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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 2h

Bravo to my hometown
Chicago
I am with you

Peaceful Protest

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

Not that it would make any difference on the principle of the matter, but that’s Presbyterian Church USA, the large mainline denomination with thousands of churches. Ordination requires a master’s degree from a seminary. He’s not some self-accredited amateur or in a tiny fringe organization.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

A lot going on here, but a religion note: DHS Assistant Sec. Tricia McLaughlin refers to Rev. Black as a "pastor" here — using quotation marks.

It's a notable slight against a faith leader's status, as Black is, in fact, an ordained minister of a church operating within the Presbytery of Chicago.

This footage is from almost a month ago. What this clipped video doesn’t show is that these agitators were blocking an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility—impeding operations.

Over and over again, law enforcement ordered these agitators to move off of federal property so the vehicle could move. Law enforcement verbally warned these agitators that they would use force if they did not move and stop impeding operations. They did not comply.

Shortly after, rioters began throwing rocks, bottles and launching fireworks at the law enforcement officers on the roof.

At the time of this incident, this facility held criminal illegal aliens including gang members, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals. Obstructing law enforcement puts officers, detainees and the public at risk. If you are obstructing law enforcement you can expect to be met with force.

And, as an aside, this is the same “pastor” who flipped
@Sec_Noem
and our team the bird when we were there last week.

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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 13h

Let's focus on Steven Millers slip up on CNN.
Who the hell does he think he is?

Plenary?Plenary authority?

No Steven Miller, Wrong again!!

No! You do not plenary authority to harm the American Public. It is cruel and illegal. You do not have the executive power to overthrow our own government

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5h

Update
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 5h

“The rule change amounts to an immediate transfer of income from poor farm workers to the very rich, very large agribusinesses which dominate US farms.“
unherd.com/newsroom/tru...

Trump’s new farm rule betrays American workers

Last week, the Trump administration pushed through a rule change that went largely unnoticed by the mainstream press. Under the new rules, H-2A workers — the only uncapped guest worker programme in th...

unherd.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

Trump: We took the freedom of speech away.
Americans: Yeah, we know.
www.pbump.net/o/even-2-in-...

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

this is such an enormous story

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

heatmap.news

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 5h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 10h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 9h

Supreme Court ruling could let GOP add 19 House seats and “clear the path for a one-party system”

www.salon.com

Supreme Court ruling could let GOP add 19 House seats and "clear the path for a one-party system"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12h

NEWS: James Comey pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that followed President Trump’s demand to prosecute.

The judge set a Jan. 5 trial date — but Comey is expected to try to kill the case before it starts, including by disqualifying Lindsey Halligan

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 9h

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The Oregon GOP just got caught using fake protest photos to make Portland look like it’s on fire. Their post about Trump sending National Guard troops featured stock and foreign images, not Oregon, not even America.

Manufactured chaos, wrapped in a lie to rile their base.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 9h

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One photo was a 2017 stock image from South America. The other showed police with “Policía” shields from Getty. None taken in Portland. This is deliberate disinformation.

📖 Source: The Guardian, Oct 6, 2025 → 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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

CHICAGO Mayor Brandon Johnson on Trump calling for him to be jailed: “This president is unstable, unhinged, a threat to our democracy.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11h

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceEarth

Pressure works! A local school board decided to give Exxon Mobil a tax break to build a $10 billion plastics plant on the Gulf Coast. An environmental activist sued and won. Exxon Mobil has decided to postpone its plans for the plant.

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

Exxon delays planned plastics plant on Texas coast

The announcement comes six weeks after a judge struck down the local school district’s decision to give Exxon a tax break for the $10 billion plant in Calhoun County.

www.texastribune.org

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GoodTrouble @bellasmom.bsky.social · 1d

“How can anyone in Congress — Democrats or Republicans — make a budget “deal” with this administration if we now know the President is going to ignore implementing any part of the “deal” he wants?”

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

How do you find a compromise budget that reflects the priorities of 535 members of the House and Senate when Trump will just withhold any money he doesn't want to spend? A representative democracy cannot function as Trump has broken the US system this year. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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