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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 12h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 12h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 11h

We have ended up with a techbro socio-economic system built at its core on the belief that human connection is the problem to be solved out of existence.

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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve already unsubscribed from the Mills spam texts three times today, and there’s a lot of time left

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 17h

The good news is that the DSCC and the establishment clowns haven't learned anything, so they're probably pissing off a ton of Maine voters and donors by spamming the shit out of people

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 8d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 11d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11d

It’s clear the president of the United States is not the president of the United States.

Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 11d

“Mr. Trump was first told of the cuts by Ms. Hochul during a phone call on Sunday evening, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation.”

Trump Administration Reverses $187 Million in N.Y. Counterterrorism Cuts

www.nytimes.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 16d

“older president”

Trump is 79. Biden was ushered out at 81.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16d

“Had an older president like Joe Biden babbled like this there would have been immediate calls to airlift him to a sanatorium.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Anyone with courage has to acknowledge Trump isn't well. And he's getting worse. | Opinion

Ranting about Tylenol and escalators while seeking revenge on his enemies, Trump is showing us one simple thing: He is desperate and declining.

www.usatoday.com

Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 17d

This is what the majority of the caucus wants.

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 17d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 17d

The tiny silver lining to all these horrors is the total conceptual embrace in Trumpland of aggressively prosecuting government figures for corruption

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Trump is now threatening to prosecute his first hand-picked FBI director, Chris Wray

It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as “Law Enforcement Officials.” I want to know who each and every one of these so-called “Agents” are, and what they were up to on that now “Historic” Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of “Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians” to them! Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA AGAIN!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19d

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 19d

Trump: ‘We will be imposing a 50% Tariff on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom Vanities, and associated products, starting October 1st, 2025. Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture. The reason for this is the large scale “FLOODING” of these products

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 21d

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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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 28d

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 28d

GOOGLE SEARCHES FOR “HELP WITH MORTGAGE” SURPASS 2008 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS PEAK, SIGNALING GROWING FINANCIAL STRAIN ON U.S. HOUSEHOLDS

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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 28d

Ultimatley I just appreciate how aggressively it gerrymanders the Italy vote sink

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 28d

Since January OMB Director Russ Vought has hidden over $410 billion in appropriated funds in order to push his own agenda. trib.al/8b60Vlr

Russ Vought’s Scheme Has Been Unmasked

Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this.

trib.al

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29d

Updated second link: blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-...

Not One, But Two Men Were Found Hanging in Mississippi | Black Zone Magazine

blackzonemagazine.com

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Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera @seanelorivera.bsky.social · 29d

When the Chamber spends big on ads against raising wages, but the comment section turns into a pro-worker rally. 👀👏

I had to read some of my favorites. Thank you to everyone for speaking truth to power. Your voices matter and tomorrow we are bringing those voices to City Hall.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Sep 14

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 14

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 11

Ummmmm…

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 11

President Trump temporarily delayed the repatriation of more than 300 South Korean workers after the Hyundai-LG raid in Georgia to explore whether they could stay in the U.S. to educate and train American workers, South Korean officials said.

Trump offered to let S. Korean detainees stay, train U.S. workers, Seoul says

The 316 South Koreans arrested at the Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia are expected to return home Friday. The raid may chill investment in the U.S., South Korea’s president said.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Sep 10

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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