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Phil™ @henkepotamus.bsky.social · 4h

Just saw an ad for a brand new game show on NBC where people compete to make ad campaigns for giant corporations.

It's depressing on a level I can't articulate. And not just because it's hosted by Jimmy Fallon.

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 10h

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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Phil™ @henkepotamus.bsky.social · 12h

This exchange is a microcosm of our country's current crisis.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 12h

Perry: Do you acknowledge that your depiction of what is happening at Broadview does not at all reflect what the Broadview Police and the Illinois State Police?
Hamilton: You must give great deference to the president
Perry: "What if he is relying on invalid evidence?"

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Phil™ @henkepotamus.bsky.social · 12h

Every day multiple people in the administration say into a camera: "we're nazis, the law doesn't apply to us, and we want to imprison and murder our enemies, and loot this country for personal gain."

Then the news is like, "critics and Democrats question this plan to lower crime."

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 13h

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

Now: Hundreds assembling in the Chicago Loop for a march and rally to demand the National Guard leave town. Folks chanting "Donald Trump you racist clown! You're not welcome in this town!"

A photo of a large group of protesters gathering in downtown Chicago near Michigan Ave. Skyscrapers are behind the crowd in the background.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Phil™ @henkepotamus.bsky.social · 1d

Man, I like Pritzker, but they HAVE been coming for the people of Illinois, and I haven't really seen anything stopping them.

The rhetoric is spot on, but there needs to be some actual action to stop these abductions and violence by the feds and get the people back.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 2d

Chicago was named the Best Big City in the U.S for the 9th time in a row by Condé Nast! Through thick and thin I'm forever proud to call this city home ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶

An aerial view of Chicago via helicopter. The city and skyline are backlit by the sun covered puffy clouds.

A dramatic cotton-candy sunset provides the backdrop for the Chicago skyline with Willis Tower in the center

The cit of Chicago viewed from an observation deck at dusk. A very low, shallow layer of fog is illuminated by city lights while skyscrapers jut from the cloud bank

The distant St. Regis hotel skyscraper is in the distance, while autumnal grasses and wildflowers are out of focusing the foreground at Northerly Island.

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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 5d

"One doesn't ask of one who suffers: what is your country and what is your religion? One merely says, you suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I shall help you."
-Louis Pasteur

'Servant of Humanity'
Erected by the people of Chicago, 1928

a statue ft a bust of pasteur on top of on obelisk

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Non-exhaustive list of cops in Broadview yesterday includes:

ICE, CBP + Border Patrol, BOP special ops, DEA special ops, ATF, HSI, FBI

IL state police, Cook Co sheriff's officers, Broadview PD, at least a dozen other suburban depts both individually and as part of NIPAS

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 6d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6d

Tapping the “no one is coming to save you” sign.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 6d

Attorney General Kwame Raoul:
"State and local law enforcement do not violate the TRUST Act by establishing and maintaining designated protest areas and ensuring the unobstructed use of public roads - even if federal immigration enforcement activity is occurring nearby.” (1/2) @wttw.bsky.social

Local, State Police Set Up Designated Protest Areas Outside Broadview ICE Facility as Demonstrations Continue

Illinois and Cook County law enforcement have constructed designated areas for protesters to “safely exercise their rights” outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in suburban Broadvi...

news.wttw.com

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Phil™ @henkepotamus.bsky.social · 6d

If we get another Dem administration, they need to dismantle ICE & use those funds to investigate & prosecute everyone enacting Trump's illegal authoritarian lust. From the military to bureaucrats to elected officials to all levels of law enforcement. Full clean house of these white nationalists.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 6d

Twenty-one people have now been killed by the administration’s boat strikes.

Airstrike Destroys ‘Drug Boat’ in Trump’s Secret Forever War

Twenty-one people have now been killed by the administration’s boat strikes.

trib.al

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it's me @coolguytim.bsky.social · 6d

what the fuck. i still can't get over we have fucking nazis rolling around chicago kidnapping people and handcuffing kids, beating protestors, breaking into buildings and throwing gas grenades like every fucking day now. i love this city and they are fucking terrorizing it

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 6d

Ald. Jessie Fuentes’ office just released a statement she was handcuffed and threatened arrest amid ongoing ICE activity in Humboldt Park.

Tear gas was also used on passersby at a Home Depot an at Rico Fresh, her office says.

I’m on my way to an emergency press conference now.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 6d

and scene

a tweet by Dana Gould @danagould that says:

Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that he's dead, you never, ever hear about him. No one mentions anything he did.
Because what he did had no value.
It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture. Nothing of lasting value.
He just made anger. Every day.
Rising, blooming & fading like a fart.
Then he died & was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week.
Creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone.
Seriously, what an awful way to make a living.

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Phil™ @henkepotamus.bsky.social · 6d

This is where @govpritzker.illinois.gov needs to back his strong words up with action. He said they'd need to go through him to get to the people of Illinois. Where is he?

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 6d

State Representative Lilian Jimenez on the tear gassing of protesters near Rico Fresh on Armitage and Central Park.

Lilian Jimenez FB post:

ICE just tear gassed people near the grocery store Rico fresh on armitage- there are helicopters over our houses and armed agents stopping people in the streets, Walmart, Home Depot, all the places people congregate in Humboldt park, Logan square, and hermosa