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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 5h

Great but chilling column.

“We should be exceedingly clear:
There is no crisis in Chicago that requires the Nat’l Guard. To the extent that there is civil instability in Chicago it has been caused by Trump’s surge of federal agents into the city & their lawless assault on the citizens of Chicago”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Brosephus @brosephus.bsky.social · 13h

Wanna know why this isn't breaking news or being broadcast from coast to coast? Police violence in urban settings is as commonplace as the sun rising in the east every morning.

Every urban uprising (riot) since the 60s has been sparked by police violence against residents.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3h

The same thing happened under Trump when U.S. Navy SEALs on a mission in North Korea killed civilians, including fishermen (or shellfishermen), after accidentally encountering them.

Petro claims US strike in Caribbean may have killed Colombian citizens

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has indicated there are "signs" that a recent U.S. military boat attack off Venezuela involved Colombian citizens.

apnews.com

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izzyjax.bsky.social @izzyjax.bsky.social · 5h

💯🔥💯🖕🍊💩

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is desperate to distract us once again but this time he’s claiming to cancel “freedom of speech”- I guess that means we can cancel guns now too!

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Eric Rosen @erosen1.bsky.social · 1d

At this point, I’m wondering if Pam Bondi is in the Epstein Files.

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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 1d

"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 23h

Since the Speaker refuses to swear in Grijalva, a duly elected Member, the House can & must act:

1. Pass a resolution authorizing another Member to swear her in

2. File a Motion to Compel or censure Speaker for dereliction of duty

3. Apply public & political pressure

🔊 RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES.

🆘🇺🇸

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3h

Since we’re clearing the air, I might as well put out something I’ve been concealing for a very long time.

I’m the Vice President of Antifa (Western Continental Division)

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

Our government is shut down but nobody is paying attention because our president is an idiotic cunt who is sending troops to invade our cities for fraudulent reasons because he’s a pedophile.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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yarnlover.bsky.social @yarnlover.bsky.social · 2h

Is Eric Uday or Qusay?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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yarnlover.bsky.social @yarnlover.bsky.social · 2h

He doesn't observe the 9th, which forbids lying.

Of course, he doesn't observe any of the commandments.

yarnlover.bsky.social @yarnlover.bsky.social · 2h

And Trump's Little Johnson will keep the House on vacation as long as he needs to to avoid releasing the Epstein Files.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h

Mike Johnson said he would swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva "as soon as she wants." His office then backtracked — saying Johnson would only swear in the duly elected Grijalva once the government reopens. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers…

We are all about to find out.

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yarnlover.bsky.social @yarnlover.bsky.social · 2h

Anti-Antifa means Pro-Fa(scist).

These are self-proclaimed FASCISTS.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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