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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Lily Linke @lilylinke.bsky.social · 3d

Yup - they’re STILL talking about Sydney Sweeney. No one gives a shit!

Lily Linke @lilylinke.bsky.social · 3d

The “backlash” they describe in the article is literally just people in the Trump admin and one nameless person on X ….

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

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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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8d

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child, authorities said.

Texas megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges

Authorities say the founder of a Texas megachurch has pleaded guilty to lewd and indecent acts with a child after he was accused of sexually abusing a young girl in the 1980s in Oklahoma while he was a traveling minister.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

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

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 11d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Lily Linke @lilylinke.bsky.social · 11d

bike lanes save lives ❤️

Dan Przygoda @dprzygoda.bsky.social · 11d

I did it. I added some Keystone Cops music to this:

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 13d

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 13d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 13d

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

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Lily Linke @lilylinke.bsky.social · 15d

Humiliating. The media has failed us so miserably

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 15d

More people should be talking about this.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 15d

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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Lily Linke @lilylinke.bsky.social · 15d

I’d already been putting off replacing ours because they’re so expensive to begin with 😭

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16d

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is in select theaters October 2.

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Lily Linke @lilylinke.bsky.social · 16d

This should be everywhere

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social · 17d

This is terrifying and unsurprising. From the start, ICE has been picking people off the streets and sending them into detention centers with no reporting. It’s been incredibly hard to track down anyone who has been detained.

The goal has always been to disappear them.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16d

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

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Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Lily Linke @lilylinke.bsky.social · 17d

This is the guy who had porn playing in the background during a work meeting ….

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17d

BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.

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Lily Linke @lilylinke.bsky.social · 18d

How am I just hearing about this??