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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

Jesus christ

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

Someone responded to my last piece about the rapid response work I've been involved in by ordering me, in all caps, to show up for No Kings Day.

Some of y'all are messy af and should not talk to strangers on here.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

Gonna be fun when I get a knock and it's Kash Patel demanding answers on some milkshake emoji I tweeted at Andy Ngo in 2022

Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 10h

This is just insane political theater. The FBI knows that there is no antifa network. And let’s be clear- neither of these media personalities are journalists.

The FBI showed up to my house to discuss my TV show exposing Antifa's network. If you are a member of Antifa or providing material or financial support for Antifa, I might be a little concerned because the FBI is DEADASS ...

The FBI has launched a FULL investigation into Antifa, and spent the weekend calling journalists who've been victims of Antifa violence I received a call from the FBI Sunday morning, and confirmed others did as well.
The Trump admin WILL take down this terrorist network

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 11h

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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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 11h

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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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 9h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

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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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

These credulous fucking rubes

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

Release the Epstein files and then find some files that Biden is in and release those too

Ash heap of history for all these dudes

Axios @axios.com · 9h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 9h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

Many of the people who showed up absolutely hated my guts but they hated the Proud Boys even more.

And that's what principled antifascism looks like

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

This is a description of what happened with the intimidation protest the Proud Boys tried to stage across the street from my apartment building in 2020, back when they thought I was Public Enemy #1.

The community pushback was amazing and inspiring.

marymary🍁🍁🍁🍁 @marymarymary.bsky.social · 22h

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

Also worth noting (so that current West Philadelphians don't think this is happening in their backyard right now) that this was to the best of my knowledge the last time the Proud Boys ever attempted to organize a rally in Philly.

They were that embarrassed afterwards.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

This is a description of what happened with the intimidation protest the Proud Boys tried to stage across the street from my apartment building in 2020, back when they thought I was Public Enemy #1.

The community pushback was amazing and inspiring.

marymary🍁🍁🍁🍁 @marymarymary.bsky.social · 22h

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8h

It is possible that I need to log off

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8h

It's escalated

I may have just raised the specter of Goatse in our neighborhood parents and caretakers listserv

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I'd done every listserv drama worth doing, but here's a new one:

Person who claims to have founded the listserv 20 years ago but lost access to the only admin account...

...is mad that people are proposing migrating to a new listserv because the current listserv is flooded by AI spam.

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Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 9h

3M is the founder of antifa

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

3M is antifa now

Kimberly Vega

@caligurlluv

Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse

Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!!

Who's supplying them?!!!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

What

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

it's incredibly telling that Sam Altman reaches for "farmer, but not a modern farmer, an old-timey manly farmer" as someone holding the archetypal Real Job, instead of, say, "underpaid, almost certainly female modern childcare worker."

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21h

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 14h

There are so many people whose mental health would be helped immensely by living in Philadelphia

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 14h

A few messages seen today in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood

A poster on a pole next to a street says:
“ICE YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
NAZI RATS LEAVE OUR CITY”

A stack of posters featuring a hammer-wielding figure with the stars of the Chicago wrapped around his torso. It says:
“I PREFER MY ICE CRUSHED. END IMMIGRATION ARRESTS, DEFEND OUR SANCTUARY”

A sign in a store window says: “WE DON’T [SERVE is crossed out] FEED ICE OR PIGS! even if you steal this sign”

The words “ICE OUT” are written in chalk on a sidewalk.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19h

Few would ever love "reactionary" but there's a deeper refusal to accept any label because that would be conceding they are obviously just another ideological faction or political camp that can be critiqued, instead of all just the One Noble Truthteller whose opinions are simply objective reality.

Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 21h

It’s not my fault or intention that reactionary centrists don’t like being called reactionary centrists. If there is another term they would like someone to deploy to describe this same orientation and set of behaviors, I’m all ears!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20h

“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 3d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20h

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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