ...
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law.justia.com/cases/federa...

Zavvar v. Scott et al, No. 1:2025cv02104 - Document 28 (D. Md. 2025)

Zavvar v. Scott et al, No. 1:2025cv02104 - Document 28 (D. Md. 2025) case opinion from the District of Maryland U.S. Federal District Court

law.justia.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

"Federal agents had just exited the fortified facility and appeared to be chasing a protester when the protester and officer collided with band members, most of whom were wearing banana costumes."

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Statement of Cardinal Cupich on the Moral Imperative to Uphold Both Security and Human Dignity.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

A message from the frog resistance
youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3d

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%.

Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1N1kt

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

I defining feature of the moment is profound institutional cowardice amidst incredible individual bravery. Business owners and college Presidents flirt with accommodating tyranny (or outright support it) while workers and students, sometimes at great personal risk, reject it.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

This is such a thorough take down of Bari Weiss and the vapid shill she is for oligarch billionaires. He especially shreds the Free Press over it's coverage of trans issues and the so called whistleblower Jamie Reed.

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Straight-up racial profiling.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 3d

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 4d

Thread. Read the preceding background to understand this better.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4d

Yeahhhh I just found a local news org with video (starts here: bsky.app/profile/unra...) and just, wow.

Notice how Fr Dowling has his hands covered with a veil of silk while he's holding the monstrance? It's so holy that you do not touch it with bare hands.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 4d

We came so close

Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 4d

Today in 1986, unprecedented negotiations in Reykjavik, Iceland, to verifiably eliminate _all_ US and Soviet nuclear weapons collapsed when Ronald Reagan rejected Mikhail Gorbachev’s stipulation that research on ballistic missile defenses be restricted to laboratories (per the 1972 ABM Treaty).

A color photograph of presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev leaving Hofdi House at the end of the summit. Reagan, waring a tan overcoat, looks stunned and a little angry. Gorbachev, waring a blue overcoat and a hat, looks disappointed, wistful at the enormous missed opportunity the summit provided.

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acclark.bsky.social @acclark.bsky.social · 4d

As a DC resident, I think the WaPo editorial board doesn’t have a clue about DC let alone NYC. It’s absurd to think the Board’s opinion should carry any weight.

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