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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7h

The conditions at the Broadview ICE facility are getting worse. This is why we keep coming back.

Our neighbors are not alone. You can join us in demanding transparency + accountability at 1930 Beach Street.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 1d

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brently krueger 🔪🎃 @brentlythomas.bsky.social · 3h

a frog is wearing a top hat and dancing .

Alt: the warner brother’s frog dancing across the screen wearing a black top hat and holding a cane while he sings, “hello my baby, hello my darling”.

media.tenor.com

brently krueger 🔪🎃 @brentlythomas.bsky.social · 4h

i feel very basic for admitting this: after my first relationship with a man ended, i listened to “someone else’s story” from the us cast recording of “chess” at least twenty times in a row while i cried it out.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

People in Chi & other places having Whistlemania events (or u can do this solo if ur an introvert!) Buy whistles to alert folks to ICE activity & you can print out KYR fliers & legal info & make it into a packet (lots of places to distribute these incl bars stores Little FreeLibrary etc). Links next

A red whistle and a zine that says form a crowd, stay loud — protect each other, plus two small Ziploc bags with know your rights information and whistles

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 16h

this is an open declaration of a coup, and this is how the new york times covers the open declaration of a coup

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

This enrages me. Honestly, you should just roll up the paper, throw it in the trash can, and join the White House Office of Communications if this is what you’re going to do these days.

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The president said he would bypass
Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.

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brently krueger 🔪🎃 @brentlythomas.bsky.social · 11h

gee, i wonder if this had anything to do with the 🍊💩 pardoning the former ceo of #binance? 🤔

The Recipe Behind the Trump Family’s Crypto Riches: PancakeSwap

The under-the-radar trading platform is quietly administered by Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, whose founder is seeking a pardon from President Trump.

www.wsj.com

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 19h

i mean to be clear it's not "supremacy" over the power of the purse, it's the power of the purse, full stop. it's an affirmatively vested power, not a veto. that republicans are traitors who won't stop it doesn't make it constitutional

Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 23h

"As the Trump administration shifts billions of dollars around to take care of its priorities during the shutdown with scant input from lawmakers, ignoring Congress’s clear constitutional supremacy over the power of the purse, Republicans in control have done nothing to push back."
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Flix Pope @pontiflix.bsky.social · 1d

Monsters. Ghouls. Inhuman.

brently krueger 🔪🎃 @brentlythomas.bsky.social · 1d

One of her students became so overwhelmed that he had a panic attack. “It’s very scary because this is their normal,”...”You start forming your memories more solidly around 4 or 5 years old, so they have some happy kindergarten memories. But now all of sudden, this is going to take over…”

Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School

Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.

theintercept.com

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chuff @chuff.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t work in the news and I have no idea what it’s like to work in a newsroom, but it still feels like some kind of journalistic malpractice to NOT constantly talk about how ICE released tear gas outside of an elementary school.

brently krueger 🔪🎃 @brentlythomas.bsky.social · 1d

One of her students became so overwhelmed that he had a panic attack. “It’s very scary because this is their normal,”...”You start forming your memories more solidly around 4 or 5 years old, so they have some happy kindergarten memories. But now all of sudden, this is going to take over…”

Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School

Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.

theintercept.com

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Scaroline @carolinemoore.bsky.social · 1d

I’m honestly speechless. What possible reason could there be for this aside from intentionally terrorizing children?

brently krueger 🔪🎃 @brentlythomas.bsky.social · 1d

One of her students became so overwhelmed that he had a panic attack. “It’s very scary because this is their normal,”...”You start forming your memories more solidly around 4 or 5 years old, so they have some happy kindergarten memories. But now all of sudden, this is going to take over…”

Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School

Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.

theintercept.com

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blueindiana.bsky.social @blueindiana.bsky.social · 1d

As a child, I only had to deal with air raid drills. Today kids learn what to do in mass shotings. Now are they going to have to learn about tear gas and ICE?

brently krueger 🔪🎃 @brentlythomas.bsky.social · 1d

One of her students became so overwhelmed that he had a panic attack. “It’s very scary because this is their normal,”...”You start forming your memories more solidly around 4 or 5 years old, so they have some happy kindergarten memories. But now all of sudden, this is going to take over…”

Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School

Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.

