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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 2d

A PAC supporting Bruce Harrell has now raised more than $1 million from wealthy donors, and soon they will use it to attack me so that our city stays unaffordable. With less than a month until election day, I want to make a few things clear. #thisisyourcity

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

I do get the instinct to "correct the record" on crime, but when this is the primary framing by every single mainstream media outlet (as opposed to an aside in an article about Trump's illegal and insane war against American cities), the result is that it sounds like he just has the wrong stats.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

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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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with the people of Chicago fighting against Trump and ICE's fascist invasion! ❤️💪❤️💪

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

It’s been repulsive how The NY Times has been fearmongering around Mamdani, but to then take the extra step to smear Portland as a means of doing it while that city is facing a fascist invasion is another thing entirely.

I hope people are starting to see it’s the capitalists versus the rest of us.

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 4d

Mike I don’t remember anyone spreading the gospel of social housing locally before you.

Thank you for vision and all the education!

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 4d

Agreed: shocking immorality, cruelty, and incompetence described in this story.

Tired of a mayor who has zero solutions, a serious lack of courage, and spends all his energy chasing approval from the rich guys?
Vote him out next month and let’s give @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social a chance.

Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 5d

There is so much cruelty in this story. Seattle should be a city of compassion and care. This is not an acceptable way to treat people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle residents report encampments in record numbers

More than 50,000 reports of homeless camping were made in the first eight months of this year, a 66% increase compared to the same time period last year.

www.seattletimes.com

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was deported today to El Salvador – a country he fled over 20 years ago — in retaliation for filming law enforcement activities. Officers arrested him while he was reporting at a “No Kings” protest against Trump, even though he was wearing a “PRESS” vest.

Journalist Mario Guevara Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump Protest

Human rights organizations have condemned Mario Guevara’s deportation as an authoritarian attack on the free press.

truthout.org

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

You might want to look up University of Washington psych class Nazi salute if you're looking to remember that we outnumber them.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

Now that’s bleak.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 6d

THREAD. In Trump's speech to an unprecedented gathering of generals, he announced that he was preparing to order them to use American "cities as training grounds for our military." I want to highlight a few other statements that are bone chilling and put them into context that U.S media obscures.

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 6d

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 6d

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

At the very least, read her closing argument:

So by all means, celebrate a burst of collective action that reinstated a TV show host and vote the bums out if you get the chance. But voting won’t be enough, just as canceling the Disney app won’t be enough. When I look at the consumer response to Disney censoring Kimmel, I don’t see an allegory for America’s salvation. I see a threat — that we will see ourselves as the authoritarians see us, users whose only power is in our pocketbook.

We can’t just reject the threat. We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks. That’s a desecration of civics, as corrosive as the idea that debate is the pinnacle of civil discourse. It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us.

The fusion of corporate control and government power that empowered this administration will need to be unmade. Courts will need to be reconfigured. Market power will need to be subsumed to electoral power. Bureaucratic legitimacy will need to be restored. Information will need to be competitive and available.

To achieve any of those goals, we will have to become far less complacent and far less scared. We also will have to organize. Because no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 7d

Trump told the military he plans on using them to fight a war against the people

Surviving and defeating a dictatorship is incredibly hard, but it begins with a very simple thing. Listen to the dictator when he tells you what he intends to do

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/listen-to-...

Listen to the Dictator

Trump and his cronies aren't even hiding it anymore. Listen to them.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 8d

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 8d

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent’s license following his arrest by federal immigration officers

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent's license following Friday arrest

A state educational licensing board has revoked the license of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts following his arrest by federal immigration officers last week.

www.thegazette.com

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 9d

Klein and many elite dems seem to have stumbled into the conclusion that the best way to persuade your opponents is to persuade yourself instead.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10d

Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 9d

It’s wild. Seattle opened 20+ acres of beautifully designed waterfront public space downtown this summer. Thousands of folks meandering every day, happy and curious. Wholesome like a county fair.

Often overhear visitors telling friends ‘It’s not scary at all! You should come, I had no idea!’

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 10d

“Democratic politicians and analysts have zeroed in on polarization as the central villain of U.S. politics. The way out, the thinking goes, is to reclaim the spirit of the vital center, where moderation, bipartisanship, and compromise prevail.”

@pastpunditry.bsky.social on what this gets wrong:

The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review

Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitch’s “The Right to Be Hostile.”

www.bostonreview.net

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The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social · 9d

Given the recent spate of violence by veterans, I want to take a moment to again recommend reading @kathleenbelew.bsky.social's book on veterans & extremism, Bring the War Home.

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Bring the War Home — Harvard University Press

A Guardian Best Book of the Year“A gripping study of white power…Explosive.”—New York Times“Helps explain how we got to today’s alt-right.”—Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wa...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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