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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 5h

she is running several strategic ctrl-Fs, summarily firing everyone it captures, and then going on vacation

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 15h

DAILY MEMO: Another ICE Detention Death and A Woman is Saved From ICE By Police 🧵 2 parts

If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a member of L.A. TACO, buying some merch, or dropping a dime in our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this news.
@eltragon.bsky.social

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Why do so many powerful Republicans turn out to be pedophiles and child sex abusers? 🤨

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fins @fins.bsky.social · 21h

If you can, please give to help Chicago protestors get out of jail

Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

if you really want to rip on Portland you should start with how busy breakfast places are at 9:30 on a weekday

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like "a bunch of ICE new hires are actually registered sex offenders" is a shoe waiting to drop given how certainly little vetting anyone is doing of these guys.

♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 1d

half these people aren't even allowed to be this close to an elementary school

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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fins @fins.bsky.social · 1d

10000% yes, this is total leo pointing at TV gif material

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

I believe this is what ICE is calling "a beard being ripped from an officer’s face" by a Chicago protestor x.com/ICEgov/statu...

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fins @fins.bsky.social · 1d

and the GOP governor intones the hallowed words: 'Oklahomans would lose their minds'

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

fins @fins.bsky.social · 1d

I have resting-'phone down'-earworm, one of my favorite Badu tracks

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fins @fins.bsky.social · 1d

Hispanic friend recently said 'every white supremacist thinks all other white people are just sleepers waiting to be activated' and that's gonna stick with me for a bit

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

How quickly some ICE GOONS get triggered when you remind them they are children of immigrants

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Sean Jeans-Gail @sjeansgail.bsky.social · 1d

This scenario, 1-2 times per year, whenever the GOP controls Congress, for my entire adult life

Apu saving James Woods from a bullet meme (James Wood is "Republicans", shooter is "Republicans", Apu is "Democrats")

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National Immigrant Justice Center @immigrantjustice.bsky.social · 1d

“The stories we’re hearing are pretty horrific,” said NIJC’s Olivia Abrecht to @wbez.org, describing inhumane conditions at ICE’s Broadview facility. These abuses must stop NOW. Read more by @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social @adrianacardmag.bsky.social:

ICE's Broadview facility has become a de facto detention center, minus the rules and oversight

ICE regularly held immigrants far beyond the hours they set for the Broadview processing center, data through July shows. Immigrants held there say there are no beds, limited food, and toilets are out in the open.

www.wbez.org

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Stephen 🇵🇸 @tgk.bsky.social · 1d

Clayton Kershaw go to hell forever

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

I met Andy Ngo once, when I was speaking at a thing and he found me backstage and tried get me to say something he could use against me.

What leaped out was how comically shifty he was. Nervous, sweaty, desperate. No game at all, no charm.

Up close, they are what you figure they are.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

andy ngo is at the white house right now briefing the president on the antifa menace. that is a real sentence that is true. what the fuck

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fins @fins.bsky.social · 2d

random reference, but I saw a video called 'Baby Animals just Wanna Have Fun' on Letterman in the 90's and it had b-roll of baby animals playing and then a shot of a tiny owlet snarfing up a mouse, like shlorp shlorp gulp. then they cut to Dave with a horrified look on his face. core memory for me.

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YES PLZ Coffee @yesplz.coffee · 2d

"A good year for Kenyas" is the green coffee buyer consensus this year. We wholeheartedly agree and have said yes to many this season.

Our latest from the Karumandi washing station is among our favorites. Roasting this week. Don't miss it! ☕

www.yesplz.coffee/product/sing...

a white porcelain cup of black coffee on a concrete countertop with the overlayed text "Kenya Karumandi -- Yes Plz Coffee"

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fins @fins.bsky.social · 2d

One Crazy Summer movie poster with the word Summer expertly photoshopped out to say 'day' instead. This is my best work, and indicative of some of the finest graphic design currently viewable anywhere by anyone living.

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