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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 12h

To the good people of Texas from your friends in Chicago…. Really??

Listen to this conversation then tell your governor not to recall the Tx national guard- return folks to their families and their jobs, and let us fight this fight without your enmity.

Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 15h

ICYMI: @sjdemas.bsky.social & @eisendrath.net cut through Trump’s narrative that blue states are lawless and need ICE, the National Guard — maybe even the military.

Subscribe and watch, now!

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trumps-ope...

Trump's Open to Invoking the Insurrection Act | LIVE with Edwin Eisendrath & Susan Demas

Trump’s militarized response to dissent has turned American cities into test zones for authoritarian rule.

www.lincolnsquare.media

Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 13h

Mark’s right to praise the local press in Chicago. Reporters from all kinds of news organizations are making sure the truth gets out.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h

If you think today's news media picture is grim, take stock of how Chicago's local journalists are getting at the truth despite Homeland Security's campaign of lies and intimidation.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 13h

Not talking about the guard. Talking instead about the masked, poorly trained, hastily recruited, over-aggressive, folks who make up a large portion of the ICE and CBP folks now in this city.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

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

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 19h

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16h

Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Padilla: Do you believe government officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not?

Bondi: I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump.

Padilla: I asked a simple yes or no question

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16h

"None of this is making anyone safer. It’s doing real harm to children, to U.S. citizens and to America’s reputation on the world stage. It’s fulfilling the perverse, cruel fantasies of a president who wants to rule, not lead."

Be sure to read this from my fellow Chicagoan @rexhuppke.bsky.social ⤵️

Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 19h

We've reached the point where states are protecting us from Trump. Thank goodness for Democrats like Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker who have the spine to stand up to the president’s weaselly authoritarianism.

My column:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

States are protecting us from Trump's authoritarian invasion. You wanted this? | Opinion

Let's put things simply: U.S. states are now having to defend themselves against the federal government.

www.usatoday.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 1d

Completely insane, but on brand for guys who think hey how can I do more to divide and enrage.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 2d

I agree with Tom. But also… it’s the wrong question. Better to ask, unless and until we can no longer ask, how do we fight back?

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. It's possible. But I the odds of that possibility increase by hysterical claims that we're already in a fascist country.
I'll just point out that some people were certain that we were headed for fascism after 2017 and that Biden couldn't win. We're here now b/c of 200K votes in three states.

demanda @cmdrslappy.bsky.social · 2d

Can you at least concede that there's a possibility you'll eat these words at some time? That things are escalating in ways that you didn't foresee?

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

They’ve turned everyone in Chicago into extras in Stephen Miller’s villainous, unconstitutional, authoritarian fantasy

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

As @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social reported back in September, this is the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

If you want to learn more about the people under TPS and how this move will affect them, read Dias' feature below:

Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented

Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

www.motherjones.com

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 3d

Blackhawk helicopters do not belong in an American city under any circumstance. ICE used them here in Chicago this week. What a disgrace as @walshfreedom.bsky.social and I discussed:

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

Funny how we went from "I'll fix it on Day 1" to "wait until next year."

"advisers told Trump it was up to him how to publicly address the weak jobs data and he could just breeze past the information by pointing to the future"
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Team Hones Message on Economy: Just Wait Until 2026
Advisers work to ease voter anxiety about weak jobs growth and stubborn inflation

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. Their new mantra: Just wait until next year.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 3d

Blackhawk helicopters do not belong in an American city under any circumstance. ICE used them here in Chicago this week. What a disgrace as @walshfreedom.bsky.social and I discussed:

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 3d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that Democrats have a 10 point advantage over the GOP in Virginia on education shows just how wrong the national party/pundit takes on this issue have turned out to be. Virginia, of course, is where the narrative about the electoral power of school culture wars began

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 4d

As I told @walshfreedom.bsky.social, I'm so proud of my City of Chicago for standing strong against this excessive ICE violence against the people who live here-

I hope you'll listen to our conversation:

open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Chicago is ground zero. Joe Walsh and Edwin Eisendrath talk about whether it's also a turning point.

Donald Trump's unprovoked and cruel attack on Chicago will not go answered. Americans everywhere are disgusted by the military invasion of an American city.

open.substack.com

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