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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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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, you and me both. 😀

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 3d

I have a lot of thoughts about this concept and way of thinking about it. Perhaps the single biggest obstacle to many of these things happening is existing zoning, which prohibits commercial and residential uses of these types in close proximity to areas where we are living already!

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 22d

hi, cis folks!

trans people need your help! the FY26 budget gets a vote by 9/30. GOP wants a ban on funds for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. they're trying for other bans, too.

we need you to call senators like chuck who don't get it: reps.fyi

info & script in the🧵⬇️

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 9d

Came here to say this. Ongoing mx and repair on custom is also easier if you have a highway dept that can still do curbsetting and concrete work.

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 10d

Is this is the birth of "tactical municipalism"? I've heard worse ideas.

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11d

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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Lena Webb @finitealright.bsky.social · 11d

There is a GoFundMe for legal fees here: gofund.me/6eefe8da4

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 12d

Fucking SEEN

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 12d

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts

Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.

I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 12d

He is in custody, but in touch with his family and a lawyer now.

JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 13d

Oh no, Trump says protest is illegal. I guess police will continue teargassing, beating, and pepper spraying us at protests now.

blah blah blah civil disorder is a "politically motivated terrorist act" now blah blah blah

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 13d

Pretty sure nothing in the founding of this country enshrined "border control" or "respect for law enforcement" as foundational values.

(That said, the USA did have one successful violent revolution against a dictator back in 1781.)

Text of an executive order stating: "These [anti-fascist] movements portray foundational American principles (e.g. support for law enforcement and border control) as "fascist" to justify and encourage acts of violent revolution."

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 13d

No.

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Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social · 13d

The public testimony being given to the MA Special Commission on Antisemitism couldn't be more different from that of their handpicked guests. Many speaking out against IHRA definition of antisemitism.

Follow the livestream here: malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...

Hearing Details - Combatting Antisemitism

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 14d

It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24d

ICE killed a father of three in Franklin Park a few days ago. They are snatching people at gas stations, at bus stops, and from their homes and cars, leaving screaming, panicked children in their wake. It is a nightmare, and when ICE has amassed 10,000 new agents, it could be the new normal.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24d

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you to @cambridgeday.com for their coverage of this abduction.

Now let's bring Magdaleno home.

Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 16d

We've updated our story on Saturday's Ice abductee from East Somerville with a name given by several community members to us and to state representative @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social: Magdaleno Pineda Avelar, “A deeply loved person by all who have met him."

#Somerville #CambMA

Somervillian here legally stayed to talk with Ice and was taken anyway, state and local officials say - Cambridge Day

A federal agent is heard on video saying a man “fit exactly the description of the problem we’re here to address” before taking him away. A protest is planned for Saturday night at the hotel where age...

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 16d

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 16d

This entire article was a really good read for this Monday morning

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Near the start of the second Trump administration, a friend sent me a story I was not familiar with from World War II. I was dealing with my own issues of despair and feelings of futility and pointlessness, and my friend thought this might help. It concerns a B-17 pilot whose plane was shot up over Nazi Germany. The bomber was hit directly in the gas tank, not once but numerous times, but for some reason the tank did not explode. The pilot felt blessed by God. After an investigation, it was revealed that the shells that hit the gas tank had no explosive charge in them. Instead, inside one was a note, written in Czech. It read: “This is all we can do for you now.”

It might be that all we can do right now is to harass and document ICE’s goons as they try to kidnap and abduct people from our block, or courthouse, or house of worship. It might be that all we can do right now is to make sure the trans kid is invited to the birthday party, and cheer for them as loudly as we’d cheer for our own children when they get a hit in the game. It might be that all we can do right now is to call our congressperson so often that their constituent manager knows our name. But doing all we can do right now to oppose this regime is, frankly, the least that should be expected of us.

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 17d

According to new reports, it was loud and well attended, but wrapped up at 10.

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 17d

Never been so happy to have my dumpster getting emptied again! Congratulations to Teamsters Local 25 on the new contract!

JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · Jul 1

Never been so happy to have my dumpster NOT get emptied.

"Republic Services is in contract negotiations with IBT Local 25, the union representing many of our employees in Boston. On July 1, 2025, the union called a work stoppage..."

Fight the good fight, @teamsters.bsky.social!

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 17d

I believe that is what is happening here, at least the attempt.

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 18d

If you're losing sleep over ICE abducting our neighbors, there is a protest tonight at the hotel where ICE agents are reportedly staying. Let them hear about it.

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