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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 16h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 15h

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 19h

YUP

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 19h

I'm on a Discord that requires uploading ID to get to some, shall we say, spicier channels. Glad I never did it.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 19h

And it's rapidly losing that, if it hasn't already.

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 22h

Government by "I saw it on the Internet"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

He may not say it but Johnson is basically the federal officer who laughed at zip-tying children in the middle of the night during the raid on the Chicago building a couple of weeks ago: “fuck them kids.”

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

Are the ideas in the room with us?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

CNN: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans have no healthcare solutions. What do you say to her?

REP. PETE SESSIONS: She needs a couple more years in office and she would learn that we do have ideas on the table

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t tell if I’m depressed due to menopause, freelance work being terrible this year, family issues, or, you know, all this (waves hand around Chicago).

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Jul 22

Right now—before the next wave of street protests—is the best time to learn how to make and use shields and reinforced banners.

Protect yourself and your community from rubber bullets, water cannons, batons, pepper spray, surveillance, and snatch squads.

crimethinc.com/reinforcedba...

A photograph of demonstrators forming a shield wall in Myanmar. Their shields all have circle-As painted on them, signifying anarchism, the movement for a world without oppression.

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

"Don't mess with Texas, but we get to mess with you"

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, feels like they really want more people to show up in Broadview on Friday, huh?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

My dude I already (happily) pay for other people’s children’s education and other things I don’t directly benefit from, I refuse to pay more because I chose not to breed.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2d

This is why, despite frustrations, I do think that Johnson (especially) and Pritzker are genuinely showing courage.

Details from Reuters, which explicitly makes the link to the prosecution of Comey:

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Specifically she was asked if she possesses pictures of Trump with undressed teens and she refused to say no

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

so theres a possibility the attorney general has seen evidence the president raped children and now the entire republican party is helping to cover it up?

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 2d

A car was honking nonstop outside in the alley and woke me up this morning. Thought it might be an 🧊 warning but it was just a neighbor being an asshole.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 2d

Please read this

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2d

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 2d

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not body shaming but I’m also honest this Texas boy is gonna roll through Portillo’s once and switch allegiances

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