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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 6d

ICE attacks Chicagoans. ICE hurts Chicagoans. ICE humiliates Chicagoans.

Our very expensive police forces are supposed to portect us from criminals. Where are they?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 5d

Sample:
Jake Tapper: why are you Dems shutting down the government?
Schwyz: well Jake, ICE is bearing the crap out of us and we need health insuto pay our medical bills. Of course you are free to be a collaborator. But I won’t do that.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 5d

Human beings are not “collateral.”
They are friends, children, husbands, wives, colleagues, neighbors.

This kind of thinking is killing empathy in America.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 3d

Legal experts names Eussel Vought and John Eastman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 3d

Remember that DHS statement about 10 cars ramming goon vehicles in Chicago, and the goons shot an armed driver wh was trying to hit them?

Yep. Not what happened.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mayhem RN @mayhem1994.bsky.social · 2d

From the people who brought you uvalde

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA priorities…

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d

CNN Reports: "Letitia James was indicted Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia"

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

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Tom Watson @guitarwatson.bsky.social · 1d

Disgusting perversion of the law. Sickening fascism. No other accurate way to describe it.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Letitia James has been indicted on one count of bank fraud in Virginia, charge brought directly by Lindsey Halligan, just like the Comey indictment.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

🚨 BREAKING: A federal grand jury indicts New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on one count of fraud. The indictment comes after Trump ordered the DOJ to go after his perceived enemies more aggressively last month.

In Latest Political Prosecution, Trump’s DOJ Indicts New York AG Letitia James

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

I get this.

That said, I’m not sure why this is being written — or getting such a response — today, since people have been writing versions of this at least since the court said it was hearing arguments over “universal injunctions” in the birthright citizenship case.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 1d

Every era has its iconic photos.

Could these be the images that define America Circa 2025? A Christian minister shot in the head with pepper balls and tear-gassed by masked agents of mass deportation.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Trump's Most Formidable Foe?

The Church rises.

open.substack.com

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Artemesia44 @artemesia44.bsky.social · 1d

Misogyny is fundamental to American politics

Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 1d

Katie Porter’s bid for governor is getting noticed – but not how she wants

Two viral videos have brought unwelcome attention to the former congresswoman, who has been leading polls in the 2026 California governor’s race.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1d

Health care premiums for millions of Americans could skyrocket if Congress fails to extend tax credits that many people use to buy insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces.

Fact Check: No, the Shutdown Isn't About Immigrant Health Care

President Donald Trump and other Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown over giving free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Via @clairegiangrave.bsky.social: Pope Leo calls on Catholics to care for the poor in first official exhortation —> religionnews.com/2025/10/09/p...

Pope Leo calls on Catholics to care for the poor in first official exhortation

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Leo picks up on the themes of Francis, who called for a ‘preferential treatment for the poor’ and the need for a ‘poor church for the poor.’

religionnews.com

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Artemesia44 @artemesia44.bsky.social · 2d

What a shock; the pope is a Christian

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo XIV said to oppose Trump administration’s deportation efforts

www.upi.com

Pope Leo XIV said to oppose Trump administration’s deportation efforts - UPI.com

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 2d

These people MUST be held to account.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

This is Rev David Black, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He was shot seven times in the head with chemical pellets by ICE agents as he was kneeling to pray at a protest. He's one of three clergymen that ICE shot in the head.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d

Allegations of Pay to Play is a hallmark of this Trump Administration and Border Czar, Tom Homan, is no stranger to them.

@propublica.org investigative journalist, Avi Asher-Schapiro, joins me w/his latest on the push to cash in on Homan’s role in the Trump Regime.

youtu.be/65_jPoVDDag?...

Trump Goons PANIC as Dems DIG Into BRIBERY SCANDAL

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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SeabeeGator46 @seabeegator46.bsky.social · 2d

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Artemesia44 @artemesia44.bsky.social · 2d

How could anyone not know what Godot is about?

Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 2d

From less expensive and further away seats I’m going to try to embody the lived experience of someone who pays $700 each for two third-row seats in a Broadway theater without the first inkling of what the play is about