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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 2h

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1h

those are two separate arguments

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1h

lady i have provided actual history to you. and i’m not arguing for escalating violence, i’m saying repeatedly that how we behave does not fucking matter

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1h

they will find a pretext regardless. they always have. i’m done here, we are going in circles

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

from billy clubs and water hoses

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

do you think rubber bullets and pepper balls are any different?

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

YES AND THEY ARE DOING THE SAME THING HERE

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

silverio villegas gonzalez, murdered three weeks ago

they shot another woman five times

they have shot rubber bullets at and beaten and imprisoned protesters for weeks at broadview

they have treated press and clergy the same way. there are ongoing lawsuits over this

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

?????

Miriam Grace @miriamgrace.bsky.social · 3h

Our behavior heretofore has quite literally prevented it thus far, and is still doing so now. You have no evidence, just sensationalism and fear multiplying.

And you disabled quote posts like a coward when you took a shot across the bow in a masterful display of human ignorance.

Be a better human.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

you keep saying that nonviolent behavior prevents state violence. this is not true in any way

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

the point that is not getting through to you is that it does not matter how protesters behave. they will respond with violence either way

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

i am simply pointing out that the government has reacted with violence to peaceful demonstrations for a very long time

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

so about that

The Night of Terror: When Suffragists Were Imprisoned and Tortured in 1917 | HISTORY

In 1917, 33 women endured a night of brutal beatings for their peaceful demonstrations in front of the White House.

www.history.com

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 4h

oooo a classic

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 4h

people are very invested in defending their right to make fat jokes, i have learned. none of them seem to be doing any self-examination. that’s fun

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 4h

we simply do not have to behave this way to one another

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 4h

internet etiquette: if you get in someone’s mentions missing the point of their post, they ask you a direct question, and instead of responding in the thread you quote post with an imperious 10+-post lecture, that’s a block baby

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 6h

in the column this week:

-advocates have confirmed/are investigating the abductions of ~25 unhoused folks by federal agents in chicago (via @katieprout.bsky.social)

-state/local leaders crack down on anti-ice protesters

-civil rights orgs ask chief judge to bar ice arrests at county courthouses

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

chicagoreader.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 11h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 1d

I was Pritzker’s biggest fanboy, so I realize it’s hard to accept his betrayal. It was hard for me, but I saw it with my own eyes.
Please stop gaslighting me about Pritzker. You weren’t there. I was. These are Pritzker’s brown shirts, working fist-in-glove with ICE/CBP.