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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 22m

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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G @monkeyes2.bsky.social · 30m

new thread here: bsky.app/profile/jons...

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 32m

U.S. District Judge April Perry is now questioning DOJ lawyer Eric Hamilton about the National Guard deployment. She starts by noting the 14 CA troops, 200 TX troops and 300 IL troops.

But she asks if those numbers could increase, and whether the troops could go elsewhere in Illinois.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 35m

Hamilton is done. We're expecting questions from Perry now.

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 54m

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1h

Good morning. U.S. District Judge April Perry just took the bench for oral arguments in Illinois v. Trump, over the deployment of the National Guard.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1h

Ok, I'm in my seat and waiting as they fill up the gallery of Judge Perry's courtroom. Stay tuned.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11h

This guy butt-dialed a constitutional crisis. Amazing.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 16h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29m

Noem: "With your authority, we're purchasing more buildings in Chicago to operate out of. We're gonna not back off -- in fact, we're doubling down. We're gonna be in more parts of Chicago in response to the people there. We're looking at facilities we can deploy more law enforcement out of."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 29m

A staffer on Stephen Colbert's show wanted to ask the first ever Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York City to play a game of thumbs up, thumbs down about an ongoing genocide.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 1h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 22h

A certain legacy-media editorial board recommended capitulation in the face of Trump’s invasion, but on the South Side, we believe Chicagoans should keep standing up for one another.

South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 22h

Let us be clear: The President of the United States is levying war against American cities and American citizens—and we cannot rely on the other branches of government to save us.

It’s up to us.

It’s Up to Us to Protect One Another

As Trump sends troops to Chicago, we will continue to investigate and report. Readers have a role to play, too.

southsideweekly.com

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3h

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required license plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates.

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

Last night John Fetterman was the one Democrat who voted with Republicans to let Trump keep bombing boats in the middle of the ocean. Less than 24 hours later, he says Trump should get a Nobel Peace Prize

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

Legacy media is such a fucking joke.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

Exhibit #1 million that you can just DO THINGS. These folks came up with an idea and have now implemented it. We can all do something where we are. I just donated to their efforts.

Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3h

sixty-eight chicago community, faith, + social service organizations are calling on cook county commissioners to “protect and increase social service spending” amid drastic cuts nationally from the trump admin.

they suggest freezing all law enforcement spending, which has “unjustifiably increased.”

In the last year, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented action to dismantle institutions and programs benefiting marginalized communities, cut funding for essential social services, and pull back funds allocated to states and local jurisdictions. These cuts jeopardize public safety and risk reversing the incredible progress Cook County has made in reducing community violence.

The undersigned 68 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations write to call on you and your fellow commissioners to protect funding for essential services like violence prevention, behavioral health, and community investment to reduce intra-community violence. You can support these services by freezing law enforcement spending, which is already far above the levels set when there were many more people in jail and many more criminal cases being processed by our court system.
Over the last decade, Cook County has made tremendous progress in reducing pretrial jailing and improving community safety. This has been a byproduct of both moving away from racist policies promoting mass incarceration and strategically investing in expansions to the social safety net and community-based violence prevention programs. With the Trump administration gutting many of the federal programs aimed at supporting the neighborhoods most at risk of community violence, it is essential that Cook County not only avoid cutting budgets for these programs but also increase investments.

We believe that Cook County can protect and increase essential health and human service spending by freezing all spending for law enforcement. Despite the nearly 40% decrease in the number of people incarcerated in the Cook County Jail, the Cook County Department of Corrections budget has not seen a reduction that coincides with that change in responsibility.
Similarly, the budget for the State's Attorney's Office grew tremendously over the last decade, even as both the number of case filings and crime rates …

… continued to decrease. It is important to note that while the federal government has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for essential social services, law enforcement spending has unjustifiably increased.

