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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

This post was written before today's car crash and chemical attack. Was referring to the preceding car crashes and chemical attacks.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes:

- Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer
- Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo
- Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 3d

Future HOF QB versus a 3rd round rookie I've never heard of? Doesn't matter. The score will be 9-3 at the half.

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 3d

Flipping on the Steelers/Browns game to see the most Steelers/Browns game imaginable

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 6d

Taking the over on ICE

Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 6d

Among the supposed "rioters" DHS and Pam Bondi accused of terrorism via twitter, a man with intellectual disabilities who they tried to trick into somehow waiving his Miranda rights.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6d

More great news out of federal court today.

This was a particularly appalling case in which HSI agents took advantage of this man to get him to sign away his rights during his interrogation inside the ICE Broadview facility.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6d

New: U.S. attorneys moved today to dismiss felony assault charges against Paul Ivery, an intellectually disabled man who was arrested at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility on Sept. 27.

Ivery agreed to waive his Miranda rights while in federal custody.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

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Busiaco @busia.co · 7d

Our neighbor came by to hassle me about returning the 5 torches I stole from a chest in their home, and my wife (corrupted by a whispering effulgence) sent him hollering and crying to the Plane of Dust.

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 7d

Less talk, more action. Why isn't the state filing assault charges against rogue federal agents?

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 8d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 9d

The FOP needs to get hit with RICO charges

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 9d

Have your editors learned their lesson about reporting DHS press releases without doing any fact checking first? Or are we gonna have the same problem again next time.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 10d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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NPR @npr.org · 11d

The Department of Homeland Security has begun targeting unaccompanied children in the immigration system with what they call a “voluntary option” to return to their countries of origin. via @laist.com

DHS begins targeting unaccompanied children with 'voluntary' deportation offer

Children asked to waive right to see a judge in exchange for $2,500

laist.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

As is the norm, what precipitated the gas attack by ICE/CBP, without warning, is unclear.

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 12d

Dog, since when does your rag of a publication describe federal law as "a tradition." The best of you are stenographers for fascism, and the worst of you are Quislings.

Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 12d

We've been waging a pointless war on our cities for months. Why would truth start to matter today.

Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 12d

Hague.

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 12d

We should start listing the KDA of different federal agencies like XBOX Live. Fuck it. If we're gonna have Gestapo, there should at least be a parlay.

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 12d

Captured-ass media

Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 12d

It's looking like we will literally see the end of democracy before we see the L get extended south of 95th St.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 12d

“The law says he can’t do it so it’s not clear whether he can” is such a 2025 headline

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 12d

It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron @aaronhollatz.bsky.social · 12d

No cats, but here is my nephew fighting (?) a tree

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 12d

Witness video shows federal agents throwing tear gas canisters in the middle of Armitage Ave today as they appear to be blocked in and heckled by angry neighbors.

This is around the 3500 block of West Armitage.

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