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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe with an exclusion for anyone tear-gassing peaceful protesters.

Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 21h

Very dangerous.

Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 1d

@wyden.senate.gov @muellershewrote.com @aoc.bsky.social Please use your platforms to tell what is happening in Chicago. Feds are deliberately causing car crashes and creating scenes so they can tear gas and terrorize our communities. We are fighting back but the nation needs to be with us.

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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 1d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov This must stop and you must stop it.

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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 1d

Tried and true police practice

Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 2d

Resisting arrest has long been used as a “cover charge” by police (in Chicago and elsewhere) after they use force against someone, as I reported back in 2018: www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-poli...

Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I guess if his buddy Netanyahu could…….

Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 1d

The only thing out of control in Chicago are the federal agents.

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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 1d

If it goes unchecked, or worse yet, endorsed by SCOTUS, they will do the same thing on US soil because, why not?

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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 1d

To the rich and powerful, knowledge is scary. Universities must stand up.

Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 1d

On this day in 1834, authorities in Wheeling, a city in present-day West Virginia, charged four people with unlawful assembly for convening a literacy class for Black residents.

Oct. 14, 1834 | Four People Charged for Teaching Black People to Read in Wheeling, West Virginia

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 1d

The propaganda value is worth any number of ruined lives.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 3d

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4d

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov You have to stop the violent police response to peaceful protests

Thomas Montgomery @thomasmontgomery.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what the fuck

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Thomas Montgomery @thomasmontgomery.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what the fuck

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RR Edmonds @rredmondsart.bsky.social · 4d

This!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 4d

Better call Saul.

Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 4d

Organize alumni to boycott giving unless schools stand up to Trump. We have power, we just have to figure out ways to use it.

Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 4d

In my opinion, the only thing that could be bad enough for them to work so hard to hide it would be if Trump was actually trafficking and profiting — maybe thru his pageant or his modeling agency. Just a guess, but it seems logical to me.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 6d

A federal judge ordered the immediate release of a man “who went to [an] ICE office … for ‘a routine check-in’ on Aug. 22 and instead found himself bound and transported to the Plymouth County jail, where ICE planned to keep him locked up until they could figure out which country to send him to.”

Judge orders immediate release of Brazilian immigrant grabbed by ICE when he showed up for a scheduled appointment

For at least the third time in a week, a federal judge in Boston has ordered the release of an immigrant shoved into prison by ICE because the regime illegally decided to ignore the section of immigr...

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 6d

On this day in 1893, a white mob lynched Bob Hudson, a Black man, in Weakley County, TN, after he defended his wife, who was targeted because she filed assault charges against a white man.

Oct. 9, 1893 | Bob Hudson Lynched and Wife Beaten in Weakley County, Tennessee

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 7d

Elevation Convening Center and Hotel is now open to guests in Montgomery. This research center, convening space, art gallery, and theater with overnight accommodations will provide comfort to the thousands that visit our Legacy Sites.

EJI Announces the Opening of Elevation in Montgomery, Alabama

We are pleased to announce today's Phase One opening of Elevation.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 7d

On this day in 1953, a Birmingham police commissioner banned an interracial All-Star baseball game organized by Jackie Robinson since it was a "mixed athletic event."

Oct. 8, 1953 | Jackie Robinson and Others Banned From Playing Interracial Baseball in AL

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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 7d

On the ground reporting you can trust.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

Thank you to everyone who's donated/subscribed to us in recent weeks. We are so behind on emails, newsletter, thank yous, DMs etc but it's all appreciated. We just bought three full face respirators* so we can assure you it goes to good use

*Things are very normal

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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Kim @kimtul.bsky.social · 8d

He acts like these are his personal bank accounts and he can transfer among them whenever he wants

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