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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

NEWS: WGN-TV producer hires attorney to ‘pursue all legal actions’ after ICE detention. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/w...

WGN-TV producer hires attorney to ‘pursue all legal actions’ after ICE detention

Debbie Brockman and her legal team “adamantly deny” allegations that she assaulted federal officers during an immigration enforcement action.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 1h

The White House budget office said it is preparing to "ride out" the shutdown.

Instead of negotiating a budget that protects peoples' health care, the White House will continue to fire federal employees and wait.

They don't want to end this, they just want to posture while Americans pay the price.

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 2h

These aren't jokes. Stop framing this festering rot as "boys being boys". I expect better from Politico.

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Annie Bosak @nipsb.bsky.social · 2h

This is what Trump, evanglicals and GOP have stoked. Nazi’s. How admirable.

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Royalrash @theroyalrash.bsky.social · 2h

This is just a mirror of the fucked up 🆙 leaders in the Republican Party.

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Renée D. @reneed7.bsky.social · 2h

This is what tRump, MAGA and the Republicans have wrought in our country. Sickening.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 3h

Reporting on a Kavanaugh stop in Chicago that led to the ICE detention of a US citizen. newrepublic.com/post/201745/...

ICE Detains U.S. Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look” American

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h

I told you yesterday in video and written format - there is no peace deal.

Hamas said they won’t disarm - I showed you the video of their leader.
Israeli defense minister tweeted about “cleansing Gaza” - showed you the tweet.

Now you have both sides blaming each other ⬇️

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 4h

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Randi Weingarten and Karen Attiah -- the former longtime WaPo opinion writer fired for posting a quote by Charlie Kirk on social media -- are among those scheduled to speak at D.C.'s massive No Kings rally.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Sen. Chris Murphy, Progressive Leaders To Speak At DC’s Massive ‘No Kings’ Rally

www.huffpost.com

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Indivisible Arizona❌👑 @indivisibleaz.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 30 Indivisible AZ groups to @gallego.senate.gov & @captmarkkelly.bsky.social : REJECT the GOP's empty "pinky promise" on healthcare. After 15 years, Republicans cannot be trusted to protect the ACA. No handshakes; only law. Protect Arizonans! #CareNotCuts #AZIndivisibles tinyurl.com/mr37js3a

LETTER: 30 Groups Demand Senators Gallego and Kelly Reject Mere Handshake Agreements on Healthcare

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Indivisible Santa Fe ❌👑 @indivisiblesantafe.org · 16h

ICE casing churches now in Rogers Park, but Chicago locals standing up in defense of those being targeted.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 15h

We now enter the most dangerous phase, but also the one with the greatest opportunity. The U.S. has thousands of colleges, some run by red state governments, so it's too much to hope that NONE sign up for this federal takeover.

But it matters WHO signs up. The administration is taking a risk.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 21h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 14h

More airports standing up against Noem and her Hatch Act-violating propaganda video:
• Charlotte
• Cleveland
• Los Angeles
• Salt Lake City

www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 14h

More airports refusing to play Noem’s propaganda video
• Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport
• Tucson International Airport

azmirror.com/briefs/arizo...

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport both confirmed to the Arizona Mirror that they are not displaying a video of Noem that was promoted by the White House as being played at
"every public airport in America."
Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport plays a crucial role in the Trump
administration's deportation efforts.
The airport hosts the operational hub for Immigration and Customs
Enforcement's "ICE Air" operations, which deport and shuttle immigrants across the country.
Airport spokesman Ryan Smith confirmed to the Mirror that the video is not currently displayed at the airport due to the Mesa Gateway Airport Authority Board policy, which states that "(a)dvertising that discusses the topics or subjects of politics or religion, social society, or economics is prohibited."

"Consistent with airport policy, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport declined to post the video," Jon Brodsky, a spokesman for the state's largest airport, told the Mirror.
Sky Harbor also has a policy that does not permit political content.
And Tucson International Airport also confirmed to the Mirror that it is not playing the video. Not only does it also ban advertisements - even from the government - that focus on political speech, but the airport does not have screens in the area DHS requested the video be played.
Flagstaff Pulliam Airport did not respond to a request for comment.
Other airports across the nation have made similar statements explaining why the ad is not playing, despite the White House's claim that it was being displayed in every single American airport.

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 16h

Airports refusing to air Noem’s partisan political video:
• Spokane Intl. Airport
• Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl. Airport
• Seattle-Tacoma airport
• Portland Intl. Airport
• Buffalo Niagara airport
• Niagara Falls Intl. airport
• Westchester County Airport

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• Spokane International Airport is at least the seventh airport to refuse to broadcast a Department of Homeland video in which Secretary Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown, according to NBC News affiliate KHQ.
• Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport confirmed to Forbes it also was not airing the video.
• Seattle-Tacoma airport officials cited "the political nature of the content" in declining to air it and urged "bipartisan efforts to end the government shutdown" in a statement to The Seattle Times.

• "We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits using public assets for political purposes and messaging," a Portland International Airport official told a local ABC News affiliate, adding an Oregon law prohibits public employees from making partisan statements at the airport.
• Its "long-standing policy" prohibits using public service advertising for "partisan messaging," the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, which operates
Buffalo Niagara and Niagara Falls International airports in Western New York State, told a local NBC News station.

• The video is "inappropriate, unacceptable, and inconsistent with the values we expect from our nation's top public officials" as well as being "unnecessarily alarmist," a Westchester County, New York, official said, explaining why the video will not be displayed at Westchester County Airport.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”

“Aug 28 has been set as the date for this mass invasion of the captial by upward of 100,000 negroes…”

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 2d

On a rainy, raw morning, we had more @indivisiblesantafe.org members today at our second Speakers’ Corner session than we had last week! Here’s one of my favorite clips. (Mike Johnson thinks she’s somebody who hates America. 🙄) cc @indivisible.org #NoKings #NewMexico

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Mitch Chapman @mchapman42.bsky.social · 1d

Sean Duffy is behaving like a paid agitator.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

- It is legal to organize and fund protest.
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

- It is legal to organize and fund protest.
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Home of the Brave launched a $1 million national ad campaign in support of the peaceful No Kings rallies on Oct. 18th.

The ads will run in over 185 local papers and The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post calling on Americans to “peacefully protest our false king."

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 1d

THERE ARE VERY VERY EASY WAYS TO WRITE AN OPINION THAT *SAYS* WHAT YOU ARE DOING *AND ALSO SAYS* THAT YOU ARE NOT FINALLY RESOLVING THE ISSUE

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 1d

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