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Jared Rizzi @jaredrizzi.bsky.social · 17h

The entire piece is excellent, and strikes the tone that is so crucial for this moment. But I'm most intrigued by Meredith's question near the middle: "Who is served by pretending we live in an America different from this one?"

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 18h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 16h

Baltimore County's Chief of Police is on the county's Brady/Giglio list — a list of officers whose credibility concerns are required to be disclosed to defendants if they're called as a witness in court. No one will say why. Great reporting by @conarck.bsky.social: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Baltimore County’s police chief is on a list of cops with credibility concerns

Robert McCullough, the Baltimore County Police Department chief, appears on a list of law enforcement officers whose potential credibility concerns require disclosure to defense attorneys if they’re c...

www.thebanner.com

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Sophie @sophiavp.bsky.social · 1d

Wild how quickly @danhinkel.bsky.social's article became relevant again.

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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 1d

Those 34 years would have been 26 years if the Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit had cleared Francisco Benitez instead of denying him in 2015. He's one of at least 21 people the group rejected who were later exonerated. You can read about it in my @injusticewatch.org series Denying Innocence.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 1d

Ah, God. It's October 7.

Two horrible fucking years.

I don't know what to say that @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and I didn't already say just ten days after it all began:

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Slate headline: JUDAISM CAN'T JUSTIFY WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 2d

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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 2d

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 4d

NEW — So, there are multiple things happening today in Chicago.

• Pritzker says Trump intends to send 300 troops here in the coming hours

• Protestors are going off in Brighton Park, where federal agents shot a woman.

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Trump to federalize 300 Illinois National Guard troops soon, tensions rising in Brighton Park after immigration agents shoot woman • The TRiiBE

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced that the Trump administration “intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard” within the coming hours.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 5d

The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.

Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime

Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 6d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 8d

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’

WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

www.wbez.org

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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 8d

Much of this story covers Cook Co. prosecutors' unwillingness to systematically examine the many similar coercion allegations against Det. Brian Forberg & partners.

Of the 24 known people charged or convicted in cases involving a coercion allegation against Forberg et al, every single one is Black

Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 8d

NEW from @danhinkel.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @boltsmag.org: Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has weakened the office tasked with reviewing innocence claims. In the 10 months since she took office, it has not exonerated a single person. www.injusticewatch.org/project/deny...

Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations again...

www.injusticewatch.org

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 8d

NEW from @danhinkel.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @boltsmag.org: Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has weakened the office tasked with reviewing innocence claims. In the 10 months since she took office, it has not exonerated a single person. www.injusticewatch.org/project/deny...

Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations again...

www.injusticewatch.org

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 10d

Glad to hear Steve and others arrested were released early this morning. bsky.app/profile/thet...

Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 11d

Federal agents detained Chicago journalist Steve Held, of Unraveled Press, on the evening of Saturday, September 27, outside Broadview Detention Facility while he reported on the ongoing protests.

We urge for his immediate release.

Signed by 10 local nonprofit newsrooms.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 11d

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 14d

I’m still not over this. I know there’s a lot going on, but I think it should be a bigger deal that the country’s most popular podcaster just casually throws out antisemitic conspiracy theories as if they’re common knowledge. And the paper of record just quoted him doing it uncritically.

Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 14d

Love waking up on the second day of Rosh Hashanah to see that casual antisemitism is so normalized that the NYT quotes Joe Rogan dropping a well-worn antisemitic trope without any acknowledgement of it at all.

A quote from Joe Rogan in the NYT: “You don’t think that the [expletive] globalist lizard people who run the world are sitting here going: ‘Great, what do we got — three years? We’ll wait this out. We’ll wait this out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let them say the government should be involved in censoring people’s speech.’”

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 14d

At least 43 outlets shared anti-trans misinfo after Charlie Kirk shooting

A report from the Trans Journalists Association found that 43 outlets published misinformation about “transgender ideology” after Charlie Kirk’s killing

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At least 43 outlets shared anti-trans misinfo after Charlie Kirk shooting: TJA | Xtra Magazine

A report from the Trans Journalists Association found that 43 outlets published misinformation about “transgender ideology” after Charlie Kirk’s killing

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14d

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/i...

Illinois issues its own COVID-19 vaccines recommendations, breaking with federal government

Illinois has released its own recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines – urging all adults and many children to get the shots, in a break with the federal government’s guidance.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 14d

Also, Kimmel gets cancelled, but this asshole spews antisemitic bullshit to his audience of millions and the NYT finds his perspective important enough to devote a story to it?

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 14d

Love waking up on the second day of Rosh Hashanah to see that casual antisemitism is so normalized that the NYT quotes Joe Rogan dropping a well-worn antisemitic trope without any acknowledgement of it at all.

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 16d

Today marks 100 days of journalist Mario Guevara’s detention by U.S. law enforcement for livestreaming. Guevara, the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, faces the very real threat of deportation for doing his job.

We demand Mario’s immediate release. freedomformario.com

#FreeMario

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 16d

This may seem wild but it was in fact inevitable. Conspiratorial people animated by grievance and grift invariably land on one of the oldest and most lucrative conspiratorial grifts of all. You can set your clock by it.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 16d

Now that’s what I call a pivot

Tweet from Shaun king that reads: “Fascinating to see Jews, who do not believe in the Christian Bible, and generally do not read or study it, critique how a Christian tells a story from it at the funeral of a Christian.

I was a Christian pastor for 14 years.

The story Tucker Carlson told was Biblical. Period.”

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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 16d

NEW: Judge Ruth Gudino was reassigned from a domestic violence courtroom in Markham after a clerk accused her of pushing him. The Cook County Sheriff's office concluded the allegation was 'unfounded.' buff.ly/T9w2Mnu

Cook County judge previously accused of ‘unwanted touching’ reassigned after clerk alleges battery

Judge Ruth Gudino was reassigned from a domestic violence courtroom in Markham after a clerk accused her of pushing him. The sheriff’s office said the allegation was unfounded.

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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 19d

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by Ice

Mario Guevara faces imminent removal from US as his attorney files emergency petition

www.theguardian.com

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 19d

Do they always couch their recommendations in “It is the sense of the committee” or is that new?

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