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Toni Bradfield @tonibradfield.bsky.social · 31m

*elected Dems

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 38m

Americans are being far too complacent about masked government agents in unmarked vehicles grabbing people and taking them to unknown destinations.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

(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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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 38m

Americans are being far too complacent about masked government agents in unmarked vehicles grabbing people and taking them to unknown destinations.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

(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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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

We must all stand up and speak out.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Toni Bradfield @tonibradfield.bsky.social · 4h

Glad to see prominent elected Dems out front calling for removing the pres from office

/s

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 6h

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What Bondi did in that answer was use the A (attack) and RVO (reverse victim and offender) tactics from DARVO without ever explicitly using the D (deny)

(Explicit denial would have required addressing facts under oath.)

www.jjfreyd.com/darvo

DARVO — Jennifer Joy Freyd, PhD.

www.jjfreyd.com

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Jennifer Joy Freyd @jjfreyd.bsky.social · 6h

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DARVO infused obfuscation by the government is institutional betrayal.

Institutional betrayal thrives in secrecy and cover-up.

Institutional courage requires transparency.

It is that basic.

www.institutionalcourage.org/resources-fo...

Resources for Changemakers | Center for Institutional Courage

www.institutionalcourage.org

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 7h

Well, this is telling. The second most-searched word on Merriam-Webster today? #Fascism.
"...associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition."

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Toni Bradfield @tonibradfield.bsky.social · 7h

From the article:

Yet what is striking about the 1920s is that, unlike the German interwar crisis, America's dangerous decade led not to fascism and the end of democracy but to the New Deal and the civil rights era. Across the sequence of emergencies that followed — the Great Depression and eventually World War II — the United States ushered in an era of working-class political empowerment and prosperity. The nation ended Jim Crow in the South and established free speech with court-backed protections for the first time in its history.

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Toni Bradfield @tonibradfield.bsky.social · 7h

This info that the US shook off authoritarianism in the 1920s will come as a surprise to my relatives who grew up under Jim Crow in the 1950s

Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 1d

Gifting this one: interesting, important read on how the USA shook off authoritarianism of 1920s. Yes cataclysm is part of it.
But bolstering the WEB Duboises & Sidney Hillmans of today?
Pushing Grand Experiments for democracy?
BRING IT ON.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 8h

77-year-old Maine Gov. Janet Mills has apparently been coaxed into jumping into the Maine Senate race, challenging Graham Platner in a Democratic primary.

The 40-year-old Platner has become a favorite of progressives and Democrats wanting a more muscular response to Trump. He has raised millions.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 9h

People here have died from USAID cuts. But most of the harm is manifesting in losing access to HIV (a slow acting virus), unemployment, depression, increased poverty, food insecurity. These are all lethal but slow acting. (Even when reversible, they can leave lifelong trauma.)

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 8h

SA makes HIV meds, but USAID was being used to distribute them & proactively get ppl on them (esp in prison, townships, in LGBTQ communities). Ppl fall out of care & viral loads spike, more ppl get HIV & more ppl die. But this takes years (& will take decades to undo).

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8h

OpenAI and Anthropic are considering using investor funds to settle potential claims from multibillion-dollar lawsuits on.ft.com/4mWEfyK

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 8h

🔴The Human Cost of the Gaza Tragedy

Two years on October 7, @alexhh.bsky.social relates three stories from those affected by what has happened since

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/t...

The Human Cost of the Gaza Tragedy

Two years on October 7, Alexandra Hall Hall relates three stories from those affected by what has happened since

bylinetimes.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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PixelPusher @drpixelpusher.bsky.social · 10h

commonslibrary.org/defending-de...

Defending Democracy with Humor and Dilemma Actions Tactics

The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

commonslibrary.org

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