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AT @alisontrue.bsky.social · 16h

He’s getting slammed for not sending in the guard, but I dunno, maybe he doesn’t want to give Miller the civil war he’s begging for.🤷🏻‍♀️

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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AT @alisontrue.bsky.social · 16h

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 17h

Neko Case ends Tennessee show early after venue refuses to remove armed security guard

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17h

I wish lying wasn't just accepted and allowed because there's no way that happened. Sorry but no producer is ever doing that. Ever. Just not something that happens. And I'm referring to real producers like Ms. Brockman here and not a "producer" on Timcast

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 17h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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AT @alisontrue.bsky.social · 17h

You’ll find it on here with a search.

AT @alisontrue.bsky.social · 21h

JB @govpritzker.illinois.gov, come and get your boys.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 23h

State troopers just dragged three people out of the crowd.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

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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AT @alisontrue.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago: 🧊 is kidnapping people again this morning, this time including a WGN reporter. Lincoln and Foster.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 22h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 1d

I keep thinking about this detail from today’s hearing: Federal judge April Perry said she began getting threats “about 10 minutes” after she was assigned the case seeking to block Trump’s national guard deployment. This is the world we live in now.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats.

"Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

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Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Taibbi's co-host, Walter Kirn, compares Democrats who oppose Trump's immigration crackdowns to Southern politicians who opposed school integration in the 1960s, and equates the National Guard protecting the Little Rock 9 to the National Guard abducting immigrants now.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 1d

Right. It’s the Democrats who are shattering norms. LOL NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/democrats-shutdown-trump-administration.html

Democrats employ language in describing the Trump
administration that would be considered extraordinary in the past,
but is becoming almost commonplace now, illustrating the depth of
their apprehension about the administration and their dark view of
its capabilities.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

Three! Three members of the clergy are in this suit!!

Pastor Shot in the Head by ICE Sues Trump Over First Amendment

Trump’s takeover of Chicago is getting more dangerous by the day.

newrepublic.com

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

This is not good

The story is actually worse than the headline. The ex-GOP official worked in Missouri with Ed Martin.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Axios headline: Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 1d

An anti-abortion group is fundraising off @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social's suggestion that Democrats run anti-abortion candidates in swing states.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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AT @alisontrue.bsky.social · 3d

Empty and primed for resale as luxury condos in the newly attractive neighborhood near the Obama Center.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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AT @alisontrue.bsky.social · 3d

Cake.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5d

A group of Chicago cops have been accused of bullying witnesses into falsely implicating suspects, & threatening to separate people from children if they didn’t provide favorable testimony.

But prosecutors are failing to take a meaningful look back at people convicted bc of their testimonies:

Exonerations Grind to a Halt Under Chicago’s New Prosecutor - Bolts

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has weakened her office’s already broken system for freeing the innocent, even as allegations of coercion mount against a former Chicago detective.

boltsmag.org

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AT @alisontrue.bsky.social · 5d

Resistance works.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 5d

In Chicago, a community successfully stopped a very keystone cops duo of masked ICE agents from snatching a man.

The agents seemed more concerned with fixing their masks to hide their faces than ultimately arresting this person, who put up a remarkable struggle.

👀 the random funeral procession.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 5d

NOTE: Brendan Reilly is running for Cook County Board President, meaning that he wants a lot of authority over the budget for the sheriff and the jail and the state's attorney and the public defender

But he won't even sign a statement in support of due process when his own colleague was attacked.

Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 5d

Statement on Abuse of Power of ICE and Other Federal Agents in Chicago

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 6d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 6d

Some context that I think gets lost by calling people here "protesters." Strictly true that they were protesting. But this was neighborhood. Almost all of it was people who came out of their houses and pleaded to stop using gas because there were kids in houses/yards in the blocks off Kedzie.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6d

genuinely impossible to overstate what the secret police are doing. It is state hooliganism. It is gangsterism as policy. It is the jouissance of the original klan nightriders that followed the civil war. they terrorize minority communities while intentionally paralyzing local governments.

Skyflyer Channel 8 News @skyflyer82.bsky.social · 6d

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

www.cbsnews.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6d

Abolish this shit from top to bottom.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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