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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s the link yall. Stomach turning. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

How long before Israel continues its stated goal of taking everything?

Before Trump leaves or right after?

They're going to say Hamas failed to bla bla bla and use that as an excuse.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

The only way we save our country is through our numbers.

Trump and MAGA don't have the majority, not even close.

Overwhelm them with numbers. Resist everywhere. They are too reckless, incompetent, and self-destructive.

Also, divide and conquer. Many fissures, especially around Epstein.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 2d

He paved the way for the toxic discourse and the billionaires' thumbs on the scale, then he side-eyes the justices who dare to point out how baldly the scales are thumb-fucked. Shoving someone on the playground and tsk-tsking the teachers who ask you why you're being a bully.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 2d

People who have no idea how to relate to others are the ones that take the terrible advice of saying someone’s name every chance they get. It’s so disingenuous and he is so smarmy.

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 2d

“Condemn him for WHAT” is so objectively funny. He’s so bad at this!!

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 3d

Alfie and a sunrise from the hellhole of Chicago 🫶🏻

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 4d

Give a jet, get an airbase.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 4d

I personally think news about the secret police snatching people in my city should not be behind a paywall

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 4d

If not fascist, why fascist shaped??

Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 4d

This is up the street from me.

These ICE thugs will be prosecuted for their crimes.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4d

Your regular reminder, aside from the performative public lying of far right authoritarians, that the GOP & the national media would have a week-long Discourse On Civility if <any Democrat> ever spoke about GOP voters/conservatives the way GOP leaders speak about Dem voters/liberals every single day

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 5d

I made croissants exactly once and perfected it, so I’m never doing it again.

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 5d

“Well we have to talk about this on this news / politics / true crime podcast”

You don’t actually.

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yes yes it’s “Taylor released an album so now it’s time to hear all the podcasters I usually like shit on the thing I like for absolutely no reason other than it’s trendy” o’clock

Like do you realize what jerks you sound like?

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 5d

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I’m just kiddin love you v happy for you

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 5d

Evil.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 6d

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Carolyn Faith @carolynfaith.bsky.social · 7d

Here is alfie making biscuits, he sends his best to you and heater

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