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If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty! https://www.clippings.me/noturtlesoup17 https://www.turtlediaries.net/ https://linktr.ee/noturtlesoup17

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 25d

The Texas GOP was probably fine with the Nick Fuentes groyper group bc their biggest billionaire donor shares many of his beliefs.

Top Texas GOP Donor and Nick Fuentes Seem to Agree

Jewish people shouldn't hold office, women shouldn't work

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 10h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

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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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning from the line outside the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI director James Comey is set to be arraigned on federal charges.

I’m here for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along for updates ⬇️

Federal courthouse in EDVA, with line of people out front and a guy holding a “show trial” sign

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7h

yeah its for pepper balls

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7h

Wait those quotes are real??

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9h

They love this move, I see.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

Can’t decide which is the wilder use of “BREAKING” by a government official:

1. “BREAKING: I’m launching undercover operations” — Texas Attorney General

Or

2. “BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory” — FBI Director

FBI Director Kash Patel &
@FBIDirectorKash
X.com
BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory of disinformation. Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon...
MSNBC has no facts and no audience
In this @fbi, follow the chain of command or get relieved.
9, Barb McQuade • @BarbMcQuade • 3d
DOJ policy prohibits "perp walks," in which arrestees are paraded before the cameras. x.com/ jesserodriguez...
10:03 AM • 10/4/25 • 12M Views

Attorney General Ken Paxton &
@KenPaxtonTX
X.com
BREAKING: I'm launching undercover operations to infiltrate and uproot leftist terror cells in Texas.
Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead.
ORNEY

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23h

we gotta stop using “democratic run” or “blue cities” and start saying donald trump is invading “american cities”

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks, New Yorker

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

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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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 13h

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

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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.

southsideweekly.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h

Meanwhile the station platform lights are off for some reason. Great priorities.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h

No, just the fbi who ran away when people showed up. ☹️

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 15h

Metro Transit police and FBI hanging out at Rhode Island metro station.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t mind getting shot at but I draw the line at freezing.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 15h

A reminder that January 6 was nice weather for January in DC lol

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 15h

I have a lot of real thoughts on the Feds in Chicago (which you'll be able to read in full tomorrow) but I also want to say that all these goons they're shipping in now are so big and brave in Sept./Oct., but let's just see how big and brave they are in February when it's 40-below windchill.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Hirono: "I have to conclude that, since no wrongdoing was determined, that Homan kept the money. And I hope he will put that on his tax returns as income."

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16h

On the plus side, none of these officers shot at me (unlike some people).

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 16h

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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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16h

Guess I gotta go back.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 23h

The Texas National Guard has arrived in the Chicago area despite the repeated objections of Illinois officials.

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area

Texas National Guard members have arrived in Illinois. City and state officials say Donald Trump is using them as “political props” in Chicago.

trib.al

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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 19h

ICE Air Operations uses Mesa Gateway as headquarters for controversial third-country removals

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Trump's African deportation operation runs through a Phoenix airport

Arizona's Mesa Gateway Airport serves as hub for Trump's ICE Air deportation flights to Africa as ICE expands operations

azmirror.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17h

Woke ruins everything

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17h

Like idk man maybe if your agency ever responded to any of my numerous emails, I wouldn’t have to stand here and wait to see which agency is going into which cars.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17h

“Got a whole paparazzi,” an MPD officer says as a few of us record HSI and FBI agents watching MPD arrest a man in front of Wawa.

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