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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 3d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Funding for legal assistance will be very helpful.

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 1d

Im sorry, that’s exactly what I was trying to say. It’s definitely bc of my family heritage. Using the nazis avoids the introspection, responsibility and action. Don’t have to do anything to fix the patterns of abuse that happen every single year, decade and generation.

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 1d

Using the Nazi comparison might be useful to ‘shake’ someone awake (esp white people)…

but it is also more comfortable bc it feels like something happening *to* us by an outside influence… instead of happening because of what we always have been and have tolerated.

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 1d

Every gen has stories. Forced sterilization of Native Americans (1970s), Jim crow and civil rights, Japanese American internment camps, operation we**ack (1950s migrant raids). Like wtf.

That’s police state garbage and it’s more American than Apple pie.

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 1d

Except to skip to the holocaust. There was a consistent feeling among us that we could not allow these atrocities to happen again, and not just the holocaust. All of it. Scapegoating, dehumanizing, enslaving and slaughtering the other.

And here we are, still. Every generation has to fight it. 3/

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 1d

And here you are explaining and carrying that heaviness and trauma.

I’ve been thinking about middle school and high school and all the US history lessons. I remember the collective disgust we had wrt slavery, the trail of tears, and bigotry towards immigrants. We never got beyond reconstruction…2/

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 1d

I want you to know I have been thinking about this soooo much since you first posted it. I’m a bit ashamed bc I cannot articulate all the instances I can and have thought of bc they all feel so heavy and my words are inadequate. 1/

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 1d

Black men/women have been murdered for decades for doing that.

Your flippancy about it while sitting in so much privilege is truly offensive.

White voters could end this anytime and yet here we are- in danger because of whites but you keep being brave.

Your white audience loves it

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 1d

The state always get the benefit of the doubt, and white folks get more than people of color.

Benefit of doubt >> burden of proof

Our society is backwards. The state and the people are switched.

Those w authority are supposed to have the burden not the doubt. Paper does not equal reality.

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the treatment of black people over the centuries and now, throughout my lifetime, that gives me pause about what to do. I could fight back. I’d be within my rights with castle doctrine to shoot someone invading my home like they do. But my family will pay the price. 1/

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Hope @withhopeorwithout.bsky.social · 1d

I am confused -- when is it an illegal abduction by masked men who violently attack me and when is it a legal abduction by masked men who violently attack me?

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 1d

Black men/women have been murdered for decades for doing that.

Your flippancy about it while sitting in so much privilege is truly offensive.

White voters could end this anytime and yet here we are- in danger because of whites but you keep being brave. Your white audience loves it

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Judge William Smith (W. Bush appointee): The Government has done "precisely what the ... [court's] Order forbids."

The case is Illinois v. FEMA

On Wednesday, we'll publish an updated catalogue of such judicial decisions on noncompliance with court orders at @justsecurity.org at the link below:

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation

Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."

www.justsecurity.org

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

Janet Mills has announced a run for U.S. Senate. If elected, she would be 85 at the end of her first time.

If you care about democracy, generational renewal, and leadership that actually serves working people—You should want new leadership in Graham Platner.
open.substack.com/pub/qasimras...

79-Year-Old Janet Mills Launches Senate Run—Why We Must Choose Graham Platner Instead

U.S. Marine Veteran Graham Platner (41) represents a new hope and the voice of the American people—it's time to elect him as our next U.S. Senator from Maine

open.substack.com

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 2d

I completely agree. It’s elder abuse. Can’t stand the orange. He’s evil AF. But that is elder abuse. Add it to the list.

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watchlady.bsky.social @watchlady.bsky.social · 2d

I now believe that Steven Miller is controlling 47's media access and is feeding him falsehoods

Remember the South Afrikaans who were being murdered? They weren't

Remember how Portland is on fire? It's not.

Miller is feeding 47's head with lies and untrue "evidence".
47's so feeble he can't tell

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 2d

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon, reports Corinne Smith for @alaskabeacon.com

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon | Alaska Beacon

Search and rescue efforts continued into Monday in the Kuskokwim River delta in the aftermath of ex-Typhoon Halong.

alaskabeacon.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson really doesn’t want you to go to the largest peaceful protest in American history: NoKings.org

NO KINGS
For the love of America

OCTOBER 18
www.NoKings.org

Picture of Statue of Liberty with American flag in the background

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Linnerd @pnw4me.bsky.social · 3d

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 3d

Russ Vought is now officially using the government shutdown as a pretext for his continued attempts to permanently gut the civil service.

The executive branch cannot unilaterally reduce agency funding that Congress has allocated: This is a serious separation of powers issue.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

A majority of Chicago residents don’t believe deploying the National Guard is a solution to crime in the city, and oppose the military and National Guard being used to help in deportations, according to findings from a recent survey.

Most Chicagoans think using the National Guard for policing is 'unacceptable,' poll finds

A survey conducted in September reveals that a majority of Chicago residents oppose the National Guard intervening in local policing and deportation efforts.

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