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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 5h

speaking of which, tonight Tim Pool said he agrees w/ Hitler's argument that Jewish Germans weren't *actually Germans*, or not "ethnically German," as he put it. You know, just not darn aryan enough

The GOP is explicitly racist and fascist, from the lowest podcast bro all the way to the White House

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 5h

The reluctance to really own it is almost as frustrating lol

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 5h

The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.

Judicial warrants can still be served.

Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect

The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...

chicago.suntimes.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 5h

In an interview with @semafor.com, Janet Mills doesn't outright say she'd side with #MESen Angus King and vote for the GOP's funding bill, but she comes close.

(The only other Dem senators who've done so are John Fetterman and Catherine Cortez Masto)

www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

In her interview with Semafor, the governor criticized the dysfunction that led to the shutdown and the lack of a plan to revive expiring health care tax credits. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, and Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, are among the few Democratic caucus members who have joined Republicans in voting for the House’s stopgap funding bill.

Mills did not say directly whether she would join them.

She replied that “it isn’t rocket science to be able to do at least a continuing resolution and preserve health care, preserve the tax credits on which thousands of Maine people rely for their health insurance. I think they can do both.”

“I would vote for continuing health care. I would vote to extend the tax credits, whether it’s a separate bill or part of the current negotiations to extend the continuing resolution. But I think it’s strangely dysfunctional that Congress and the White House can’t get this done,” Mills added.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

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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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 7h

mask off Tuesday i guess

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h

Tweet from the Department of Homeland Security reading: "Remigrate."

"Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

Advocates of remigration promote the concept in pursuit of ethno-cultural homogeneity.[8] According to Deutsche Welle, ethnopluralism, the Nouvelle Droite concept that different ethnicities require their own segregated living spaces, creates a need for remigration of people with "foreign roots".[9] The Mexican scholar José Ángel Maldonado has described the idea as a "soft type of ethnic cleansing under the guise of deportation and segregation".[10]

Presented by its proponents as a remedy to mass immigration and the perceived Islamisation of Europe, remigration has increasingly become an integral policy position of the Identitarian movement and other far-right political movements and parties.[11][12] Research from the British Institute for Strategic Dialogue, conducted in April 2019, showed a distinct rise in conversations about remigration on the social media website Twitter between 2012 and 2019.[13] Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk, and Telegram have been at the forefront of spreading the term into the mainstream.[14]"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

jd vance is currently defending this

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7h

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 15h

Emily Wilder was reporting on a flotilla mission to Gaza when Israeli soldiers apprehended her ship in international waters. Here, she recounts her treatment in captivity:

jewishcurrents.org/forty-eight-...

Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity

A journalist captured on a flotilla mission recounts treatment at the hands of the Israeli navy, border police, and prison guards.

jewishcurrents.org

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James F. Love IV @jamesfloveiv.bsky.social · 7h

Breaking:
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Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 7h

Normal Rockwell painting of man speaking at town meeting

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 7h

In addition to those twitter group dms with all those teenagers? Someone ought to cross reference those names with the ones in this story

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 7h

Dawg I don’t even have an actual congressperson

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 1d

Um hello

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 2d

the reason many jews, including non- and anti-zionists, are upset by this meme is because it relies on an older antisemitic trope about jews being a parasitic race with no culture of our own. but a consequence of diaspora is that our culture has always been enmeshed with the societies we live in.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 3d

We also signed Stearns away from them but they seem to be doing just fine

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 3d

Off the top of my head can think of the epic ‘86 NLCS between the Mets and the ‘Stros

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 3d

Gotta nuke something

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Danny Cooper @dannycooper.bsky.social · 3d

A stated goal of the Vice President: newrepublic.com/article/1839....

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

newrepublic.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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