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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Break the law, face the consequences. That goes for ICE agents who commit illegal acts outside of their official functions.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is underwater on everything. And massively so on a lot things:

Chart showing Trump is under water on all issues Reuters/Ipsos polled on

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids.

www.lawdork.com/p/the-kavana...

The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later

"What a sick world." And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 2d

😲 SEATTLE: Shackled at his wrists and ankles, an elderly man struggles in the cold rain to mount the slippery stairs to this Avelo jet, which will fly him to another detention facility in Texas 👀

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

A Republican president has decided he wants to go to war with Venezuela and is now creating the pretext to justify it, just like Bush did with Iraq.

Then it was WMDs, now it is drugs.

Except even Bush still at least went to Congress for a vote.

King Donald doesn’t bother.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Rand Paul on Trump's strikes on boats: "I would call them extrajudicial killings. This is akin to what China does, what Iran does with drug dealers -- they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public. So it's wrong."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Video from today's first gas attack.

Saturday morning in Chicago.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

One day, when this national nightmare is over and speaking up has no consequences, everyone will claim they were against this.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 3d

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 3d

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

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Don Gibson @dongibson.bsky.social · 3d

Awful. Here’s a video of it being shared on Reddit

www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 5d

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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Yale AAUP @yaleaaup.bsky.social · 6d

"Conservative strategists seem to understand that their agenda on higher education, including defunding universities, intimidating international students and privatizing loans, has little public support." -Yale AAUP President Daniel HoSang on the AI-fueled propaganda campaign against higher ed

HOSANG: How a talented Yale alum helped a right wing grift site mischaracterize our AAUP meeting

Much of the article mirrored the News’ story and included quotations invented, mischaracterized or taken out of context, as well as false claims.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 8d

Reposting this.

To outshine the White House demolition news grab.

Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 10d

Washington, D.C.’s No Kings protest is converging on a rallying point just west of the Capitol building. This was one of several locally-organized feeder marches just before merging with an even bigger crowd on Pennsylvania Avenue 👇

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 8d

Whether or not they actually start drone striking American buildings in blue states, you know they are absolutely thinking, planning, fantasizing about it

Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 8d

“Most of the spending was on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and ‘guided missile warheads and explosive components.’”

popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

ICE boosts weapons spending 700%

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

That’s seven.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 8d

“Faced with this reality, Democratic governors need more than legal complaints and rhetorical protest. They need fiscal strategies of resistance commensurate with the scale of the attack.“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart

By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown

www.theguardian.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 10d

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 9d

"Spanish remains my language for alarm and stress, and this is a moment for both." Excellent and moving piece by Carlos Lozado about language, belonging, and what the Constitution should be doing for us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Opinion | You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 9d

More than any other publication @propublica.org is rising to this moment. So many legacy newspapers still cower in equivocation and shy away from simply reporting the facts in their terrible details. Bravo @charlesornstein.bsky.social and the team. They make history. Support @propublica.org today.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 12d

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Yale AAUP @yaleaaup.bsky.social · 9d

The Yale AAUP stands for academic freedom - No loyalty oaths in higher ed!

yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...

Faculty group urges Yale to reject potential Trump compact offer

In a Thursday email addressed to the Yale community, Yale’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors urged faculty members to ask administrators to reject a possible compact from t...

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AFT Connecticut @aftct.bsky.social · 10d

#NoKings. @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @yaleaaup.bsky.social @ctforall.bsky.social

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 9d

“Imagine being marched by force through a desert with barely anything to drink while your captor repeatedly cools himself by dumping gallons of water on his head, and maybe you’ll start to get a sense of what it’s like to live in Texas these days,” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Parched Texas Is Giving Water Away to Oil, Gas and AI

Imagine being marched by force through a desert with barely anything to drink while your captor repeatedly cools himself by dumping gallons of water on his head, and maybe you’ll start to get a sense ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9d

Oh wow

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