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screaming.party
I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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jysexton.bsky.social
Everybody has it backwards.

Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.

They’re creating a world they control completely
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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jodiscohen.bsky.social
BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
www.propublica.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
Marimar Martinez goes to Washington, says she wants Trump officials to admit she's not a 'domestic terrorist'

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Marimar Martinez goes to Washington, says she wants Trump officials to admit she's not a 'domestic terrorist'
Martinez once appeared at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse as a criminal defendant. Now cleared of wrongdoing, the U.S. citizen told Democratic Senators and House members in Washington, D.C., about her ...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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jamellebouie.net
this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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vimiller.bsky.social
"We demand more from our [electeds] than just strongly worded letters or tweets, or grandiose speeches romanticizing the sacrifice of others," said Michael Applegate, a Navy vet. "Put some skin in the game or get out of the way, because we will not stand for your cowardice or complicity any longer."
Nurses honor Alex Pretti, call for abolition of ICE and general strike in Chicago
A group of hundreds, many of them nurses still wearing badges after walking from their nearby hospitals, performed a Nightingale Tribute — a traditional send off for nurses — for Pretti, who was kille...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
This part. Celebrate every victory, large and small. Celebrate each other. Celebrate the love and solidarity that hold you together. Never stop doing this. It's fundamental.
gwensnyder.bsky.social Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 9d
I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.

@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
nickmiroff.bsky.social Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 9d
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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ramirez.house.gov
The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
January 26, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The Minnesota v. Noem hearing is beginning before Judge Katherine Menendez.

Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul are seeking a TRO today to stop Operation Metro Surge.
January 26, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in.

Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
January 25, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
This makes me think of that 1990 interview Trump did with Playboy where he admitted that when it came to Tiananmen Square, he was rooting for the tanks.
"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it," Trump said. "Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak."
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration. It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent.
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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koltai.bsky.social
Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
bellingcat.com Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 12d
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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denali.bsky.social
My limited experience has been the more that I do the more people I meet who are doing stuff and the more stuff they invite me to do. So at any given moment I can acknowledge how terrible the world is and I can point to people doing meaningful things and have those people in my ear about hope.
nbedera.bsky.social Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26d
I genuinely think a lot of the most hopeless people are projecting. They aren’t doing anything, so it’s hard for them to imagine anyone else doing anything.

But people ARE doing stuff. Become one of those people and you’ll suddenly feel very, very differently about our current situation.
January 10, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social

I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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mikesacks.bsky.social
This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating
April 7 Brian McEntire, Civil Rights Division: My goal was always to become an attorney in the Civil Rights Division. That was my dream. I ended up working a lot on fire department cases. In Cobb County, Ga., we got information that even though African Americans and whites were applying for positions at about an equal rate over the previous decade, 90 percent of the hires had been white and 10 percent had been African American. And we didn't quite understand why that was. So we did an investigation and found out that there was a credit check that was disproportionately knocking out African Americans, particularly for student loan debt. And when we asked them why they were doing that, their response was essentially, Well, if a firefighter is deeply in debt and he's fighting a fire, he might steal grandma's pearls. So we brought suit. In February, we got a note saying that the attorney general wanted us to withdraw the case. The next day, division leadership insisted that we put additional language in the notice of dismissal that implied it was all about reverse discrimination. I didn't know, quite frankly, if I could sign it. If I have to say what I argued before was illegal, then I could have been accused of misleading the court, which could have ended up with me being disciplined, sanctioned and my bar license revoked. So I did not sign it. My colleagues didn't sign it. They pulled us all into a room, and we were all prepared to get fired because none of us were going to sign. My boss signed a modified version of the notice of withdrawal on our behalf. We also had a racial-discrimination case involving the sole African American attorney working for the Mississippi State Senate, who, during the years she worked there, was paid less than half of what her similarly situated white colleagues were making. It was as clear-cut a case of disparate racial treatment you could find. The Senate stalled the case until Trump's appointees could come in and order our section to drop it. When you talk about the rule of law and treating people fairly and equally, that's obviously a slap in the face.
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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christopherjhale.bsky.social
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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tonia.thetriibe.com
“I just want people to understand that they’re giving the people the run around, and these are older people, and they should have gotten the help already that they needed."

Great work @corli.thetriibe.com

thetriibe.com/2025/11/west...
West Side organization snags $3 million city contract to help with damage from 2023’s historic floods • The TRiiBE
The money from the Department of Housing comes as residents have complained that city and federal assistance haven't been enough.
thetriibe.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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jimdaleywrites.bsky.social
Same energy.
Historical black-and-white photo depicting Adolf Hitler and about a dozen of his top Nazi aides posing in front of the Eiffel Tower in Occupied Paris, Jun 1940. The Nazis are dressed in military attire—trench coats and boots.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
I’m no great fan of the ACA.

I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.

But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM