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Teri G

@terilg.bsky.social

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Info junkie, native Chicagoan. Music, dogs, progressive politics. Worried about what’s left of democracy. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ☮️ Married. Will block MAGA, crypto, creepy internet suitors, fake profiles & uninvited DMs. Xitter refugee. Can be salty. F*ck you fElon.

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · Aug 31

Get ready #chicago Save and share this image. It will be helpful when the #iceraids begin

Illinois Coalition for immigrant and refugee rights family support network, for ICE sightings, arrests, immigration legal help 7am-9pm: 855-435-7693

Cook County public defender’s arrest response hotline, free lawyers for people in custody or in court Chicago/Cook County 24/7: 844-817-4448

First Defense Legal Aid Help Not Jail Hotline: 1-800-LAW-REP4 / 529-7374

National Lawyers Guild Chicago, free lawyers if arrested during protests or for political activity while in custody or in court: 872-4NLG-CHI / 872-465-4244

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

I argued yesterday that, by lowering the bar to indicting a former FBI director to "make shit up," Kash and Pam Bondi signed their own arrest warrants.

Either they keep ratcheting up their own abuse, or they'll meet the same fate as Comey.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel

By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

www.emptywheel.net

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FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 2h

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

66 say Trump has used his Admin to punish those he does not like, but only 61 says he has used it to enrich himself.

Still high, but should be much higher, iMO.

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2h

These are terrible numbers for Trump (via @pewresearch.org)

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Majorities say trump has used his office improperly; fewer say he has improved government, U.S. standing" (graphs via Pew Research)

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2h

just for context, this happened in Chicago 19 days ago. Still horrific -obviously- but these attacks on protestors and the press have been happening for weeks now.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 2h

Mr. “Plenary Authority”

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

I complained earlier that WaPo's story on Trump inviting PizzaGate guy to the White House was insane. Not so this Independent story.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Not to be outdone, in came Jack Posobiec, one of the right’s weirdest hangers-on, who is perhaps most famous for the time he spread the “Pizzagate” theory and then got removed from the pizzeria in question by police for filming a child’s birthday party. Running with the major theme of the hour — that Antifa is definitely, certainly, really real despite all evidence to the contrary, and that everybody needs to stop saying it’s not real — Posobiec made a startling claim: Antifa is so clearly real that it “has been going on for almost 100 years ... going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.”

And look, yes, it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis. But it’s sort of difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy. I’m just saying that, if I was Posobiec’s publicity guy, I might ask him to drop that soundbite from future public appearances.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2h

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

Judge to Decide Whether to Block National Guard Deployment as Trump Sends California Troops to Illinois

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

news.wttw.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h

One is an Iraq veteran who is days away from retirement, and who will lose all his retirement benefits as a result. The persons fired engaged in no misconduct of any sort. But Trump is angry at them.

Kash Patel Fires Two F.B.I. Agents Who Worked on Trump Investigation

www.nytimes.com

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2h

Host: 47% of Americans believe that Trump and the Republicans are mainly responsible for the shutdown. Do you agree?

Marjorie Taylor Greene: I'm actually putting the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening. We control the House, the Senate, the White House.

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 4h

And then he will have grounds to invoke the Insurrection Act

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 4h

Love this! Go Chicago!

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 15h

“After Trump’s executive order was signed, numerous free speech groups across the political spectrum quickly condemned it….

“‘[T]his order signals a crackdown directed against speech by one side in the national discussion, Trump’s political adversaries,’ echoed Walter Olson of the Cato institute.”

White House crackdown on 'antifa' lacks legal teeth, experts say

Experts on extremism say President Trump lacks the legal basis to designate antifa a terrorist organization — but they say the move could still chill constitutionally-protected speech.

www.wtkr.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: TN’s Senators Blackburn & Hagerty joined Republicans in blocking a resolution that would’ve forced Trump to get congressional approval for targeted killings.

AP: The Trump admin hasn’t shown Congress any evidence that the targeted boats were smuggling drugs.

apnews.com/article/trum...

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 15h

This is the incident in Cicero, it appears, that @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social did an interview about.

www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...

Jacob Soboroff speaks to people in Chicago suburb after ICE arrests 2 men at bakery

Two men were arrested by ICE while getting a cup of coffee at a bakery in a Chicago suburb. MSNBC Senior Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff spoke with a woman who witnessed the arrest...

www.msnbc.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 15h

This is yet another manifestation of their Sadism. They film their cruelty. They get off on it.

And Sadism *never* exists in isolation. It's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 16h

The Oval looks like Liberace’s bedroom

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 17h

This is getting wild.

The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

The States of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and 14 additional States
respectfully move for leave to submit the attached amicus curiae brief in support of Defendants
and their opposition to Plaintiffs’ requested temporary restraining order and preliminary
injunction. Proposed amici are States with a vested interest in federalism, the relationship between
States and the federal government, and deploying the National Guard. We also each have a vital
interest in supporting the President and Congress in enacting and enforcing valid immigration
laws. Every State has a responsibility to protect our citizens.
The federalization of States’ National Guard units is a matter of profound public
importance, as it directly implicates the delicate balance of power between state and federal
governments—a true cornerstone of Federalism. States generally maintain authority over their
National Guard units, allowing governors to deploy them for state-specific needs, such as disaster
response or public safety. Federalization of state National Guard units without gubernatorial

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show

Songs in Spanish? In America?

www.publicnotice.co

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 16h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16h

Quite a headline
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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