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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Democracy Manifest 🎃 @imunderwhat.bsky.social · 12h

Send the meteor

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Democracy Manifest 🎃 @imunderwhat.bsky.social · 12h

Morgan Freeman also played a character called Detective Somerset in Se7en

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 13h

ICIRR reporting ICE activity throughout the north side of Chicago today, including outside of Ravenswood Elementary School.

ICIRR Eyes on ICE Update: Throughout the day on Friday 10/10, the Rapid Response Network verified the presence of federal agents at multiple locations in Uptown, Edgewater, and Ravenswood including 5400 N. Sheridan, 4700 N. Magnolia, and 4300 N. Paulina (outside Ravenswood School). Teams are following up on additional tips from the surrounding areas. The enforcement operation is ongoing.

Multiple people have been detained today on the north side. If you witness any possible ICE activity, or know someone who has been detained, call the Family Support Hotline at 1-855-435-7693

Remember: you have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, and the right to refuse to sign anything. For a digital download of our KYR card visit: bit.ly/ICIRRCards

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Democracy Manifest 🎃 @imunderwhat.bsky.social · 12h

LMAO

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Our Revolution @our-revolution.bsky.social · 1d

Medicare telehealth just expired.

Millions of seniors & disabled patients face canceled visits or big bills, because Congress failed to act.

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Oh come on. On an official document?

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Democracy Manifest 🎃 @imunderwhat.bsky.social · 13h

FUCK ICE

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Weird how the US is such a free country that we only have 4% of the world's population and yet we need three of the ten highest funded militaries on the planet.

(Yes, US municipal police and ICE both have budgets that rank in the top ten of the world's militaries.)

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1d

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Democracy Manifest 🎃 @imunderwhat.bsky.social · 14h

F yeah it’s time for the Stryper halftime show

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

n.pr

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

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

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 15h

Grandpa Simpson exclaiming, "That Burns is just what this state needs--young blood!"

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Democracy Manifest 🎃 @imunderwhat.bsky.social · 14h

Fuck yeah Boomers forever and ever and ever and ever

a man in a blue jacket sits on a chair holding a milkshake

ALT: a man in a blue jacket sits on a chair holding a milkshake

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Democracy Manifest 🎃 @imunderwhat.bsky.social · 14h

Reminds me of this banger:

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Democracy Manifest 🎃 @imunderwhat.bsky.social · 14h

“Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus”

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 17h

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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Democracy Manifest 🎃 @imunderwhat.bsky.social · 15h

Cope and Seethe, Fash

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

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 18h

superpower whose economy is built on data center construction, sports betting, healthcare extortion, and subprime auto loans. very healthy

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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