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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 32m

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks goodness Pete Hegseth is eliminating political correctness and letting warriors be warriors*

*if you guys did not watch the mandatory video, or mocked it, expect to be punished

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

Funding for legal assistance will be very helpful.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 4h

"Fuck the Feds"
Seen in Memphis, Tennessee

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Debby Williams 💙♐️ @dwilliams1210.com · 10d

Another Republican pedophile arrested.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 4h

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

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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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 3h

If Trump is willing to conduct due process-free airstrike murders at sea, does anybody think he won’t conduct due process-free airstrike murders against alleged “domestic terrorists” on U.S. soil?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6h

Daniel O'Connell's boldness in denouncing chattel slavery had helped make the Irish "Liberator" a controversial figure in America, and Frederick Douglass admired both his eloquence and that his concern for human liberty went beyond his native land. The two met during Douglass's tour of Ireland.

What Frederick Douglass Learned in Ireland

And what Ireland learned from him

www.thefitzwilliam.com

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 12h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 7h

#jawboning #ICE

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7h

The inherent corollary of "this is murder" is that we prosecute and punish people who commit murder.

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 7h

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10h

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘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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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 8h

I think you have to be a certain age and have some real familiarity with Nazi medals to get that comment, but I loved it. 😎

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 8h

Provided in reader mode to get around the annoying pop up. I wonder where they got these ideas? 🤔

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

‘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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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 12h

These Afghan's helped keep American troops alive. Trump's indiscriminate mass deportation insanity is a stab in the back to these people, a certain death sentence if they get sent back to Afghanistan. This is taxpayer funded moral & political depravity.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 12h

I HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve been at the local No Kings protests, and if I have one piece of advice for sign writers, it’s USE FEWER WORDS.

Two pieces? Ok fine: MAKE THE WORDS BIGGER

Your audience is driving by in a car. It’s not the time for a manifesto.

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 13h

We don't pull any punches in this one. And for those who may not know it, DHS publicly threatened my colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social for his superb work exposing their lies about one specific ICE misconduct episode.

Joe Verruni @verruni.bsky.social · 13h

@davidjbier.bsky.social & @pgeddington.com chat assaults on ICE and the constitution on the @cato.org Podcast

Protecting Immigration Enforcement Officers and the Constitution

Podcast Episode · Cato Podcast · 10/14/2025 · 32m

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 14h

Fact: No authoritarian regime can function absent cash. A months-long government shutdown will lead to mass departures of ICE & other federal agents currently carrying out Trump's orders, & also prevent more bogus National Guard call ups. The only question is this: will Senate Dems stay the course?

Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 1d

The shutdown is having the desired effect on Trump’s domestic tyranny machine. Now is not the time to let up. My latest, out now.

On Starving Tyranny

Now is not the time for Jeffries or any other Democrats, especially Senate Democrats, to go weak in the knees over shutdown politics.

www.therepublicsentinel.com

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

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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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

In a mistaken-shooting-of-colleague police case, the Eighth Circuit said it was up to the judge not jury to assess the reasonableness of the defendant's factual mistakes. Cato cert amicus brief argues that displacing the jury’s role undermines a vital constitutional check on government power.

Green v. Tanner Brief: Juries, Not Judges, Need to Determine the Reasonableness of Mistaken Use of Force

By converting disputed factual questions of reasonableness into issues of law for judges, the decisions stripped juries of their constitutionally assigned role and gutted the mechanism Congress design...

www.cato.org

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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