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Meg Trevey

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obstinate, headstrong girl "I have been trying to ask myself what is required of me, because what is required of me tends to remain more consistent than my hope.” --Derecka Purnell

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Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · Jun 13

I am become Dennis

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Alt: gif from It's Always Sunny where Dennis stands next to a dock screaming "I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds," face red, veins bulging in his neck

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 11h

Sickened to hear Trustee Muñoz’s reports from inside the Broadview ICE facility. Detainees are held in unsanitary, overcrowded cells with poor ventilation and limited access to restrooms.

Meanwhile, Sec. Noem was shooting a promotional video. She treats people like props — it’s disgusting.

Oak Park Twp. trustee detained during Broadview ICE protests, officials say

The Oak Park Township Trustee who was arrested in Broadview said he was held for 12 hours and wasn’t allowed to contact a lawyer.

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Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 15h

www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...

From the chicago community on Reddit: Incredible interview

Posted by Putrid_Cockroach5162 - 629 votes and 38 comments

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16h

Really would like people to square this circle with their vocal support for increased policing in Black communities.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 1d

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 16h

God damn, this one got me. "I cannot make peace with the world such as it is, and so I cannot anesthetize myself into acceptance—and I am okay with that."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 20h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 21h

I think costumed dancing might be a brilliant protest strategy because it both grabs attention (which is what protests need to succeed) and provides a jarring visual contrast between us and them.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Reuters @reuters.com · 22h

Trump calls for Chicago mayor, Illinois governor to be jailed reut.rs/47e8DzL

Trump calls for Chicago mayor, Illinois governor to be jailed

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to be jailed, accusing the two Democrats of failing to protect federal immigration officers without offering any evidence.

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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realfinney.bsky.social @realfinney.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats reaching out to the trans community with their strategy:

5 men in suits address the POV "We've discussed this and made a democratic decision. But we're going to need you to die."

Source: Squidgame Season 3

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 1d

Let's try a modern parliamentary system with proportional representation next time, eh fellas? Not really digging this small states getting a larger say thing.

Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 1d

This is literally the least you could say. My kingdom for a new fresh, feisty Senator.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 1d

President Trump and Governor Abbott have illegally sent the Texas National Guard into the sovereign state of Illinois over the objections of Governor Pritzker.

This is a frightening and unconstitutional escalation.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Vallas would've had CPD attack the crowd protesting ICE after ICE shot a woman in Brighton Park, gassed onlookers, and then requested "assistance." It means something that Brandon Johnson did not betray us in that moment, and I won't forget it, even tho I've had my gripes with his administration.

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, it really matters whether your electeds are progressive. We are often frustrated on the left at what electeds can deliver, but we have to remember moments like this. Paul Vallas would NOT have created ICE free zones.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

Nazis has picnics outside of concentration camps. White Americans made lynching a fun family activity and handed out souvenirs. When depravity is whitewashed, it is repeated.

14Cookiesinajar @14cookiesinajar.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine sitting and doing paperwork right next to several rooms full of innocent people you're knowingly, intently abusing. Smiling up at a coworker chatting. The banality of it just. Horrifying.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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