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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 7d

I feel bad for the doom posts.

But all of you outside of Chicago and the US need to not look away.

There are de facto concentration camps.

Humans kidnapped & disappeared.

Midnight gestapo raids of apartment buildings.

Groups of militia terrorizing and brutalizing people on busy streets.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 10m

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Paul Poiret bejeweled and feathered turban.

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 2h

This looks like a photo of a woman in the 70s or 80s, but it's from the turn of the century.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), US playwright, poet and novelist. Lover of US painter Romaine Brooks among others, she began publishing love poems to women under her own name as early as 1900 #WomensArt

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 3h

Is it not everyone's favorite building?

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 7h

So do the Texas National Guard have to go home?

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7h

With that, Perry's off the bench. Formal written order coming tomorrow. We'll see if the national guard shows up at the fed courthouse anyway.

Still not sure what the "in part" referred to when she said she was granting the restraining order "in part."

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326 Bureau Chief (New and Improved!) @326bureauchief.bsky.social · 7h

BANG.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 8h

In part? Did Oregon get an "in part" ruling?

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 8h

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 9h

"editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd" sounds about right...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Every day it's just helicopters all day long now and people are somehow still unsure whether to call this an occupation

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 10h

ICE reportedly kidnapped someone this morning a block from my kids’ old school, in Rogers Park in Chicago. There are usually people there selling tamales, tacos, drinks, fruit etc

You know, doing things that make a place a community

They hate the places & communities & people we love

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 11h

Went outside to touch grass and a loud black helicopter was circling over me, nose down.

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 11h

Normal day in the neighborhood...

No planes, only a black helicopter buzzing the lakefront and zig zaging the far Northside.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 11h

Normal day in the neighborhood...

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 12h

As someone who was recently prevented from boarding a flight from Chicago to the UK - a situation that took 3.5 weeks to sort, during which I nearly ran out of vital cancer medication - this frightens me. I have family in the US, but I'm increasingly hesitant to return...

Be careful out there.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 12h

"L'État, c'est moi."

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 12h

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h

The federal government is making war on American cities. These people are fascist traitors.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Kristi Noem: "If we have to do it the hard way in Portland and Chicago, we will."

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 12h

Yep!

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 13h

I would strongly advise against playing into the administration's agenda of characterizing human rights, civil liberties, community organizing, or immigration assistance as Leftist.

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 13h

Not leftists. Just people. I lived in Albany Park a decade ago and the anti-ICE community organizing was already in force there included faith leaders, business owners, labor orgs, schools, immigrants from all corners of the world, mainstream Dems, translators, lawyers, nonprofits, etc. Nonpartisan.

Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 15h

I keep seeing chuds being like “why did no one ever talk about immigration before” or “why weren’t volunteers standing on corners to protect people from gangs” when leftists have literally been doing both these things for decades

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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 18h

Bag
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/102847

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Charles L. Livingston, Jr., 1962

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Perfume Papi @heyhassan.com · 1d

Still haven’t found all the kids lost in that flood though huh?

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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
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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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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 1d

“I haven’t done anything,” Miranda said to the officers in the video.

“Turn around or you’re going to get the dog,” an officer said. “We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.”

Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 1d

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

www.koin.com

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drew their weapons on, assaulted, pepper sprayed, zip-tied, shackled, and detained *white U.S. citizens* at a suburban Chicago cemetery. A cemetery. Sacred ground. They were not read their rights nor we they told what they were being charged with.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Video: ICE agents clash with Forest Park cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines Rive

YouTube video by WGN News

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