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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6h

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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 8h

Some immigrants have tried to self-deport using a Trump-promoted app. Many are still here, despite the government giving them departure dates and promises of safe travel. @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @mariamelba.bsky.social have a deeply reported, riveting account of people stranded in America.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

When it comes toTrump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

www.motherjones.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

Trump has hired over 100 fossil fuel insiders to staff his administration and advance the industry's agenda.

Is it any wonder why his Big Ugly Bill contains more than $40B in new subsidies and tax breaks for Big Oil?

The Secret Behind High Gas Prices

Robert Reich

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MoveOn @moveon.org · 6h

ICYMI: Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in democratically elected Rep Adelita Grijalva. Why? She’s promised to be the tie-breaking signature to force the House to vote on releasing the Epstein files. We’re on the side of democracy and accountability. Swear. Her. In.

Speaker Johnson said he’d swear in new House Democrat ‘as soon as she wants.’ Now Republicans are backtracking | CNN Politics

Speaker Mike Johnson is not planning to allow Democrats’ newest congresswoman-elect to be sworn-in until her party agrees to end the government shutdown, despite telling CNN earlier Tuesday that he…

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 6h

In case you were wondering how close we are to being Nazi Germany.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

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...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

Can’t wait for those lower grocery prices I keep hearing about! Are those going to trickle down too?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 13h

US BEEF PRICES SOAR TO ALL-TIME HIGH — GROUND BEEF UP 13% YOY TO $6.32/LB

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

"there are fires all over the place"
~the president of the united states with absolutely zero clue what is going on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 17h

If you’re wondering why the CBP Commissioner was in attendance at Hegseth’s pep rally for generals, it appears we now know.

DHS Pushes the Pentagon to Join In Its Lawlessness

Since Trump took office, the White House has attempted to militarize the immigration conversation

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6h

For many families, the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship have turned what should've been the happiest moments — the birth of a new child — into a time of stress and uncertainty.

We won't back down from defending the 14th Amendment.

Immigrant Parents Confront Fear, Uncertainty Over Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Threats

Families share how Trump’s threat to end birthright citizenship turned moments of joy into doubt about their children’s futures.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market.

This is a move that will only further screw over American soybean farmers, who're being priced out of their own market.

A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers

Here’s the geopolitical beans.

www.motherjones.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Who's taking advantage of the new anti-immigration gold rush? Read this:

How a new firm with DHS ties won a $915 million contract to help immigrants "self-deport."

How a new firm with DHS ties won a $915 million contract to help immigrants "self-deport"

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

www.motherjones.com

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 10h

Believing that easier access to guns
leads to less gun violence
is like believing less access to birth control
leads to fewer abortions

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10h

MAGA wants to redefine anti-fascism so they can have a blanket term to "justify" murdering and kidnapping everyday Americans that question the Trump regime, call out its numerous criminal actions, and / or ask for the release of the Epstein files.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10h

“Everyone’s kind of hanging on by a thread.”

The Trump admin is using federal workers as political pawns, locking them out of their jobs or forcing them to work without pay. Federal workers are the backbone of America—they shouldn’t have to live in fear.

Federal workers say government shutdown is just the latest hardship: 'I am constantly worried'

Federal workers say the government shutdown is just the latest hardship in a months-long grind of workplace challenges.

www.cnbc.com

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 10h

The fossil fuel industry and other giant corporations have spent gobs backing Republicans ever since Citizens United.

That case – based on demonstrably false facts btw – opened the floodgates to untraceable dark money billions rotting our democracy. 🧵

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 10h

These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social

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

Analysis: DHS leans into propaganda with militaristic action videos | CNN Politics

When helicopters descended on a Chicago apartment building last week with federal agents kitted out in military gear, locals saw a terrifying escalation in the federal government’s incursion into Chic...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10h

“A longtime TV news produced at Chicago-based station WGN on Friday was forcefully pinned to the ground and then hauled off in an unmarked van by masked federal agents.” www.commondreams.org/news/ice-chi...

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van | Common Dreams

WGN producer Debbie Brockman forcefully arrested by ICE agents in Chicago. Video shows aggressive tactics used in the arrest.

www.commondreams.org

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Reminder that JD Vance is a 15-year project of Thiel’s to take over the U.S. government. The whole regime must be removed.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Jul 21

JD Vance has always been the long-term plan for right-wing tech billionaires to cement a dictatorship in America.

“Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.”

JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the antidemocracy movement in America | Robert Reich

Rightwing tech lords are betting that Vance will be the Republican presidential pick in 2028. They’re probably right

www.theguardian.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Tired of Peter Thiel trying to destroy democracy by forcing his dystopian vision of the world on us?

You can join @purgepalantir.bsky.social, a movement that is protesting the billionaire and his companies.

And @solidaritydept.bsky.social has a full report exposing Thiel that you can share widely:

Peter Thiel - The People's Audit | DOCS

Learn about Peter Thiel's role as Chairman at Palantir Technologies. Net worth: $25.6 Billion. Key threats and impact on democracy.

classsolidarity.org

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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 9h

Schools should be safe places for all students.

But Trump's reversal of a long-standing policy that protected schools from ICE raids has turned schools into spaces of fear & uncertainty.

Visit nilc.org/resources/ to learn more about how students, families, and educators can protect themselves.

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