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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 1h

How could I not support you after this post!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h

At about 0:55, a couple in a nearby car gets out and hurries away with an infant in a carseat to try and escape the tear gas:

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 12h

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 14h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 13h

Obsessed

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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 13h

She has already turned tail and ran from Bluesky.

megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 13h

Five times today! And you’ve already dropped your Bluesky account. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest exit.

megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 14h

His democratic opponent is running a 1990s campaign screaming money money money. It’s not money in 2025. It’s message. He has it.

He doesn’t hate Democrats. He wants us to win the race we’re running in 2025.

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Congressman Donald Norcross @norcross.house.gov · 15h

America needs a workforce that will keep our skies safe, our food and water clean, and our medicines tested and trusted. We need dedicated employees to distribute Social Security checks and VA benefits. Every worker who serves this country deserves to get paid—period.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15h

There should not be a rooftop in the city without a full load of solar panels.

Gothamist @gothamist.com · 15h

Power grid operators warn NYC could face increased blackouts as early as next summer https://gothamist.com/news/power-grid-operators-warn-nyc-could-face-increased-blackouts-as-early-as-next-summer

Power grid operators warn NYC could face increased blackouts as early as next summer

Gowanus generating station with the Manhattan skyline in the background New reports say power demand could soon exceed supply. [ more › ]

gothamist.com

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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 14h

But they’ll make it up in volume!

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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 20h

This!

em dash dual wielder @juicyb3rry.bsky.social · 22h

What if our Democratic elders focused on mentorship and growing the next generation instead of feeding their own egos?

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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 20h

You texted me three times in an hour. Same miserable regurgitated campaign rollout message. You’re running like it’s 1999.

We already have a compelling candidate. Stand down.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a parent of a child with a disability, you’re worried about how your family will be impacted by SpecEd Department of Education layoffs and you want to talk to a journalist about it, please DM, email (sluterman at 19thnews dot org) or Signal (slooterman.18).

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 1d

WTF

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

Illinois State Rep Norma Hernandez (D): "Just days ago, we saw a 15-year-old U.S. citizen from North Lake aggressively detained even though she just had undergone kidney surgery and needed medical care. After that attack provoked by ICE, she had to return to the hospital."

megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 1d

AI slop

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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 2d

They can’t comprehend that we protest because we care more about decency and democracy than money.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 2d

Oh puppy! You’re so happy!

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megynslashes.bsky.social @megynslashes.bsky.social · 2d

Rotten news keeps coming in. If you can, perhaps make a little bit of good news and help this fine teacher give her class a happy Thanksgiving.

Reply to this or my message below, and I will match the next three donations up to $100.

Mrs. H in SPED @uhuninsped.bsky.social · 2d

@sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks
Can you please repost
In 4 weeks we will give out 15 boxes of food for the Thanksgiving break
🎃We will buy the turkeys if you want to help with a gift card
🎃boxes will be filled with food/hygiene products
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 2d

This is happening right now, to a friend of mine in Chicago. This is a peaceful area, with no previous unrest or crime problem. Just people trying to live their lives. My heart hurts. They're having conversations no family should have to have.

A white box with text. "Y'all. They're tear gassing my neighborhood. Right by the place we get hummus from. Right by where we get the extra large pizzas for sleep overs. Tell your people."

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