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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1h

A federal judge in Chicago has found that ICE conducted numerous illegal warrantless arrests in Illinois and nearby states in defiance of a 2022 consent decree. It also prepared post hoc arrest rationales after the fact based on details agents "did not know at the time they made the arrests". /1

ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says

Attorneys argued that the recent arrest of an Albany Park family at Millennium Park violated a consent decree that limits the conditions under which federal agents can make warrantless arrests.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 2h

Ignoring a judge’s recommendation, the Minnesota regulators unanimously approved BlackRock’s plan to take Minnesota Power private. Private equity is buying up utilities as profits from fueling data centers grow. From James Baratta: trib.al/DhfuUOy

BlackRock Just Bought a Minnesota Utility

On Friday, state regulators voted unanimously in favor of allowing private equity to take a Duluth-based utility holding company private. The Prospect takes you inside the room where it all went down.

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bplum.bsky.social @bplum.bsky.social · 1h

ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/07/i...

ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says

Attorneys argued that the recent arrest of an Albany Park family at Millennium Park violated a consent decree that limits the conditions under which federal agents can make warrantless arrests.

blockclubchicago.org

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 3h

Mike Johnson “If you’re hemorrhaging and you show up in an emergency room, you get treated..That’s a very good law”

Also Mike Johnson: Unless you’re “some illegal rabble rouser who came in from South America”

Side note: Maybe MAGA shouldn’t bring up pregnant women going to the ER for treatment

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1h

A quick message.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 2h

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 1h

The WASTE of resources is incomprehensible

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2h

You have got to be joking hahaha

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

Making Americans safer was never the agenda.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3h

How is this making America safer? If anything, we're now more vulnerable and exposed!

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 1h

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 5h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 4h

@democracynow.org had @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social and me on together to explain that she is not being sworn in because she is the 218th signatory for the release of the Epstein files. Swear her in today.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 5h

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The Oregon GOP just got caught using fake protest photos to make Portland look like it’s on fire. Their post about Trump sending National Guard troops featured stock and foreign images, not Oregon, not even America.

Manufactured chaos, wrapped in a lie to rile their base.

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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 4h

Trump used military force to strike 4 ships in the Caribbean, killing 21 people, and has not provided sound legal justification for doing so to Congress. I’m forcing a vote with Senator Adam Schiff on whether the U.S. should put our troops in harm’s way to conduct these strikes.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

Raww Digital "was first registered in 2021, with Naumovski as sole owner with an address in Veles, North Macedonia. A month later, an amendment with a new principal address was filed, at the registered agent’s office in St. Petersburg."

So who is paying this guy?

www.rawstory.com/maga-account/

Right-wing social media accounts beloved by MAGA run by man who’s never visited US: report

A pair of pro-MAGA social media accounts promoted by prominent Republican politicians and that push election fraud conspiracy theories in the United States has been exposed as being run by an Eastern ...

www.rawstory.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

It turns out both of those accounts are run by a North Macedonian national named Rumen Naumovski, through a media company registered in Florida.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

A pair of pro-MAGA social media accounts promoted by prominent Republican politicians and that push election fraud conspiracy theories in the US has been exposed as being run by an Eastern European man who has never visited the United States, and was accused of violating campaign finance laws.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1h

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Dems can just clip the "we took the freedom of speech away" and make an ad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This nearly 150-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both democracy and personal liberty.