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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 14h

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 16h

This is a five alarm fire.

Serious implications here: a sitting governor saying basically that the U.S. president is planning to use the military to overthrow democracy in America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9h

Mark Bray wrote a book on antifascism and was trying to leave the country with his family after being targeted by right-wing operatives and receiving death threats:

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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dianainoregon.bsky.social @dianainoregon.bsky.social · 9h

JFC. They are so stupid and every word out of their mouth is a lie.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 14h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Daniel Bastiaanse @indodragon.bsky.social · 1d

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dianainoregon.bsky.social @dianainoregon.bsky.social · 9h

Just picked mine up on the way home from work. Shredding for tacos with lots of sour cream and hot sauce #EmotionalSupportRoastChicken

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 10h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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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.

southsideweekly.com

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2d

One of these pictures shows a violent insurrection.

The other picture is Portland Oregon.

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 1d

This image is haunting now.
This is the violent face of unchecked and unaccountable rule.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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dianainoregon.bsky.social @dianainoregon.bsky.social · 1d

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

dianainoregon.bsky.social @dianainoregon.bsky.social · 2d

😱

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

If ACA healthcare subsidies are not extended, a 60-year-old earning $65k in Key West, Fla. could see premiums go from $460 a month with the subsidies to $2,400 a month without.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Maps show how expected increases in monthly premiums vary by age and geography.

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dianainoregon.bsky.social @dianainoregon.bsky.social · 2d

No one lays out the facts about what is really happening in our country more cogently and calmly than Heather Cox Richardson.

Somehow her steady, rhetoric-free truth-telling makes it punch even harder, and yet there are always kernels of hope.

She deserves a Pulitzer and a Nobel, and a long nap

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

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If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2d

Turning Point USA deliberately stokes violence and radicalism.

Charlie Kirk died on a pyre he built for others.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

So what’s the clear legal distinction between miscarriage and abortion? And we’re sentencing the men to death too, right?

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dianainoregon.bsky.social @dianainoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 2d

“Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues”

There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time

1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”

www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues

All troops will miss a paycheck if Congress does not agree on a deal to reopen the government before Oct. 15, the next pay date for the military.

www.stripes.com

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

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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dianainoregon.bsky.social @dianainoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Nope. Don’t believe a word Sen Collins says.

It’s Lucy and the football, over and over again.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 2d

The Senator who enabled the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh is selling snake oil again. #MEPoltiics

Will some Democrats be stupid enough to buy?

Robert Costa screenshot from X:

"Robert Costa @costareports
Senator Collins says at the Capitol tonight that she’s circulating a bipartisan plan that will commit to moving to address health-care subsidies once the government is reopened… she showed reporters a folder that had a printout of what she said could be a way out of shutdown"

dianainoregon.bsky.social @dianainoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Many excellent points in this piece. What is missing is glaring however, especially in this historical moment: no mention of discrimination, ICE raids, or structural racism.

I believe “the majority” Rothkopf writes about wants and need relief from those things too.

No justice, no peace.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that a vast majority of Americans agree on a wide array of issues and yet our political leaders advance none of them illustrates just how broken our system is. Power has shifted from the majority to a monied-few. How do we win it back? I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

A Word About the Most Important Voting Bloc in America

Meet the self-interested majority (who know "a man is not a piece of fruit")

open.substack.com

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 2d

Sooner rather than later, Blue States will need to field law enforcement agents and military personnel that we're confident will be loyal to the voters of that state and not the Republican Party.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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dianainoregon.bsky.social @dianainoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Uh oh. Hell must have frozen over if MTG is making even an iota of sense 😳

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

👀 Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Republicans on Obamacare funding, saying she’s not a fan of the law but demands action to prevent a premium hike. “I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.” She says GOP leaders don’t have a plan.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is lying. Go figure

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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