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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

A different video captured after agents unleashed tear gas showed plumes of smoke billowing down the street as the crowd's piercing shouts and whistles reached a fever pitch.
Onlookers scurried to the sidewalk to get away from the chemicals, with one neighbor, Brian Kolp, seen walking away barefoot and in Chicago Blackhawks pajamas.
Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what's become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside
his window.
Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard.
Meanwhile, Kolp's TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents' use of tear gas.

Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do
throughout the Trump administration's
"Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months.
He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed
"Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents.
"Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution," Kolp said. "And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5h

Genuinely what an insane strategy by the house conference

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 5h

It requires UCLA to continue to pour money down the drain of private security forces on campus aimed at our own students' potential protest activities—something that the university, sadly, is already doing and has been doing since April 2024.

(Why do they need to be _private_? Odd, & not good.)

12. UCLA will maintain a security infrastructure, including UCLA Environment,
Health & Safety resources, private security assets, and cooperation arrangements with local,
regional, and federal law enforcement, that is sufficiently resourced to prevent and investigate
violations of law or UCLA’s policies.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 22h

The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy.

UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California:

Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 5h

I hope DNA samples are being taken, and retained.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

idk exactly how the Washington Post put this together, but if it reflects the actual questions on the new citizenship test, it’s really quite bad.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

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When did all women get the right to vote?
A. 1919
*B. 1920*
C. 1925
D. 1931
Correct! This question is new on the 2025 test. The 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920.
The previous test included a question about women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony.

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Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?
A. To defend the U.S. from Iraqi threats
B. To secure oil in Kuwait
*C. To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait*
D. To defeat Saddam Hussein
Correct! Several new questions ask why the U.S. entered wars, including World War I ("because Germany attacked U.S. ships") and the Korean War ("to stop the spread of communism"). This is the only correct answer given for the question about the Persian Gulf War, the most recent conflict that USCIS asks about in this way.

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What is Memorial Day?
A. A holiday to honor military history
*B. A holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service*
C. A holiday to mark the beginning of summer
D. A holiday to honor veterans
Correct! There are new questions asking applicants to explain why the U.S. celebrates Independence Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 9h

"Cuba today is a fragile state where nothing works except the system of repression."

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country

James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 1d

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t you watch The Gilded Age??

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14h

Not who I was expecting! (I'd assumed Ellison) but in the broad category (American ultrawealthy, not foreign capital) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 12h

"…at this critical juncture, the courts remained faithful arbiters of the constitution, while civil society mobilized to hold the government’s feet to the fire—both refused to bow to the electoral subterfuge and pressure tactics."

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13h

Is it too early to ask: What if Congress never meets again? What if the President just decides by himself, with the help of private donors, what he wants to spend money on or not?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway, it is unconstitutional, illegal, and un-republican to do this, thoroughly collapse of the Roman Republic/ causes of the English Civil War stuff.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 13h

This was, I am absolutely sure, part of a concerted strategy by far right interests to insert propaganda into banal workaday elements of our non-political culture. Comments like these showed up in woodworking and unboxing videos all through 2023/24. Maybe they were organic, but...?

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h

I was watching a YouTube video about an obscure piece of hardware and the guy took a detour to cry about how the packaging for a tech product had non-white people on it, even though they couldn’t possibly be the actual audience for the product. I know the south asian founder/creator of the product.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

maybe we can meet in the middle with this type: set a maximum of 43.78% biracial actors for dental health ads, with a 58% tax credit advantaging the sole inclusion white actors in insurance commercials

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 12h

What about a yuge ballroom?

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s both a cheerful and a depressing thought: Imagine what Trump’s tomb is going to look like.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:

1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad

Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h

David Dayen persuasively chronicles the rise of access journalism, particularly inside the Beltway. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-a...

DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good

Before the internet, what would today be called a “paywall” was just...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 13h

More from Chicagoland:
thetriibe.com/2025/10/chir...

‘Chiraq Team 2’: Oak Park attorney catches glimpse of federal agents’ group chat during arrest • The TRiiBE

Scott Sakiyama supported a neighboring Black family while federal prosecutors accused their son of assaulting a Border Patrol agent. Ten days later, federal agents arrested Sakiyama himself.

thetriibe.com

WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 13h

The stairs thing? He did that at one of his Atlantic City casinos too: a stair into a ceiling.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13h

When we say No Kings, we mean Freedom.
My speech in Cincinnati for the No Kings rally of October 18th.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/when-we-sa...

When we say No Kings, we mean Freedom (video)

My speech in Cincinnati for the No Kings rally of October 17th

snyder.substack.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14h

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 13h

Read it and weep:
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/24/c...

Congressional Democrats Come To Chicago To Hear About Immigration Enforcement Blitz

Some local elected officials abruptly left the proceedings because masked federal immigration agents were again detaining people across the city.

blockclubchicago.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.

The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade," dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and
edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our
YouTube channel.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13h

Agree this is a must read. It's also a gut punch:

"I was the editor of Governing, a magazine & website covering state & local governments. But after facing increasing internal censorship pressures — largely to avoid critical coverage of President Donald Trump — I refused to go along, & I resigned.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

A must-read on the silent censorship taking place in the US press.

So much of this is going on in American newsrooms right now, and not just to kowtow to Trump.

Example: Consider how little is being written about the extreme radicalization of Silicon Valley.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit.

A veteran journalist opens up on the censorship that he says led to his resignation.

www.politico.com

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WndlB @wndlb.bsky.social · 13h

The old @chicago.suntimes.com building was arguably even worse.