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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 11h

Can anyone suggest a calculator to see how much the Republican $$$ budget would cost in higher health insurance?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 19h

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa"

a woman in a striped dress is dancing in a field

Alt: Julie Andrews dancing in a field in the sound of music

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 1d

Must-read story: These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 2d

This is what happens when the Supreme Court sides with white supremacists

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

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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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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d

So this was just supposed to be a summary execution, right

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 3d

Uh oh, the left must not be condemning political violence enough 🥴🫨

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

This is the home of Diane Goodstein, a federal judge who ruled against Trump last month.

Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows.

Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.

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Kat💙 @kat86.bsky.social · 4d

Our governor of Illinois is asking the governor of Texas to disobey the president and not send the Texas National Guard as it’s illegal. 😳

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 4d

And ⬇️ this ⬇️ is why I'm an employment lawyer.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 5d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 5d

The regime being incompetent doesn't mean they aren't also extremely dangerous

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 5d

Motion granted. Guard blocked from activation in Portland. Story to come @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 5d

Cannot believe we are still waiting for Judge Immergut to make a decision here. Especially given what we heard in court yesterday. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/03/f...

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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 5d

Secret police gassing regular police is...something

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 5d

Absolutely heinous.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

WHOA: DHS says that their officers were “rammed and blocked in” in Chicago and got out of their cars and shot an U.S. citizen who reportedly also had a gun and who had been tracking ICE raids. They are blaming the shooting on her, and say they were already tracking her socials. More details to come.

Tricia McLaughlin • @TriciaOhio
X.com
This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.
Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.
The armed woman was named in a @CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online 'Hey to all my gang let's fuck those mother fuckers up, don't let them take anyone.'

Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in this attack.
Pritzker's Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene.
This is an evolving situation and we will give more information as soon as it becomes available.
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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning to all who understand this post!!

Fred Andersson @homosatanis.bsky.social · 6d

❤️

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