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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 21h

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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 5h

#ICEProtests #resist

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Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 2h

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 15h

It’s cruel, it’s irresponsible, it’s plain stupid.

It’s clear they don’t give shit about poor American families,…

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1h

"This guy is a convicted felon. I mean think about that – who's threatening to jail me... This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

Gov. JB Pritzker

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1h

58% of Americans - including half of Republicans - think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities, a @reuters.com poll found.

www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 15h

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse corrects Pam Bondi and says her "opposition research" on him was incorrect.

Also - how weird is it that a witness in a hearing brought opposition research?

This Barbie has propaganda in her bones.

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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I Dissent💙 Molly @belladonna406.bsky.social · 2h

Chuck and Hakeem need to be shouting from the rooftops to swear-in Adelita Grijalva.

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 22h

the most effective undercover operations are the ones you announce in advance

gonna be some epic "how do you do fellow kids" at the austin antifa meetings

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 22h

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 6h

I wonder what it's like telling yourself "well, I guess I would have been a good nazi soldier after all"

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 2h

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Yesterday, Stephen Miller had one of the most terrifying Freudian slips I've ever heard.

He claimed Trump has plenary authority (absolute power)—before cutting himself off.

Today, Trump said Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson should be *jailed*.

This is how authoritarian regimes talk. (1/3)

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1h

“Don’t you want someone else to die before you” is not a question moral leaders in a democratic society ask voters

“Isn’t your life worth more than <<points>> *them*” is not the beginning of anyone’s better America

This is how men like Putin control their people while failing to give them anything

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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elsievoteblue.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social · 2h

Peeps💙This post represents the way I feel in this time, on what is happening in this country!! Sir Luke speaks for me and he’s blunt !! Trump has not done one thing to help this country !!
We’re living in madness and misery!!
NOT GOOD 😌
#DemsUnited
#DemsUnited
#ProudBlue

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Blue In A Red State @bluenredstate.bsky.social · 16h

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Barbara Moshofsky @noisycrow.bsky.social · 1h

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Sickening.

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Randy Bryce @ironstache.bsky.social · 1h

Weren’t they referred to as “face diapers”?

How things change…

plc @plc2024.bsky.social · 1h

ice thinks masks are better.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Paul Flahive @paulflahive.bsky.social · 1h

Who is accountable?

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20h

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.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

"The president of the United States is choosing to escalate a conflict between the federal government and the state of Illinois into, also, a state-on-state conflict."

It isn't what it kind of sounds like, yet, but it's pointing in that direction. @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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Barbara Moshofsky @noisycrow.bsky.social · 1h

What is the secret? I am lost. Did a search - just finding an interview that went poorly. Is it that she has a temper, or something?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: Sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons.

@nlanard.bsky.social takes us inside the "legal black hole" in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is considering selling federal student loan debt.

Talks have focused on selling high-performing portions of the government’s portfolio of student debt, which is owed by about 45 million Americans.

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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