theintercept.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 2d

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

basically all this shit is Roberts' fault, because the immunity made Trump feel like he could break the law as much as he wants without consequences. bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Here's a fun little nugget from Trump's demand that DOJ pay him, personally, $250 million: In his memo, he argues that prosecutors "should have foreseen" that he has "immunity from prosecution for officials acts." Thank you John Roberts, great rule of law-ing, sir! static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Moreover, as former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge and now-Attorney General Merrick
Garland should have foreseen, President Trump had immunity from prosecution for
official acts.23 As such, given the Supreme Court's immunity decision and Judge
Cannon's dismissal of the prosecution on grounds that the Special Counsel's
appointment violated the appointments clause and his office was funded through an
19 Superseding Indictment at 1-4, United States v. Trump et al., No. 23-80101-CR, 2024 WL 3404555
(S.D Fla. July 15, 2024) (the original indictment was dated June 8, 2023).
20 United States v. Trump, No. 23-80101-CR, 2024 WL 3404555, at * 1 (S.D. Fla. July 15, 2024)
(hereinafter " Dismissal Order”).
21 Order Denying Motion for Franks Hearing and Reserving Ruling on Balance of Motion Pending
Necessary Factual Development at 9, U.S. v. Trump et al., No. 23-80101- CR (S.D. FL June 27, 2024)
(Document 655) (“But the Court determines that some of the terms in that document ( e.g.,
'national
defense information' and ‘Presidential Records'), do not carry ‘generally understood meaning[ s]' such
that a law enforcement agent, without further clarification, would have known to identify such
material as 'seizable” property'[.]"); accord. id. at 10 ("the present record does not indicate , for example,
whether the clarifying information in the affidavit was attached to the warrant or expressly
incorporated into it [See ECF No. 567 p. 13] ”) .
22 Constitutional Questions After the Raid on Mar-a-Lago, National Constitution Center 2 ( August 18,
2022), https://constitutioncenter.org/media/files/Mar-a-lago_Raid_Transcript.pdf .
23 Trump v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 2312, 2327 (2024) .

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair.

What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.

Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed

From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.

www.thenation.com

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brently krueger 🔪🎃 @brentlythomas.bsky.social · 1d

One of her students became so overwhelmed that he had a panic attack. “It’s very scary because this is their normal,”...”You start forming your memories more solidly around 4 or 5 years old, so they have some happy kindergarten memories. But now all of sudden, this is going to take over…”

Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School

Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.

theintercept.com

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

Gift link:

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 2d

i think he should join the girls team because it would be funny

“I like the team aspect of the sport a lot,” he said. “I like to play basketball, I wrestle and I like football a lot.”

But the multi-talented athlete was excluded from high school basketball tryouts last Tuesday because of a clerical error on his original birth certificate. His mother, Becky Jackson, says there was a mix-up at the hospital the day he was born.

“I give them the birth certificate, and they’re like, ‘Did you know this says female?’” Jackson said. “I was like, ‘Oh, man, that’s so funny.’ So, we come home. Everyone’s laughing.”

Over the years, the fact that Laker’s birth certificate mistakenly listed him as female hasn’t caused many issues – until he decided to try out for the boys basketball team.

“They sent the athletic director of Eastmark High to physically remove Laker from the basketball tryouts in front of all of his friends, in front of the coach,” Jackson said.

The Queen Creek Unified School District said in a statement it wants to ensure “fairness, integrity, and equal opportunity” when it comes to athletics. Because Laker’s birth certificate lists him as female, he has been told he has to play on either the coed or girls basketball team.

“Our schools rely on a student’s original birth certificate at birth to determine athletic eligibility,” the statement read.

Laker’s parents got a corrected birth certificate along with a note from a doctor, but the district says that isn’t enough.

“Now, they may consider changing it if we get chromosomal testing. They didn’t say they would. It says they may,” Jackson said.

Chromosome testing comes with a hefty price tag, and the Jacksons say the district is missing the mark altogether. Meanwhile, Laker just wants to play basketball.

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 2d

"His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline...The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth...For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed..." (Dracula chapter 2)

Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 2d

at least one family member’s costume sorted…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 5d

Half of this country doesn't even pursue happiness anymore, they pursue "winning." And what's worse for them, is that they've foolishly and addictively bought into a malignant definition of what winning is, which doesn't even put them on the winning side.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Setting aside The Horror for a quick second, what is even the business strategy here?

They are making their stores actively hostile to and unsafe for the guys who go in to make big bulk materials purchases every day

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Threads post from julieceye

At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

This is how a dictatorship works

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "It looks like we're gonna have a Communist as the mayor of New York. But here's the good news -- he's gotta go through the White House. Everything goes through the White House. At least this White House it does."

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 1d

probably not the most popular opinion but addressing what's been done during the next democratic administration has to include recognizing that these institutions have banned trans students from campus and responding appropriately

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.

The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

That includes any race-based scholarships and programs, including any promotion of external scholarships that consider race, and DEI trainings and workshops. Institutions were also told they should no longer prioritize “underrepresented groups” for admissions or hiring, and they must prohibit transgender students from playing on sports teams and using facilities designated for women and girls.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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