We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge President Trump's authoritarian attacks on residents of Cook County. Over the last several weeks, there have been repeated threats to the safety of our community members through executive orders targeting people without homes or who have mental health needs. Numerous federal law enforcement agencies have been dispatched to make arrests and deport our neighbors. It is essential at this moment that Cook County expand investments to ensure adequate support of community members targeted by the actions of the Trump administration and everyone impacted by its reduced funding for resources that allow marginalized people to live safe and healthy lives. The County's investment must include increasing the budget of the Public Defender's Office, which is responsible for defending increasing numbers of Cook County residents facing both criminal charges and immigration removal proceedings.

Cook County must protect its important progress increasing community safety and reducing pretrial jailing from a federal administration that has made clear that it does not care about our most vulnerable residents. Please stand strong for community safety by freezing law enforcement spending to protect essential health and human service investments and expand support for Public Defense.

Sincerely,
The Cook County members of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and supporting organizations:
A Just Harvest
A Midwest Movement Project
Access Living
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment | AFIRE
Apna Ghar, Inc.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice ||
Chicago
Beyond Legal Aid
BlackRoots Alliance
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Cannabis Equity IL Coalition

Chicago Alliance Against Sexual
Exploitation | CAASE
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Chicago Therapy Collective
Chicago Torture Justice Center
Chicago United for Equity
Chicago United Solidarity Project | CUSP
Chicago Urban League
Chicago Votes
Children's Best Interest Project
Circles & Ciphers
Color Of Change
Community Renewal Society
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy
Project | FLAP
First Defense Legal Aid
HANA Center
Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice Illinois National Organization for Women
Illinois Prison Project
Illinois Social Justice Alliance
Impact for Equity
Indivisible Chicago-South Side
Inside Out Network
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
KAN-WIN
Legal Council for Health Justice
Liberation Library
Lucy Parsons Labs
Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition
& Solidarity | MAMAS
Muslim Civic Coalition
NAMI Cook County North Suburban
National Lawyers Guild Chicago
Nehemiah Trinity Rising
Nikkei Uprising
Northwestern University Graduate Workers
Pretrial Justice Institute
Restore Justice
Revolution Workshop
Sana Healing Collective
Saving Our Urban Leaders
Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston
She Votes Illinois
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
SisterReach Illinois
Southsiders Organizing for Unity and
Liberation | SOUL
Stick Talk
TASC, Inc.
The People's Lobby
The Puerto Rico Project To Defend If Necessary
Trinity United Church of Christ
Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of
Illinois
Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of
Ilinois
Uptown People's Law Center
West Town Law Office
Wolf Pack Therapy
Youth Empowerment Performance Project

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 3h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Cinta @cinta.bsky.social · 2h

Mark Bray, an historian who published in 2017 "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook", and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane (...) when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists. Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled. Continue reading...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 4h

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely the case. It's a mass media phenomenon, just a different mass media from what everyone else likes (which angers them to no end). The titanic chintz of the megachurch is replicated in books, movies, tv, MLMs, camps, etc. The Bible is more a source of authority than a piece of the program.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

Based on the interviews I've done with conservative Evangelical moms, I'd say--a lot of them aren't engaging with the Bible directly. They're reading Evangelical self-help and parenting books like Your Best Life Now and Growing Kids God's Way that selectively interpret the Bible for them.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2h

Caller: Hearing you say that everyone is smiling in the cities where troops and the National Guard have been deployed feels dystopian and insane

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 11h

This is nuts.

But also increasingly common.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 12h

Video: ICE agents clash with Forest Park cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines Rive

YouTube video by WGN News

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 3h

As soon as I saw this location on the list I assumed it was just because it’s a highly visible location downtown. We all know there’s no legit security need.

Almost everything they do is to create social media content and terror.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago federal court chief judge says she has not requested National Guard for courthouse

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

ICE is in Back of the Yards again* this morning. 1 person detained: instagram.com/p/DPlsHGoDvek

*Rarely a day has gone by since this surge began that they haven't grabbed people in this area. That footage you saw of Chicagoans being tear gassed on Saturday was in an adjacent neighborhood.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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