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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 18h

“Undermining this rule is extremely hard to characterize as in some way beneficial to investors and savers. Every time Trump has promised to protect the little guy, the little guy has been able to count on getting screwed.” Read @brycecovert.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

Unleashing Retirement Scammers

The Trump administration may reopen a loophole that allows investment brokers to enrich themselves at clients' expense.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7d

State prosecutors should take these cases and give them serious consideration.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 7d

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork

ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 9d

www.csis.org/analysis/lef... This report is framed irresponsibly and distorts the reality of extremist violence. The header is that left-wing terror is on the rise, and of course that will be the bite-sized takeaway. (1)

Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us

The Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program examines the state of political violence, finding left-wing violence has risen in the last decade but from very low levels and still well below hi...

www.csis.org

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 14d

i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade

what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with

404 Media @404media.co · 14d

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of Women Being Shot

YouTube removed a channel that posted nothing but graphic Veo-generated videos of women being shot after 404 Media reached out for comment.

www.404media.co

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Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 14d

Cosign

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 14d

“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.“

-1984, Orwell

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 14d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15d

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15d

Much -- not all, but much -- of the trouble with modern newspapers is actually the deep, suppurating rot in the ranks of politcal reporters: the belief that they're largely theater critics

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 16d

“Tell me why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat [filled with migrants]?”

- Stephen Miller’s alleged question to an Admiral during Trump Term 1

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 16d

Holy shit

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 16d

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader

Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

www.thedigradio.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17d

In a normal government this guy would be fired instead of imprisoning people
"It is still a crime for anyone to seek money to improperly influence federal contracts, the legal experts said, whether they are a public official or not, and whether they ever delivered on their promise or not."

Several FBI and Justice officials believed that they had a strong criminal case against Homan for conspiracy to commit bribery based on recording him accepting cash and his apparent promise to assist with contracts, according to four people familiar with the probe. Homan could have been charged with a crime then, legal experts say, but his case was unusual: He was not a public official, and Trump was not president at the time he accepted money in the FBI’s undercover sting, so his actions didn’t clearly fit under a standard bribery charge.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 18d

and I think that's an easy distinction to make publicly, one that normies can understand: if ICE is not bound by the Constitution then it doesn't need to be respected by anyone - not local police, not governors, not mayors, not citizens, not anyone - ICE is a rogue, anti-American gang of thugs

randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 18d

the US opposition is finally understanding ICE is the enemy and not a legitimate, constitutionally-bound agency

Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 18d

Right wing crazies want me arrested because they know I won't back down. Too bad.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18d

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18d

Much of the violent, racist rhetoric from the man arrested for allegedly threatening the life of Zohran Mamdani is almost indistinguishable from what top GOP politicians were saying in the days after Mamdani won the primary. (Also similar to what Girdusky said to me on CNN!)

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Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 19d

Read Alessandra's story here: inthesetimes.com/article/bran...

The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders

Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.

inthesetimes.com

Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 19d

Yet more recognition for Alessandra Bergamin's incredible @inthesetimes.com investigation "The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders" from the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 19d

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 20d

What would right-wingers say if a Dem FCC chairman said broadcasters could demand TV personalities donate to Planned Parenthood

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 19d

This is extortion live on TV

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 20d

my latest in Commonweal magazine:
"Continent at a Crossroads? Europe & the rise of right-wing Catholicism"
www.commonwealmagazine.org/massimo-euro...

Continent at a Crossroads?

It seems there may be a new kind of European Catholicism—one sharing much in common with contemporary American Christianity.

www.commonwealmagazine.org

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 20d

If Trump can successfully fabricate this staggeringly ridiculous pretext for stripping permanent residence from Khalil, they can do it to me or anyone they don’t like. How the federal judge responds will have broad implications for whether even green card holders may speak freely in this country

Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria or Syria

“It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech," Khalil, a former Columbia University grad student, said in a statement.

www.nbcnews.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20d

Since Antifa isn’t really an “organization”, this is just carte blanche to arbitrarily declare people terrorists.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20d

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.”

Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

Donald J. Trump t @realDonald Trump
I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A.
Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20d

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.”

Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

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