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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

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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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Rayfield: When Trump learned that this was a judge who was appointed by him, he said he wasn’t served well.

To have any president or any politician in America say a judge is not serving them—words can’t even describe how backwards that is.

Phang: He’s not the king. He’s the court jester.

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Lovely woman @recepkanli.bsky.social · 3d

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago | Flipboard

Associated Press - CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Aug 1

Basically all my posts recently could be part of the same thread:

The problem of our time is governments—particularly the Trump administration, also the Netanyahu administration, etc—making policy based on factual premises that are not true, which they've gotten "many people" to believe are true.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

WIC runs out this week

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Wendy Breuer @lostbird1950.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to all these public servants who stood up for our friends and neighbors: youtube.com/shorts/L47XJ...

11 New York Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells

YouTube video by The New York Times

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 2d

This is the single most shocking part of federalism pivot.

It's one thing to switch from pro-states' rights to pro-federal power. That I sort of expect. But to embrace Jade Helm-style military operations against civilian targets in American states still retains the power to shock.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 2d

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 9d

Don’t forget this.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 2d

Medicare for all. Health care is a right.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

If ACA healthcare subsidies are not extended, a 60-year-old earning $65k in Key West, Fla. could see premiums go from $460 a month with the subsidies to $2,400 a month without.
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Maps show how expected increases in monthly premiums vary by age and geography.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 2d

SECOND, on a much larger scale, as Fred Kaplan explains here, the government is laying down a farrago of lies as the official predicate for military action against Americans.

Huge piles of claims in here are false—about America's "well-financed" domestic "terror network," etc.

It’s Hard to Overstate How Disturbing This Trump Directive Is

It’s the clearest statement of the president’s intentions that we’ve seen so far.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Same judge. While Miller rails about judges.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

Christian nationalist fascism: when they lower masked Gestapo goons from helicopters in the night to smash apartment windows, terrorize residents, and zip-tie and kidnap children for not being white looking enough— and then violate the 1st Amendment by reciting scripture from a government account.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 3d

We need universal basic income and healthcare. Period. End of story.

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 3d

Letter: Let me count the ways in which Sen. Lee has failed Utahns

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

All I ask is that you watch and listen for 2 mins.

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Amazing Grace

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Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 3d

Well done!

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t self-censor. If you are important enough for the Feds to go after, all the more reason to speak.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 4d

Nova Scotia passes law that may allow police to remove Mi’kmaw land protectors, who vow to continue their protection of Hunters Mountain. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Mi'kmaw land protectors vow to stand their ground as Nova Scotia law passes

Nova Scotia has passed the Protecting Nova Scotians Act which allows police to move in and remove land protectors from Hunters Mountain.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

The government does not have the power to declare “free speech zones.” And the violent arrest of the rabbi should set off some alarm bells.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

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Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 3d

I think this every day.

RealMattHopkins @realmatthopkins.bsky.social · 3d

American Democrats need to start wrapping their minds around bringing the Trump Administration members to justice in the years ahead. It can't be another scenario like where Biden looked the other way, and allowed Trump to do even worse things. #USPolitics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurembe...

Nuremberg trials - Wikipedia

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 3d

nobody should serve any of these goons. not a slice, not a cup of coffee. if they want to eat they can eat MREs. they’re not welcome here. if The Noid knew we were selling them pies he’d be pissed

Ingrid @itlz.bsky.social · 4d

saw some feds taking advantage of the amazing portland food scene at the domino’s on 21st and division today

photo taken outside of a domino’s pizza showing two federal police officers exiting the domino’s carrying probably 15 pizzas, and heading to their ugly police SUV.

close up of two federal police officers exiting a domino’s location, carrying approximately 15 pizzas

close up of the front passenger side of a police SUV outside a domino’s. passenger side door reads “federal protective service” “POLICE” and “Homeland Security”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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