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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 6h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 8h

Octavia Butler wasn’t prescient she was psychic

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 13h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 9h

Please do not insult cunts

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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 13h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 9h

Y’ALL TRIED TO END EMTALA’S CARE REQUIREMENTS FOR WOMEN BLEEDING OUT FROM THEIR PREGNANCIES IN HOSPITAL PARKING LOTS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 12h

I am feeling my home town so hard right now. This feels momentous and brave and my how I LOVE THIS MAN.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 15h

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Abolition is the only way forward. Good luck to those of you who still believe, even under authoritarianism, that the police will protect you.

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. Oh, we've entered the ‘shooting priests’ phase of the Glorious Trump Revolution. Good to know.”

- @therickwilson.bsky.social

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 15h

This is beyond alarming and a reflection of how far gone we are. Just rogue and sociopathic behavior.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

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?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 1d

We cannot lose Dolly right now 🙏🏿🙏🏿

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 1d

He seems like he is having a totally normal one

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph of the generally small and tame protests outside the ICE field office in Portland, the Oregon Republican Party’s X account replied: “We’re not reporters, just bad memers”

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta get rid of qualified immunity first.

www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

www.congress.gov

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 1d

Law enforcement hunts people down. We are seeing that everyday. We are moving towards a place where all pregnancies can be made subject to this surveillance.

This is what fetal personhood justifies.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: police used a nationwide network of Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But new docs show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' into the fetus
www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 2d

In states with Fetal Personhood laws? Slim to none.

eji.org/news/georgia...

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 2d

This footage is somehow worse.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Christina Warren @filmgirl.bsky.social · 5d

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

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TwoBoobs Johnson @midwestdominicana.bsky.social · 2d

“The uninformed and unthinking may take issue with the axiom that they who create the image control the idea, indeed possibly the mind.” - Roseann P. Bell

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 2d

That story just kept turning corners of ugly.

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Karen (KT) Thompson 🏹 @amazonatty.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. haven't heard the name in so long. I can say this, that I'd have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look," he said. "I will speak to the DOJ."

@reuters.com
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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