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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 1h

Even Trump looks like a hostage standing next to this stupid brain worm dimwit.

Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 1h

It's insulting that he thinks we somehow don't know prices are up and not down.

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Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 5h

The govt doesn't track how often immigration agents detain Americans. So @propublica.org created its own count:
-170+ citizens
-including nearly 20 kids—2 with cancer
-50+ held after agents questioned their citizenship—nearly all Latino

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 2h

"It's hard to believe" because it's not true.

Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 2h

Why are they waiting so long?

Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 2h

This could not have been preplanned as they claim with out involving the state. There would be all kinds of logistics to cover this type of event. The Trump administration is so incredibly incompetent.

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 8h

Republicans are now offering a "vote" sometime in the future to extend ACA credits, which they have spent years trying to repeal, if the Democrats vote for their funding. Hell no!! They can not be trusted.

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 8h

“What we’re seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don’t say this lightly — is a fascist movement,” says Bray, referring to Trump’s political movement.

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Anti-fascism scholar flees the US because he fears for his family's safety (AlterNet)

We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He ...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

"ICE's film crew is making slick videos to convince the American People that ICE Agents are ripping the 'worst of the worst' off our streets. But they're crafting and creating a story that is divorced from the reality on the ground."

- Jacob Soboroff, MSNBC

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the government shutdown, which has now stretched to two weeks.

Samsung News

Judge blocks Trump's shutdown layoffs, calling them illegal

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act "has had a major impact on improving political representation opportunities for voters in communities of color and all around the country," says @kareemcrayton.bsky.social.

Future of Voting Rights Act hangs in the balance as Louisiana's congressional map returns to Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will convene on Wednesday to hear a legal battle over Louisiana's congressional map that could reverberate across the country.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Color me shocked.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the thing. We still have the power (probably) to say that this image must not be what America is. We still have the power to say “fuck no, we refuse to allow this to be what the streets of America look like.” Attend a “No Kings” rally this Saturday. And then vote in 2026.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 1d

Sabotaging Medicaid + the ACA while shutting down the govt? That’s not governing—it’s a power play.

Let your Senator know how you feel about the health care cost and share this post with everyone.

app.sosha.ai/s/1snKV6LV

Demand that your Senators fix the GOP’s health care mess:

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DMC ❌👑 @dcombes.bsky.social · 1d

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 1d

In Rochester NY on 490 overpass.

Rochester airport is one of several airports not airing ICE Barbie's video.

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 1d

Oriana Korol, 38, was playing “Ghostbusters” with her group — the Unpresidented Brass Band — during a massive protest outside the ICE facility in Oregon’s largest city Sunday evening when federal agents arrested her, her loved ones said.
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Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents: ‘Why are they targeting a clarinetist?’ (The Independent)

A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility, which has recent...

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 1d

Senators voted 49-45 on the GOP’s House-passed continuing resolution, which would fund the government through late November. It needed 60 votes to advance.

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 1d

Person filing is screaming "he's a citizen" but ICE doesn't care.

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From the law community on Reddit: ICE Arrests Citizen for “Running” After Masked Agents Enter Walgreens

Explore this post and more from the law community

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Chicago who had just finished working a double shift because she didn’t “look” American to them.

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ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name (The New Republic)

ICE agents kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Chicago who had just finished working a double shift because she didn’t “look” American to them. Maria Greeley, 44, wa...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 2d

An ambulance crew says armed ICE agents blocked them from taking a patient to the hospital, as one goon allegedly threatened to shoot the driver.

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ICE Barbie's Goons Allegedly Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver (The Daily Beast)

An ambulance crew says armed ICE agents blocked them from taking a patient to the hospital, as one goon allegedly threatened to shoot the driver. The medics ...

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