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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 59m

DropSite receives confirmation that Hamas has agreed to a finalized version of the ceasefire framework and is prepared to sign it tonight

BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

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Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social · 57m

Ahead of the Crystal City Pilgrimage this weekend, we explore the history of this lesser-known site of WWII incarceration. Tucked away in South Texas, Crystal City imprisoned over 4,000 people of Japanese, German, & Italian ancestry—including thousands abducted from Latin America—from 1942 to 1948.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h

Experts argue Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide, surpassing isolated violations of war laws.

Legal scholars: Genocide label crucial in addressing atrocities in Gaza

Experts argue Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide, surpassing isolated violations of war laws.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

It's awesome how "center concedes to right wing framing, loses to right wing anyway" is a story you can find everywhere ever

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 7h

Malnutrition reaches precarious levels in Gaza Strip - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/malnutrition-reaches-precarious-levels-gaza-strip

Malnutrition reaches precarious levels in Gaza Strip

<article data-history-node-id="429833" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/malnutrition-reaches-precarious-levels-gaza-strip" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/malnutrition-reaches-precarious-levels-gaza-strip" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Malnutrition reaches precarious levels in Gaza Strip </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Two NGOs spoke out on Wednesday about the dire levels of malnutrition in the Gaza Strip.</p> <p> Action Against Hunger and Doctors of the World documented that there was a 700 percent increase in malnutrition cases in July compared to October 2023.</p> <p>But now the situation was far graver. Vincent Stehli, the director of operations at Action Against Hunger, said the NGO’s teams treated between 300 and 400 children under the age of five in September. A few months ago he said the number of cases was under 100.</p> <p>Mr. Stehli, who recently returned from Gaza, said, “"I saw a 7-year-old child who weighed only 6.5 kilos”.</p> <p>The UN has declared a state of famine in Gaza, which has been under an Israeli blockade of food, water and humanitarian aid. A UN report found that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 10h

Palestinian held without charge dies in Israeli custody - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-held-without-charge-dies-israeli-custody

Palestinian held without charge dies in Israeli custody

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Kavanaugh compared wrongful stops of U.S. citizens to a mild inconvenience. Tell that to those terrorized in a raid in Chicago

As @tusk81.bsky.social noted, "This chaos has not been isolated to major American cities where the admin is engaged in the political targeting of perceived enemies"

Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All

Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 19h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 21h

It’s been quite amazing to watch people call on CPD (of all entities) to fight on behalf of the oppressed. There is a reason why we don’t see police leading revolutions. They are a function of the state and will give deference to the feds, as required by law. youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...

Can local police arrest ICE?

YouTube video by The TRiiBE

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

Editorial: We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot

Provocateurs on the right and left were the story of a chaotic weekend in Chicago. Our political leaders need to reclaim the narrative and cool things down.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 2d

This week marks 2 years since the start of Israel’s brutal genocide in Gaza, where it has taken the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Read our fact-sheet for a quick summary of what you need to know about Israel’s ongoing genocide.

Fact Sheet: Two Years of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

A fact sheet summarizing evidence that Israel has committed acts of genocide in Gaza under the UN Genocide Convention, including deliberate mass killings, starvation, destruction of essential infrastr...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—& a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter & Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later.

@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social's Police Against the Movement is now available: hubs.ly/Q03Mp5Ss0

Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t want him to think of Gaza as a place of death & destruction. [...] It is a place blessed with geographical & natural diversity. [...] We have everything that makes us the owners of a free country. The only thing stopping us is the occupation.”

Two Years of Genocide: The guilt we live with from the miserable safety of exile

Every day, when we turn on the news, we thank God we survived the genocide. And every day, we regret it.

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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio. It is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/aaup...

Balkinization: AAUP v. Rubio and the Big Chill

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 2d

The decline is occurring as the Trump administration has delayed visa processing, instituted travel bans or restrictions for 19 countries, threatened to deport international students for pro-Palestinian speech, and heightened the vetting of student visa applicants.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 2d

"I was talking to [my client detained in the Broadview, IL facility], and his tone changed, and someone asked him who he was talking to,” [Attorney] Herrera said. “And he said, ‘a lawyer.’ And then he told me later that he was made to get off the phone.”

prospect.org/justice/2025...

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers

‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

www.politico.com

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