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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 7h

It's a little hard to take the governor's defiant stand against Trump and the National Guard seriously when his goons are doing this

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 7h

you cooked with it tho

Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 23h

Legalese for "Feds get the fuck out"

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 23h

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 1d

Broke: pee is stored in the balls
Woke: neurotypical function is stored in the foreskin.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 1d

Following along this hearing is wild. The federal government has literally no argument other than repeated illegal demands for deference from a coequal branch of government.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: "Are you aware that a federal judge found that ICE violated the First and Fourth Amendments rights of peaceful protestors at Broadview?"
She says that will inform her conclusion about the need for National Guard troops.
Hamilton: You must defer to the president

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 2d

It's so insulting that Deb would hide behind Jewish observance to avoid accountability here. The letter went out Sunday—neither shabbos nor chag. She had all that day and Monday til sunset to add her name. She simply chose not to oppose the arrest of her colleagues and federal occupation of our city

Tonia Hill @tonia.thetriibe.com · 2d

The Mayor, City Clerk, City Treasurer, and 37 of her alder peers are among the signees, but there are at least 13 alders whose names aren't there.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/so-a...

So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

thetriibe.com

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3d

the reason right-wingers refuse to assign the same weight to right-wing violence as left-wing violence is that right-wing violence is built into the maintainence of the status quo and left-wing violence is contrary to it.

also that uncalled-for violence is inherently left or madness-coded.

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 3d

Tom Wambsgans headass

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 4d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

dansinker.com/posts/202…

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 5d

The modern-day gestapo is running rampant in our city, including arresting a member of city council, and one of the few local electeds not on this letter condemning their terror is our only Jewish alderperson.

It's a shonda and a desecration of the memories of our ancestors.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5d

If ICE officers refuse to identify themselves, they should be presumed to be impostors and local law enforcement should assume they are committing kidnapping. States should pass laws to this effect, modeled after the personal liberty laws passed in Northern states to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts.

CNN @cnn.com · 8d

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

www.cnn.com

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 9d

"Jake Gyllenhaal was the first person to have a Labubu"

(image is Jake and Jena Malone and a big Labubu. It's Frank, of course.)

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 5d

Hot take: living under fascism is a real bummer

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5d

The people responding to a horrible attack on a shul in the diaspora with "This is about Israel-Palestine" are essentially arguing that Jewish existence and Palestinian existence worldwide are fundamentally irreconcilable.

Unfortunately, the Board of Deputies of British Jews appears to agree.

Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 6d

Absolute unhinged nonsense from @boardofdeputies.bsky.social

STATEMENT: Board of Deputies calls for more than 400 protest terror arrests to also be investigated for stirring up racial hatred

The Board of Deputies utterly condemns the morally grotesque protests that took place today and over recent days.

After the most deadly attack on British Jews since the York Massacre of 1190, we called for the protests to be stopped out of respect to the dead. Politicians and police echoed our community’s call, stressing the burden of policing this rally while providing enhanced protection to more than 300 synagogues across our traumatised community.

The crass insensitivity shown by the protesters, more than 400 of whom were arrested for supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation, is an offence to public decency.

That they would go ahead despite our pleas shows such reckless disregard for public safety and our community’s wellbeing that we consider the underlying motivation to be not just their support for terror, but that they are antisemitic acts, designed to stir up racial hatred. As such we are calling today for those arrested to also be investigated and prosecuted for stirring up racial hatred.

We are demanding that the Government look again at the legislation and powers available to police to stop this continued assault on community relations, city centres, and stretched police resources. What is happening on our streets is just not acceptable. Freedom to protest must come alongside a sense of decency and civil responsibility that seems to completely evade these hateful marchers.

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 6d

Another important point:

bsky.app/profile/slko...

Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 6d

Thread lists zero actions the Governor will take

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 6d

This thread is powerful and defiant, and deeply undercut by the fact that State Police troopers under his control aided federal agents in brutalizing protesters at Broadview yesterday.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 6d

My favorite episode of Andor is when Mon Mothma doesn’t concede to aiding Palpatine’s secret police

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 6d

So ICE agents handcuffed Alderwoman Jessie Fuentes as she advocated for a constituent in Chicago today.

Meanwhile, @govpritzker.illinois.gov allowed IL State Police to serve as de facto bodyguards for ICE in Broadview.

Quite the side-by-side of real leadership vs empty lip service.

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes Handcuffed by Federal Agents While Asking About Patient’s ICE Warrant at Hospital

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was detained by federal agents inside Humboldt Park Health, as tensions continue to rise between local residents and officials and immigration agents conducting enforcement...

news.wttw.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 7d

Resume goniffing!

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 8d

Zohran Mamdani saying the ADL is not representative of American Jews elicited a fusillade from Jonathan Greenblatt. Kash Patel lobbing conspiracies from his MAGA gutter gets this. Unfortunately, it seems the only language the ADL understands is power.

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 8d

I mean you are not far off.

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