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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · Jul 4

As depressing as all this oppression is, it's imperative that we keep calling it all an attempt, because if there's one thing we know beyond all doubt, it's that these guys are not good at anything they do.

Which led to the corruption.

Which then led to the fascism to protect it.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 17m

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 · 51m

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

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 43m

At about 0:55, a couple in a nearby car gets out and hurries away with an infant in a carseat to try and escape the tear gas:

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 3h

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

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

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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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 17m

Being a fellow predator is the only way they ensure loyalty now.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

I’m pretty sure they don’t even let you *run* for Congress as a Republican unless you’ve got at least one (1) restraining order from a former girlfriend half your age.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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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 · 7h

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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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 3h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

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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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 25m

Did nuzzi that coming.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 4h

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 26m

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 1h

FUN FACTS: "August 8, 2022, FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the residence of then-former US president Donald Trump. "

"Jack Smith is appointed in NOVEMBER of 2022 to take over two Justice Department investigations into Trump."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 59m

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jan 14

In 2023, Vice reported that tech advisor Marc Andreeessen had included Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (co-author of the 1919 Fascist Manifesto) on his written list of the “patron saints” of “techno-optimism”. (Andreessen now advises Elon Musk’s DOGE”) 1/ www.vice.com/en/article/m...

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 30m

Inside the Young Republicans Headquarters

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years.

Support its vital work to help keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 2h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 1h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

The Kremlin is upset about their boy’s Time cover photo.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · May 29

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’

The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

www.thehandbasket.co

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

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

COLLINS: The Dept of Energy just canceled $1b for a hydrogen hub that covers Montana. Is that taking away good-paying jobs?

SHEEHY: Of course it is. We want govt to be open

C: But the Energy Secretary says he would've pulled that funding even if govt was open

S: ... Well, that's unfortunate

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2h

Is she talking about the young children missing because her goon squad dragged them naked & crying from their apartment complex or the 15-yr old girl they tackled & threw into an unmarked van the other day?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pam Bondi repeatedly claims that finding one missing child "makes it all worthwhile" when it comes to military occupations of American cities and adds that "Pritzker should be begging Donald Trump to come in."

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 2h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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