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Jeff Waid

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We are all Abrego Garcia. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." ignorant pawn of a subversive anarchist agenda here, and elsewhere: https://answerkeysurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

ICE isn’t hiring the best people

It’s getting harder and harder to tell “law enforcement” from the criminals they claim to protect us from.

Opinion | ICE isn’t hiring the best people

It’s getting harder and harder to tell “law enforcement” from the criminals they claim to protect us from.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 22h

I would like to go to there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jul 2

This seems ominous. Trump just appointed Josh Craddock—who recently signed a letter urging the DOJ to use the Comstock Act to curtail the distribution of abortion pills—to serve as Deputy Assistant AG in the OLC at the DOJ. 1/

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John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 19h

Sounds like Chicago PD should be filing assault charges against ICE.

And the Illinois AG should file an emergency motion for the judge to update the “don’t assault journalists TRO”. Since ICE is ignoring the existing one… and the Constitution.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h

Opposing a power mad despot is literally the most American thing an American can do. These guys got a lot wrong but they nailed that one. It is fundamental to the core of this country.

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23h

Outrageous -- and apparently in blatant violation of yesterday's ruling protecting protesters and journalists from this kind of shit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 1d

It's like they got the most out-of-control bullies in middle school, gave them guns, and told them to go do what they had always fantasized about.

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Robin Budd @robinbudd.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @governor.ca.gov for signing SB79 to help alleviate CA's housing crisis.

Now, please sign the bills on your desk that protect trans (ie human) rights, and their families and healthcare providers.

History has its eyes on you.
Thank you.

-- signed a constituent

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 1d

A new meaning behind GOP!

#ProudBlue

Picture of Kash Patel, Mike Johnson, DJT, Pam Bondi and JD

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

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 1d

Phrase of the Day: "Hate America rally." Drink!

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Reset America @reset-america.bsky.social · 1d

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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 1d

Phrase of the Day: "Hate America rally." Drink!

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RandomWhiteGuy @thereelrandom.bsky.social · 1d

History sure is rhyming these days…

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

what, the actual fuck

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 1d

Wait... What?

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

what, the actual fuck

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 1d

There is nothing anyone can NOT do that will keep them from claiming otherwise and doing what they want anyway. They will not stop. They have to BE stopped. #NoKings

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

Something I hope the Dems who’d satisfy themselves with a health-care subsidy concession alone will consider. www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

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tultican @tultican.bsky.social · 1d

Profound bias was responsible for Catholics leaving the public education system. tultican.com/2025/10/08/p... #EducationMatters

Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute

By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian. He was responding to a dispute in the Pro…

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is that normie Times readers will read and believe this, because they won’t have the context in the thread below.

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

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

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Great point here. This is why Stephen Miller goes on Fox News to propagandize. He knows his host won't bother him with niggling facts like these.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

HA! How much is Stephen Miller a propagandist? He’s saying the building in Chicago raided by DHS, where children were zip-tied and citizens dragged out, was “full of Tren de Aragua terrorists.”

Even DHS’s own account claims just TWO gang members total — and even that is a highly suspect claim!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 1d

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 1d

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

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