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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 21h

Where's the merch?

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 1d

My wife's reaction to this: "Listen to your wife"

Nicholas Whyte @nwhyte.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Dr Fred Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him.

www.bbc.com

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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 2d

Impeachment is the moderate solution

Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 2d

This part might as well be the millennial anthem. Fantastic address

Screenshot of address highlighting a key line: But that's something I wouldn't realize until much later on, after years of expecting someone else to fix it. Until I realized I *was* the adult.

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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 5d

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

The massive expansion of immigration enforcement — with tens of billions of new funding, tens of thousands of newly recruited agents, and unrealistic arrest targets — has led to systemic violations of U.S. citizens’ Constitutional rights. #AbuseofPowerWatch

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @lgaustindavis.bsky.social & @governor.pa.gov, any comment on this? PA isn't ok with this. Are you?

CREW @citizensforethics.org · 3d

If we're at the place where the president is calling for a governor to be jailed for no good reason, our democracy is in real danger.

Anyone concerned about the balance of power between states and the federal government should speak out now against this authoritarian posturing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 3d

Grind up some chokeweed, gravedust, and green lichen (daedra skin works too). You'll be ok.

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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 4d

ICE lies

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

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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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 4d

It's frankly offensive to not include a skirt for the extra enchantment slot.

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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 5d

Immediately thought of this catchphrase? slogan? reminder? when I saw this video.

Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 5d

Seems relevant.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 6d

About 40 years late to the party but...wow. What a great book

Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 16d

Posting my current read to hold myself accountable and actually finish it

Paperback cover for the book Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

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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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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 6d

Exactly. Been a long time since I've heard anyone invoke the 10th Amendment.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 7d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 7d

Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 8d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 8d

Just submitted my formal complaint w PA Dept of State.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 8d

Read the article & just submitted a formal complaint to Dept of State. Anybody else in PA may want to do the same: www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/Pages/Report...

Confirmation page for submitting an election complaint through the PA Dept of State's website.

Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 8d

*Opens email, reads about collaboration with @slate.com*
"Oh he votes in my state? Let me see what this is about"
*Takes a sip of water, clicks link, immediate spit take*

I owe whoever picked that headline image a coffee. Amazing

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Armando MC @armandomc.bsky.social · 8d

Needed to read this today. I've been writing/editing/petitioning this past week and have felt guilty whenever I've taken too long of a break

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