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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 3h

#KavanaughStop

brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 3h

Beefcake vs Ensure

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 4h

A brave Chicagoan living in fear of ICE. She cannot look into a camera to explain how much she loves this country, how much she believes in its promise, because doing so risks putting her parents in danger. With her permission, I am telling her story for her.
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A brave Chicagoan describes living in fear of ICE

She cannot look into a camera to explain how much she loves this country, how much she believes in its promise, because doing so risks putting her parents in danger. I am telling the story for her.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 3h

Certainly, but any idea what she really was yelling?

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3h

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Video viral muestra la detención de una ciudadana estadounidense de 18 años en Hoffman Estates, al noroeste de Chicago

Una fuerte movilización de agentes federales en Hoffman Estates, suburbio de Chicago, terminó con la detención de tres personas, entre ellas una mujer de 18 años. El momento quedó grabado en video y h...

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3h

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Parents say daughter is shaken after encounter with apparent federal agent in Hoffman Estates

They say their daughter and her two friends were taken in cars to the Hoffman Estates Police Department parking lot, where they sat for hours.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3h

More on this: Yes, this seems it was ICE but the girl is 18 not 15, and never yelled "I'm 15."

(Can we stop taking random captions from non-news sources on these real videos as fact?)

Univision spoke to the girl's aunt, who said the teenage girl Evelyn and her boyfriend Jonathan--both US citizens/

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 3h

What is she yelling during this #KavanaughStop? I can see mistaking it for “fifteen”?

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 3h

They’re forgetting these rallies will be everywhere, and MAGA chumps will see their neighbors there. Public protest is essential to pierce the veil of propaganda that conceals reality from them, to puncture the bubble they inhabit.
It reminds me of this, from last time:

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · Jun 15

I wanted to sketch a little vignette of the single person who struck me most at that protest: a young MAGA man we stopped next to at a light. He was in an overcompensating vehicle—a pickup or Escalade, had the window down blaring country music, with a TRUMP flag hoisted out his window….\1

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 4h

“Love your neighbor”

Talarico is the only prominent politician I’ve heard who openly calls on us to welcome and defend our immigrant neighbors. Nothing here about “the border”

A humane politics has to have aspirational vision, and it starts here.

James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 1d

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h

Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 4h

Meanwhile, the Washington Post and the rest of them call Article I a “tradition”:

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 17h

To our constitutionally illiterate press, Article I has been a “tradition”, but is now an “issue” open to partisan dispute.

“They could permanently tip the balance of power away from Congress and toward the executive branch on an issue—…” \1

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Congress is losing its grip on the power to spend Americans’ money

Congress is supposed to control spending, but increasingly, the White House is dictating how America’s money is used.

www.washingtonpost.com

brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 4h

I’d think he’d have remembered a name like “Dasha”, and that Russian ones are automatically vouched for.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 17h

To our constitutionally illiterate press, Article I has been a “tradition”, but is now an “issue” open to partisan dispute.

“They could permanently tip the balance of power away from Congress and toward the executive branch on an issue—…” \1

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Congress is losing its grip on the power to spend Americans’ money

Congress is supposed to control spending, but increasingly, the White House is dictating how America’s money is used.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 14h

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 16h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 4h

#KavanaughStop

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 4h

#KavanaughStop

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 4h

Disband ICE and create a national registry of former agents, as for sex offenders (many already are).
If any fail to turn in weapons and equipment, put them on a terrorist watch list.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

ICE needs a legislative death sentence. We are allowed to abolish institutions when they become unaccountable beyond the point of reform, or when they become inextricably associated with corruption or abuse. In order for ICE’s leaders and agents to be held to account ICE itself must die.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

This was once the kind of shit we cited to differentiate ourselves from authoritarian countries. It’s just who we are now.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 23h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 1d

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 23h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander