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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

This is hilarious

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t know what’s real and what’s satire anymore. My detector is completely broken by this.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 6h

I’m here to say there were more than 120 people tonight. The room was packed, two people deep around the edges after all 100 seats were taken, with people out in the hallway. So many parents, teachers, neighbors, several principals. West Ridge showed up ready to get to work.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 14h

This statement from the DoJ. So it can be a figurative rebellion? A theoretical rebellion? A waft of rebellious vibes? Trump (Miller) is so thirsty for this.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 15h

"It doesn't have to be a literal rebellion" for the president to have the authority to federalize the National Guard, says Eric Hamilton, arguing for the Department of Justice.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Lauren FitzPatrick @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social · 18h

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates.
@chicago.suntimes.com has documented 4 unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 20h

There was a massive fire on Chicago’s far north side (West Ridge) this morning, w/multiple fatalities. The National Guard is trained to help communities after a disaster, but they can’t now, even though they’re already here, because residents would be too rightfully terrified of them.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 20h

The sentimental teacher in me hopes that somewhere, a former student sees all this and thinks of Murakami’s “Super Frog Saves Tokyo.”

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is not great

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

White nationalism has built in features that effectively appeal to young men who are not white — misogyny, transphobia, antisemitism, and the overall vibe that someone is keeping and/or taking something from them.

Skeeter Rabbit👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏾 @makkkiiio.bsky.social · 1d

White boys aren’t the only ones consuming right wing red pill media, it’s a lot of black boys falling into the pipeline too and more parents should give a fuck about it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

They’re here to protect the armed federal agents who have been terrorizing school communities for weeks, kidnapping parents and tear gassing entire neighborhoods

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

They’re here to protect the Blackhawk helicopters that dropped armed federal agents into an apartment building so they could zip tie children at the behest of a crooked landlord

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

They’re here to protect the federal agents who shot an unarmed pastor in the head with a chemical projectile from a rooftop

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

I’ll hand it to them, the Trib Editorial Board really has cemented their absurd place in these absurd times.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

Editorial: We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot

Provocateurs on the right and left were the story of a chaotic weekend in Chicago. Our political leaders need to reclaim the narrative and cool things down.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: 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 and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 2d

The rage.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

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