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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 4h

Look to resistance in Serbia too on 1990’s, for examples of humor and theatre being used to confront fascism and militarized control of communities. One time, protestors dressed as the police/military. Couldn’t figure out who was who. See work of Wm Cleveland’s Art and Upheaval. #NoKings

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

Terrifying!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 7h

Humor. Keep it coming. #NoKings

The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 7h

OPB reported that, in court filings opposing the Guard deployment, police noted the night before Trump’s post that the ICE facility protest had “8–15 people at any given time,” mostly “sitting in lawn chairs and walking around,” with “energy…low, minimal activity.”

Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 8h

“My sense is that we can’t afford to wait for the 2026 elections…in order to salvage the best of what America has been and create a new and better country, we’re going to have to overcome seeing democracy as a spectator sport” Speak up! Take actions locally. And rally #NoKings #October18

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14h

I started Degenerate Art a year ago today, in the last weeks of the before times. Today, I wrote about the most important history and current events I've covered related to our rapidly expanding authoritarianism, and what the future is likely to bring.

State of the Degenerate union

The newsletter turned one today! What's happened and what's next.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14h

Oooops

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 17h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 12h

What the hell is “alienage”? “In an interview…U.S. Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino said that U.S. citizens were also detained during the raid due to safety reasons, saying “we generally don’t determine alienage while in the building,” adding, “no rights have been violated today.” Liar. #NoKings

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13h

"detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans..."

Read this @southsideweekly.bsky.social follow-up piece on that obscene ICE raid in Chicago:
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.

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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 23h

#PA “state Senate Republicans control whether the budget comes to the full senate for a vote. These lawmakers refuse to call a vote if half of their caucus does not support a measure even though it would easily pass a vote of the full senate..every Democrat supports the budget as proposed” #NoKings

Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 1d

Now here's what the @inquirer.com is reporting: Philadelphia’s Only Rape Crisis Center Is Pausing Services Indefinitely Amid State BudgetIimpasse. It’s a ‘Colossal Loss.’ www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 1d

#GeneralStrike #Strike

Image of a woman protesting with the words, the strike is coming. A request to join the movement by clicking on the link.

Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 1d

#HigherEd Just. Say. No!

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 1d

More #crazy #MAGA #fakenews on #Fox

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 1d

Photo from 1992 to support White House use of the military in 2025 in American cities. Who’s the insurrectionist? @cnn.com

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 1d

Fabricating images because they don’t have facts to support their claims. But they have lots of billionaires to push their lies. #NoKings Oct 18.

Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 1d

ICE is using your tax dollars to target children.

A child in my district was deported days before the start of the school year.

We are demanding answers on why K-12 students are being arrested and whether the Department of Education is fulfilling their obligations to students in custody.

Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, and Goldman lead a letter demanding transparency on ICE detention of school-aged children.

Letter signed by Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Espaillat, Goldman, Clarke, Latimer, Meeks, Meng, Nadler, Tonko, Torres, and Velázquez.

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Crooked News @crookednews.crooked.com · 1d

“Since the beginning of this invasion, families have been snatched up off the streets, or removed from their homes. Zip-tied and detained for hours, including, especially, U.S. citizens and legal residents of our state.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 1d

And all the narcissists that surround him.

Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 1d

Appreciate how @chicago.suntimes.com is using community data viz to document this injustice. #NoKings

RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 2d

There’s this resource but it depends on citizen reports and I’m not sure how many people know about it

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Map: Where ICE was seen in Chicago

We’re collecting photos from the public of federal immigration enforcement in the greater Chicago area, recorded since Trump announced his “blitz” campaign. We’re adding images after they are reviewed...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 2d

@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com @inquirer.com
@fetterman.senate.gov
@shaheen.senate.gov
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Another line crossed.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 2d

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 2d

$400,000: The “Free” Medical Care Kristi Noem’s Goons Made Taxpayers Pay

$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay - emptywheel

After ICE badly broke the leg of a guy detained at a Carson car wash back in August, he's been in the hospital with 24/7 private security guard. Which means taxpayers have already paid around $400,000...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yes we do

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

New KFF poll: Americans want Congress to extend the expiring, enhanced Obamacare credits by a whopping margin of 78% to 22% — a remarkable political entrenchment for subsidies that were a heavy political lift for Democrats just a few years ago, per Politico.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 3d

In the Network State ideology, tech billionaires gut existing institutions and swap in parallel knockoffs that serve their agendas.

Example: a tech billionaire creates a fake university run by a columnist ... or buys a major news outlet and puts an unqualified crony in charge.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

muting now to keep my notifications navegable. but support federal workers:

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Feb 4

Two massive unions have sued the Treasury Department for granting Musk's “Department of Government Efficiency” access to federal government payment systems.

SEIU and AFGE, with nearly 3 million combined members, are fighting DOGE's illegal activity.

www.huffpost.com/entry/unions...

Unions Sue Treasury Department Over Giving Musk's 'DOGE' Access To Payment System

Giving Elon Musk's team access to Treasury's payment systems amounts to a "massive and unprecedented" privacy intrusion, the complaint states.

www.huffpost.com

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