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Brendon M

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Los Angeles County resident. American with dual citizenship 🇮🇪 | Visual storytelling enthusiast: movies/TV/graphic novels/video games. Sci-fi+thrillers are my literary jam. Music soothes the soul 🎧 https://letterboxd.com/brendonla

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Brendon M @brendonla.bsky.social · Jun 10

One more post today - these are website to help people find out where these #ICERaids are happening across the U.S.:

stopice.net -- get SMS alerts on ICE movement/presence. Also, you can submit tips anonymously.

I found this through one of two ICE-focused subs on Reddit.

#stopICE
#FuckICE

Stop ICE Raids Alert Network

Send & receive emergency alerts for ICE raids and activity in your area

stopice.net

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

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Brendon M @brendonla.bsky.social · 1d

Already voted “Yes” and so is every voter in my family and extended family

#YesOn50
#CaliStrong

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

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

Two dozen masked ICE Federal Secret Police, who are kitted out like they are going to war, kidnap a local and brutalize the community.

Toward the end of the video, they throw a gas cannister that almost hits a baby. 😟

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Trump’s lapdogs in North Carolina are now trying to rig their maps and save the Republican Party from being wiped out in the midterms.

It’s time we fight fire with fire. California needs to vote YES on Prop 50 — and every blue state needs to do what it can to balance the scales.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

WTF 🤬
Goons brutally pushed a peaceful protester to the ground and dragged them across the floor.

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westofyou @bberts.bsky.social · 3d

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Brendon M @brendonla.bsky.social · 3d

*OK, bad spelling mistake made poolside.

That’s #joshuatree

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Brendon M @brendonla.bsky.social · 11d

Joshua Tree weekend (park is open but no fees being charged at the entrance).

#Autocamp
#JoahuaTree

Sitting poolside at Autocamp Joshua Tree

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Brendon M @brendonla.bsky.social · 11d

Chicago, we see you and thank you. #resist DHS/ICE pissing on our Constitutional rights.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 19d

I needed to find an alternative travel booking site the other day and a friend recommended halalbooking.com

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Brendon M @brendonla.bsky.social · 19d

Starting Oct. 1 the Padlet map is moving to a new domain:
iceout.org

‼️WE'RE MOVING | NOS MUDAMOS‼️

🇺🇸 Starting Oct 12, 2025 we will be moving to a new site! You can view the new site starting Oct 11, 2025. The site URL is iceout.org 🇲🇽🇸🇻🇨🇱🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇴...

iceout.org

Brendon M @brendonla.bsky.social · 19d

Here's another one:

icespy.org

ICESPY

Find ICE employees using face recognition.

icespy.org

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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 20d

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22d

I'll take that golden escalator that wouldn't take him up as a symbol of his own personal endtimes (no rapture included). For what began with going down a golden escalator 10 years before.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 23d

"A broken escalator and a malfunctioning teleprompter — that's what I got from the UN." - Trump.

Before the UN speech, the escalator "refused" to carry the U.S. President and First Lady.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23d

These Project 2025 videos were intended to train a second Trump administration’s political appointees "to be ready on day one."

Last August, ProPublica & @documented.net obtained 14 hours of the videos, which covered everything from passing new regulations to rooting out left-wing language:

Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy

The videos are part of an ongoing effort to recruit and train thousands of future conservative appointees. Despite Donald Trump’s efforts to disavow Project 2025, most of the speakers in the videos ha...

www.propublica.org

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25d

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear.

I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Opinion | Eric Adams, Donald Trump and the Case That Broke American Justice

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25d

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation.

But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

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Brendon M @brendonla.bsky.social · 25d

The literal white washing of America’s history continues.

Fuck the miscreants running the U.S. into the ground.

wapo.st/4nyQrWW

National parks axe signs about climate, slavery and Japanese internment

The removals come after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March seeking to remove “improper partisan ideology” from federal institutions.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28d

"Trump, Vance, and their propaganda networks do not operate in good faith...The forces of liberalism should stop treating MAGA [as if it] is playing by the same rules...The people operating in good faith need to stop self-flagellating and surrendering preemptively."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Emergency Triad: First, They Came for Jimmy Kimmel

What happens when comedians are held to stricter standards than vice presidents?

open.substack.com

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