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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

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

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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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 2d

Good mayor

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 2d

Bad mayor

Evan Yeats @evanyeats.bsky.social · 2d

This is where Ellington and MacArthur students transfer to buses to get to their schools. The accountability is firmly with @mayorbowser.dc.gov and @dcpublicschools.bsky.social Lewis Ferebee for abandoning kids. Our school choice transit system makes kids vulnerable. www.popville.com/2025/10/hara...

“harassing teenagers waiting for the school bus.” - PoPville

"Dear PoPville, This morning at 8:20, 10 uniformed national guard troops and 3 uniformed MPD spent 25 minutes harassing teenagers waiting for the school bus. This is on 20th and O Street, NW Half the ...

www.popville.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 5d

I thought a tough talking billionaire governor was going to keep this from happening?

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 5d

All eyes on Pritzker. The narrative has been good, but it’s time to deliver something—anything—that can be a model for other Governors

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 8d

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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 8d

Hagueseth

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 9d

Trump's cult of followers are attacking & making vulnerable another woman of color simply for doing her job.

It is dangerous & despicable. The normalization of these threats cannot stand.

We must speak out against them every single time & demand accountability every single time. @jayapal.house.gov

GOP Official Calls for Democratic Congresswoman to Be Executed

As the nation talks about the rise of political violence, a Republican official blatantly called for Representative Pramila Jayapal to be hanged.

newrepublic.com

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 10d

At boot camp I was very explicitly told in a classroom setting—more than once, in fact—that it was my duty to refuse to obey unlawful orders. So, I know our officers firing missiles at noncombatants know they can’t fall back on the Nuremberg defense.

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 11d

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11d

Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 13d

Antiquity is fascinating
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

news.harvard.edu

Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 14d

Spending twice as much on administrative costs as on providing care IS modern health care, but, yeah, this is adding insult to injury

ProPublica @propublica.org · 14d

NEW: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027.

A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

By @savmargaret.bsky.social

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...

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NPR @npr.org · 15d

Duterte was arrested in March by Philippine authorities on a warrant issued by the ICC. He is now being held at an ICC facility in the Netherlands.

ICC charges former Philippine President Duterte crimes against humanity

Duterte was arrested in March by Philippine authorities on a warrant issued by the ICC. He is now being held at an ICC facility in the Netherlands.

n.pr

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 15d

There are so many untrue things that the terrible people are going to cling to as articles of faith long after their demagogue is gone, but now I have to face the plainly idiotic “Tylenol gives you the woke mind virus” for the rest of my life while living in the charred remains of my country?

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dadvans | the winnipeg jorts @dadvans.bsky.social · 16d

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16d

the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 18d

LMAO WUT

Oklahoma Republicans propose all state colleges must have Charlie Kirk statue

Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines

www.theguardian.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18d

So much weird, AI-enhanced beatification of Kirk floating around.

We’re living in a rejected Black Mirror script.

PUMPKIN SPICE SLUGGO @saintsluggo.bsky.social · 19d

Taking the temperature today…

The Daily Dot
"Death is not the end": Al-generated Charlie Kirk "sermon" gets standing ovation at Texas megachurch

THE SUNDAY TIMES
Al - it's going to kill us all

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 19d

I’m sorry that we all now live in the house where I grew up

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19d

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 19d

Dems ought to be telling people now these letters are worth absolutely nothing.

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes7.bsky.social · 20d

Seeing a guy with giant piles of direct quotes we can easily read who is so quickly being raised as a martyr bearing no resemblance to the actual man should give us questions about, um, that other martyr they are always talking about? It’s a reflexive projection of the amygdalal persecution complex?