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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 36m

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
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Hermione, Texas Granger @misterfungi.bsky.social · 26d

2004: mark zuckerberg invents a website he can use to spy on girls without their knowledge

2025: mark zuckerberg invents glasses he can use to spy on girls without their knowledge

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 43m

Bailing out Bessent’s billionaire friends on Wall Street from their bad investments is much more important.

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fakelawn @fakelawn.bsky.social · 26m

LOL awesome!

I have always hated this smug moron with his idiot drawl. Oprah’s love of quackery foisted this whacko on America as well as the equally despicable Dr. Oz.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Kris Armstrong @krisarmstrong1.bsky.social · 20m

Several were thinking that it might be a kidney issue.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23m

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1h

In the past 11 days, Department of Homeland Security Agents have used tear gas against the people of Chicago 4 times:
in Logan Square (Oct. 3); Brighton Park (Oct. 4); Albany Park (Oct. 11) and East Side (Oct. 14).
In all, 40 CPD officers have been exposed to the gas. @wttw.bsky.social

Federal Agents Deploy Tear Gas Against Crowd on Chicago’s Southeast Side

Federal immigration agents deployed tear gas on Chicago’s Southeast Side on Tuesday morning after a crowd gathered at the scene of a car crash involving those agents.

news.wttw.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

The entire first two months of the Biden administration were taken up by obsessive complaining about how he wouldn't do press conferences & wasn't taking policy questions (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

This? Gone tomorrow. Totally different set of standards applied to two totally different parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

One of my earliest smart political instincts was that Enron must be about to go bust bc of all the donations they were dropping.

This time around, I look at David Sacks, he of the SVB run followed by the bailout, and understand that the INSTALLED the bailout inside the [White] House.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1h

It’s no accident that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shot and killed a 14-month-old puppy and now oversees ICE.

(I observed at the time of her appointment that her killing of the dog probably made her a more attractive candidate for the position.)

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 5h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Karolina Muchova Fan Club @irvineghost20.bsky.social · 1h

East Side is a cool-as-hell Chicago neighborhood that @tedmcclelland.bsky.social wrote a great piece on back in 2021. Hope other Chicagoans will make the trek to support its brave residents this week if ICE continues to terrorize it

www.chicagomag.com/city-life/ye...

Yes, Chicago Really Has an East Side

The neighborhood is bounded by the Calumet River on the north and west, Lake Michigan on the east and Egger’s Grove on the south.

www.chicagomag.com

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 1h

Really waiting for a brave soul in DHS to blow the whistle on *exactly* who is working up these too-convenient, obviously fake intel assessments.

Seriously, the one remaining constant in the US-narcocartel strategic balance is "don't kill US cops, remember how bad they fucked us up for Kiki"

Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agents: DHS

Drug cartels have "disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel," according to a press release from DHS.

abcnews.go.com

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 20h

Proud to announce a huge, successful recruitment drive as Jesse Watters of Fox News has declared that every cyclist in the Naked Bike Ride in Portland is a member of ANTIFA.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 1h

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Kris Armstrong @krisarmstrong1.bsky.social · 34m

Rare authority… it’s illegal.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

Who’s Eating the Tariffs?

(via Goldman) @scottlincicome.bsky.social

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Kris Armstrong @krisarmstrong1.bsky.social · 38m

Fuck Facebook and fuck Mark Zuckerberg.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 57m

Out at Broadview to see if the fence will be taken down today. The Iron Workers at local 63 which is near by the facility are wearing “Fuck Trump” buttons and heckled Ben Bergquam and Terry Newsome as they tried to antagonize protesters on Beach Street.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 56m

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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North Side Pat @northsidepat.bsky.social · 57m

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 55m

The State of Illinois is documenting the criminal misconduct of Trump secret police agents in order to bring charges against those who engaged in acts ranging from assault to reckless endangerment and negligent operation of motor vehicles in the near future, Newsweek reveals.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Kevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 1h

Caleb Williams to Luther Burden III ... whew

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