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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 1d

It has been happening in SWAT raids for a long time - they break and enter, and shoot the dogs first. Even little dogs, golden retrievers, whatever. And they get away with it. We've been laying the groundwork for totalitarianism for decades. We are a complacent people.

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 1d

I should clarify that this is not more shocking than what they do to humans, but it is so wantonly, needlessly cruel to kill a pet like that when there is no incentive whatsoever to do so - it's just to cause suffering. And in a context where there can never be any meaningful accountability.

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 1d

The current SCOTUS is (aggressively) continuing the long project of dismantling Bivens and 1983, and that sucks but I almost think that no protections at all would be better than the lip service we've been getting all this time. Emperors and clothing and all that.

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 1d

What's really incredible to me is that we are more than 60 years into the modern era of civil rights litigation, and the net effect of all the settlements and all the trial victories on bad police behavior appears to be: diddly/squat.

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 1d

There's no hell hot enough for these people, and yet our current system does not really allow for a modicum of *civil* justice against untrained, stupid, reckless, or even openly malicious federal agents. It's utterly intolerable.

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 1d

I've been litigating cop cases for almost 20 years so it is rare that I see law enforcement behavior that truly shocks me to my core, but this is it. CBP searches for undocumented people. Dog is contained. CBP *let the dog out and then shot him.* Unbelievable.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 8d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 8d

The committee, deliberating: "Look, we all agree that blowing up random civilians IS great for peace, but we can't award the Prize for the same thing every year."

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 10d

We're grateful for what Trump is doing for peace, Nobel winner Machado tells BBC

María Corina Machado tells Trump of her appreciation for "what he's doing... around the world for peace".

www.bbc.com

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 9d

From 2006. Didn't age well.

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · Nov 13

All you fascists still bound to lose

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 14d

AGAIN

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 14d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 14d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 14d

To be fair, this has nothing on the situations where a federal judge finds definitively that something the government did/is doing is illegal but is powerless to remedy it.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14d

Absolute failure of our system that a federal judge can be “very concerned” about Trump’s unlawful attempt to send troops into a city, but also powerless to stop it.

The default should be to protect us from government abuse, not to protect government from temporary inconvenience.

National Guard deployment moves ahead in Illinois after judge declines state's suit to block Trump call-up — Chicago Tribune

Attorneys for the Trump administration said in court that Texas National Guard units could begin operations by Tuesday, the same day Illinois Guard members have been ordered to report.

apple.news

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 16d

wizard frog is insane

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 16d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16d

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

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 16d

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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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 16d

Jury nullification has never been more important in your lifetime.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 16d

FULL STORY: Federal prosecutors charged two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, with ramming a vehicle driven by a federal agent in Brighton Park on Saturday morning, sparking a heated confrontation between residents & federal agents. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...

2 Chicagoans, Including Woman Shot by Federal Agents, Charged with Ramming Border Patrol Vehicle

Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, are facing felony charges of “forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer,” federal prosecutors announc...

news.wttw.com

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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 16d

Note that, those masked men could be anyone. There is a reason for government agents to show badges when they arrest someone.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 16d

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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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28d

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies

So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 17d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 17d

Big tough guys. This is not even close to the worst of what we're about to see. Take all the police violence we're already familiar with, triple it, and take away the training. Forget 2026, the U.S. will be an uninhabitable hell in a year at this rate.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 19d

excommunicate SCOTUS, Bob

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20d

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life”

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Ben Richard @benrichard022.bsky.social · 19d

If it hadn't been caught on camera-and if so many of you here and on other platforms had not raised your voices in defense of common decency-guaranteed this man would still be on duty brutalizing people.
How many more are abusing the authority that ICE badge gives them?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Dan Canon @dancanon.bsky.social · 19d

So much to unpack from the Speaker of the House in just 24 seconds

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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