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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 10m

I know. But you are thoughtful enough to have them unlike the folks who are just deadpan reporting the horror like it's another day or ignoring the threats all together

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 21m

yea our journalistic institutions suck as you know. And now look where we are!!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 4h

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 7h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2h

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 1h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 18h

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sorry, but as you know, it's mostly thankless work.

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Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · 19h

If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 20h

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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ForeverExpat @guiri99.bsky.social · 19h

Your right. CREC, NAR leaders and “disciples”, Hogseth’s church, Flynn, ties to White Nationalism, etc This should all be clear to citizens but you have to go to outlets like the Lancaster Examiner to find any decent coverage. bsky.app/profile/lanc...

bsky.app

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19h

Speaking for myself, after running across the country for the last five years trying to warn folks, only to have people /outlets frantically calling me not to come out and explain what's happening in this environment.. you're too damn late. And I am not risking my safety .

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19h

I will say the occasional long form pops up by the @apnews.com especially (thanks you all) but the time it takes for a magazine article to come out in @theatlantic.com or some other outlet is MONTHS. And by then, the deployment of Christian Nationalism has mutated once again.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19h

Then we get critiqued by some who don't think Christian Nationalism exists. Keep on thinking that as you slide into this authoritarian theocratic state.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19h

American Media outlets have a bias about reporting about religion as though it is anathema to critique the theocratic leanings of the current administration. I get more intelligent questions about how Christian Nationalism is operating in America right now from the foreign press.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19h

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19h

Forgive me if I'm a little salty about all of this, but I've been working with a group of people for the last 3 years and all of this and been talking about it for the last five and to watch the Germans get the accolades for this is a little annoying especially since many journalists call us

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 19h

I just want to say that we have a number of people in the states who are doing this work and have been doing it for a long time. The problem is is that they don't have access to the platforms that they need to in order to get this information out. Nor do our media outlets want to pay so....

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

Must read from @willbunch.bsky.social
@inquirer.com
“Defeating fascism requires a very different type of posture-both politically and morally-than might an old-fashioned political quarrel between liberals and conservatives…we must declare ourselves anti-fascists.”
www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch

The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

www.inquirer.com

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 2d

UTTER GARBAGE

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 2d

they are cheating on us and what the hell is happening at the Linc because this is some BS

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Doc McGillicuddy @tweetinit.bsky.social · 2d

NFL is and continues to be total dogshit. QB bails and throws it away and it falls within the grounding rules 100% of the way, they go ahead and throw the flag, and then magically all of a sudden someone somewhere says no, and WITHOUT EXPLANATION it’s not. Fuck them. Unwatchable product

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 3d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 3d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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