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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

See below for the incredible way Meta’s AI tool describes this video.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 1d

They don't want to do that, tho, this was pretty obviously meant to increase their leverage in negotiations

Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 1d

So they really hate it when you follow them around and honk huh

Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 1d

This is fascism. This is a police state. Masked men with guns in unmarked cars are driving through residential neighborhoods during the daytime looking to kidnap women and children.

Resist this. Never normalize this or else these fascists thugs will some day be used against you and your family.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Trump will retreat before Monday, or maybe not, or maybe everything collapses in a way he can't fix with a TACO post, who knows

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 1d

Lowest level for 30-year yields since April 7th:

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 1d

They defeated fascism first

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 1d

Back to hard decoupling at 4:50pm ET lol

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social · 4d

Commentary hasn’t shed much light on the perplexing question of what is motivating the move to war. From ‪@edwardluce.bsky.social‬, a good start:

“Trump is so pleased with the optics of these apparently risk-free fireworks [i.e. the boat murders] that he seems to be developing a taste for them.”
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 5d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple reports of ICE incidents within walking distance (including a day care, a cemetery), but my favorite coffee shops are still open, and you hear snippets of conversation about ICE/NG once in a while, but you can still pretend everything is normal if you wanted. Bizarre, unstable

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 2d

To clarify, he is a pastor in the Presbyterian church (a denomination which does not practical clerical celibacy)

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 2d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 2d

What do China's new climate pledges show us about the future? The putative electrostate elected to punt -- it isn't ready to commit to a non-coal future. Xi's government is unambitious, and seems to be falling into the very middle income trap that it says it fears.

heatmap.news/ideas/china-...

China Is Deciding Not to Decide on a New Green Future

The country’s underwhelming new climate pledge is more than just bad news for the world — it reveals a serious governing mistake.

heatmap.news

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 2d

What is the source of this video? It is disturbing on its own but I think the text that accompanies the video is incorrect. E.g. there is no “West Loop Elementary”

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that this coming 9 days before the largest peaceful protest in modern American history is absolutely intentional. We will not back down. Trump and Miller can lie, smear, and threaten all they want. They will lose. No Kings, No Kings, No Kings. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 2d

JVP and IfNotNow are included in a list of only 9 progressive groups being investigated by the Trump admin, alongside major donors like Ford and Open Society Foundation and the amorphous 'antifa'/ www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 3d

Good news today, but @diplomatofnight.com puts it into context with concise clarity.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 3d

ICE, DHS, and CBP are terrorizing our communities. And now, Trump is threatening our elected officials with jail for doing their jobs and protecting our communities.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

President Trump has called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, for “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

Trump says Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should be jailed for response to ICE

Trump, without providing evidence, said Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker should go to jail for “failing to protect” immigration agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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