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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

this is so fucking gross i don’t even have words to process how fucking gross it is

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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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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Meghan Leonard @meghanleonard.bsky.social · 2d

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 2d

This is a remarkable document. here is a mayor restricting her constituents’ first amendment rights to (checks notes) protect them from (checks notes) the federal (really?) government.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

Would honestly not be surprised if he instigates a war to try to stay in power.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

Trump is looking at 2028 and he has to figure out, how does he circumvent or avoid the rule that he can't run again. I think one of the ways he's going to do that is to create what's perceived to be a real crisis in America."

Barbara Walter joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3d

I don’t think that the United States military murdering Venezuelans at sea is getting anywhere near the attention it should

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3d

Meme of three girls in a classroom sitting at desks, with the girl in the middle cheating on a quiz by copying the paper of the girl in front, and the girl in the back cheating by copying the girl in the middle. The front girl is labeled "Cops, lying". The girl behind her is labeled "local media". The girl in the back is labeled "national media".

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 3d

Fed. judge grants TRO blocking Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland.

Holds that, at this stage, Plaintiffs appear likely to succeed on their ultra vires and Tenth Amendment claims.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that the Nazis were engaged in the largest organized theft in history at the same time they worked to eradicate their perceived enemies globally. The theft of Jewish art, gold etc were part of the process of the final solution and its proto states.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

There it is

Bluesky post:

Kristina Cooke
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Follow I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and
all her possessions were gone

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4d

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

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The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.
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Meghan L. Hall @itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 3d

Per ESPN:

Napheesa Collier has cancelled her meeting with Cathy Engelbert next week.

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Sources: Collier cancels meeting with Engelbert

Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier has cancelled her meeting with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert next week, sources told ESPN.

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 4d

the rule of law is not embedded in a sanitary set of procedural values but in the moral forces that give meaning to the substance of law.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER

In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 5d

How have Americans’ immigration attitudes changed in recent decades?

Ollerenshaw and Jardina observe how opinions have evolved since 1988 among partisan and racial/ethnic groups. The most significant shifts have been from white Democrats.

Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

Again and again we see federal judges standing up for the rule of law, and again and again these positive moments are undermined by the suspicion that SCOTUS will undercut them.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: A federal judge says there is a realistic likelihood that the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driven by vindictive motives — reflected in the public statements of Bondi, Blanche, Noem et al.

He has ordered discovery on the question.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 5d

Russ Vought with the Project2025 Trifecta: using racism to cut funds for public transit to blue city.

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