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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck off

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 9h

Trump will never face consequences in his life but there’s zero reason people like Stephen Miller, Homan, Bovino, Noem, and Hegseth should be allowed to be free for more than a single day after this is over.

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 9h

They’ll have them but they’ll refuse to seat Democrats who win elections — you’re already seeing that with Grijalva.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 9h

Really is impressive to be on the wrong side of every issue in your life

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9h

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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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 10h

Would anything even change if ICE or the military shot and killed protesters?

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 10h

This is a distraction from kitchen-table issues

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11h

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 11h

ICE agents are having a blast. You cannot reform this.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

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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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 11h

The odds of a firefight at some point between blue and red state national guards and/or police are not zero

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 18h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 11h

It’s amazing how many members of the opposition party cannot see this

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 13h

I don't doubt that Trumpism will soon crumble and things will return to a seeming normal. But what worries me is whether we will again make the mistake of offering impunity to these degenerates because if so, we're just waiting around for fascism that sticks.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 12h

Evil country. It will take decades to make amends for our crimes.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12h

This is so dark

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

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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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 12h

They’ll get a bailout and keep voting for Republicans anyway because they love the racism

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 13h

If this whole fascism thing wins, might go off the grid and just spend the rest of my days birdwatching and hanging with animals lol

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h

Okay I’ve probably gotten myself worked up about everything going on a little too long today, time for Ghost of Yotei

brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h

I will not engage further with the Zohran Oct. 7 discourse.
I will not engage further with the Zohran Oct. 7 discourse.
I will not engage further with the Zohran Oct. 7 discourse.
I will not engage further with the Zohran Oct. 7 discourse.
I will not engage further with the Zohr

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h

It’s so funny how he sold his soul for political power in John Fetterman, lost all of his friends by working for a lunatic and genocide apologist, and now he’s doing the tired centrist grift

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h

It’s just anecdotal so hardly trying to establish it as a known truth of the world, but yeah we do have a lot of very privileged white people on our side and a lot of those people are very limited in what they’re willing to do/sacrifice and politics often doesn’t impact them personally

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h

Too lazy to pull any data but based on my own personal experiences in the liberal and well-off world, especially in the professional space.

Really hope I’m wrong on this though.

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h

my god it’s him

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