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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

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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.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.

That is not a foundation of our democracy.

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 1d

The growth of a technology famous for lying to its users depends on companies misleading the market. Good thing the S&P is dominated by 7 companies that are all in on it. Hold onto yer 401k

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 1d

A year ago the NYT’s publisher declared his paper’s readiness to confront authoritarianism. He didn’t mention a welcome mat

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

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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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown

Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 8d

How not to run a military: new orders encourage bullying and assault in the ranks, threaten those who complain, cut cybersecurity training and risk management, degrade training standards…

Hegseth is attempting to destroy our professional military

media.defense.gov/2025/Sep/30/...

media.defense.gov

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 8d

On the bright side, it was McCarthy's decision to go after the military that led to his downfall.

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 8d

“Move out and draw fire” is a heckuva coda

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 8d

This is the Republicans telling lawful, registered voters that they don’t count. It’s one district in AZ now, and a not so baby step to suppressing voters at scale next year.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 8d

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10d

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse.

Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

Abigail Jackson saying: Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences.

Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high

And posting a graph from Axios that shows WAY WAY WAY more right wing terrorism, and showing a very slight increase in left wing terrorism this year that would still have it lower than basically every other year of right wing terrorism.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10d

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 10d

Why isn’t he wearing a hot dog suit while answering these questions? “We are looking at potential solutions” somehow doesn’t include reasserting Congressional tariff authority. He either thinks we’re all very stupid or he just doesn’t care about farmers. Maybe both.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Thune: "We've got a big harvest coming in here in South Dakota, corn and soybeans, and no place to go with it ... we are looking at potential solutions to make sure we can help support farmers until some of those markets come back."

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 11d

Jan 6 never ended

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11d

Now say it publicly.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11d

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 11d

Bar associations: start standing up disciplinary committees now. It took 4 years before John Eastman was disbarred for running a failed coup in 2020. Get going before these dangerous dingdongs completely humiliate the legal profession

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11d

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

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Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social · 11d

Armed paramilitary wearing death skull masks shooting “non lethal” rounds at news media.

Make no mistake, we’re going to win. And they will all be held to account, from the henchmen to the autocrat himself.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12d

It won't mean much, but: got the fucker who did it

ICE agents in background with pepper ball dispensers; foreground is another photographers head crouched behind white car

some freak in camo with a skull mask aiming his pepper ball gun at my face

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