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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 15h

I’m sick of pointing this out but JB Pritzker, governor of Illinois, put these cops here and bragged about it and wants to be president @govpritzker.illinois.gov

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 15h

so true!!! as is often the case when i don't look at it for months and get the scaries, the reality is much less dire than i worried!

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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 15h

im catching up on my budget which ive neglected since august; tell me a nice thing i can come back to after I finish

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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 18h

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h

the virtue signalling vs. not discussion just strikes me as a social drama that makes sense within the class of people that don't think they have anything else at stake in these discussions other than clout, some of whom also can't imagine any other way of relating to these discussions

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 19h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working on Ebola and dozens of other infectious disease experts
(Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t believe in the good or bad immigrant framework but thinking of older women in detention is gut wrenching. No one deserves to be in those conditions but it feels so demeaning to think of elders in those places.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 1d

Minnesota cops pulled over a black postal worker who was having a stroke. They assumed he was on drugs, threw him in jail, and didn't seek medical treatment. They left him alone in a cell for hours as he lost all bodily function. He died several days later. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/10/l...

Lawsuit: Minnesotan died after Eagan, Dakota County law enforcement ignored serious stroke symptoms • Minnesota Reformer

Jensen muted his equipment just as Moseng told him, “Before you got there, I was like, ‘Is this dude having a stro—’”

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 2d

The cease fire arrangement is good if it lets some more food get into Gaza, but few people there have confidence in it, and even in the best case scenario they could be living like this for years. Samaa still needs help to take care of her family. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social #SkyAid 🍉

A Palestinian woman tends a pan of food atop a small campfire on sandy ground.

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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 1d

I think it has so much in common with their fear of queerness and gender diversity -- if there's more than one right way to be a person, the fascist project kind of collapses

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 3d

worth pointing out: one of the many reasons Bibi didn't give a shit about the hostages is because they were all from Shaar haNegev, a region that, before the attack, was full of peaceniks and leftists who wanted to live in peace and equity with the Gazans and consequently did not vote for him.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 3d

Chaim Peri told another Nir Oz hostage, who was released in the first ceasefire, that a general hostage deal would take two years, because "it's Bibi and we're leftists." He was subsequently murdered last year and never saw his prediction come true to within days.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3d

actually we would be better off as a country if the obama administration had prosecuted the bush administration. ditto biden to trump. we're in a mess in large part because democrats were too chickenshit to do the right thing.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3d

“What we don’t want to become the norm is where people think, ‘OK, there’s a new administration, now everyone in the old administration gets prosecuted. That’s an incredibly dangerous cycle where nobody wins.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Experts fear impact of deepening polarization and perceived political prosecutions

Reforms enacted after Watergate to bolster public confidence in the impartiality of prosecutions are proving dated and ineffective, legal experts warn.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 3d

One thing dems should all be doing now is strongly and loudly condemning Trump's threats against Pritzker and Johnson. They're test balloons to see how close he is to being able to arrest / unseat / disappear them. And those test balloons must be immediately shot down to send the message HELL NO.

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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 3d

just pre-ordered so fuckin fast from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social!!!

Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 3d

Oh, look, a cover!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ann-l...

Radiant Star

Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Locati...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 4d

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 4d

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4d

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 4d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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It’s Ruby @ruby613.bsky.social · 4d

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Vallas would've had CPD attack the crowd protesting ICE after ICE shot a woman in Brighton Park, gassed onlookers, and then requested "assistance." It means something that Brandon Johnson did not betray us in that moment, and I won't forget it, even tho I've had my gripes with his administration.

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 4d

Actually, it really matters whether your electeds are progressive. We are often frustrated on the left at what electeds can deliver, but we have to remember moments like this. Paul Vallas would NOT have created ICE free zones.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 5d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

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