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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: Southeast Chicago, Tuesday October 14, 2025.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. If there isn’t a domestic warzone, manufacture one.

Fascism.

📸 Credit to local Chicago freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan for all these images.

A masked armed agent points a pepper gun at protestors. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A fed Pokice officer wearing a gas masks is surrounded by smoke and it’ll about to throw a tear gas cannister. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

Around 20 masked armed agents are seen with guns drawn, surrounded by smoke, about to advance on local residents. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A local resident is seen being knelt on and cuffed in the background as two armed Police with automatic weapons are seen standing in the foreground. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

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Heatherjoy Klein @hjklovesanimals.bsky.social · 3h

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican.

As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 15h

Thoughts and prayers to neckless ICE operators swearing oaths to and committing crimes for someone who can't let a funeral go by without scoring off the dead guy about what killed him. Just a limitless future here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

Assuming there's a political debate with Stephen Miller is ASSUREDLY not understanding Stephen Miller.

Or fascism.

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 18h

This is amazing. Thank you, world!!!

#USDemocracy

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

"Miller slipped up because even he knows it is an outrageous thing for Trump to claim absolute, unreviewable power to send active-duty military troops into American cities based only on his delusions."

Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

This is not how the Constitution works.

www.publicnotice.co

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 15h

Full endorse. Also: The evidence is that it *does* matter. Trump is unpopular! Which is part of why he loses so often!

Most people don't like bigots and Nazi-lovers, but they also don't pay much attention to politics and are not inclined to believe stuff like this. So seeing hard evidence matters.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 16h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 20h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

California voters, are you paying attention?

North Carolina Republicans are redrawing the map to hand Trump another seat. They’re bragging about locking down Congress for him.

Prop 50 isn’t optional, it’s how we fight back. #YesOnProp50

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

The Consoler-in-Chief.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Katie Porter’s White Board @ohdangitevie.bsky.social · 15h

Find out where your blood can be the most useful.
Donate and the Red Cross gives you updates!

Thank you for giving blood with the American Red Cross on September 16, 2025. After first ensuring that local needs were met, your blood donation was sent to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in Saint Louis, MO to help a patient in need. Your donation is on its way to change lives!
Every day, people receive blood for life-threatening illnesses, blood disorders, traumatic injuries, and other conditions. You can feel proud knowing that your gift of a blood donation is critical to these patients.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

First the Trump regime fired 1,300 CDC workers. Then it rehired about half of them.

Those who remain fired include key officials working on injury and violence prevention and crucial health statistics.

This hurts federal workers and puts us all at risk in a public health emergency.

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David Axe @davidaxe.bsky.social · 15h

There's A Reason Russia Is Attacking With Tanks Again. It Can Take 8 Drones To Knock Out 1 Tank.

Russian mechanized assaults near Pokrovsk are costly, but may slowly gain ground.

open.substack.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

this movie seems like further evidence that the minds of the nation’s political, cultural and economic elite were destroyed by being criticized on twitter

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in the newspaper with Julia Roberts.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

In 2018, the Democratic strategist Aaron Huertas coined the term “reactionary centrism” to describe a style of politics that prides itself on even-handedness while being disproportionately obsessed with left-wing overreach. Always deployed as an epithet, “reactionary centrism” is overused by progressives to inoculate themselves from criticism. But it describes a real ethos — a loathing of wokeness so intense it led some elite former Democrats to support Donald Trump. “After the Hunt” brings reactionary centrism to prestige cinema.

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🏳️‍🌈 🍉 Chuck Hamilton (he/him/his) 🏴‍☠️🍸 @natty4bumpo.bsky.social · 15h

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/zohr...

Zohran Mamdani honors trans activist Sylvia Rivera, says NYC will be a pro-trans "sanctuary city" - LGBTQ Nation

The New York City mayoral candidate gave his followers an important history lesson while pledging to fight the president's transphobic attacks.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

Far too many institutions are bending the knee to Trump and preemptively giving in to his demands. It’s encouraging to see these airports refuse to entertain this administration’s lawlessness. Kudos to them — hopefully their courage inspires others to follow suit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US airports refuse to air Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown

Airports in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle and elsewhere cite laws barring partisan political content at TSA checkpoints

www.theguardian.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 16h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 20h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.bsky.social · 16h

Over the last week, faith leaders from across Minnesota held seven days of prayer outside the Capitol, urging state lawmakers to call a special session to ban assault weapons following the Annunciation Catholic School Shooting.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 18h

Wait, 1 isn't considered a prime anymore

This is like when they demoted Pluto, but worse

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 18h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream media not covering this news. #alaska #hurricane

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