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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19h

Kristi Noem’s America, folks. That poor dog. That poor family.

Tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “Border Patrol reportedly shot a dog and then the agent fled rather than deal with any kind of accountability whatsoever.”
Below is Keith Edwards’ tweet: “BREAKING: A family in El Paso says ICE shot and killed their dog, Chop. The agent who fired reportedly ran as the family screamed for help. No one came.”

Photo of a large black and brown Rottweiler sitting calmly on a tiled floor next to a white chair and a window with blinds.

A black-background screenshot of text describing an incident: the sender says no Border Patrol agents rendered aid after their dog was shot, and that the responsible agent fled the scene with help from others. They emphasize that the agent’s name was never released and that their family lost a member “for no lawful reason.”

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 11h

ice trafficks children.

#USpol #MApol #children #HumanTrafficking

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 20h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Indivisible NE Minneapolis @indivisiblenempls.bsky.social · 11h

Pope urges media to stand up against the lies.
Thank you to Pope Leo!

Stand up to the lies!!

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 20h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 11h

Ain’t no violence but state violence.

Today on the state by the state (and also illegally on peaceful protestors and press).

Even dhs isn’t safe from dhs.

ice is a clear and present danger to all Americans, including to ice itself.

#USpol

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 12h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 12h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Sonnet 154 - CLIV
The little Love-god lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warmed;
And so the General of […]

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David August @davidaugust.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Good on you @senduckworth and @senatordurbin, glad to see my representation on the scene.

#USpol

RE: https://www.threads.com/@senatordurbin/post/DPpJcu9j5uA

Senator Dick Durbin (@senatordurbin) on Threads

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility. It’s clearer than ever before. What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

www.threads.com

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David August @davidaugust.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Wrote a satirical article. Gonna post it soon.

Please subscribe (free) to my ghost thingy to see if before everyone else.

Go here to subscribe:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/

I hope it is as funny to everyone who reads it as it seemed like to me when I wrote it. 😲😝

#satire #writing […]

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Spocko @spocko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Trump admin lies about #ice being attacked, so they can be the victim.
The Technique is called DARVO
(Deny Attack Reverse Victim & Offender)

But when people see that the "attackers" are people in frog costumes, it visually destroys the lie.

There for sharing our silly protests on social media […]

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Toni Aittoniemi @gimulnautti.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@davidaugust ”I saved TikTok so now you owe me”

That’s a long enough quote to figure out what’s going on.

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 18h

A friend wants to get a doorbell camera so they can tell if ice is about in their building (founded concern) needs a safe cloud hosted option. Anyone have any recommendations?

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Ain’t no violence but state violence.

This time they’re “taking” someone while putting pressure on their neck, possibly making it so they can’t breathe, and then committing a hit and run to evade people peacefully standing filming them with phones.

ice is a clear and present danger to the […]

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David August @davidaugust.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Ain’t no violence but state violence.

This time they’re “taking” someone while putting pressure on their neck, possibly making it so they can’t breathe, and then committing a hit and run to evade people peacefully standing filming them with phones. ice is a clear and present danger to the […]

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David August @davidaugust.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Pretending to be a protestor in order to propagandize a city into becoming a target for military invasion is…not awesome.

We knew this sort of thing would be attempted, @indivisibleteam @50501movement @indivisiblechicago, and the admin really must be really scared of No Kings 2.0.

#USpol

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David August @davidaugust.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

So @govpritzker your state troopers are confusing people and everyone and everything would benefit if they used their words, communicate effectively.

@ilstatepolice please communicate and you and your troopers will have an easier, more safe situation. Uphold the law, contain ice lawlessness […]

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David August @davidaugust.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Ain't no violence but state violence.

This time it is getting violent because they were angry people hadn't left by a predetermined time.

Surely beating people is justified if it is government-over-reach-o'clock, right?

#USpol #Broadview #ice

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 1d

Father Larry Dowling's account of leading Eucharistic Procession ice #prisoners in Broadview (near Chicago) and being stopped.

"No one from [DHS] could stand in…presence of…Monstrance holding…Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. #Evil is repelled…"

#USpol #Catholic #ice #religion #good #dhs #Christian

Larry Dowling

I had…privilege…of leading…Eucharistic Procession… to…ICE Detention Center in Broadview…to pray…bring Holy Communion…to…men & women detained…under inhumane conditions.

Over 1,000 Catholics…marched in peaceful prayer & song, facilitated by…Police Departments &…State Police. I cannot speak more highly of…public safety officers in providing us safe passage.

Upon arrival…was…different…no ICE or Federal representatives…When requesting to talk w/…representative…over…phone, After…brief wait…answer came back…clearly:

NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION & PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE!
NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER…SOLACE TO…MEN & WOMEN FEARFUL & SUFFERING INSIDE!
NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS…SON OF GOD…LOVE OF GOD, INTO THIS PLACE!

No one had…courage to speak…to us. No one from [DHS] could stand in…presence of…Monstrance holding…Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in…presence of Christ.

…been able to do for detainees for…past…written into…law, was refused…

"Father, forgive…ones who do not know what they are doing."
"Have mercy on…souls of those who know exactly what they're doing. Touch their hearts & transform them from stony…into fleshy, life-giving…"
"Only through, w/& in God will hearts be changed!"

…battle for hearts…minds, compassion…mercy, continues...

Please pray especially for…children…mothers & fathers…being treated inhumanely…Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God's family.

Peace! Fr. Larry Dowling

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 1d

tiktok is heading toward being full maga.

If your business or life is centered on that app, take steps now to change that.

I am happy to help however I can.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

#TikTokMigration #SocialMedia #USpol

Barron Trump tipped for top job at TikTok as dad says users ‘owe’ him

The president has previously claimed that users ‘owe’ Barron Trump for saving the social media platform in a video from the Oval Office

www.independent.co.uk

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 1d

Why the f is @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social spending donor money feeding IL State Police?!

Cops have a tax payer funded salary, right @govpritzker.illinois.gov?

Why the f are state police accepting a charity’s food, and therefore taking food out of the mouths of hungry people in IL?!

#USpol #ILpol

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 1d

Ain’t no violence but state violence.

This time it is getting violent because they were angry people hadn’t left by a predetermined time.

Surely beating people is justified if it is government-over-reach-o’clock, right?

#USpol #Broadview #ice

Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois police attack & arrest ICE protesters outside Broadview Detention Center near Chicago. This occurred after a protest curfew imposed by city of Broadview passed. LIVE LINK ⬇️

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16h

Garlic Bread and Roses 🏴 @aceanarchist.bsky.social · 19h

Here is an excellent guide by @crimethinc.com about wearing goggles and masks to demonstrations. crimethinc.com/2020/09/02/a...

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles

Everything you need to know to choose the right gas mask or goggles to protect your eyes and lungs from chemical agents and projectiles.

crimethinc.com

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 18h

President of the United States, a UK ally & member of NATO like UK is, is unhealthy. VP’s bad ideas & deceptions may get the full power of the US presidency behind them, a presidency that has threatened violent invasion of multiple UK allies & Commonwealth members. Right or wrong, he impacts you.

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 1d

But JD Vance says I'll be arrested for praying in a Scottish hospital (something I've done thousands of times, as the National Health Service has always acknowledged the value of spiritual care)

David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 1d

Father Larry Dowling's account of leading Eucharistic Procession ice #prisoners in Broadview (near Chicago) and being stopped.

"No one from [DHS] could stand in…presence of…Monstrance holding…Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. #Evil is repelled…"

#USpol #Catholic #ice #religion #good #dhs #Christian

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