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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 17h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
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ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Annie @annielrice.bsky.social · 12h

People getting snatched off of the streets - leaving little to no information behind unless someone sees it and videos or shares it. America, 2025.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Annie @annielrice.bsky.social · 14h

"The race is on!! Everyone will go from the pavilion to the Richmond Center Schnucks to get the grocery items."
From the event description. I think a LOT of locations would work for hosting, this is an interesting one - especially as it crosses into the County/Clayton.

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Ben West @westbywest.bsky.social · 17h

What also keeps getting overlooked in this round of "town hall" PR is how they're intentionally only mentioning the 85k sq ft center at 500 Prospect Ave. Not talking about the 250k sq ft Armory itself, or the OTHER property on Spring Ave just across the tracks they ALSO bought in May.

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KedricKillian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 20h

The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 23h

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 21h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Andrew Arkills @andark.bsky.social · 4d

Happy to say we laughed her ass out of St. Louis.
Good luck to Texans in doing the same.

Christian Nightmares @christiannightmare.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus Christ…

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 4d

Democrats should demand the firing of Stephen Miller as a condition for reopening the government.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

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Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) @cliniclegal.bsky.social · 4d

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is not a handout — it’s a policy that saves lives and sustains economies. TPS families are a vital part of the social fabric of the United States. They are workers, parents, community leaders, and active members of our neighborhoods. #DefendTPS

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 5d

Which is true? Either Trump’s Labor Department actually believes that immigration enforcement is threatening food security, or they are pretending the threat is real in order to crush wages for farm workers.

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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Dan Doelling @dandoelling.com · 5d

The City's draft Transportation & Mobility Plan has been posted online and is now open for public comment!

Draft: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wk9a1...

Public comment: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Cori Bush @coribush.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll never stop fighting for Missouri’s 1st District. We deserve a true leader that delivers lower costs, better healthcare, clean air and water, and justice for all. #CoriForUs

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Annie @annielrice.bsky.social · 5d

They want the increasing harm to pregnant patients at scared and under-resourced hospitals in abortion ban states to be blamed on immigrants instead of their own anti-life policies and the stripping of funding for healthcare and hospitals. It's THEM, not immigrants, to blame.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5d

This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and

www.eff.org

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Annie @annielrice.bsky.social · 6d

This is horrifying. I've been in the same room in Missouri with this human being and his family and the idea that he is calling for "cleansing" in this climate - would he say that to our faces? The show is disgusting and dangerous, and maybe he really believes it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 6d

Nearly 100 submissions from reproductive rights advocates around the world paint a clear picture of censorship in action: abortion content is being removed, restricted, and silenced by platforms at an alarming rate. www.eff.org/pages/stopc...

#StopCensoringAbortion: What We Learned and Where We Go From Here

When we launched Stop Censoring Abortion, our goals were to understand how social media platforms were silencing abortion-related content, gather data and lift up stories of censorship, and hold

www.eff.org

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 7d

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 7d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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