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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 37m

Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees.

Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/y6RQqAa

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 1h

The South Carolina senator behind SB 323 says his bill wouldn't outlaw birth control.

But we found a pamphlet he wrote that says “all forms of the birth control pill” kill a “human being.”

jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-a...

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 1h

If you are an alum of:

Vanderbilt
UVA
UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
MIT
U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

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Nicolette Pizzitola @nicpiz.bsky.social · 54m

Nothing is better than meandering, stream of consciousness conversation with a person who can follow and build the thread.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2h

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12h

This is important.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 15h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 14h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 15h

Masked ICE agents are running around the streets, storming buildings and indiscriminately pointing guns at people.

But if you look scared when you see an ICE officer that's suspicious.

Watch this clip. This cannot stand.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

Greg Bovino Admits: You Can Be Detained for Gripping Your Steering Wheel Too Tight

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15h

@warnock.senate.gov: "You know that it's a critical moment any time Raphael Warnock and Marjorie Taylor Greene are essentially saying the same thing. That doesn't happen often... She saw that the premiums of her own adult children will go up so much in 2026 that their healthcare is unaffordable."

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 15h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17h

it’s all just a grift

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

all of this is to say that you have to wonder how many more of these sorts of stories are out there - maybe in places with fewer local journalists, and smaller-scale raids

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Nicolette Pizzitola @nicpiz.bsky.social · 22h

Exciting news! 🔥

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22h

Justin Pearson, a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, announced on Wednesday that he planned to challenge U.S. Representative Steve Cohen, a fellow Memphis Democrat. Pearson was briefly expelled in 2023 after leading a gun control protest from the chamber floor.

Justin Pearson, Tennessee Democrat Known for Activism, to Run for Congress

Mr. Pearson, a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives since 2023, will challenge U.S. Representative Steve Cohen, a fellow Democrat.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, an ineffective and often harmful practice targeting LGBTQ+ youth, violates a therapist’s right to free speech

Supreme Court Weighs Ban on Scientifically Discredited ‘Conversion Therapy’

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, an ineffective and often harmful practice targeting LGBTQ+ youth, violates a therapist’s right to free speech

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Nicolette Pizzitola @nicpiz.bsky.social · 1d

No way to pull just a single quote from this article. It's worth a read from start to finish. Share it and keep it where you can reread it and reshare it. It's that good. #JustMercy

Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 1d

If you read one thing today, make it this piece by @nytimes.com's Kurt Streeter about the extraordinary Bryan Stevenson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Masked Men: Ongoing project of isolating & editing stills from bystander videos of ICE. These agents just fired pepperball at a praying clergyman. Stylizing emphasizes the stylization that fascism seeks, to make it cartoonish or cinematic. An eerie juxtaposition that stresses unnaturalness.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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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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Nicolette Pizzitola @nicpiz.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t they look ready to face the treachery plaguing DC??

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Nichols on the situation in Chicago: “This story really isn’t about immigration… It’s about getting the American people used to idea that Donald Trump is an absolute ruler who can put the military in streets at will, and intimidate everyone, including citizens.”

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

KBJ’s blunt question today about the Supreme Court’s culture war hypocrisy kind of floored me, because it’s the kind of meta-criticism that we aren’t used to hearing from the justices.

It’s the second day of the term, and things are that dire already. slate.com/news-and-pol...

With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term

The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.

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