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Chad Van Schoelandt @chadvanschoelandt.bsky.social · 23h

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Never never never give up

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NAFO 69th Sniffing Brigade @69thsb.bsky.social · 1d

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 8d

Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young:

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 8d

The commander-in-chief is not ok.
read @radiofreetom.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay

Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

www.theatlantic.com

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Chad Van Schoelandt @chadvanschoelandt.bsky.social · 8d

Someone might want to pull a still of him walking away with his head down to put as a virgin in the Chad/virgin comparison meme template

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 13d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14d

The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

www.youtube.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14d

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

www.youtube.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 15d

Read the Dekleptocracy substack: "When a phantom foundation with no address, no registration and a founder who might not exist, wires $100 million to the president's crypto company, America has a problem"
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/trumps-she...

Trump's Shell Game Threatens American Security

We're pushing to make anti-corruption a top priority on the political agenda to fight authoritarianism, strengthen the rule of law and protect democracy.

dekleptocracy.substack.com

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Chad Van Schoelandt @chadvanschoelandt.bsky.social · 15d

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Chad Van Schoelandt @chadvanschoelandt.bsky.social · 17d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp19...

The One Trait That Predicts Trump Support (w. Matthew MacWilliams)

YouTube video by The Bulwark

www.youtube.com

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Chad Van Schoelandt @chadvanschoelandt.bsky.social · 19d

Praise and gratitude to those heroically putting themselves on the line in protesting this authoritarian regime.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19d

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19d

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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Chad Van Schoelandt @chadvanschoelandt.bsky.social · 20d

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20d

I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.

I know what I’m seeing.

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Chad Van Schoelandt @chadvanschoelandt.bsky.social · 20d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_L6...

The Coming Age of American Putinism

YouTube video by Vlad Vexler

www.youtube.com

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Politico @politico.com · 22d

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi

The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over “hate speech.”

www.politico.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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