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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 10h

This is a good crowdsourcing project. Suggest you look through for names in your state, see who you can connect them to. For example, there’s this guy.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7h

Feds have got until midnight tonight to take down the fence in front of the Broadview ICE facility, per a recent ruling from district judge LaShonda Hunt.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 7h

Not sure what’s up but this flatbed with what appears like more fence materials has pulled up outside Broadview.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you!

Please shoot me a message,

Rtorney Pamela
' @AGPamBondi
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a
large group page that was being used to dox and target
@lCEgov
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 Departrnent of Justice will continue engaging tech
companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent
violence against federal law enforcernent.
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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 8h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 11h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11h

ace is the place with the helpful hardware folks

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 12h

Re-upping this now that Trump has extended the bribe to all universities.

Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 5d

Sign the "No Loyalty Oaths in Education!" petition started by Sunrise and sponsored by @higheredlabor.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 14h

@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I have made “How to Report ICE” zines for many localities in the US. The SALUTE protocol is included and the LUCE hotline as well for MA. Zines are available in English and Spanish for Massachusetts.

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Hand holding black and white illustrated zine titled “How to Report ICE” in front of sunflowers

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 11h

Reply to the Janet Mills fundraising text: "I just donated to Graham Platner. Go away."

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 11h

Not even six hours later, I get the same damn text, from a different number.

Exact same text as the previous image. Geez, these people.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Parnas: A lot of people are saying this idea that, well, Graham Platner hasn’t won statewide, and Janet Mills has.

Platner: We have a number of excellent senators who had never run for office or won a statewide race before.

That’s an argument the establishment makes to protect itself

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 12h

Janet Mills sent me a fundraising email today. I live in Austin, Texas. So I made a donation to Graham Platner, and told her she shouldn't be running at all. You can too! secure.actblue.com/donate/platn...

Screenshot of a fundraising text from a 77-year-old lady who says she "didn't plan to run for Senate," but could never live with herself if she "didn't do everything in my power to stop Donald Trump's far-right takeover." If she won, she would be 85 years old when she left office.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 12h

Earlier: The new Texas "bathroom bill" not only makes it harder for trans people to exist in public, it also attempts to grant immunity from prosecution to those enforcing it, even if they violate the constitution.

How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions

A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history.”

www.texasobserver.org

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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email [email protected] today. Thank you.

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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 16h

Musicians: I know that venues and bookers look at your Spotify numbers to determine if you’re worth booking, but your scene includes the neighbors they’re abducting and there is power in solidarity.

If every local Chicago and Portland act pulled their music from Spotify this would stop.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 16h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

tear gas billows from canisters in a residential intersection, at 105th street and south avenue north, on chicago's southeast side.

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 21h

When we were kids, and the teacher punished the whole class because one kid did something dumb, we were mad at the dumb kid but madder at the teacher.

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you--is the best advice then just "clear the area"?

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 23h

Hamas agreed to this same deal by Dec 2024. But “Baskin would soon learn that the Israelis had no intention of striking any agreement before a change of administration in Washington…”
Reminiscent of Reagan/Carter and a different hostage release…

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 5d

Gershon Baskin says he got the plan on to the president’s desk but then learnt the Israelis were waiting for a change of administration in Washington

Biden and Netanyahu were offered same deal a year ago, says negotiator

Gershon Baskin says he got the plan on to the president’s desk but then learnt the Israelis were waiting for a change of administration in Washington

www.thetimes.com

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 22h

Let's see what the courts say. Kelly and Abbott don't get to fire the First Amendment.

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 22h

We used to have Phthalocyanine Blue and Green. Curious if there was just a change in terms or a multipart swap-in/out of pigments.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 23h

The Chicago No Kings March already got moved from Daley Plaza to Grant Park because they expect a bigger turnout. There's a decent chance this might dwarf the 2017 Women's March in Chicago, which was *huge*.

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 1d

Be on the lookout for a poorly dressed socialist drag queen with a squint.

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