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rowan @rowan75.bsky.social · 2h

Giggling at Johnson thinking that's an actual shark that learned to ride a bicycle. That would be scary!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

line goes up is a religion

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 6h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 6h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 11h

Good reminder, from a fellow lawyer whose advice I trust. #ICE

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BreeDanielsWins @breedanielswins.bsky.social · 3h

A total of one (questionable) arrest that night in Chicago, but scores of traumatized humans, including children who were zip-tied & separated from their parents, all of whom will most likely need counseling that they will never get due to no more healthcare.

And the govt. will never apologize.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

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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Indigo (it/fae) 🔮 $30/$30 @indigofatale.me · 16h

"Is therapy helping you?"

Yes, but the state of the world keeps me going back 🤷🏿

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rowan @rowan75.bsky.social · 4h

Yep. The revolution isn't gonna be cool if it includes everyone cause everyone is dorks.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

we aren’t going to beat these motherfuckers by being cool and detached about it, we are going to beat them by getting every working grandma and every nurse soccer mom and every shift supervisor football dad out in the fucking streets and all of us being there with them in arms

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

we have the rest of this week to rally every fucking person all of us knows to hit the streets, i have ten people i am bringing out, repost this with better numbers than mine, you competitive people, beat my numbers

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · 11h

This should be considered everywhere. They are kidnapping, abusing, harassing and threatening people who have rights. Every single one of them have rights and they are ignored. What they’re doing is unconstitutional and illegal.
Payback will come.

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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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13h

Five months

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14h

Trump said he'd focus on the “worst of the worst," but he's mostly focused on people like Melissa Tran — a MD business owner who's lived here 30 yrs and is a fixture of her community.

Cruel.

I salute all who fought for her release. After months in ICE detention, she's finally home.

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after 5 months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

www.thebanner.com

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Just George Oh🦇🎃👻🐈‍⬛🕸️ @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · 12h

Top ICE goon caught red-handed LYING about BRUTAL arrest of teen girl.
Evelyn, 18y/o US citizen, was violently attacked & arrested by deportation goons in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates. She'd been recording ICE raids earlier in the day and this attack was retributive punishment.

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Video shows Evelyn getting pulled out of the passenger seat, thrown to the ground, all while saying she is not resisting arrest. The officer handcuffed her and appeared to put a knee on her back as she yelled that she was a citizen. "They were telling them they were U.S. citizens, and they didn't care. It was very scary to see that video," said her mother, Jazmin.

But once the video began going viral, the Trumpian lies came out. In a tweet, the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin commented on Evelyn's arrest video, saying, "Imagine being so desperate to demonize law enforcement you post a video from a burglary arrest Chicago police made over a year ago. This isn't even ICE."

A cursory examination of the videos reveal that the squad car in the video says “Hoffman Estates” and not Chicago PD, which does not have jurisdiction in the suburb. The arresting goon is wearing body armor with “ERO—Enforcement and Removal Operations” branding on it, which is an ICE department. Hoffman Estates PD confirms that ICE was in the area and that their squad car was responding to a different incident.

SHE’S LYING.

This isn’t even the first time this woman has told completely fabricated lies to smear one of ICE’s victims. McLaughlin also smeared pregnant woman Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus as a “wanted killer” after she was denied medical care and treated so harshly in ICE detention that her baby miscarried and died.

Tricia McLaughlin needs to be fired IMMEDIATELY. We cannot allow government officials to concoct fictional accusations in order to excuse or justify their appalling violations of our rights and their wanton brutality

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h

SCOTUS has been focused on chipping away at civil rights laws and policies for 20 years.

Today, the justices will hear oral arguments in a case that could represent not just another chip, but a fatal blow to the load-bearing pillar of American multi-racial democracy: The 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Voting Rights Are on the Supreme Court’s Chopping Block

Tuesday's case pits fanciful claims of racial harmony against the reality of ongoing discrimination.

www.motherjones.com

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Tom Jones @earl2.bsky.social · 12h

Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

www.cnn.com

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rowan @rowan75.bsky.social · 12h

I don't want to need a murder mystery in order to function but I guess this is my brain on fascism.

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CascadiaPNW @cascadiaresistance.bsky.social · 13h

A peaceful protestor was arrested yesterday in Portland and taken across state lines to a jail in Vancouver, WA. Her husband had no clue where she was at and didn’t find out until 2AM this morning that she was taken to Washington state.
#portland #washington
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Protestor arrested in Portland and taken across state lines to Vancouver WA.

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TheWillRogers @thewillrogers.bsky.social · 13h

This is the kind of thing that got a bunch of middle aged men in Portland to show up with their leaf blowers.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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rowan @rowan75.bsky.social · 13h

I want to dunk on how stupid Republicans are but let them stay stupid.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.social · 13h

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — A clarinet player is apparently being held without bail on no specific charges at the Clark County Jail in Vancouver after her husband said she was arrested Sunday during a protest across the street from the ICE facility in South Portland.

www.koin.com

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rowan @rowan75.bsky.social · 13h

Yep. Violent federal goons should be scared. There are so many of us.

rowan @rowan75.bsky.social · 13h

Feds in Chicago deserve whatever Chicago dishes out and I better not see any peace police.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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Marcel Proust of Eating Brains @thotchev.bsky.social · 16h

PDX Community Alert:

Just posted by @pirc_oregon
10 am update on 10/14/25:

multiple confirmed ice sightings throughout the metro area including in Washington County near TV highway, near Poytner MS, Naito Parkway and Gresham off Hogan road and Division. Please be aware, careful and report suspicious activity you observe to the hotline - 1-888-622-1510.

We know this is scary news, but remember that you have rights.
You have the right to remain silent, the right to not sign anything without a lawyer present, and if you're in your home or another private space, the right to demand a warrant signed by a judge before you must allow ICE entry. Further, if you are a bystander and see ICE, please call the hotline and film the incident. Community is here to stand with you. Together, we keep each other safe.

Actualización de las 10 a. m. del 14/10/25:
Se confirmaron múltiples avistamientos de ICE en el área metropolitana, incluyendo el condado de Washington cerca de TV hwy, cerca de la escuela secundaria Poytner, Naito Parkway y Gresham, cerca de Hogan Road y Division.
Por favor, tenga cuidado y reporte cualquier actividad sospechosa que observe a la línea directa: 1-888-622-1510.

Sabemos que esta noticia es alarmante, pero recuerde que tiene derechos. Tiene derecho a guardar silencio, a no firmar nada sin la presencia de un abogado y, si se encuentra en su casa u otro espacio privado, a exigir una orden judicial firmada por un juez antes de permitir la entrada a ICE. Además, si es un testigo y ve a ICE, llame a la línea directa y filme el incidente. La comunidad está aquí para apoyarlo. Juntos, nos protegemos uno al otro.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14h

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 14h

"Sara" has worked in Watsonville CAs strawberries for 16 yrs. "I earn piece rate. It's raining which makes the rows slippery and the mud sticks to our shoes. It's dangerous as we still need to work fast to make enough money to pay our bills." #WeFeedYou

A farm worker harvesting strawberries in the rain wearing a plastic poncho

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rowan @rowan75.bsky.social · 14h

The word "spoopy" is surely one those horrors

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rowan @rowan75.bsky.social · 14h

I remember a couple of the shovers and grabbers, too.