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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

Two years ago I sounded like a conspiracy theorist. A year ago I sounded like I was overreacting. Today, most left-leaning people understand what's happening. But we're still firmly entrenched in the "maybe it'll all blow over" phase.

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 7h

The biggest bunch of sore winners the world has ever aeen

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 19h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 12h

Right? I mean I guess I had to get up but still

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 12h

I think I’m going to work on my pull-ups

for spite

And then go to the Equinox in the West End

(Not that last part I have no desire to see men work out in jeans bc they never resolved their childhood issues)

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 12h

Agreed

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 12h

If the person living in the apt above me would stop hammering at 6.30 in the morning that would be great thank you

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 18h

…. But can he do a pull-up?

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

The bit about the ICE guys laughing is very on-point. The job attracts a particular personality type.

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blacksnakemo.bsky.social @blacksnakemo.bsky.social · 21h

As someone who grew up in the NE and was never particularly religious, I can absolutely confirm that our clergy go and have been going hard for the last decade+.

All but calling these right-wingers the Antichrist directly to their faces.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

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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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 23h

Pray for dolly!

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 1d

The way AG Bondi is answering these questions is unsettling to me. Almost as if she thinks there will be no future transfer of power to another admin or party or facing repercussions for actions.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

Pam Bondi is incapable of answering simple questions.

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 1d

Wondering if that famous Chicago traffic will kick in

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 1d

It’s worse
Why would you do that to someone you love?

Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 1d

Speak for yourself

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Ben Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social · 1d

This is gold-standard reporting. Chilling stuff. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

I too am keen to "restore trust in news" by turning a major broadcast network into a 24/7 slurry of right wing culture war propaganda and engagement trolling

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 1d

Only one of the people in this interaction is a Christian

Robin Reed @robinreed.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs. We can’t look away. A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, directly in the face during a peaceful protest outside the ICE facility in Chicago.

Photo:Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Trump regime troopers attacking David Black, a US citizen and pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, for advocating for human rights outside of the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. (Sept 21, 2025)

Pastor attacked by Trump regime forces, sprayed inface with mace

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 1d

The fitted sheets! What is this sorcery!

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Arditi d Popolo @arditidpopolo.bsky.social · 1d

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