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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 1h

That's more like it

The weather forecast for the next week, showing it's going to be between the 40s and 60s every day

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 12h

32 years ago today, Homer showed his new chainsaw and hockey mask to Bart. "Cape Feare," first aired October 7, 1993.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 5h

Lmao

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

A resident of a nearby building asks a very important question:

“You claim you have warrants, but do you have a warrant to seize the entire building?” she asked the agents. “Do you have warrants to detain the entire building?”

Or: do people lose their rights if they live near undocumented people?

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 10h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 9h

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

Every part of this sentence describes an abomination before God. People are going to hell for this.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 9h

This morning, I cautioned Felix (age 3) against touching the baby's face because he's got a runny nose and "we don't want to get the baby sick, do we?" He countered that, when babies are sick, "they use teeny tiny tissues and it's so so cute." And he's right, that does sound cute

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22h

we gotta stop using “democratic run” or “blue cities” and start saying donald trump is invading “american cities”

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 10h

I know what happened to Amelia Earhart, but you won't like it

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teq @quilling.dev · 11h

I dont know what your post means but that wont stop me from liking it

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 10h

It's weird to own a pet that's bigger than you. If you're smaller, you're the pet

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 13h

just learned about the paradoxical frog (yes, that’s its real name), which is so named because the tadpoles are bigger than the adult frogs. can you imagine if we had giant babies that turned into regular-sized adults? wild

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

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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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 16h

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

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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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 10h

Right, but i bet the racist asshole part of it all probably makes a lot of Hispanic people not want to help ICE

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 10h

wild to have such nationalistic and militaristic fervor for a country that has had a legendary string of crushing military failures

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 15h

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 10h

Also, are they really on board? People who join the national guard are not always the same kind of people who join ICE/the cops. They're more normal. And the Texas national guard has gotta have a pretty large Hispanic population. Are their hearts in it to terrorize Venezuelan children?

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 14h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19h

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Matt Morhockey-Morbooks @drakesmitha12.bsky.social · 11h

Size of mouse relative to a long bone....could it be, the mice have taken human prey?

Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 12h

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

A Richard Scarry illustration of a skeleton-bone dragster being driven by a little mouse

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 11h

Cars, Trucks, and Immortan Joe

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