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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 5h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

I had to listen to the audio to confirm it, but yes, as troops are being deployed to American cities, as masked goons are disappearing citizens from our streets, as ICE agents are shooting pepper balls at priests ... Mike Johnson thinks nude bicyclists are "the most threatening thing I've seen yet."

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

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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Tim Murphy @tmurp1953.bsky.social · 2h

I wouldn’t put it past him. Mike Johnson will try ANYTHING to protect his golden calf.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if Mike Johnson is going to try to dissolve Congress to keep it from voting on the Epstein files.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 2h

Border walls are terrible for nature, too.

The U.S.-Mexico border wall may pose perils to pollinators

Early research has shown the federally-funded border wall-in-progress at the U.S.-Mexico border can stop or deter the migration of pivotal pollinators through habitat destruction and the walls themsel...

www.tucsonsentinel.com

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 2h

You can't just call everyone you disagree with a Nazi

[receives a note]

Ok, I'm being informed they're praising Hitler. Hard to argue with you here

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2h

NEW: As ICE presence increases in Chicago — home to the third-largest Catholic diocese in the U.S. — Catholics and allies are pushing back.

Over the weekend, a priest warned parishioners to leave Mass carefully.

Locals formed a human chain to protect them from ICE. religionnews.com/2025/10/14/a...

As ICE rocks Chicago, Catholics respond with prayer — and protest

(RNS) — ‘As a person of faith, as a leader of faith, to not speak of it is simply unethical — and sinful,’ said the Rev. Brendan Curran, a Dominican priest.

religionnews.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

1. He's lying.

2. If he WEREN'T lying, to hell with that. We don't let billionaires directly FUND the army because then they'd try to RUN the army.

3. No goddamn kings. Find your local rally and show up on 10/18, friends. #NoKings

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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AnneC @annecw.bsky.social · 4h

ICE is expanding their military operations into the Chicago suburbs.

They are disappearing CHILDREN.

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 4h

@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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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 4h

I know it may be a small thing, but rhetoric like this is not allowed in Europe. we need European countries to ban these people from ever entering and sanction them.

this is the future Republican Party leaders. these are the people the billionaires are buying out.

we need consequence.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 5h

By the morals of their times,

Slavers were hated by those they enslaved
Rapists by those who they raped
Murderers by the survivors

The morals of the past are the same as today. Assholes are assholes

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 6h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

tear gas billows from canisters in a residential intersection, at 105th street and south avenue north, on chicago's southeast side.

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Crystal Voted 4 Harris @crystal4mvpharris.bsky.social · 6h

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Chicago 21222 @chicago21222.bsky.social · 6h

Wppl parenting skills on full display. WOW. You guys are so bad at this. If my kids ever did this they would leave their bodies.

That's Montgomery Clift, Honey @magatzapper.bsky.social · 6h

This is my shocked face.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 6h

There is nothing wrong with standing AGAINST FACISM

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Your Mom @mountains206.bsky.social · 7h

Truly repulsive and vile monsters. Both parties are not the same. And beating these monsters in every election is essential—they are an existential threat to us all.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 1d

we taught you how to grow corn, now let's all learn to block lakota manicotti once and for all

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

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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