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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."

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

Grateful for friends who give me late-night advice. ❤️

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 7h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

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The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8h

I can never be without it. Star Trek is my emotional support franchise, and DS9 is the load-bearing series.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

A tow truck is bringing an ICE/CBP vehicle back to the facility—and its back window has been completely smashed out.

Front driver's side window is cracked, too.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Folks playing some thematic standoff music now.

Really just cannot express how non-threatening this small group of neighbors appears at the moment, and how absurd this massive police presence appears in comparison.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Outside the Broadview detention center, ISP + Broadview PD are still blocking Harvard + 25th. It's officially after curfew.

One organizer is urging some remaining protesters to leave (they are mostly ignoring the plea). It's truly mostly press here now, including a number of far right/chud media.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 8h

Screenshot of a bunch of folks in front of the Portland ICE building wearing blow up unicorn costumes dancing in bubbles. Text reads:

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky....
bubble dance party

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
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She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
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BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 8h

"Protesters are expected to absorb violence but never inflict it—to function as shock absorbers to be acted upon, whose sympathetic value is nullified by any deviation from that standard ... under capitalism, 'peace' is the maintenance of violence on the state’s terms."

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Sep 8

"If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because 'violence' is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as 'peaceful' are, in reality, quite violent."

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 10h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 9h

Last I checked, rules governing when certain types of force can be used don't depend on the target's political beliefs or job title...

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 13h

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

Good for you.

Everyone else: Watch DS9. Let the Bell Riots radicalize you.

countblanc @countblanc.bsky.social · 9h

i'm working my way through Deep Space 9 for the first time right now and just bumped into an episode that takes place in 2024 America where the boys participate in an armed civil uprising. lol.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 9h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 10h

This is my neighborhood. I passed by here *several* times today and somehow missed this. The fascists move very quickly.

Thanks to ICE terrorizing our streets, a lot of the folks who I usually see throughout the day are nowhere to be found. It's sad, it's scary, it's infuriating.

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 13h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 20h

Best to not actually pick up any alleged tear gas or smoke grenade or projectile. Too hot. And there’s been a lot of use of flashbangs. The misfire rate on them is not zero. Only a matter of time before some damn fool bleeds out because they lost a hand

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

Love that one.

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Saw it. Very creepy.