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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 12h

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 1d

Regime Collapse 🧵: Let's talk about how boyish methods of bullying & intimidation work to an extent & then you need other methods of control.

They're trying the same tactic over & over & it's beginning not to work on us.

Once you get dominoes falling, silly bluster won't put us back in our place 🧵

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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 1d

you don’t say

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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 4d

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing in ICE’s tweet contradicts anything in my thread. The guy had traffic violations from “years ago”. That does not make him a criminal. ICE does not even try to rebut the other facts bsky.app/profile/davi...

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 5d

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity.

Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute.

Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections.

But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents.

The legacy of the Roberts court.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 5d

what could possibly go wrong

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 5d

Any Ontario minister in Doug Ford’s government could soon have the power to create law-free zones — and decide what gets built there.

Ontario reporter @fatimabsyed.bsky.social explains:

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d

They’re baaack. 🤣

Repairs and all…

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Jeff @jeffincny.bsky.social · 6d

Not to be overly dramatic but don't ever say what happened to Khashoggi can't happen here. We've had a lot of things happen here already that "can't happen here"

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d

And here is my latest.

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 7d

Oh thank god.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 7d

Boo-urns.

Of course.

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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 7d

Farewell, Jane Goodall.
The world was better for your compassion, your curiosity and your teaching.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...

Jane Goodall, conservationist and chimpanzee researcher, dead at 91 | CBC News

Jane Goodall, the British conservationist and researcher renowned for her work with chimpanzees, has died at age 91.

www.cbc.ca

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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 7d

Niiiice.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 7d

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 7d

I am begging comedians to understand that "Hitting both sides equally" doesn't mean you're avoiding politics. That's literally the opposite of what that means. If you host a late night show and want to "keep your head down," quit and make room for someone who doesn't. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Jimmy Fallon Plans to ‘Keep My Head Down’ and Avoid Politics on ‘The Tonight Show’: ‘We Hit Both Sides Equally’

Jimmy Fallon says he plans to "keep my head down" and avoid politics on "The Tonight Show."

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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, buddy.
Token $$ “staying in my pocket” when coupled with massive austerity measures is not a net gain for the nation.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8d

Republicans this week:

"If I intentionally drive this vehicle off a cliff, it will be the fault of the people in the car that didn't have control of the steering wheel."

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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 9d

Great thread here. Great points.

My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 10d

Here Del Duca does something interesting with msging. He tries to reframe dangerous driving as benign, thereby exonerating himself from doing harm cancelling the cameras, while also sounding like he's empathetic & tough on crime. Cynical stuff for a man removing cameras meant to protect kids.

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The other message that my residents have conveyed to me, which I will convey to you, and I've explained this to the premier, and he knows it instinctively, the people of this city, and I suspect the people of Ontario, want us to focus on what I will call the real criminals.
They don't want us to be dinging them, as I mentioned a moment ago. They acknowledge occasionally going a few kilometers over, but when someone gets killed in front of their own kids, when someone has their home in a quiet residential street shot at in one case more than once, when York Regional Police do their job, but our bail system and our and our criminal justice system is letting everyone down. To equate the two, speed cameras with going after the real criminals, it's not even a close fight.
My job as mayor, one of my most important obligations is to keep the people of Vaughn safe. It's something that I will turn over every stone to make happen.

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Don Landry 🎙️✍️ @donlandrymedia.bsky.social · 9d

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 9d

Standing outside the gates of the Qu'Appelle Indian residential school.This a haunted dark place. A 5-year-old taken through these gates had a lower chance of survival than a Canadian soldier fighting in WW2.
The red dress and the orange shirt hang on the gates.
We remember
#orangeshirtday

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