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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

It’s easy to cast Trump as antidemocratic and hostile to the rule of law. It’s harder to take on institutions and people such as Weiss who invoke ideas like the “free press” while actually advancing a right-wing agenda.

That's why this kind of conservatism is so dangerous. trib.al/JoYaK6M

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 15h

State terrorists - aka Nazi goons. AAARRRGH!#?!

Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 15h

ICE Gestapo at work.

We need our version of Nuremberg trials, the sooner the better. We will not survive as a democracy without that.

Trump, Noem, Miller, and every one of these goons must face consequences for this Nazi shit.

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 16h

via @youranonnews.bsky.social

CHICAGO: Trump's lawless goons (ICE) make a U-turn and smash into a woman's car, then proceed to arrest her by dragging her out of the vehicle.

Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 1d

Mfers, goons, brutes, out of effing control masked fascists. So much for the 1st and 4th amendments and any semblance of constitutional order. JFC...

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 3d

We're with you, Gov, we're with you!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 5d

C'mon Peoria and Central Illinois! Let's make some noise for democracy!

peoriail50501.bsky.social @peoriail50501.bsky.social · 5d

UPDATE ON NO KINGS 2.0 - PEORIA

Here's map of Peoria Stadium site of Protest/Rally on 10/18. We'll use sidewalks along War Memorial Dr, & have use of Stadium area for Program Staging next to baseball field adjacent to main park entrance. Be there & bring others to this crucial rally for democracy!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

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Rachael P @plussone.bsky.social · 7d

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls. He has demanded ICE turn over the names of all federal officers involved in each incident, and said he is ready to take ICE to court.

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 8d

The Cruelty Virus Mind is an epidemic in this regime. Criminy...

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 9d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 8d

Big Brother is already watching...but his surveillance capabilities are about to go on steroids. JFC...Q

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 8d

Al Franken's book from days of yore aptly described this GOP phenomenon: "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

The GOP health care for immigrants lie is an old one. Here’s me six years ago:

Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 9d

Melissa Millinger and I were honored to represent Peoria 50501 on KZ 102.3 FM, in a great dialog with welcoming and informed host Ross Martinez on his Community Beat podcast. omny.fm/shows/kz-com...

KZ Community Beat - Peoria 50501 - The Power of The People - KZ Community Beat

In this episode, we sit down with Melissa and Jim, co leader's of Peoria's 50501, and organizers of The No King's Protest happening here in Peoria on October 18th! We touch topics regarding the curren...

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 9d

The gulf between good or at least not-evil (most of us) and evil (this fucking regime & those who relish their brutality) is a bottomless abyss. Seems we need to outnumber these mfers 10 to 1 or more to rid our country of their violent fascist control.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 9d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 9d

Goons. Fucking goons.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d

Chicago, Illinois, 2025:

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."

"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."

"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 9d

These goddamn goons are out of control. And the lies they use to justify their indiscriminate brutality are just as criminal... "war crimes" committed under orders of the demented sociopath in chief and his Christofascist syndicate.

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 9d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 11d

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 11d

Fuckin yikes, man

Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 12d

For all the fascist shit going down in Chicago, this image has given me some hope...and bolstered my commitment to RESIST!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12d

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 13d

Brown Shirts patrolling downtown Chicago...sickening display of blatant racism, arrogant lawlessness, and fascist intimidation.

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 13d

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'

The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jim Haptonstahl @jimhappy.bsky.social · 14d

They're as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice their humanity. Depraved Nazis.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14d

Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"

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