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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 18h

#NoKings Poster

“This is not Freedom” written over an illustration of federal agents in combat gear patrolling Chicago. Find a No Kings rally near you on Saturday 10/18/2025.

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 22h

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 23h

a cartoon character from south park says " because i 'm hard-core "

ALT: a cartoon character from south park says " because i 'm hard-core "

media.tenor.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 1d

Saying ICE agents are at risk of violence when they are the ones committing violence, is so Orwellian.

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom just vetoed legislation to keep PFAS out of cookware and dental floss. He’s just another self-serving corporate shill.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 1d

@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I have made “How to Report ICE” zines for many localities in the US. The SALUTE protocol is included and the LUCE hotline as well for MA. Zines are available in English and Spanish for Massachusetts.

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Hand holding black and white illustrated zine titled “How to Report ICE” in front of sunflowers

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my town complained on the town FB page about an off-leash dog pissing on their lawn chair, and you’d think the chair owner had insulted their moms. It was full of people blaming him for letting his chair get peed on, for complaining about it, etc. And that guy hadn’t even done anything.

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 1d

The Office of Remigration, led by Marc Ruby… Oh wait, that’s MarcO RubIO. That’s ironic. I expect he’ll be shackled and shipped to Cuba when Stephen Miller is done with him.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in the military and have a question about the legality of any orders you are given, this organization has a team of former Judge Advocates who can help.

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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The Sons of Liberty @sonsofliberty.bsky.social · 1d

We have seen AND CAUSED change. If we see either of these two idiotic positions in our comments section, we're going to tell you to fuck off, and probably wield the ban-hammer. We don't need that cancerous negativity infecting everyone else that's out there resisting and demanding action.

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Firstconsul @firstconsul.bsky.social · 3d

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 3d

🖕🧊✈️ WE SEE YOU 🤨

👉 A local activist captured video this morning of an Eastern 737 (tail: N660CP) loading shackled ICE detainees at Hanscom Field outside Boston 👀

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 5d

Why aren’t reporters just straight up being like “Mr President, WTF are you talking about? What fires? What stores?”

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 5d

We had the opportunity to do that and we squandered it. Instead, GOP has the majority and we have:

A felon in the WH, military in the streets, millions losing healthcare, an economy driving toward a cliff, and women’s and minority rights taken away.

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not a good typist.

I wish they had not put “d” so close to “s”, because it is way too easy to write “ass” when I intend to write “add”.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 6d

One significant thing about this video: this is WGN news. This is what my grandparents watched every night when they lived in the northwest suburbs. And although they’re not saying it outright, they are absolutely representing federal law enforcement as the bad guys.

Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 6d

ICE agents clash with Forest Park cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines River youtu.be/aPtEmAwgPRk...

Video: ICE agents clash with Forest Park cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines Rive

YouTube video by WGN News

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