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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 13m

I keep hoping someone dumps a list of names and sends it to a capable investigative journalist. I'd imagine a ton of fired dirty cops and prison guards saw ICE and its intentionally loose hiring practices as a way to get back into law enforcement.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 36m

Glad to hear this, although I don't have a lot of faith in the humanity of ICE agents who have pepper-sprayed a minister and shot him in the forehead with a pepperball. Hoping this makes some of them question their decisions or at least feel bad about them.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 53m

I'd also think that, after they tried this before and DOGE showed its whole ass by firing a whole bunch of people they immediately needed to rehire, they'd maybe be more careful that time, but here we are.

a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it

Alt: Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons walks through a parking lot filled with rakes, repeatedly stepping on the tines and getting smacked in the forehead by the handle while doing so.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 59m

Well, we ARE a lovely state, but we'll take a hard pass on that particular type of tourist.

Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 1h

Just really surprising that none of that information has found daylight.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 1h

- Someone who could pull a list of cars rented at government rates (if the theory that they're renting is true)
- People who work at the hotels they're staying at who could pull a list of people staying there at government rates...

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 1h

Honestly, the biggest surprise to me is that no one has dumped a file and given it to a responsible journalist. Thinking that, while that COULD be someone who works for ICE, it could also be:

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 1h

I proof bread in the fridge. Great opportunity to build gluten AND character.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 3h

I'd add that nothing destroys the Trump administration drumbeat that Portland is somehow simultaneously on fire and made entirely of plywood like broadcasting their remarks and then cutting to footage of an inflatable woodland creature dance party.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 3h

Also seeing random people in my neighborhood wearing fluorescent plastic whistles and a lot of the places that sell bulk packs of them on Amazon (yeah, not a lot of options in the bulk whistle space) are sold out of them.

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Rhonda Henry @rhonda234567.bsky.social · 15h

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 3h

Absolute genius, especially because the usual tactic is to push the crowd back to let vehicles out and then the reverse of that immediately yields footage of ICE backing down to the advance of inflatable frogs/woodland creatures/teletubbies.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 4h

Do we know which counties the Indiana and Wisconsin sheriffs are from?

Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 4h

* Just noticed the google drive has English and Spanish instructions, going to put those up

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks! Thinking of putting a box out outside our house with the “short blasts for ICE spotted, long blasts if someone is being taken” instructions

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 4h

Thinking that it’s a great way to have a crowd show up quickly especially around areas they’re targeting like schools

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 4h

Just south of you guys in Edgewater and our doggie day care was handing out whistles. Seeing random people walking around with the fluorescent whistles on lanyards around their necks.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 4h

Also, I used to rent cars a lot for work, and the contract we had with Hertz was written so anyone from our company could drive or return it, so it’s possible that part of it is making it hard to pinpoint crimes done with the vehicle to a specific driver.

Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 5h

Additionally, it would probably make tracking agents more opaque to the extent if someone looks up a VIN/plate and it turns up as owned by a rental fleet.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know if they’re personal cars or rentals, but rental fleets are huge and it would allow them to do, say, a weekly rental at the federal rate and then change it out for another one to minimize the ability to track specific cars.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23h

The teams have stopped play and have joined each other on the field to sing Christmas carols

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Holy footnote, Batman!

Hamilton: What kind of stupid, self-defeating, tyrannical maniac would send the National Guard hundreds of miles from home to oppress people in other states?! Sit down, Don.

$1 “A sample of this is to be observed in the exaggerated and improbable suggestions which have taken place respecting the power of calling for the services of the militia. That of New-Hampshire is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New-Hampshire, of New-York to Kentuke and of Kentuke to Lake Champlain. Nay the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in Militia-men instead of Louis d’ors and ducats. At one moment there is to be a large army to lay prostrate the liberties of the people; at another moment the militia of Virginia are to be dragged from their homes five or six hundred miles to tame the republican contumacy of Massachusetts; and that of Massachusetts is to be transported an equal distance to subdue the refractory haughtiness of the aristocratic Virginians. Do the persons, who rave at this rate, imagine, that their art or their eloquence can impose any conceits or absurdities upon the people of America for infallible truths?$

If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism what need of the militia? If
there should be no army, whither would the militia, irritated by being called upon to undertake a distant
and hopeless expedition for the purpose of rivetting the chains of slavery upon a part of their countrymen
direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a
project; to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power and to make them an example of the just
vengeance of an abused and incensed people? Is this the way in which usurpers stride to dominion over a
numerous and enlightened nation? Do they begin by exciting the detestation of the very instruments of
their intended usurpations? Do they usually commence their career by wanton and disgustful acts of
power calculated to answer no end, but to draw upon themselves universal hatred and execration? Are
suppositions of this sort the sober admonitions of discerning patriots to a discerning people? Or are they
the inflammatory ravings of chagrined incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts? If we were even to
suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that
they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs.”
The Federalist No. 29, at 186-187 (Alexander Hamilton) (Jacob Ernest Cooke ed., 1961).

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 1d

You're right, but I find that "70% of Republicans are fine with the president sending the National Guard into states where the government doesn't want him to" is terrifying. Even if they hate us, I'd still think more than 30% would look at it and thing "yeah, no good can come of THAT."

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 1d

I mean Republicans LOVE anyone who can look in a camera and say "I didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left me" and they'll forget all the corruption and weirdness in a few years.