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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 6h

“On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America | Portland | The Guardian

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 7h

“It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | What Civil Society Can Do to Beat Trumpism - The New York Times

People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 18h

I was completely unprepared for the threat posed by the Antifa super soldiers.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 18h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Tim Bray @tbray.org · 3d

Check out the “Nadia story”, and an explanation of how we can make it easier to tell when media is faked and when it’s real, with existing technology: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

Social Media Provenance Challenge

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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 1d

From 404 Media: Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

In documents created prior to the publication of our article, there is zero mention of concern about the woman’s safety. The records show that the police retroactively created a separate document about the Flock search a week after our article was published, in which they justify the search by saying they were concerned for her safety.

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

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

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.

apnews.com/article/chic...

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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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 2d

This is the case brought by a coalition of Chicago journalists

TRO == Temporary Restraining Order

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

They are going through the proposed order now, so, yes, Ellis is going to be granting a TRO.

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

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 3d

Two things felt different to the ppl I spoke with who’d been protesting at the ICE building for months.

1st was the sheer volume of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs used, seemingly unprovoked.

2nd was seeing so many videographers/live-streamers embedded with the feds as they marched out.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 3d

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city.

Troy and I were on the ground:

Federal tactics on protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

www.opb.org

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 2d

If Trump's deportation machine were an army, it would be the 13th largest on earth, ahead of Poland, Canada, Iran. The funding increase kicked in Oct 1, as federal agents unleash violence on the Chicago area, raiding communities and brutalizing protesters. By me & Lindsay Koshgarian, 📷 Steel Brooks.

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

The violated the 4th amendment rights of everybody in that building and zip tied children for this

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 4d

DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 4d

Now happening in Broadview, a western suburb of Chicago.

Follow @unraveledpress.com for updates out there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center—

IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 4d

Federal agents shot and apparently wounded a person in Chicago today.

Linking to this article with the major caveat that DHS statements are typically false and self-serving, and tend to overstate the threats.

The only part of this story that is confirmed is that agents shot a civilian.

Shooting involving federal agents in Brighton Park under investigation

According to the Department of Homeland Security, a woman allegedly "boxed in" federal authorities, who opened fire.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

The unitary executive theory puts all the power of the executive branch in the hands of one person. That is a problem when he is unaware of some pretty big decisions being made by his underlings.

Dan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 5d

“Mr. Trump was first told of the cuts by Ms. Hochul during a phone call on Sunday evening, according to three people with knowledge of the conversation.”

Trump Administration Reverses $187 Million in N.Y. Counterterrorism Cuts

www.nytimes.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5d

like, i don't really know how to adequately express the anger that i feel watching this video. not showing your face, lazily teargassing random people on a neighborhood street without getting out of your car - the image says more about these goons than i could articulate bsky.app/profile/clan...

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5d

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 5d

With Bari Weiss set to become the head of CBS News in the coming days, it's a good time to read this long deep dive into her history. While she's positioned herself as a disaffected liberal willing to embrace uncomfortable, heterodox truths, she's spent her entire career laundering conservative talk

Bari Weiss’s Remarkably Successful Shell Game

The Right's favorite reactionary centrist prepares to take over a major news organization.

jaymichaelson.substack.com

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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 5d

“The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” according to a person familiar with the discussions.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 6d

Weiss is everything they teach you not to be in journalism school, even the modern ones that are more skeptical of performative neutrality masquerading as objectivity. Awful on fact-checking and glaring sins of omission that wildly misframe sources and anecdotes. Disgraceful choice to lead CBS News.

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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 6d

City Bureau is hiring a Director of Development. Applications are open until October 14. Pass it on!

www.citybureau.org/director-of-...

We’re hiring a Director of Development!<br/> — City Bureau

We’re hiring a Director of Development to lead our fundraising and strengthen the future of people-powered journalism! Application closes September 30.

www.citybureau.org

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