rodger99.bsky.social
@rodger99.bsky.social
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
It's the indifference
He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
December 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Holy shit, thank you FIFA for naming me Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. I am honored, and I can't wait to KICK it with y'all at the after party and whatnot.
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The plea deal turns a potential felony sentence that could mean six years in federal prison and $250,000 in fines into three years of probation and a few thousand dollars in restitution costs.
Four of the Spokane 9 accept plea deals – RANGE Media
ICE protestors facing federal charges made a hard choice, but some fear a chilling effect: ‘They want to frighten people so they are afraid to use their First Amendment rights.’
rangemedia.co
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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If you’re wondering how the debate is going on the city’s parking tax ordinance, it’s this
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Worth a thousand words and whatnot. And just a reminder from Uncle George. It's never too late to admit your ass got played.
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, lied about firing tear gas at protesters in Little Village and tackling a man outside the Broadview ICE facility, a federal judge said Thursday. @wttw.bsky.social
Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Admitted He Lied About Firing Tear Gas, Tackling Protester: Federal Judge
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis is the second federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois to find that federal agents have presented unreliable testimony about their actions and the action...
news.wttw.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
news.wttw.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.
October 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard
Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.
www.vanityfair.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."
September 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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FASCISM: a populist political movement exalting nation and race above the individual, lead by a centralized autocratic government with a dictatorial leader.

FASCISM (CONSERVATIVE DEFINITION): when a black man tries to help you get health insurance.
September 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Measles was once considered eliminated in the United States, but is coming back in some communities as people choose not to vaccinate themselves or their children. SRHD identified 4 exposures and 1 positive case from Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital.
A ‘gut-wrenching’ waiting game: measles reaches Spokane – RANGE Media
A Spokane family feared the worst when their newborn was exposed to measles at a doctor appointment. SRHD identified 4 exposures and 1 positive case stemming from an infected Idaho resident seeking care at Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital.
rangemedia.co
September 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Judging by their rulings, the conservative justices of the Supreme Court believe that the use of race to improve political and economic outcomes for minorities is intolerable, but using race as a proxy for who does not belong in this country is permissible.
The Supreme Court says colleges can’t consider race. But ICE can.
So much for the justices' promise of a "colorblind Constitution."
www.motherjones.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Today, at a press conference, survivors spoke at length and in detail about the abuse they suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who was recently moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp by the Trump administration.
Epstein survivors begged Trump to release their files. He called it a “hoax.”
"President Trump: You have so much influence and power in this situation. Please use [it] to help us."
www.motherjones.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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over the last week, several political scientists i trust have declared trump a dictator and that america is not a full functioning democracy anymore. see here:

goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/where-we-a...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

i think making a list clarifies this:
August 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago.

8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.

And yet Trump is sending troops here.
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Gross
Not only has Columbia agreed to give political commissars oversight over admissions, including a mandatory annual data transfer, they did so while agreeing to language emphasizing that nothing in the deal prevents the government from launching more investigations, reviews, and litigation.
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
July 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator

very grim
July 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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This one weird trick (building more housing) will help reduce your city’s housing costs…
Rents in Spokane are down 12% as a result of pro-housing legislation, like removing parking minimums, incentivizing housing on former parking lots, and upzoning all residential parcels.

reason.com/2025/07/22/r...
Rent prices are falling fast in America’s most pro-housing cities
Rental prices in some of the country's largest cities are falling—some by almost 45 percent, according to new data.
reason.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM