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Jacqueline Sweet

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Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism Signal: JSweetLI.61 Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, Drop Site News, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7d

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social

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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 6h

I doubt they’d not charge her if she threw things at them. I think it’s possible the water flew in the air because she thought the car was running her over or something like that? I wish the station would tell us more.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 6h

New WGN statement to Chicago Tribune:

“Earlier today, a WGN-TV creative services employee was detained by ICE,” the station said. “She has since been released, and no charges were filed against her. Out of respect for her privacy, we will have no further statements about this incident.”

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, does she KNOW this is an ICE vehicle or does she just see a minivan with out of state plates speeding toward her? Her workplace is close to here, she was possibly just walking to work.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 6h

I thought initially an ICE agent was with her before the van came but now i don't think so...You're saying the van was approaching a corner there? why was it slowing/stopping at her location?

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

Another thing! There was an ICE agent behind the car with her...we don't know when he first grabs her and she screams but it's right after the water throw, we don't know if the water throw was part of/ caused by/ due to his arrest of her somehow either

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

they were going really fast and leaning on the horn

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

The slowmo isn't great but

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

well they were speeding toward her for reasons we don't understand--neighbors say she was just filming ICE actions like others were---then after they sped toward her this water thing happened, so that's on the table for now for sure

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

I have commented that's a possibility, like an involuntary a reflexive thing

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

I think it's water, you can see a cup and a wet spot on the ground later. And no, you'd think WGN would have talked to their employee for a version but it's super strange. Did she lose control of what was in her hands bc the van was racing toward her? It's all so odd

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

I can't figure out if she drops it bc the van is careening toward her, she throws it, someone else throws it and why they were speeding to her at that point in the first place, what she was allegedly filming and what the man across the street was filming--something clearly was already happening

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

But look at how strong the anti-ICE comments that they include from the two bystanders are!

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

It's honestly so confusingly reported. I am trying my hardest to parse it and I cannot.

Same with the broadcast version - youtu.be/m-RI3R-l3yg?...

WGN employee detained amid ICE activity on Chicago’s North Side, later released

YouTube video by WGN News

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

There is some kind of water flying into the air when the minivan speeds up to her. I cannot figure out what happened from the video, it's really odd. Then there's a cup on the ground and spilled liquid in photos of the scene.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

No, the neighbor who filmed the WGN employee's arrest was trying to talk to a man who had already been detained and put into the ICE minivan, that's who didn't speak English well

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

Just noting I really don't understand how they reported this, and it's very possible she was charged with a crime and the station doesn't know it yet??? It's pretty confusing.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

They let the two witnesses make some pretty strong statements if you watch the clip

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 8h

The WGN reporting is confusing at best but they say in both print and on air that they don't name her and blurred her face bc she wasn't charged with a crime.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 8h

youtu.be/m-RI3R-l3yg?...

WGN employee detained amid ICE activity on Chicago’s North Side, later released

YouTube video by WGN News

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 8h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 8h

Fun fact on this one- Alexander Smirnov the Russian intel and Trump business linked indicted lying FBi informant’s closest American relative works for Dezer Development

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 9h

There’s even more disturbing footage where the woman’s pants are pulled down

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 12h

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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