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craignewman @craignewman.bsky.social · 25m

Has the DNC offered to pay to send Adelita Grijalva’s family to DC and put them up as long as needed so Mike Johnson gets his swearing-in criteria met?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
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Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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craignewman @craignewman.bsky.social · 31m

He’s also stupid. In addition to the spite thing.

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craignewman @craignewman.bsky.social · 49m

Fuck you, Brett Kavanaugh.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

craignewman @craignewman.bsky.social · 6h

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. flip.it/2Id8cF

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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craignewman @craignewman.bsky.social · 9h

You can delete "neo"

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craignewman @craignewman.bsky.social · 9h

He's not even suited to pick a good pizza joint to check out.

craignewman @craignewman.bsky.social · 9h

FFS

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate
Democrats called the Trump administration’s lethal strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers unconstitutional but were unable to persuade Republicans to vote for a restraining measure. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate

A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 11h

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 15h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14h

it’s all just a grift

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 10h

Trump is following almost to the letter Hitlers path to power. Sending the SS into Democratic neighborhoods to start violence and then blaming it on Democrats is classic Weimar Republic Germany. Now he wants to start jailing opposition leaders.

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Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy militar...

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craignewman @craignewman.bsky.social · 9h

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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craignewman @craignewman.bsky.social · 15h

JFC

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data
The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk 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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 1d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Hellish Children @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 1d

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Chipmunk Whisperer 🌴🥥🏝️ @chipmunkwhisperer.bsky.social · 2d

Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

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