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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 2d

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Remember when these guys ran a completely fabricated story about trans kids sourced to a single bigot who worked at St Louis Children’s Hospital and it got so much traction that they ended a bunch of programs for trans kids because of all the bomb threats

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 2d

"The project—[Weiss'] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new *liberal*media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." The dream of Marty Peretz on far grander scale.

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

defector.com

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 6d

A man who doesn’t know the Knicks are about to dismantle his team

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 6d

Into my veins

Freezing Cold Takes @oldtakesexposed.bsky.social · 6d

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 7d

"The documents also show that ICE is planning to once again use location data remotely harvested from peoples’ smartphones after previously saying it had stopped the practice." -- @josephcox.bsky.social for @404media.co:

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 8d

Here we go. If you didn't believe the Muslims warning you, believe a former FBI agent turned whistleblower (who seems like an unironically and genuinely wonderful and brave person) and this essential reading from @attackerman.bsky.social :

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 8d

There's a lot of speculation about what Trump can & can't do against the left with his new executive orders. To cut thru it, I spoke with FBI counterterrorism veteran turned whistleblower Terry Albury about how he & his old colleagues use the powers they have – and what the average citizen should do

An FBI Counterterrorism Vet Explains How To Use Trump's New Orders Against The Left

'Recognize that you are going to be targeted'

www.forever-wars.com

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 8d

And, as promised:

An FBI Counterterrorism Vet Explains How To Use Trump's New Orders Against The Left

'Recognize that you are going to be targeted'

www.forever-wars.com

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 8d

"But again, the law is meaningless, though, right? We make the mistake of believing that these people are honorable, that they will act in accordance with the law, but they will pervert the law. They will manipulate the law, they will use it, and they will weaponize it however they can..."

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 8d

"The official answer is that the FBI doesn't target you based on your speech. But it is an indicator, OK? A data point. And an important data point."

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 8d

There's a lot of speculation about what Trump can & can't do against the left with his new executive orders. To cut thru it, I spoke with FBI counterterrorism veteran turned whistleblower Terry Albury about how he & his old colleagues use the powers they have – and what the average citizen should do

An FBI Counterterrorism Vet Explains How To Use Trump's New Orders Against The Left

'Recognize that you are going to be targeted'

www.forever-wars.com

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 9d

Just had Immortal Technique quoted at me by a former FBI special agent I was interviewing about Trump’s new executive order/directive redefining the left as domestic terrorism. Coming tomorrow at FOREVER WARS

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 9d

I did not get through to Schumer’s office and left a message. But I did get a human being at Gillibrand’s office, so Dylan’s supposition applies there as well. New Yorkers, her office is at 212-688-6262.

Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 9d

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log.

This tells me two things:

1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day.

(212) 486-4430

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10d

VHERR AH YOUR PAPERS????

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 10d

"One arrest witnessed by the @chicago.suntimes.com on Sunday happened near Clark and Superior streets around 2 p.m. Agents chased down a man and asked him for his papers. About two dozen agents surrounded the man, who was handcuffed."

Immigration agents spotted downtown on Michigan Avenue, along Chicago River

Dozens of agents, some masked, were seen on Michigan Avenue and along the Riverwalk.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10d

Picked up Justice League International #11 and learned that Batman did a 9/11

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10d

THE GREAT COMPROMISE*: Raleigh gets MVP this year; Judge gets retroactively awarded the 2017 MVP he deserved

*due respect to Cal but Judge should get 2025; still, that’s why they call it compromise

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10d

Freeze the rent except for Steinbrenner Field

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10d

Sadly the Jays have tied it

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10d

Bye-bye Mayor Cop, a piece of shit loser who sacrificed your neighbors to ICE so he could spare himself the prison term he deserves. He leaves behind a legacy of closed libraries, escalating unaffordability, off-the-charts police corruption. An oleaginous creep only liberal pundits could respect.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 11d

"Israel is the ethnostate that MAGA wishes the United States were." – @attackerman.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/in-israel-...

In Israel, the Right Sees the America It Wants

Recent tensions aside, the nativist right has long seen itself in the Jewish state.

zeteo.com

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14d

The collector’s item of tomorrow. Get em while supplies last. I’ll find a way to sign for u

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 15d

It gives me no pleasure to report that he does indeed have that shit on

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 16d

Today marks 100 days of journalist Mario Guevara’s detention by U.S. law enforcement for livestreaming. Guevara, the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, faces the very real threat of deportation for doing his job.

We demand Mario’s immediate release. freedomformario.com

#FreeMario

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 16d

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a ‘Beautiful Sisterhood.’ Now She’s Fighting for Those Still Inside.

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, talks about her experience in federal detainment.

thebarbedwire.com

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17d

Absolute masterclass in comics from @mattbors.bsky.social & @tristanwright.bsky.social. SENTIAC a breakout character. TOXIC CRUSADERS is something special.

Toxic Crusaders #3, a very good comic book from Matt Bors & Tristan Wright

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