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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 14h

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 12h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

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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KneeKocker989 @kneekocker.bsky.social · 15h

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 13h

The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.

Judicial warrants can still be served.

Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect

The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 20h

Agree with Dave here that AI is giving Enron vibes but maybe even more than that it's Madoff for me. I think this goes along just fine until someone needs to be liquid and then...

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

Man escapes ICE while handcuffed, bystanders use pliers to free him.
Salt Lake City, UT

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 20h

video shared to facebook around 11 am shows at least four border patrol agents chasing people into the walgreens at 106th/ewing—about 4 blocks away from where feds later unleashed tear gas.

an agent is seen tackling someone to the ground. someone else screams that they’re an american citizen.

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 21h

105/N. Feds rammed a car that crashed into another, then a foot chase. Neighbors protested. Gas deployed by feds earlier today. Here's what they left behind. A thread of photos. #chicago

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 20h

14 October 1940 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Mirjam Lewkowicz, was born in Gouda.

In September 1943, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Vintage black and white photo of a young girl with large eyes and curly hair, wearing a patterned bib over a dark shirt.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22h

Sadists. Truly sick people.

ICE is thoroughly un-American.

Don't you want to know—as I do—how many of these armed, masked, warrantless, insignia-less, nameless, essentially untrained Big Government goons are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and other J6 runoff? apnews.com/article/immi...

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

apnews.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 20h

UPDATE — Multiple witness videos today show an older white federal agent straddling a young Black man on the ground outside of a Walgreens on Chicago’s Southeast Side.

This is a developing story.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 21h

This is the second time in 24 hours he's said something like this. Yesterday he made that quip saying about Karoline Leavit, "those lips --- they move like a machine gun."

He's losing all inhibitions. Not that he ever had many to begin with.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 1d

A day in the life of ICE Air ethnic cleansing operations.
Monday 13 October 2025.
0000-0000 UTC
8-8pm EDT
5-5pm PDT

* At least 21 planes used.
* (3) Coast Guard C-27s used.
* Omni Air N207AX arrived in Ghana on a multiday, multinational human dumping operation
globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a1ac1a,...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

A group calling themselves the "guardian angels" is volunteering to watch over children entering and exiting Chicago schools to make sure they avoid unwanted interactions with ICE.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Normalize calling fascists out when they lie!

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end

‘If this is happening to me, a U.S. citizen, what are they doing to the other individuals?’

trib.al

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Leslie Phelps @laphelps.bsky.social · 1d

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Are We the Nazis Now?

How do we meet this moment?

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Truckle4Evr🔥🏳️‍🌈 @truckle4evr.bsky.social · 1d

That PMJ cover of Creep is excellent, but my fav is www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mOL...

k. d. lang - Crying - Roy Orbison Tribute 2/24/90 Universal Ampitheater

YouTube video by Cleveland Live Music

www.youtube.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Without saying Hurt, fav cover song?

This one is mine, and I bet most of you have never heard it.

Be sure and listen all the way through.

youtu.be/m3lF2qEA2cw?...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

twenty-four people were arrested by state troopers, eight by cook county sheriff's police, and two by broadview police, according to periodic updates from the sheriff's office.

eighteen people were arrested on saturday alone.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

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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🌛⭐🌜ThatWitch🌛⭐🌜 @qitty1.bsky.social · 2d

The Inflata Antifa is at a biblical level now.

image of inflatable frog costumed protestors with words taken from the bible quote (in full here) Exodus 8:2-6 KJV "And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: and the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs: and the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants."

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Jeff @jreichenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Somewhere at CBS, a stressed Free Press transplant hurriedly changing it to “Namdani”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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