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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 17h

Another Kavanaugh stop.

“'Turn around or you’re going to get the dog...We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.'” they said to an American citizen. "The officers struck Miranda from behind, which caused him to collapse before he was taken away in an unmarked van."

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

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

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 1d

IT IS YOUR JOB TO FOLLOW THIS.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d

This is not going to end well. Sooner or later an American citizen is going to get killed.

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 2d

"Storming an apt complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital... [The] increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence & fueling neighborhood tensions."

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

The local PD believes ICE called in a fake 911 call about protestors trying to break into ICE facility. Cops only found a CBS news crew shooting B-roll.

Now why would ICE do that?

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.

ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 3d

“Body-camera video …shows an officer saying, ‘Do something, b----,’ before pulling over and shooting the woman five times.”

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

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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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 4d

This is Chicago. Where a heavily armed agent of the federal government in a combat ready vehicle is pointing a long gun at peaceful protestors. This is CHICAGO, not Fallajuh.
chicago.suntimes.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 7d

“He … entered the U.S. legally in 2004.”

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 7d

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

www.wabe.org/family-says-...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 7d

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 7d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 7d

"Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked... Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours."

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 8d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 7d

"She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later."

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 8d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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KatWomanScreamingIntoTheVoid @katwomanwalks.bsky.social · 8d

"As comical as many of Trump’s comments were, the president’s nakedly partisan appeal to U.S. military officers was a violation of every standard of American civil-military relations, and exactly what George Washington feared could happen with an unscrupulous commander in chief."

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9d

The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief?

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay

Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

www.theatlantic.com

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 9d

Here, in my opinion, is how all honest pieces on the Hegseth/Trump disgrace should read:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 9d

"They're trying to remove her as far away as they can from her counsel, from her family... Knowing that she's married to a U.S. citizen, she has a legal way to become a permanent resident in a matter of months, if they just gave her a chance to find her paperwork."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 10d

Kavanaugh says citizens/lawful residents will be free to go after a brief encounter.

Reporting: "They have been handcuffed, kept in holding cells and immigration facilities overnight, and in at least two cases held without access to a lawyer or even a phone call."

Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 10d

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10d

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 11d

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11d

79. American citizen.

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 11d

The whole cycle. Calling people animals and explaining how he teaches his kids the same.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12d

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family

Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'

spectrumlocalnews.com

mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 11d

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 11d

My local police department, by contrast, publishes a lightly redacted weekly summary of arrests.

A person could (and people do!) check here when a community member disappears.

In no case are they shipped to a foreign torture prison.

See the difference?

www.new.somervillepd.com/index.php/we...

Weekly Arrest Log

www.new.somervillepd.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22d

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

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