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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Eigen Blockchain @gizmotronic.bsky.social · 13h

We will make it our life’s work that anyone who has worked for ice will rue they ever heard of it.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 1d

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
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Eigen Blockchain @gizmotronic.bsky.social · 13h

SMERSH 2.0!!!

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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jtkindt.bsky.social @jtkindt.bsky.social · 1d

Crab spider for #arachtober 11. Photo taken 7/2021 in Phoenix area, looks like cover art from a 1970’s SF paperback.

#inverts #bugsky #macrophotography

Yellow spider holding on to the underside of a cylindrical red flower part while carrying a small black bee (prey). Background is in shades of orange and red and features a large red seed or fruit and smaller red anthers, looking very abstract and otherworldly.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Eigen Blockchain @gizmotronic.bsky.social · 1d

Just a street gang

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

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 1d

Mario Guevara was wrongfully deported eight days ago.

El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 2d

"This isn’t what they promised," Katherine Guevara told El Faro English, after her father, Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, was detained by ICE. "They said they would go after criminals. But instead, they’re rounding up and detaining everyone."
beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...

Podcast: The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide

Salvadoran-born journalist Mario Guevara was deported today, Friday, after his arrest in June, while covering protests in Georgia against the immigration raids of Trump’s first months. He was the…

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Eigen Blockchain @gizmotronic.bsky.social · 2d

They want us dead

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Eigen Blockchain @gizmotronic.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe but also be real that they kinda get a thrill from the racism…

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

ICE continues its relentless assault on Chicago street vendors. Rapid response teams in Pilsen and Little Village confirmed a street vendor was taken on Cermak and Troy and also on Damen and Cermak. These are on two major Latine commercial corridors.

Confirmed sighting in little village

Today October 10, 2025 at 10:55am we were able to confirm that ICE kidnapped a street vendor on Cermak and Troy in front of the laundry mat. Another street vendor was taken on Damen and Cermak in Pilsen. If you have any more information please call 855-435-7693 or to report any unusual or suspicious activity. Our community is safest when we are informed and organized.

Description of vehicles: a black GMC Denali suv and Tahoe

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"Turn around or you're going to get the dog."

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Eigen Blockchain @gizmotronic.bsky.social · 3d

Ahem that’s Mr president to you.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Eigen Blockchain @gizmotronic.bsky.social · 3d

Love this. Liberal pope. Wait til they find out some of the things Jesus said.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 3d

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3d

@warnock.senate.gov: "As a man of faith, here's something that I have noticed about evil... Evil always gets a little bit too impressed with itself. It's filled up with hubris. Evil always goes too far, and because it goes too far, it contains within itself the seed of its own destruction."

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

According the victim's attorney, body camera footage captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good.”
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Eigen Blockchain @gizmotronic.bsky.social · 3d

They need to take the World Cup from the US. No way we can host this under these conditions.

WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 4d

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

https://to.wttw.com/4h0ZYUF

Argentina, Puerto Rico Soccer Match Featuring Messi Moved From Chicago to Florida Amid Immigration Crackdown

The friendly match was supposed to be played on Oct. 13 at Soldier Field in Chicago but will be moved to Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, the home stadium of Argentina and Inter Miami star Lionel Mes...

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Eigen Blockchain @gizmotronic.bsky.social · 3d

Obviously Carr signed on for Georgia.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

Fairweather federalists: A coalition of MAGA attorneys general file amicus brief supporting Donald Trump’s militarization of a sovereign state and city.

Of note: This is not surprising, given some of these same actors supported overturning the election results in states Joe Biden won.

Counsel for State of Iowa

ADDITIONAL ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN SUPPORT
Austin Knudsen
Attorney General of Montana
Gentner Drummond
Attorney General of Oklahoma
Lynn Fitch
Attorney General of Mississippi
Catherine Hanaway
Attorney General of Missouri
Alan Wilson
Attorney General of South Carolina
Steve Marshall
Attorney General of Alabama
Tim Griffin
Attorney General of Arkansas
James Uthmeier
Attorney General of Florida
Chris Carr
Attorney General of Georgia
Raúl R. Labrador
Attorney General of Idaho
Theodore E. Rokita
Attorney General of Indiana
Kris Kobach
Attorney General of Kansas
Liz Murrill
Attorney General of Louisiana
Michael T. Hilgers
Attorney General of Nebraska
Marty Jackley
Attorney General of South Dakota
Ken Paxton
Attorney General of Texas
John B. McCuskey
Attorney General of West Virginia

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