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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 1d

“There is just no question that ICE is provoking violence at this point.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Bill Kristol and Jane Fonda: The New 'Fierce Urgency of Now'

Podcast Episode · The Bulwark Podcast · 10/06/2025 · 1h 7m

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 1d

With friends like the NYT, who needs FOXNEWS?

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 1d

Prove it in court, or shut up: why does does Team Trump insist on litigating life or death accusations on Fox News? www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2fx...

Chicago on edge: DHS responds after violence erupts at ICE protest

YouTube video by Fox News

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 2d

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

Chicago news media groups filed suit against ICE and Homeland Security, claiming excessive force against reporters and protesters of immigration arrests.

Chicago news media groups file suit against ICE and DHS, alleging excessive force against reporters

Chicago news media groups filed suit against ICE and Homeland Security, claiming excessive force against reporters and protesters of immigration arrests.

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 5d

Someone is going to write an article about how ICE is always at the Super Bowl, right? www.foxnews.com/politics/kri...

Kristi Noem torches NFL as 'weak,' vows ICE will show up at Super Bowl amid Bad Bunny scandal

Secretary Kristi Noem promises immigration enforcement at Super Bowl 60 in Santa Clara while condemning the NFL's decision to feature Bad Bunny at halftime.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 8d

Chicago residents are engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols to resist ICE's crackdown on the city.

Chicago Activist on Organizing Community ICE Patrols as Trump Escalates Immigration Crackdown

Tension between immigration agents and community activists is growing in Chicago, where ICE agents have deployed tear gas and pepper balls against ongoing protests outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE dete...

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 5d

Bless this artist...

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 5d

A statue depicting President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein reappears on the National Mall amid the government shutdown.

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands returns to the National Mall

A statue featuring President Donald Trump alongside convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has reappeared in front of the Capitol after it was removed last week.

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Sanjukta Kwame Paul LT @sanjukta.bsky.social · 6d

Hello! Here is my essay (still a draft) for a symposium held in the spring at the university of chicago. (Please note that the title of the symposium was set by the law review; I chose my essay title.) Comments are welcome.

thesanjuktablog.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/n...

New essay: law & the self-coordinating market idea

Essay for the University of Chicago Law Review Symposium, held in April 2025, on “Law & Economics vs. Law & Political Economy: A Debate” (draft) Law & the scm idea uchi l re…

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 5d

#ICEoutofPortland

Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 5d

Checking in from the ICE facility that Trump says is under siege…

Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 5d

Is this real life or a scene from the new Leonardo DiCaprio movie? Not clear.

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller is a scared and pitiable man... www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/1...

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 7d

“how they look"
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Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in Downtown Chicago chosen based partly on ‘how they look’

WBEZ spoke with the U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz in the Loop and River North neighborhoods. He claimed our report took his comments out of context. Here is the transcript and...

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 7d

Update on DACA via @maldef.bsky.social:

"[N]o one should interpret these briefs as a definitive indication of how the Fifth Circuit decision will actually be implemented."

www.maldef.org/2025/09/mald...

MALDEF STATEMENT ON BRIEFS FILED IN TEXAS CHALLENGE TO DACA - MALDEF

(LOS ANGELES) – Parties involved in a Texas-led challenge to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) filed court-ordered briefs on Monday about possible next steps in the long-running case.

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 8d

This is good too podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Dr. Cornel West joins Tavis Smiley

Podcast Episode · Tavis Smiley · 09/29/2025 · 21m

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine having a brain and a conscience, and being required to go on TV and defend the indefensible.

No wonder they all lie.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

COLLINS: Why do you think Trump didn't mean that? He referred very specific cities

MIKE TURNER: He doesn't mean it in the manner you said it

COLLINS: I was just quoting him

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 8d

#25thAmendmentNow

Zeteo @zeteo.com · 8d

Trump sure sounded like an unhinged, authoritarian dictator today in his address to top military brass at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Virginia.

Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 9d

"Dude is crawling out of his skin"
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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 9d

Any update on what happened to that $50,000 in cash that was handed to Tom Homan? Any update on whether asking such questions in an antagonistic manner constitutes a "crime against rights" as posited and prosecuted by Stephen Miller?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11d

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 13d

".... This has been done before. It can be stopped." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...

Trump’s terror memo (audio)

It is about regime change

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Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social · 13d

It’s official! We’re launching the UCLA Department of Labor Studies. After years of building as a small but mighty “program,” Labor Studies has been elevated to departmental status. We’re the first but hopefully not the last of our kind in the UC system.

UCLA IRLE @uclairle.bsky.social · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that UCLA Labor Studies is now officially a department!🎉

The UCLA Labor Studies Department is the first of its kind at the UC

Read more about this historic development here: irle.ucla.edu/2025/09/25/u...

RELEASE– Historic first: UCLA launches Labor Studies Department

UCLA Labor Studies undergraduate major and minor will expand as a new academic department

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 14d

"'You know what creates ‘reasonable suspicion’? Taking $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents..." NDLON statement on bonkers-- but unsurprising-- recent reporting on Tom Homan...
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50,000 REASONS TOM HOMAN SHOULD BE STOPPED AND QUESTIONED – NDLON

“We won’t stop telling the truth and defending immigrants from suspicious people like Tom Homan. Only the people save the people. Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.”

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 16d

So that's it? Everyone is just moving on from this story? Yesterday's news? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

White House Denies Homan Took Bag of Cash in F.B.I. Inquiry

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 17d

Nor does it help empowering Musk by being a serf in his privately owned digital “public square”

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