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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Attend a No Kings protest Oct. 18. Bring family and friends.
Give $$ to groups fighting fascism, such as Democracy Docket & ACLU.
Support truth-telling media such as Guardian & ProPublica.
Reach out to any persuadable people you know who have leaned toward Trump.
Get active while you still can.

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 2d

Not to mention ICE tear gassed Johnson's cops when they tried to protect them!

Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 4d

The #cubs new curse: got 2 outs 2 strikes on 'em? Watch out, it's HR time.

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 6d

Might even give them a better chance to win this game!

Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 7d

This, I believe, is what you call "state police assisting ICE"

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 7d

Impactful read. "This is how we live now: our ordinary places become something else, in an instant, subject to the whims of some bastard out to inflict cruelty or having a bad day or just following orders or a combination of it all."

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 7d

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

State cops literally assisted ICE in assaulting and arresting people who had been actively complying with the demands of state police. Folks were on the sidewalk, and ICE marched up and attacked the crowd for a photo op. IL state cops helped. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must be held accountable.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8d

This is genuine secret police shit

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 9d

Giving up the 2-out HR. A Cubs special this year 😠#cubs

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 9d

Seriously. Swing and miss on three pitches in the heart of the zone.

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Matt B. @originalmattb.com · 12d

Music added. Hosted on YouTube as BSky video uploads always fail for me.

youtu.be/2x5-JtDhTns

Yakety N*zis

YouTube video by Matt B

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 13d

Sun-Times describes itself as a newspaper

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 13d

They could use another one, somewhere on the other side around Waveland and Clark. Takes forever to make your way over to this one after a game if you're heading back northwest.

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · 15d

You mean Q2, not Q3?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

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Amanda Kaschube @amandakaschube.bsky.social · 21d

This photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social, wow.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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Philip Nemer @philipnemer.bsky.social · 23d

#ABC.
#JimmyKimmel.
#Censorship.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 28d

We're with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on the govt funding fight:

The Dem ask *shouldn't* be for policy wins. The demand should be that Trump end the lawlessness -- e.g. no masked feds, no federalizing the nat'l guard for no reason, no impoundment etc.

That's an argument that can be won. #MEpolitics

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · Sep 9

I cannot for the life of me understand how Republicans think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the government confiscate your guns and show how shootings can be reduced!

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · Sep 9

If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Getting Old @mao51.bsky.social · Sep 5

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · Sep 5

With the Trump Administration about to roll its ugly occupation into Chicago, I wanted to write a little lyrical love letter to the city. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Aug 28

But there's no denying that at this very moment we're experiencing life under authoritarianism: people having to measure what they say and in front of whom, secret police snatching people into vans, president completely unconstrained by Congress -- this is the real deal...

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