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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 7h

Hakeem Jeffries came to play today as Lawler tries to confront him: "You’re not going to talk over me because you don’t want to hear what I have to say so why don’t you just keep your mouth shut."

More 👏🏼Of👏🏼This👏🏼

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Heidrun @heidrunmead.bsky.social · 3h

Oh cool! I was wondering whether you were going to do a calendar, but didn't want to ask.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 7h

Kristie Noem on Zach Bryan who served 8 years in the US Navy. He earned an Honorable discharge as an AO2 to pursue a career in music. He was in the Navy longer than Noem was governor.

Conservatives did the same thing to the Dixie Chicks when Natalie Manes spoke out against the Iraq invasion.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Heidrun @heidrunmead.bsky.social · 7h

I continue to be embarrassed by my fellow white women.

Heidrun @heidrunmead.bsky.social · 7h

Is he the guy who worked for Blackwater?

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Heidrun @heidrunmead.bsky.social · 9h

I had to check, because it seemed too ridiculous to be true.

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Heidrun @heidrunmead.bsky.social · 9h

It exists 😭 and is currently on sale on Amazon.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 10h

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on President Donald Trump saying that him and Chicago Mayor Johnson should both be "jailed":

"He's a coward. He says a lot of things to the camera. He likes to pretend to be a tough guy. Come and get me. Come and get me."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Gabi 雪 @gabimccauley.bsky.social · 1d

Those dangerous antifa terrorists armed with *checks notes* pajamas and doughnuts.

www.oregonlive.com/galleries/GW...

About two dozen people in pajamas gathered with coffee and pastries outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in South Portland on Sunday morning, Oct. 5, 2025, for the Portl...

www.oregonlive.com

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Heidrun @heidrunmead.bsky.social · 10h

Of everything this regime has already done, this is the worst atrocity.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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.

apnews.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 19h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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