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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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Maureen Herman @maureenherman.bsky.social · 14h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS - Northern Lake County” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS - Northern Lake County · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Join NE Lake County Indivisible and other local groups as we say "NO KINGS". Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS...

www.mobilize.us

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I – like Trump and RFK Jr. – do not have a medical degree.

So, when questions surrounding medical treatments emerge, I listen to people who do.

I get my information from doctors and public health experts – and urge you to do the same.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 2d

Hey if you have a culinary or restaurant or cooking or grocery or whatever question that I can answer — etiquette, advice, culture explainer, vibe prompts, etc — for my (ostensibly) food-related sporadic advice column, please send it to [email protected] with “Helen Help Me” in the subject line!

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Mike Johnson and House Republicans just announced their new healthcare plan: Die.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Maureen Herman @maureenherman.bsky.social · 2d

Well that’s convenient…

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 4d

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Maureen Herman @maureenherman.bsky.social · 4d

Day after day, evil act after evil act. There is no spreadsheet big enough to contain the horrors we now live with daily.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

trib.al

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Maureen Herman @maureenherman.bsky.social · 4d

All the good things are going away: hope when we’re struggling, healing when we’re suffering, education for all, give arts a platform & audience, and tell us we are one, here for each other on a path to wholeness. Stolen by those blind by power who don’t see the goodness democracy makes possible.

ICE arrests a family visiting Chicago’s Millenium Park, their young girl clutching her doll and overcome with terror and sadness.

Photo of Donald Trump at White House by Jim Watson, with Trump positioned in a way that makes him appear to have devil’s horns from gilded embellishments he added to the room behind him.

Photo of Kash Patel with headline: cash, Patel and FBI partnership with the anti-defamation link

Screenshot of blue sky post with link to article with headline “Trey Reed hanging death was suicide official say caper neck to fund private autopsy.” Trey Reed was found hanging from a tree on campus in Mississippi with visible signs of violence on his body.

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Maureen Herman @maureenherman.bsky.social · 5d

I feel sorry for the Detroit guys. That look on their faces.

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Maureen Herman @maureenherman.bsky.social · 6d

Indeed! My favorite Halloween costume since 1986.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 6d

In July, Pérez got a call from CBP Home telling her she’d be on a flight out of the US in August.

She began packing.

Then, after weeks of silence, somebody called to say there might be a delay.

Then no more info, and no plane tickets.

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“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Maureen Herman @maureenherman.bsky.social · 6d

Smoky is hiding. Where’s Smoky?

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6d

More great news out of federal court today.

This was a particularly appalling case in which HSI agents took advantage of this man to get him to sign away his rights during his interrogation inside the ICE Broadview facility.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6d

New: U.S. attorneys moved today to dismiss felony assault charges against Paul Ivery, an intellectually disabled man who was arrested at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility on Sept. 27.

Ivery agreed to waive his Miranda rights while in federal custody.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

Make It Make Sense: Five anti-ICE protesters face federal charges

Plus: Seminary Co-op union workers turn up the heat as they negotiate a first contract and Adler Planetarium workers launch a union.

chicagoreader.com

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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · 6d

This week, I’m kicking off a series of Protect Our Rights events across our community to share resources and hear your experiences and concerns with ICE and DHS under the Trump Administration.

The first stop is in Aurora this Friday, October 10th. RSVP here: bit.ly/communityfor...

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 7d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Michelle @michellesea.bsky.social · 7d

If you haven’t already done so, lease take a minute to call Governor Pritzker’s office and leave him a message of support.
🇺🇸

312-814-2121

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

The relentless @djbyrnes1.bsky.social has spent day after day in court this week tracking what's happening with suits against DHS filed (disclaimer: we're plaintiffs in one of them), as well as protesters facing charges.

Get up to speed now:

Trump’s ‘Midway Blitz’ hits the courts in Chicago • The TRiiBE

The legal impacts of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts landed hard in Chicago’s federal courthouse this week, with more developments expected in the coming days.

thetriibe.com

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