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Rd bacon @doublechinner.bsky.social · 3h

Serenity now!
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Rd bacon @doublechinner.bsky.social · 5h

The blowback is worse for them the PR benefits with their target audience. Echoes of the flagrant enforcement of the fugitive slave act in northern states, which helped guarantee those states would go to war with the rebels to exact retribution.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6h

Ham sandwiches!

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 8h

A federal grand jury has refused to indict a Chicago couple arrested during a violent protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview last month, a rare move that prompted prosecutors to abruptly drop the case.

Charges dropped against couple in Broadview immigration protest after federal grand jury refuses to indict

A federal grand jury has refused to indict a Chicago couple arrested during a violent protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview last month, a rare move that…

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Rd bacon @doublechinner.bsky.social · 6h

As time goes on, it seems more clear that she’s a little off, even by politicians’ standards.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 7h

“With the court weighing whether to restrict federal tactics, the suit could help define how far Washington can go in policing protests and how strongly speech, press and religious expression are protected when federal agents deploy in U.S. cities.“

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 8h

Rev. David Black alleges ICE shot him without warning in Broadview; joins suit over protester rights violations.

Chicago Pastor Sues Trump Admin After Being Shot by ICE Agents

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21h

First they sprayed the Presbyterians…

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Any wonder why they wear masks?

👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago October 2025.......

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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 12h

Greg has correctly articulated our theory of the case - and accurately laid out the one battleground on which Governors and other electeds can successfully fight the feds, other than the courts (and there is delicate strategy there as well that I’m not sure everyone fully appreciates.)

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

"I cannot begin to tell you how difficult and unnerving it is to have been in Chicago these past few weeks; to exist indefinitely in the contradictory space between knowing and living."

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 12h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 11h

i’d missed that megan crepeau moved to bloomberg law, she’s excellent

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 21h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 11h

Starting my October horror posting...

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Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator

Some thoughts on the horror classic The Haunting of Hill House

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 11h

Local El Paso coverage has much more detail on the package of information presented to Pope Leo, including the video:

"Together, let us be a church that refuses to abandon our people, one that walks in faith, justice, and love"

elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

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Rd bacon @doublechinner.bsky.social · 11h

They should ask him about his mutual porn monitoring arrangement with his son.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 11h

If you're a reporter in DC lobbing questions about who's gonna perform at the Super Bowl to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, you're just a shit stirrer and a hack.

Plenty of things in Mike Johnson's wheelhouse you should be asking him about. Bad Bunny ain't one of them.

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 13h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 12h

When you read this about people being *afraid to go to. church* lest they be snatched by ICE, remember that Cardinal Timothy Dolan serves on Trump's Religious Liberty Commission (www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...) and was honored by the Becket Fund this year (becketfund.org/media/cardin...)

The letters and video he brought to Leo detail the fear that even legal migrants are facing every day. U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters by federal agents. In Leo’s hometown of Chicago, agents have stormed apartment complexes by helicopter as families slept, deployed chemical agents near a public school and arrested a city councilman in the hospital.

“They can’t go out. They are afraid to shop, to go to church and so they stay home,” wrote Maria in one of the letters delivered to Leo. Originally from Guatemala, she has lived in San Francisco for a quarter-century and qualified for asylum years ago, but has relatives in the U.S. who are not legal.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 1d

An alley in Uptown, Chicago (1965)

Photo: Art Shay / Monroe Gallery of Photography

Children playing in a city alley, smiling, dancing and waving their arms.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12h

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction begins Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12h

I believe these are the first Chicagoland NTBs, which is significant because grand juries sit for a long time— we didn’t previously know that Chicago’s GJs were fed up with this stuff and now we do.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 12h

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 21h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 12h

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 21h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 12h

ICE agents with half a brain should be terrified.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 21h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 12h

Or, an alternate read: "Would be a shame if someone parked a freight train in the way at rush hour every few mornings, randomly. Now give us $50m. No connection."

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12h

Rs do not want to nuke the legislative filibuster in full right now because they’d immediately have to take a bunch of very hard votes, national abortion ban chief among them.

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