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Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 7d

Protest equipment: Two-pack at Home Depot for $𝟔𝟎

The look on ICEholes' gaitered faces when they realize they can't leave the growing mob, with or without their legal-resident abductees: 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒

Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 18m

Another Trump first!

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 16h

This Portland Police officer is now my hero! 🔥👊🏼

#StopTheMadness

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Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 8h

...and then put it on an ICE vehicle's windshield

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 3d

5 of the 12 Coast Guard C-27s were in the air today (0000-0000 UTC, Monday 6 October 2025).

2 were participating in ethnic cleansing for ICE.

The USCG is part of DHS, run by Kristy Noem. She uses these planes daily to transport ICE abductees.

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Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 20h

They're going to hell.

#Noem #Portland #ICE #performativeChristianity

Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 20h

#Chicago #ICE #resistance

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Deranged Trump Lawyer Pam Bondi Says Americans Who Oppose Fascism Will Be Treated Exactly Like Foreign Narcoterrorists—Meaning That Summary Execution Via Domestic Military Strike Is on the Table

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Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 1d

A survey over at Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/24/2342246/-10-ish-Gems-of-Bluesky-Today-Day-110

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

A plainclothes officer sucker punches and violently arrests a man after he points out that another officer is deliberately stepping on a woman’s shoes while she is carrying her child.

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courtney01.bsky.social @courtney01.bsky.social · 1d

ICE AGENTS
ARE THE GUYS
POLICE DEPARTMENTS
REJECT.

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Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 1d

State violations

Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 1d

Slowly, slowly it will dawn on them that numerous 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 J6ers were 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 and 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 too. The 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 isn't enough. And we'll have 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬, 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 of 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 of them to help us locate them and put them away.

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Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 1d

Miller and Hegseth should take a trip to Canada this time of year. The leaves are changing. They'd enjoy it.

#ICCwarrant

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Chris Dorman @chrisdorman.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Armitage: When ICE breaks down a door with only administrative paperwork, that’s burglary under California Penal Code 459. When they haul away citizens without probable cause, that’s kidnapping under Penal Code 207.
#ThomHartmann

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The next target on Trump's list should trouble all of us

Remember the old TV crime/drama shows? A cop would bang on a suspect’s door and the suspect would say, through the door, “Do you have a warrant?” The officer would then walk away, promising to come ba...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 1d

Barbara Res said that she and Donald originally started work at 7am, but as he started becoming full of himself in the late '80s, he changed, and didn't show up to the office any earlier than 11. His work ethic never recovered.

Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 1d

...embarrassed to learn of British brutality abroad. By contrast, the Nazis were much more aggressive in censoring the news to the more decent people back home, who did protest enough that concentration camps were moved outside of Germany. I'm afraid news getting out doesn't even matter in America.

Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, she got it right in the airhole. Tough for me to find any satisfaction in this.

In Harry Turtledove's speculative history "The Last Article" (1988), a victorious Nazi Germany occupies India and executes Gandhi. He knew the British back home had a high opinion of themselves and would be...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Canada vs. America

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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, they're shooting priests in the head - so yeah...

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Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 1d

They still managed to track down and imprison J6ers who were masked...and that was only one day of footage.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

This is well said. Trump and Noem need to back off before we have another Kent State tragedy.

Tweet from Aaron Reichlin-Melnick quoting Laura N. Rodríguez Presa.
Aaron’s comment: “DHS is an escalation spiral; the more they do things like this, the more people on the ground push back... and I'm deeply worried what the ultimate result will be.”
Laura’s tweet reads: “A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them... Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents ICE activity, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.”
Attached photo shows a federal agent inside a vehicle pointing a rifle out of the driver’s side window.

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Lowering The Gaiter @loweringthegaiter.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like someone showed him the clip of Rev. Black getting pasted in the face with a pepper ball.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Jeremy C-Howl @jmchao.bsky.social · 1d

Excommunicate Vance and Alito and become a legend, Leo.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: Everything we're doing is very lawful and what they're doing is not lawful.

And what the governor and mayor, as an example, you can say of Portland and certainly of Chicago, it's not lawful what they're doing. They have to be very careful.

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