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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h

“That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 3h

Guy does a 180 in 10 seconds from saying he's a libertarian for limited government to calling for banning pride parades

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h

Non-Trump Republican judges seem to be doing a better job recognizing the stakes of the present moment than the modal elected Dem.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

Press needs to assume everything McLaughlin says is a lie. On Saturday within an hour or so of it happening, she was tweeting about the woman they shot and
Everything
She
Said
Was
A
Lie

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 6h

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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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine how terrifying it must be as a foreign leader or foreign intelligence service to watch a US president this divorced from actual reality or facts….

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 8h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“America is now in a dangerous period, in which the president can order investigations and indictments against his enemies,” the editorial board writes.

Opinion | James Comey. Letitia James. Who’s Next?

America is now in a dangerous period, in which the president can order investigations and indictments against his enemies.

nyti.ms

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4h

Libs of TikTok whining about anyone “promoting harassment” is reeeeeally rich.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone, I’m just <sniffs> I’m just so proud of us all.

We finally did it.

LibsOfTikTok finally targeted me.

<single tear rolls down cheek>

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long <unfolds acceptance speech> and first I want to thank everyone who made it possible: Harambe, Kony2012, my fa

A post from failed real estate agent and local ghoul Chaya Raichik aka LibsOfTikTok targeting me. Text of the post reads:

“Leftist CA State Assembly candidate Chris Kluwe, who promotes the harassment of ICE online, was ARRESTED at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting earlier this year.

Chris was protesting a proposed library plaque that featured a phrase similar to ‘Make America Great Again’

Chris called MAGA a ‘Nazi movement’ before leaving the podium and approaching the council member, where he was grabbed by police and carried out.

This unhinged lunatic wants to be an elected official…”

Thanks for the free advertising, Chaya!

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 7h

Good. No news outlet should trade the right to do real journalism for the right to get lied to at Pentagon press conferences.

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 4h

"Stanford's Pfefferkorn warns that while US tech companies are not state-controlled, they have in her view become 'happy handmaidens' when it comes to 'repressing free speech and dissent.'"

www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Apple Took Down These ICE-Tracking Apps. The Developers Aren't Giving Up

“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.

www.wired.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

This evening: frogs lay siege to the ICE fortress in Portland. Kristi Noem doesn't think this is funny. Every one else thinks it's hysterical. bsky.app/profile/oreg...

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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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5h

So, you have the new art of our cute owl mascot ready?

Sure boss, real sexy, just like you wanted.

Duo the Duolingo owl drawn as an anime girl with a miniskirt, stockings and a lacy garter.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7h

Healthy people don't like it. There's depressingly large subset of the population that gets aroused watching men in uniforms brutalizing civilians on trivial pretexts.

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 7h

People see masked ICE thugs physically abusing and arresting normies, and they do not like it. Consequences are going to follow. It's just a matter of time.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 9h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7h

I'm actually pretty pro-filibuster, but the "founders" did not "create the Senate" that way. There's no filibuster in the Constitution. The Senate's own rules made it possible starting in 1806, but nobody actually exploited it until over 30 years later.

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 8h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 9h

Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 9h

Cops are great

Also you're not supposed to keep people prone like this, because they literally suffocate to death ("positional asphyxia")

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 10h

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)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9h

This is the convenient thing about antifa: Since there's not really any such thing as an "antifa member," you can just kinda claim anyone is.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 9h

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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h

The right-wing is justifying shooting priests

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 9h

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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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9h

Psychologically healthy people tend to react with instinctive sympathy for the person being abused, but there are a lot of small, weak folks who instead identify with the abuser, and feel powerful for a few seconds imagining themselves in those jackboots.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9h

If you want some insight into how we got here, check out any video on YouTube or Reels of ICE/border patrol behaving violently and abusively. There are always DOZENS of commenters eager to lick the boot, thrilling vicariously at watching someone beaten for not complying in exactly the right way.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9h

Why stop there? How about an Oscar, a Tony, and Miss America?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11h

Speaking with Fox Business Friday morning, Rep. Buddy Carter said that (instead of working to end the government shutdown) he and his colleagues were going to file a resolution “today” to honor the president with the Nobel Prize. trib.al/otK0dlI

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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