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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 2h

⚾️ Detroit has remembered how to hit the baseball and apparently decided to score all their runs for the playoffs in this one game

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 9h

This is the part that kills me. Rs literally did this *mere weeks ago* and it was barely a one-day story, already forgotten to the mists of time

Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 9h

Every time a GOP Senator blames the shutdown on Democrats, a reporter should ask why they don’t just eliminate the filibuster for budget bills, like they just did for block confirmations.

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 7h

this could be us Bill but u refuse to be in the same place at the same time as me so

a couple of teletubbies standing next to each other in a field of flowers .

ALT: a couple of teletubbies standing next to each other in a field of flowers .

media.tenor.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 7h

meeting strangers from the internet is Good, Actually

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 9h

the full response after pivoting away from the question is somehow even worse lol (basically: “troops in the streets of American cities is a good thing actually and is wildly popular”)

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 9h

profiles in courage

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 9h

Jesus fuckin Christ

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 9h

also the ICE facility is in Broadview, not Chicago

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 9h

it’s probably the least objectionable detail here, but worth noting that SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that police do not actually have a “duty to protect” any specific person or entity

@realDonaldTrump
Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 9h

“I haven’t seen it” —every GOP elected official, if asked about this

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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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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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 1d

wonder if/when his Poaster’s Madness becomes too much for even Parnell to tolerate lol

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Kate Brannen @k8brannen.bsky.social · 1d

"Every military leader...must understand that the law is still the law, even if the Court is willing to exempt the president from its consequences."

Steven J. Lepper and Eugene R. Fidell for @justsecurity.org: www.justsecurity.org/121919/milit...

The Crisis in Uniform: The Danger of Presidential Immunity for the U.S. Military

Military personnel are increasingly aware that they may be asked to prioritize loyalty to an individual over their rights and responsibilities

www.justsecurity.org

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 1d

not only it it constitutionally offensive, it’s also incoherent nonsense on its own terms

he should wait until after his first cup of coffee before attempting to post right wing agitprop

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 1d

👀

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 1d

a video sharing thoughts & personal experiences on race relations in the military as one of the most senior leaders in DoD

a video ranting about how all the general officers and civilian officials in the chain of command are incompetent criminals

these, to me, are the same
—Dort, probably

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 2d

And not just drugs btw: if selling a dangerous product is an threat to national security on the same level as an act of war that requires the president to act immediately in self-defense, then we should be lobbing nukes at cigarette manufacturers, alcohol distillers, and the makers of Lawn Darts

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 2d

There is no natural limit to this reasoning, and following it to the logical conclusion would authorize similar extrajudicial lethal force against drug dealers *in the United States.* No conviction required—an accusation is enough, apparently.

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 2d

DOJ apparently thinks they can make pen-and-ink edits to Article I of the Constitution

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2d

'The opinion is significant, legal experts said, because it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.' www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

www.cnn.com

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 2d

ACFT DESIGNERS: “what we are measuring here is explosive power and core strength”

MATH: “over a large enough population what u are actually measuring is *limb length*”

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Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 2d

it is certainly at least one of those things lol

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