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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2m

A Chicago teacher said tear gas deployed by ICE drifted toward a school playground, forcing students and recess indoors.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement near schools is scaring kids and disrupting class

Staff members are reporting ICE activity and patrolling areas around their schools and, in some cases, escorting families to and from school.

www.nbcnews.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21m

Coffee in the US is now 40% more expensive than before Trump.

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight — The Atlantic

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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timscurtin.bsky.social @timscurtin.bsky.social · 4m

Shot in the dark, but saying “we” -everyone who hates America and is being paid by (((Soros))) - don’t really care about “them” (real Murkans) as a way of building esprit de corps, like when a football team says “It’s us against the world “

Appropriating a Black artist gives them an extra thrill

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 16m

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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timscurtin.bsky.social @timscurtin.bsky.social · 13m

Many of the older ones were raised believing this already. Standard seatbelts in cars were a major culture war issue in the late ‘70’s

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timscurtin.bsky.social @timscurtin.bsky.social · 16m

We did this a hundred years ago too. The Indiana Klan existed very cozily next to the Mayflower Society, DAR, Daughters of Confederate Veterans and all the other genealogical societies that existed to show who was REALLY white and who was “ethnic”

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Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 34m

Small-town Wisconsin gears up for #NoKings rallies

More than 80 protests against the Trump admin are planned for Oct. 18 around the state

isthmus.com/news/new... #wipolitics #wiresist

Small-town Wisconsin gears up for ‘No Kings’ rallies

Protests against Trump 2.0 aren’t limited to Wisconsin’s big cities — activist groups in smaller communities and rural towns will be demonstrating too.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

Trumps head of operations for the war being waged in Chicago is openly trying to channel the supposedly masculine imagery of the Nazis

Make no mistake these domestic enemies waging war against the states are Nazis.

Bovino is really trying to sell its aesthetic now.

Bovino standing in a Trenchcoat in a hallway lit red. It’s giving Temu fascism.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 9h

The fence on Beach Street in front of the ICE Processing Facility in Broadview has been taken down.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 9h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 9h

I very much take them at their word. I mean, their “elders” and mentors and managers are currently governing like mass death is an important part of the platform.

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 9h

One thing that’s probably getting overlooked here is: these folks are serious about this stuff.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 12h

Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. The appeal is never having to grow up or accommodate yourself to the needs or interests of others. It is enormously appealing, apparently. And not just to young people.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 10h

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present.

A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

Politico @politico.com · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13h

Lawler seems to know all these guys.

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 10h

A lots happened, a flatbed with fence equipment entered the facility a couple dozen agents came out, chatted with ISP, and three ICE marked vehicles have come out and are parked in front of the fence on beach street.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10h

At about 0:55, a couple in a nearby car gets out and hurries away with an infant in a carseat to try and escape the tear gas:

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 13h

Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 15h

Crashing into cars as a method of stopping them is insane and is the sort of thing that would have gotten you fired from the literal Gestapo

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 19h

At 105th chaos erupted when ICE agents allegedly crashed into an SUV. A crowd formed and objects were thrown. Pepper balls were shot into the crowd. Police arrived to try to have dialogue with the crowd when witnesses stated they began throwing rocks at ICE. ICE then deployed tear gas.

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 13h

Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸

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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

NEW: As ICE presence increases in Chicago — home to the third-largest Catholic diocese in the U.S. — Catholics and allies are pushing back.

Over the weekend, a priest warned parishioners to leave Mass carefully.

Locals formed a human chain to protect them from ICE. religionnews.com/2025/10/14/a...

As ICE rocks Chicago, Catholics respond with prayer — and protest

(RNS) — ‘As a person of faith, as a leader of faith, to not speak of it is simply unethical — and sinful,’ said the Rev. Brendan Curran, a Dominican priest.

religionnews.com

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