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adamkeiper.com
NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
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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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Cas Mudde, Jan W. Mueller , and 22 more

flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Rebecca Solnit, Jonathan A. Eisen , and 18 more

darrigomelanie.bsky.social
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by: Blair Fix, Nancy Kanwisher, Stefan Reis , and 2 more

rbreich.bsky.social
Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Anne Applebaum, Anna O. Law , and 33 more

chicago.suntimes.com
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Timothy Snyder, Anna O. Law , and 17 more

brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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newssocialanmor.bsky.social
In Italy More Than 2 Million People March against the Genocide in Occupied Palestine!
substack.com/@tritaparsi/...
Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
HOLY SMOKES! Over 2 million people across Italy marched against Israel's genocide in Gaza! The more Israel kills, slaughters, and genocides, the more it loses.
substack.com
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Nelson Flores, Matthew P. McAllister

karenattiah.bsky.social
Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
www.resistancesummerschool.com
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Anna O. Law, Steven Heydemann , and 7 more

kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Brendan Nyhan, Christopher Wright , and 7 more

andycraig.bsky.social
Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
defector.com
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Anna O. Law, Will Jennings , and 17 more

eric-reinhart.com
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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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Anna O. Law, Tom Clark , and 5 more

alexjungle.bsky.social
Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Joseph Schafer, Jonathan Hopkin , and 3 more

atrupar.com
Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Nandita Sharma , and 17 more

maaloufmd.bsky.social
My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Anne Applebaum, Will Jennings , and 3 more

bgrueskin.bsky.social
Trump told NBC on Sunday that he saw some Portland riot footage on Fox and thought it reflected current events.

It didn't. It was 5 years old, from the George Floyd aftermath.

And we learned that due to the diligence of a local TV reporter, who got the transcript.

www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Trump referenced a weekend conversation with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and he alluded to being told by Kotek that the reality in Portland is different from what’s being portrayed to him. “I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,” Trump said. “But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place…it looks like terrible.”
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Anna O. Law, Richard E. Lenski , and 5 more

melissaryan.bsky.social
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Cas Mudde, Stacy D. VanDeveer , and 1 more

muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Elizabeth Saunders, Jonathan Wolff , and 7 more

anthonyclark.bsky.social
BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles
The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection
lastcampaign.substack.com
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Anna O. Law, Norbert Schwarz , and 9 more

kenwhite.bsky.social
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Brian Keegan, Victor Pickard , and 1 more

noupside.bsky.social
Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Meredith Broussard, Jennifer A. Richeson , and 8 more

jasonkoebler.bsky.social
New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Jan W. Mueller, Joshua S. Weitz , and 11 more

marisakabas.bsky.social
SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:
Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown
Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."
www.thehandbasket.co
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Steve Peers, Robert B. Reich , and 4 more

reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID?

It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Dani Rodrik, Benjamin Braun , and 2 more

jwmason.bsky.social
Coming this spring. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Against Money
A powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.   Money is unavoidably fundamental to our daily lives. It lurks behind ...
press.uchicago.edu
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by: Blair Fix, Christopher Wright, Anne Norton

rbreich.bsky.social
If you heard the leader of another nation threatening to unleash the military against his perceived political enemies, what would you call it?
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, James Goodwin

theonion.com
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice
Share This Editorial
theonion.com
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Colin F. Camerer, David R. Miller , and 3 more

sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle
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Reposted by: Blair Fix

radleybalko.bsky.social
I would have gone with “illegal”
in the headline, here.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Why Trump’s Use of Military in US Is So Controversial
President Donald Trump has repeatedly deployed the US military for domestic assignments. In June, he summoned the Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles — over the objections of local leaders — to subdu...
www.bloomberg.com
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Reposted by: Blair Fix, Joseph Schafer, Claire L. Adida

reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later.

www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...
ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty
An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...
www.cbsnews.com
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