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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17h

Another good example of how the Republican-appointed justices wield the Constitution to take sides in the culture wars.

There's a vigorous democratic debate about whether public schools should out trans kids to their parents. Three justice want to use the Constitution to mandate outing nationwide.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 13h

IS THIS AMERICA?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.

Militarized federal agents in street at 105th and N

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 17h

They called grandma a terrorist

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Karen Monroy @karenmonroy.bsky.social · 19h

It has a name: moral licensing.
Get folks to put their attention on the good thing, & poof! goes the bad (for the 30% of people who are cognitively restricted and avoid complexity this is easy to do) for enough people you are a hero

Cease fire is broken in less than 24 hrs. Watch how this is spun.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 1d

When a bad man does a good thing, he does not cease to be a bad man. This is a complicated moment in the Middle East. Each of us must work to make sense of it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Joy. Sorrow. Fury. Disgust. And Hope. All at Once.

Reacting to this disorienting, misrepresented, misperceived moment in the Middle East.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social with a helluva story on ICE in Chicago: “they’re assaulting women, deporting children, mothers and fathers — not criminals. And if they’re criminals, he needs to prove it. We haven’t seen that evidence yet.”

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings.

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

This by the way sheds light on the question I hear from people, "If ICE smashes its way into my car and then discovers they screwed up and I'm a citizen after all, will they pay for the broken windshield and tear gassed upholstery?" No, they won't.

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 1d

Law enforcement launched 30 tear gas canisters into Amy Hadley's home, smashed windows, ransacked furniture, destroyed security cameras, and more.

The government gave her nothing.

This Indiana city doesn’t have to pay an innocent mom $16,000 after police wrecked her home, court rules

Law enforcement launched 30 tear gas canisters into Amy Hadley's home, smashed windows, ransacked furniture, destroyed security cameras, and more. The government gave her nothing.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 2d

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 3d

Man what a lucky guess.........

Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 3d

cui bono?

Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 3d

Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day www.cnbc.com/2025/10/11/t...

Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day

The unraveling shows the sway the president's one-man trade policy still has over the fate of the global economy.

www.cnbc.com

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 4d

For reference the "war ravaged" area of Chicago affected by these protests is circled on this map.

map of metro Chicago with a teeny one block portion of Broadview IL circled

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 5d

The people doing the bidding for this administration lack a moral compass.

Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 5d

wow.

So according to the DOJ federal agents can stir up violence in the community to such a magnitude as to justify bringing in the National Guard and that's fine.

There's no mistaking it. The Judge asked twice.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5d

Perry asks again whether, if the inability to execute the law is b/c of the feds' "own provocation, does that matter under the law?"

Hamilton: "No, if that were true, the fact still remains that we are seeing sustained violence against federal personnel and property in Illinois."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5d

Perry has turned to 10 USC 12406, and she's asking how to define "rebellion."

Hamilton suggests Perry doesn't have to define the term.

Perry: "I think I do. … I really do think I should know what the words mean."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 5d

Incompetence and corruption are the price we pay for Trump's pathological need to surround himself with unqualified toadies but that's what narcissists do.

The narcissist tends to surround himself with his inferiors (in some respect - intellectually, financially, physically). He limits his interactions with them to the plane of his superiority. This is the safest and fastest way to sustain his grandiose fantasies of superiority, omnipotence and omniscience, brilliance, ideal traits, perfection and so on. Humans are interchangeable and the narcissist anyhow does not distinguish one individual from another. To him they are all inanimate parts of "his audience" whose job is to reflect his false self to him. This generates a perpetual and permanent cognitive dissonance:

The narcissist despises the very people who sustain his ego boundaries and functions. He cannot respect people so expressly and clearly inferior to him - yet he can never associate with people evidently on his level or superior to him, the risk of narcissistic injury in such associations being too great. Equipped with a fragile ego, precariously teetering on the brink of narcissistic injury - the narcissist prefers the safe route. But he feels contempt for himself and for others for having preferred it. (reprinted from: https://drirene.com/7_nar.php)

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 6d

Complete nonsense from Secretary Rubio.

The Trump administration is engaged in lawless, premeditated killings without any congressional authorization.

Schiff-Kaine resolution moves to stop that lawless killing.

The resolution would not affect authority to defend against real armed attacks.

The Schiff-Kaine resolution is up for a vote in the Senate today.

This resolution aims to strip President Trump of his constitutional authority to protect Americans by authorizing military strikes against narco-terrorists, the Houthis, and other Iranian proxies. This is dangerous — it puts our children, citizens, soldiers, and allies at risk.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 6d

"U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings concluded that attorneys for the National Immigration Justice Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois provided enough evidence to show that ICE arrested 22 people without a warrant in violation of the consent decree and federal law."

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 6d

ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/07/i...

ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says

Attorneys argued that the recent arrest of an Albany Park family at Millennium Park violated a consent decree that limits the conditions under which federal agents can make warrantless arrests.

blockclubchicago.org

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 6d

we've had Russia election interference revisionism,
2020 election revisionism,
Jan 6 revisionism,
now it's time for classified documents revisionism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Eric Trump: "Why did Jack Smith plant classified manilla folders and take photoshoots on the floor of my father's office? Why?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7d

So, uhm, what's the track record of countries where members of the governing regime start clamoring for a "cleansing" of the political opponent?

Always remember: No matter how much they escalate the rhetoric, it doesn't mean they'll be able to do it. But let's not pretend they aren't trying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 7d

Bondi may as well have taken the Fifth. It serves the same purpose as the answers she gave.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 8d

How ‘Woke’ Went From an Expression in Black Culture to a Conservative Insult | “Wokeness” originated decades ago as African American cultural slang for having awareness and enlightenment around racism, injustice, privilege or threats of white supremacist violence, reports @apnews.com.

How 'Woke' Went From an Expression in Black Culture to a Conservative Insult - Bucks County Beacon

“Wokeness” originated decades ago as African American cultural slang for having awareness and enlightenment around racism, injustice, privilege or threats of white supremacist violence.

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