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Dwight D. Longtorso

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Dwight D. Longtorso @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 3d

The ravings of a Mad King.

America ousted its king 250 years ago.
Not going to allow one now.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning took aim at Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker, writing on social media that both should be jailed for “failing to protect” ICE officers.

Pritzker, Johnson fight back after President Trump says they should be jailed for failing to protect ICE

Gov. JB Pritzker responded Wednesday morning, writing on X, "I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?"

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1h

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The Chicago raids send a worrying signal about the ideal ICE agents in Trump's America

The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we’ve seen it before.

www.msnbc.com

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 1h

ICE is now pulling from a pool of applicants who see televised images of sobbing children in handcuffs, or masked men in tactical gear roughing up Latino laborers, and don't recoil in horror.
The administration is also doing its best to send all the worst possible signals to existing agents, from every level of the hierarchy. The president ominously declares we are engaged in a "war within" - with domestic urban populations cast as the enemy combatants.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 4h

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 7h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 3h

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Dwight D. Longtorso @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 1h

He’s trying, really hard.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 5h

It’s considered impolite to use language like this, but “evil” is the best word for what these folks are doing. It’s bad enough to screw over workers to attack political enemies. But here, doing so will literally kill people and lead to avoidable disease.

open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

open.substack.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1h

So, people who have at-risk relatives, or kids, or pregnant women struggle to get the Covid booster.

But Trump can just waltz over to Walter Reed to get his... www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 1d

Unprecedented crime in Chicago in 2025 that justifies the invocation of the Insurrection Act?
Trust Trump

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

Per NYT, Trump is trying to criminalize being generous, which I can understand if you're Trump but may not work out.

Under rules, Tish James could do short term rental in first year. She did (and made <$5K).
Then her great niece has lived there, rent free.

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

In the indictment, the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, accuses Ms. James of having misrepresented the purpose of the house when she purchased it in August 2020 for $137,000. The indictment says that while Ms. James indicated to her mortgage broker that she expected to use the house as a second home, she had instead used it as a “rental investment property, renting the property to a family.”

But in June, Ms. Thompson testified to a grand jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 7h

Republican election operative buying a major voting machine company.

What could possibly go wrong?

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

www.cnn.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 16h

All completely untrue of course, but so identical in wording to earlier comments I wasn't sure it was new. He's got one sound bite worth of false knowledge and is making historically significant decisions on it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20h

Cruel and stupid is really the chocolate and peanut butter of authoritarian regimes.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 16h

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 20h

Judge Sara Ellis' opinion in IL v. Trump is an absolute banger:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants’
declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants’ declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a
lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne
Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609
(N.D. Ill.). In addition to demonstrating a potential lack of candor by these affiants, it also calls
into question their ability to accurately assess the facts. Similar declarations were provided by
these same individuals in Chicago Headline Club et. al. v. Noem, 25-cv-12173, Doc. 35-1, Doc.
35-9 (N.D. Ill.), a case which challenged the Constitutionality of ICE’s response to protestors at
the Broadview ICE Processing Center. In issuing its TRO against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,
the court in that case found that the plaintiffs would likely be able to show that ICE’s actions
have violated protestors’ First Amendment right to be free from retaliation while engaged in
newsgathering, religious exercise, and protest, and Fourth Amendment rights to be free from
excessive force. Id. at Doc. 43. Although this Court was not asked to make any such finding, it
does note a troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of
appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning,

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Dwight D. Longtorso @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 17h

Being an evil, murderous asshole is Abbott’s disability.

Dwight D. Longtorso @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 17h

Prosecute every single ICE employee.

State charges now.
Federal charges as soon as possible

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18h

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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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 17h

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18h

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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Dwight D. Longtorso @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 17h

a woman says they 're the same picture while sitting in front of a window

Alt: a woman says “they 're the same picture”

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