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

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 19h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 1d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk and Stephen Miller both tweeted against judges today.

A South Carolina judge's house burned down and almost killed her family.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7d

On the eve of the holiest day of the year for globalists, no less.

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 7d

DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
"Communist?"
DENIED.
"Terrorist?"
DENIED.
"Globalist?"
DENIED.

Above a meme of a bearded smiling guy, in this case wearing a USCIS hat

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 13d

Homer vaccinated his kids.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13d

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There's Outrage For Jimmy Kimmel, Not For Black Journalists

Free speech only becomes a crisis when a white man loses his microphone. When Black journalists lose theirs, it’s treated as business as usual.

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James Ellis @employerbrand.bsky.social · 13d

Everything’s legal when the cops are in your pocket, the judges look the other way, and the media profits from your exploits…

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 14d

It’s also about shaming people for being disabled or having disabled children, so therefore, like so much of the GOP platform, it comes right back to eugenics.

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14d

Let's talk about Tylenol and pregnancy.

Fundamentally, this is about making sure women do not get one ounce of relief, but it's also about criminalization.

How long do you think it's going to be before they arrest someone for taking Tylenol during a pregnancy? We are going down that road.

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A Jelly Squishes Slowly By @ubiquisquish.bsky.social · 14d

Remote work is an easy, excellent accommodation for disabled workers, and removing it is pure spite and aggression.
The article itself is very good and reminds us that there was a serious shooting at CDC headquarters recently! Like, damn, that’s a good reason not to go into the office.

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 14d

Our current admin hates disabled people 🌈
www.afge.org/article/cdc-...

CDC Removes Disability as Reasonable Accommodation for Remote Work, Backtracks After Union Pressure

Leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had said employees with disabilities would no longer be approved for telework or remote work as a reasonable accommodation – a stunning vio...

www.afge.org

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PJ Westin @pjwestin.bsky.social · 16d

Boy, if you had sum up 2025 in a photo, I'm not sure you could do better than masked thugs in military gear using chemical weapons on a priest at point-blank range.

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 17d

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

Photo of ICE thugs using chemical weapons on a Reverend.

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KnightHawk♿💙 @knighthawk899.bsky.social · 16d

I love how when Republicans need help they think they're so entitled to all the help in the world cuz they "really need it" yet disabled Americans need to just work harder due to republican achievement ethos.

Disabled Americans don't fit into the narrow world view that you get what you work for.

Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 16d

'There'd better be results': Devastated farmers warn Trump they're close to rebelling

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'There'd better be results': Devastated farmers warn Trump they're close to rebelling

As anticipated, U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic and immigration policies are harming American farmers’ ability to earn a living—and testing the loyalty of one of the president’s staunchest base...

www.rawstory.com

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 18d

Yet he’s going to do it. it’s not like the Republican Party or the US Supreme Court will stop him, or that he’d listen if they tried.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18d

"What do you expect Democrats to do!?!???'

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18d

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 19d

Donald is coming for Jimmy Fallon and Seth, per his own posts.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 19d

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 20d

the trajectory from circa 1999 Man Show-era women jumping on trampolines Jimmy Kimmel to 2025 free speech canary in the coal mine Jimmy Kimmel is really something

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21d

The Trump administration giving the largest grant in the history of the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to the Tikvah Fund represents an attempt to construct a parallel infrastructure for the academic study of Judaism, explicitly allied with ethnonationalist, Christian nationalist forces.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22d

Let us all be clear that taking all the money away from real work and giving it to the Tikvah Fund is a fucking disaster that will cause worse things to happen

and all the Jewish spaces I inhabit understand it and are framing it as such.

These are bad times.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 22d

I must admit I’m just finding the entire mainstream media annoying as fuck lately, with too few exceptions.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.

Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 23d

He has no need to.