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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 1d

That’s crazy! You’d think that’s no justification for wanting to destroy democracy. All that said, I’m excited to read @jacobsilverman.com ’s book on this when I can get my hands on it.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 1d

During Covid, all of these Silicon Valley guys moved to their private compounds and have spend the last 5 years completely marinating their brains. Lots of Dems are stinging at their abandonment of liberalism, but the oligarchs going mask-off in naked self interest has been refreshingly clarifying.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 1d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the wretched, oily scum that are getting their sick fixes out of the invasion of our state, this hideous freak is definitely one of the most unnerving.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 2d

We stand at the ready

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

i think this fundamentally misstates the constraint: if he uses the police to directly obstruct ICE operations, he gets hit with the Insurrection Act. if he puts the cops in a position where they have to choose which orders to follow, they will currently not pick the governor.

starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 2d

this kind of wishcasting around pritzker ignores that he hasn't once wielded the power of the state in a creative way since DHS and ICE invaded us

the rhetoric's good and he plays a governor on TV very well, but there's no evidence of a capacity for clever use of power, unfortunately

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

i think that the best way to use the police as Pritzker would be to figure out how to associate them with protests such that the protesters don't mess with them but they get gassed or shot if the feds fire

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 2d

This is an incredibly weak place for them to be. If they end up tear gassing a bunch of librarians and kids in strollers at the family picnic that is No Kings it could trigger the type of support that ends a regime.

I'll see you on the 18th.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 2d

The most important part when consolidating an authoritarian regime: do NOT pay the troops!!!! This is very important!

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

“We refuse to pay the troops and also we’re doing indiscriminate firings of people for no reason”

I’ve never seen an administration so faithfully committed to self-immolation in my entire life

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 2d

Federal agents arresting a journalist in Chicago, in direct violation of a federal restraining order that went out yesterday.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Key thing here is the idea that Stephen Miller and others are absolutely thrilled that Trump has lost a step, since it makes him easier to manipulate:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "Trump says a lot of crazy things. I genuinely think there's something wrong with him. I wish his family would intervene... I don’t think anybody around is going to do it bc they’re benefiting from his dementia"

Full interview: newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 2d

I took this picture

Pritzker standing in front of a bunch of tanks a la Tiananmen square

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7d

one of the things that's so shocking about all of the recent ICE footage (they've clearly been encouraged to go apeshit) is how undisciplined and unprofessional they are, like, these people make local riot police look like pros, and i guarantee those police see that, too

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 8d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 8d

The feds in Illinois are acting illegally and completely out of control. they need to face legal consequences

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 8d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 8d

Part of the reason @nomads.bsky.social is funny is that he should actually be calling people up to service, regardless of their horseback riding experience

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 8d

"State Police, arrest those Federal Police" is a gun exactly one governor gets to fire exactly once, so they absolutely cannot miss and I reluctantly accept them taking as long as necessary to set it up as perfectly as possible, all the way up until but no later than January 2029.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 8d

-Obsessed with conflict
-Riven by petty grievances
-Likes football

Welcome back Richard Nixon

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 9d

Some may say that the growing animosity between users and mods is a bad thing, but I grew up on forums, and acrimony between users and mods is actually a sign of health!

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, I don't agree with the "ice collaborator" thing, but we have to start rethinking how state law enforcement is deployed when the feds are *this* out of control

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 9d

You’re doing Noem’s dirty work for her, Governor Pritzker. It’s *your* State Troopers arresting people at the Broadview Detention Center right now.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens.

They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 9d

The state is locked into an old paradigm of supporting the operations of federal law enforcement when they operate in IL.

But things have shifted - fed law enforcement are the bad guys now. It's time for the state, from the Gov on down, to recognize that and protect the people of IL from the feds.

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 9d

Yes I am to a small extent flooding the zone this morning with reminders that JB Pritzker, while saying the right things, is indeed the chief executive of Illinois, which puts him ultimately in charge of the Illinois State Police, which means he is presently an ICE collaborator.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 9d

We were so worried about Elon Musk when it turns out there’s another freakish right-wing oligarch out to destroy our democracy - Larry Ellison!

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 9d

Trump's core demographic is in fact white small business owners who haven't gone to college. they are anxious capitalists, not working class.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d

the going definition of "working class" seems to be whether or not one went to college. look I know we're not going to agree on here about what "working-class" is but can we all agree it's not that?

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 10d

Trump’s 2024 coalition has already fallen apart. Polls show Trump has lost the young, Black, and Latino supporters he attracted in 2024, leaving him with the same old white working-class base.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 10d

Producers were planting in April while Trump was declaring an end to global free trade. Let them live with the consequences of their bad bet just like any other business would.

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah specifically the soybean farmers do very little to feed the U.S., we can let them wither.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 10d

Completely outrageous. The ICE raid in Chicago on the early morning of the 30th was conducted by absolute cowards - men descending by helicopter in the middle of the night to abuse women and children. It's time for the state to take legal action against out of control federal agents.

Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 10d

shocking details out of an ICE raid on an apartment building in South Shore area of Chicago on September 30th abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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