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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 5h

To "distribute" or "administer" comminion is the correct usage

Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 8h

I can see the reporter coming back to the office and saying "Bad news is, the frog was out tonight. But I got the chicken!"

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah you think?!

Biggest Little Action Group @renoactiongroup.bsky.social · 18h

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Judge temporarily blocks National Guard deployment in Chicago, saying it violates Constitution

A federal judge granted a request to temporarily block a National Guard deployment in Chicago, saying the move violates the U.S. Constitution.

www.nbcchicago.com

Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 8h

"You and the frog have become icons"

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 18h

From the Nobel Committee today:

“Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination.”

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Biggest Little Action Group @renoactiongroup.bsky.social · 19h

Los Angeles Co. may issue a state of emergency declaration in response to ICE's presence. The declaration would allow the county to protect renters whose breadwinner has been disappeared
www.aol.com/news/l-count...

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 17h

A natural for Wim Wenders

Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 17h

Really looking forward to the day I can see the new film from the argentine filmmaking collective El Pampero Cine, "Pin de Fartie"
filmmakermagazine.com/132167-inter...

Endgames: Alejo Moguillansky on Pin de Fartie

Pin de Fartie (2025), directed by independent Argentinian collective El Pampero Cine member Alejo Moguillansky, is less an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s one-act play Fin de Partie (1957) than a…

filmmakermagazine.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Biggest Little Action Group @renoactiongroup.bsky.social · 1d

"We’ve learned that these federal agents are largely untrained, disorganized, not very smart. They’re not the same kind of threat as a police force. People need to understand they’re inexperienced, scared, and vulnerable to counter-action.”
sf.gazetteer.co/sf-activists...

SF activists level up the anti-ICE fight

The chaos in Chicago and Portland is inspiring strategy among local activists

sf.gazetteer.co

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

Now they'll have a moment of silence that lasts six months

Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

Once again I am begging Gen X and younger journalists to become aware of the singer José Feliciano singing the national anthem before one of the games of the 1968 World Series
www.mlb.com/news/jose-fe...

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

And those are the cops who *haven't* been fired and subsequently hired by ICE so they could abuse people with impunity

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 2d

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Despite strong objections from Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and the people of Chicago, the Trump regime is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago today.

If you are in Chicago and need guidance on how to interact with the Guard, here’s a helpful guide:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

bit.ly

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

Dept. of Don't Know Whether to Laugh or Cry

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

Know the enemy (Bovino. Not his targets)

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

Really fantastic piece by a Chicagoland activist processing the emergency through her mind and body as she struggles to think clearly about the next thing to do.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

Today in news stories I won't be reading

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

Want to do something positive?

Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 10d

ACLU's On the Ground program deploys volunteers to provide free speech and Know Your Rights information at protests and community events. If you haven’t attended a Ground Team training or need a refresher, sign up here for an upcoming Zoom session on
Wednesday, Oct. 8th:
tinyurl.com/37pppw5a

Ground Team Training

Take action with ACLU!

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

Several Bay Area counties will return to a mask mandate for health care workers
www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

Mask mandates return in parts of the Bay Area as virus season nears

Mask requirements are returning to health care settings across parts of the Bay Area, as health officials brace for the annual surge in respiratory illnesses — including COVID, influenza and RSV.

www.sfchronicle.com

Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 2d

Federal agent in a van points gun at civilian taking video. The incident took place yesterday in Berwyn, IL
centeredamerica.substack.com/p/news-ice-a...

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 3d

💯

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Mark Pritchard 🏳️‍🌈 @markpritchard.bsky.social · 3d

(As you can see, getting shot in the head by multiple pepper rounds did not shut the brother up.]

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