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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 20h

Sadly, my milquetoast Dem representatives are still too afraid of seeming anti-cop or pro-scary-brown-people to say anything critical of ICE.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 2d

I’m going through #WNBA withdrawal

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 3d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 3d

OMG. Cuomo is even worse than I thought he was.

Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 3d

Appalling lawlessness and cruelty by ICE in Chicago.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3d

Was she undocumented? Here on a green card? A U.S. citizen? WHAT FUCKING DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? SHE'S A TEENAGE GIRL WHO WAS JUST KIDNAPPED OFF THE STREETS, THROWN INTO A VAN & DISAPPEARED.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 4d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 4d

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats

Some day you’ll be in hospital for surgery or chemotherapy or with another illness & a nurse, or doctor or visitor at the next bed, or the patient opposite you will give you a Covid infection & your treatment will get delayed & your life will be put at unnecessary risk.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 12d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 13d

Ann Ginger and my mother, Phoebe Watts, were friends. Until about 10 yrs ago, when I visited Berkeley I'd join them for a walk. Ann (legally blind at that point) quizzed me about my social activism (not up to her standards, I fear) and talked about the book(s) she was writing.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 13d

Ann Fagan Ginger. A remarkable life. Couldn't get hired by a law firm after law school because she was a woman (and later, blacklisted), but successfully argued a case before the Supreme Court in her 30's (while raising two small children).

Ann Fagan Ginger, Tireless Defender of Civil Liberties, Dies at 100

www.nytimes.com

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 13d

Remember Apple's famous 1984 Super Bowl ad? An Orwellian
Big Brother figure on a big screen addresses a submissive crowd until a woman runs past what appear to be riot police (or ICE) to toss a hammer at the screen. Today, Apple sides with Big Brother by removing ICE tracker app.

Athletic-looking woman in running clothes, carrying a sledgehammer, runs ahead of shadowy figures.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 14d

I’m sorry, whut? Well, I guess I have to admire the imagination (or willful stupidity) needed to come up with that take on Collier’s remarks. This takes making everything about Caitlin to new heights.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 14d

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18d

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting

The names of the dead and wounded

Jose Andres Bordones-Molina

Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez

Norlan Guzman-Fuentes

Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

What the Trump regime doesn’t want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting

The Trump regime's refusal to say the names of the Dallas ICE victims exposes the inhumanity of American fascism.

www.inquirer.com

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 19d

Nice ceremony. Looking forward to you speaking out against ICE racially profiling and terrorizing Latinos in our community.

Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 19d

Teen Vogue does some great reporting.

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 19d

Recent reporting alleges that civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women, with cases in North Carolina and New York.

Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 19d

Let's not forget why the woman he brutalized was distraught: ICE had just kidnapped her husband and the father of her children without explanation and taken him who knows where.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 19d

But . . . how do you put a parka on a porcupine? And then, how do you take it off?

Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 20d

completely unnecessary cruelty

Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 20d

What is wrong with these thugs.

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 25d

taking Kimmel off the air wasn’t cancel culture—it was an illegal use of the power of the federal government to threaten corporations to get them to silence voices Trump doesn’t like. Pure totalitarianism.

Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 25d

Was the FCC’s pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air illegal? Here’s what the Constitution and Supreme Court say. #firstamendment #supremecourt #fcc #politics #news #jimmykimmel

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Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 25d

You honored a man who said Black women are intellectually inferior, that gay people should be stoned to death, and the civil rights act was a mistake. He should not have been shot. Neither should he have been honored.

Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 25d

If only Louise Slaughter could have lived forever.

Bridget @bewatts.bsky.social · 25d

@morelle.house.gov

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 26d

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake,

don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year.

Don’t bother.

Please.

And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

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