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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 5h

This shouldn't be our reality, but it is.

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 5h

“America First” means:
•$20B to Argentina to screw American farmers
•$38B to Israel for genocide
•$??B to Qatar for new Air Force base in Idaho

Meanwhile—US Service members stand in food lines because Trump’s government shutdown has them furloughed without pay. So much winning!
Are we great yet?🤔

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 5h

Let's just all agree to call ICE the American Gestapo from now on, shall we? Kudos to this guy, and may we all follow his example - but quietly, without giving interviews afterwards from now on out, so that we offer safe shelter for the next family, too, because we're all in Anne Frank's world now.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 11h

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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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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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 3d

This is an amazing photograph. But while it entertains and illustrates that the Portland mobilization is an invasion, not a peace force, moments later, the military force sprayed pepper spray into the ventilation holes of the frog suit. Cruelty and fascism is the point. Never forget that.

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 3d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 4d

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 3d

Conversion therapy is torture, plain and simple. It was outlawed for a reason.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.

That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

slate.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

People in Chicago: Know your rights when faced with federal forces.

Know Your Rights: Federal Forces Being Sent to Chicago

President Trump’s decision to send federal forces, and National Guard troops, reflects his authoritarian desire to control any community guided by policies and principles that conflict with his

www.aclu-il.org

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 9d

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/vide...

Pritzker calls for Trump's removal from office under 25th Amendment

Gov. JB Pritzker for the first time is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment, after the president said cities like Chicago should be used as “training g...

www.cbsnews.com

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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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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jul 20

…These people have quite actively tried to ensure that if they go down we're going with them.

So I'm saying i want them stopped, but i want the equivalent of a controlled descent, the pilots and crew arrested on the scene, and a prolonged & public FAA investigation about how the fuck this happened.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jul 20

Look, i know a lot of us live for the schadenfreude of the crash & burn but i don't think some of you realize just in how many ways we are all in the fucking plane.

Some of the biggest buyers-into of this "AI" hype cycle have: your medical data, your identity data, control over the carceral system…

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jul 20

Look, i know a lot of us live for the schadenfreude of the crash & burn but i don't think some of you realize just in how many ways we are all in the fucking plane.

Some of the biggest buyers-into of this "AI" hype cycle have: your medical data, your identity data, control over the carceral system…

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 8d

Red Hat told 404 Media it's aware of the breach. The list of clients potentially affected include the US Navy, Congress, Walmart, and several telecoms.

Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress

A hacking group called the Crimson Collective says it pulled data from private GitHub repositories connected to Red Hat's consulting business. Red Hat has confirmed it is investigating the compromise.

www.404media.co

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 6d

Any Democrat running for statewide or national office should be asked “will you commit to supporting the investigation and prosecution of ICE and members of DHS for systemic human rights abuses” and any answer other than “yes” should be instantly disqualifying

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d

If you showed this tweet to James Madison, he would be like, "yes, this is why I wrote the 2nd Amendment"

@Sec_Noem on X: Chicago, we’re here for you.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 6d

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8d

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

I'm so angry over all of this. Jewish people are being put in immense danger because the ADL couldn't stop defending a genocide and targeting critics of Israel. Their Center on Extremism resources kept so many people safe and were crucial in monitoring extremist movements in the US. It's all gone.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

This was after the ADL bent over backwards to accommodate the far right and were utilized to go after colleges for spurious accusations of antisemitism over their criticisms of Israel. And now, the Jewish community is being put in immense danger because the ADL collaborated with fascists.

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