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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 2h

How do we get this in front of the six fash on SCOTUS?

Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social · 7h

These posts about ICE are the kind of thing that has been showing up in recent days in local FB groups in suburban Chicago, amid the stuff about where to get the best matcha latte and someone to fix your plumbing

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 2h

How do we get this in front of Kavanaugh and the other fash?

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Kirk (Antifa Social Secretary™️) Murphy 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❌👑 @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 6h

“How should we tell our kids to respond if they are stopped by ICE?”

Your move, @judiciarydems.senate.gov.

Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social · 7h

These posts about ICE are the kind of thing that has been showing up in recent days in local FB groups in suburban Chicago, amid the stuff about where to get the best matcha latte and someone to fix your plumbing

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 2h

I'm thinking your bedside manner could use some therapy.

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 2h

This is what happens when you insist that Congress has no power in our government.

Also FTG.

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 2h

It's so normal neither his colleagues nor the Congressman noticed it.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: in chapter nineteen of the Second Treatise, John Locke writes that when the legislative power is usurped from that body in which the People have placed it, and exercised instead by a person or body not authorized to do so by the People, government is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 6h

This www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha... by @jedpurdy.bsky.social is myopic law prof crap. Does he really think ignoring court orders and the attack on Chicago are norm-resetting?

Who are the Trump apologists he describes but doesn't name?
bsky.app/profile/edwa...

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21h

Trump goons attacking Chicagoans. No one protects us from these thugs.

Read the entire thread on Mastodon, click on Masto dot ai.

Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Federal agents deployed #teargas on #chicago residents & more than a dozen #police officers Tuesday #courtordergs/CourtOrder" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in defiance of a #CourtOrder], the latest clash in the nation’s 3rd-largest city as the #trump admin has carried out its [#immigration *crackdown*.

The clash began Tues morning when […]

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 2h

Here's a not-so-fun chart: electricity price per kilowatt-hour in Illinois by month. How much of that ~50% increase is due to AI and data center usage? How much is due to Republicans cutting funding for renewable?
icc.illinois.gov/api/web-mana...

icc.illinois.gov

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 4h

Mike thinks it isn't American unless it's this America.
bsky.app/profile/edwa...

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 4h

So normal no one in the office even noticed.

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 6h

This www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha... by @jedpurdy.bsky.social is myopic law prof crap. Does he really think ignoring court orders and the attack on Chicago are norm-resetting?

Who are the Trump apologists he describes but doesn't name?
bsky.app/profile/edwa...

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21h

Trump goons attacking Chicagoans. No one protects us from these thugs.

Read the entire thread on Mastodon, click on Masto dot ai.

Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Federal agents deployed #teargas on #chicago residents & more than a dozen #police officers Tuesday #courtordergs/CourtOrder" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in defiance of a #CourtOrder], the latest clash in the nation’s 3rd-largest city as the #trump admin has carried out its [#immigration *crackdown*.

The clash began Tues morning when […]

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 8h

Marco Rubio, protecting the fee-fees of MAGAs everywhere.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US revokes six foreigners’ visas over social media comments criticizing Charlie Kirk

State department says it has ‘no obligation’ to host foreign nationals who ‘celebrate heinous’ death of far-right activist

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 8h

A large group of diseases are delighted.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21h

That dying toad knows he's no good. He said he doesn't think he's going to heaven.

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21h

All Republicans approve this crap. On Sundays their preachers tell them Trump was sent by the Almighty.

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21h

Trump goons attacking Chicagoans. No one protects us from these thugs.

Read the entire thread on Mastodon, click on Masto dot ai.

Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Federal agents deployed #teargas on #chicago residents & more than a dozen #police officers Tuesday #courtordergs/CourtOrder" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in defiance of a #CourtOrder], the latest clash in the nation’s 3rd-largest city as the #trump admin has carried out its [#immigration *crackdown*.

The clash began Tues morning when […]

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 21h

Trump goons continue their assault on Chicago. Where are the cops who are supposed to protect us from criminals.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d

#DelereFacebook

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Trump goons continue their attacks on Chicago.

Chicago News Bot @chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Massive law enforcement presence on Chicago's East Side | LIVE
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crash-massive-law-enforcement-presence-south-avenue-east-side-live/18005825/

Massive law enforcement presence on Chicago's East Side | LIVE

There is a massive law enforcement presence on Chicago's East Side early Tuesday afternoon.

abc7chicago.com

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d

It takes that many of these weaklings to have the courage to attack kids.

Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Surely Florida Repubs can find a politician who hasn’t been caught in some sex scandal yet.

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure the legal situation requires him to show IL is dealing with the protests. I don’t know enough to tell if he’s going too far with that. I hope not.

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Ed Walker @edwalker.bsky.social · 1d

All Republicans support shooting people in the head with chemical weapons. On Sunday their preachers explain that it's what Jesus would do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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