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Anarchist/Anticapitalist/Anti-fascist/Academic Political Philosophizer/Researcher on Fascism, Authoritarianism & Freedom/opinions are my own

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · Jul 9

"They're not extermination camps!" "Nobody is talking about extermination!" --

"Nobody ever talks about it. They just do it. And you go on with your lives, ignoring the signs all around you. And then one day when the air is still and the night is fallen, they come for you."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 8h

A day in the life of ICE Air ethnic cleansing operations.
Friday 10 October 2025
0000-0000 UTC
8pm-8pm EDT
5pm-5pm PDT

* (2) Coast Guard C-27s used for ICE.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 3h

chuck schumer, mark warner, and other democrats with big national security boners interfered right before trump took office to ensure federal agents could install wiretaps at data centers without a court order or any form of review.

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NPR @npr.org · 3h

Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship." n.pr/4ocHQcG

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 4h

I reported it for misinformation

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 21h

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

>posts AI video
>comments point this out
>locks the comments instead of deleting

Do better @jennbudd.bsky.social

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 5h

What the fuck

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

The lines write themselves

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 5h

Why are you posting AI videos then locking comments when people point it out?

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Golda Velez @goldavelez.org · 10h

Hamilton had so much faith in Americans come on guys don't let him down

"whither would the militia, irritated by being called up on to undertake a distance and hopeless expedition...direct their course but to the seat of the tyrants"

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12h

"If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs."

Oh Alexander, honey.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

Quoted by Judge Perry today in her opinion in Illinois v Trump

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 10h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 10h

The fact that anyone believes this level of nonsense is an indication of how cooked people’s brains have become

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 19h

The stupidest motherfuckers alive jfc

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Shaun @swaan-sween.bsky.social · 10h

Amphibians lead the way

Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 20h

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 10h

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 12h

Pritzker’s Joint Command brandishing chemical weapons is an escalation. He’s ratcheting up the pressure to shut down the Broadview protest, so ICE is free to rampage in Chicago.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 13h

NEW — Both Broadview police and Illinois State Police aggressively pushed demonstrators back behind the barricades during today’s demonstration.

They didn’t deploy teargas or any other chemical agents, but some carried pepper ball launchers.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/no-t...

No troops in Broadview yet, but anti-ICE protestors say state and local police used intimidation tactics in crowd control • The TRiiBE

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Broadview to continue calling out the federal government for its aggressive immigration enforcement and the treatment of detainees at the facility.

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Lluvia @raininthenight.bsky.social · 10h

Remember in 2020 when CPD lost control of the city for an entire week? Good times

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 12h

He’s dumping the problem in Brandon Johnson’s lap. With ICE cut loose to attack the city, the focus moves to Chicago; they’ve been everywhere today, even my neighborhood.
If Johnson follows Pritzker’s bad example, and sics Chicago Police on folks resisting ICE, all bets are off.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 10h

when this is done, it’s going to come out that there were entire rape gangs

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 10h

WHEN THE FUCK ARE THESE GOVERNORS & MAYORS GOING TO START CHARGING FOR STATE CRIMES?

YOUR LOCAL & STATE POLICE ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO INVESTIGATE THESE USE OF FORCE CRIMES BEING COMMITTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS! CALL YOUR MAYORS, GOVERNORS & PROSECUTORS & DEMAND THEY START ENFORCING STATE LAWS.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 10h

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

www.favounicorn.com/inflatable-f...

Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 11h

If the law explicitly states they are allowed in, and are not being allowed in, why haven’t any of these congress people sued?

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 16h

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11h

They were absolutely 100% already planning for months to do these exact RIFs, and they’re so dumb that they think choosing to do it now will make somebody else take the blame.

Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 14h

NEWS: Trump administration officials have revealed that, so far, over 4,100 federal workers have been laid off in this round of RIFs

The administration is "actively considering whether to conduct additional RIFs related to" the shutdown, per a new court filing
www.notus.org/trump-white-...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 14h

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
@TriciaOhio
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She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
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)

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