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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 8h

When federal agents turn weapons on citizens, it’s not just a local scandal — it’s a national reckoning.

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Are the Streets of Chicago Showing Us the Future of American Democracy?

When federal agents turn weapons on citizens, it’s not just a local scandal — it’s a national reckoning.

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 1d

Kristi Noem’s shutdown blame-game video could cost them fines and their livelihood...

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Why Are Airport Managers Risking Their Jobs to Air GOP Propaganda?

Kristi Noem’s shutdown blame-game video could cost them fines and their livelihood...

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 2d

Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...

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The Brutality Is the Message: Why America’s Violence Against Immigrants Isn’t About Immigration

Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 4d

Saturday Report 10/11/25 — Find out what the Planetary Health Diet (PHD) proposed to help optimize human health globally: you’ll be shocked…

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Saturday Report 10/11/25 — Find out what the Planetary Health Diet (PHD) proposed to help optimize human health globally: you’ll be shocked

The Best of the Rest of the News (with Opinion)...

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 4d

President Trump continued to describe Portland, Ore., as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear.
— NY Times www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Update from Anna Griffin

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 6d

Is that our Attorney General with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein? Or just somebody who looks a lot like her decades ago?

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 6d

As Americans lose faith in capitalism, Trump’s economic nationalism looks less like free enterprise and more like state control…

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We’re All Socialists — But Only Trump Acts Like a Communist

As Americans lose faith in capitalism, Trump’s economic nationalism looks less like free enterprise and more like state control…

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 7d

Conservatives call Anderson’s film “irresponsible” because it dares to show what happens when power turns its guns on the powerless...

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"One Battle After Another" Is What Happens When Art Refuses to Kneel

Conservatives call Anderson’s film “irresponsible” because it dares to show what happens when power turns its guns on the powerless...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

This is from Marge Greene.

You know who has been warning about this for months? Democrats.

But the people who had no plan to deal with this crisis and still don’t want you to believe this is about “illegals.”

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 8d

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore…

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Is ICE Today’s Klan?

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore…

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 9d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 9d

Raids without warrants, kids in zip-ties, and officials who say “F** the children”: this is the moral collapse of the American state. It's time for state authorities to start making arrests...

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America’s Fourth Amendment Is on Life Support — What Do You Do When Your Government Becomes the Criminal?

Raids without warrants, kids in zip-ties, and officials who say “F** the children”: this is the moral collapse of the American state. It's time for state authorities to start making arrests...

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 9d

Noon to three Eastern time on channel 127, Progress.

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 9d

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 10d

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 10d

There are some very wealthy people who have a social conscience. The Kennedy family. George Soros’ son. Greed, although often taught in families, is also a choice.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10d

An aspiring tyrant in the making…

Stephen Miller was always a POS. Here he is in high school, already looking middle-aged, giving a student government speech:

“Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up our trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?”

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 11d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

Both could be true.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11d

Can Miller really believe this? If so, he is delusional. If not, then he’s a reprehensible demagogue.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11d

The theater of fascism, where the only thing that's real is the fear that it intends to provoke.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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