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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 10h

Airports everywhere get federal $. Unlike Noem they don’t plan to violate the Hatch Act even if Bondi is offering get out of jail free cards.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 13h

O’Hare and Midway international airports are refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that accuses Democrats of causing the ongoing government shutdown.and its impacts on flight operations.

O'Hare, Midway refuse to play video of Kristi Noem accusing Democrats of government shutdown

They join a growing list of airports refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary due to its partisan messaging.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social with a helluva story on ICE in Chicago: “they’re assaulting women, deporting children, mothers and fathers — not criminals. And if they’re criminals, he needs to prove it. We haven’t seen that evidence yet.”

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 20h

Two excellent journalists talking about why all of us need to show up for No Kings:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 20h

Journalism rule at AP and USA Today, the two places I worked for most of my career: Sources who criticize, praise or speculate need to be named.
AP: www.ap.org/about/news-v...
USAT Network: content-static.usatoday.com/styleguide/U...

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 20h

JUST IN: Judge sides w/Comey in early skirmish over discovery, limits info that has strict restrictions on defense handling. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

ComeyOrd101325.PDF

www.documentcloud.org

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 20h

A brave Chicagoan living in fear of ICE. She cannot look into a camera to explain how much she loves this country, how much she believes in its promise, because doing so risks putting her parents in danger. With her permission, I am telling her story for her.
open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

A brave Chicagoan describes living in fear of ICE

She cannot look into a camera to explain how much she loves this country, how much she believes in its promise, because doing so risks putting her parents in danger. I am telling the story for her.

open.substack.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

I’m sure House Republicans will be as energized by this as they were about conversations Joe Biden had after he’d left the Obama administration.

World Leader Caught Asking Trump for a Family Favor on Hot Mic

The godfather of MAGA shared a not-so-discreet moment with his Indonesian counterpart at the Gaza summit in Egypt.

www.thedailybeast.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

UPDATE: Only OANN signed Secretary of War (on Journalism) Hegseth’s new rules for the media.

Essentially signing a propaganda confession

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 1d

Here in Chicago, in the face of increasing ICE incidents, we have come out to protect one another . We show up at school drop-offs and pick-ups to protect the children. We look out for our neighbors. We protest, and we pray. We bear witness. My latest:

open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Americans are fed up with the corrupt and feckless Trump administration.

Millions will again join 'No Kings' protests against this out-of-control president who is more concerned with building a gilded ballroom in the White House than with the lives of Americans.

open.substack.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

Having healthcare tied and partially administered by employers is a shackle to both workers and companies, which have to bear the 15-20% annual price hikes or cut benefits.

It's insane.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 3d

if healthcare was not tied to employment in the USA what would you be doing differently in your career?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 3d

Call them propagandists, not provocateurs: @gregsargent.bsky.social on the difference between "plucky showmanship" and "industrial-strength" MAGA agitprop meant to help Trump invent emergencies so he can expand presidential power. Starring Noem and Miller, of course. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 3d

House republicans are on vacation. Vacation.

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 6d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 3d

People in Basra are now safer from unwanted US military intervention than the residents of Chicago.
That’s after the GOP run US Senate voted to repeal the authority to use the military in Iraq

BUT Senators voted NO on limiting use of our troops in American cities and to requiring them to wear ID.

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 3d

And now they’ve gutted the CDC to cause democrats pain. A more honest claim would be these cuts hurt everyone but only democrats care.

I’m old enough to know that both parties do outrageous things, but in this moment that seems like a quaint and outdated way of thinking.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 4d

Fearless journalists & vigilant residents are telling Chicago's story. The shocking images show ICE agents out of control, people in danger AND people standing strong. Don't look away from this unprecedented abuse of federal power. My latest:

jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/fearless-j...

photos taken in Chicago over the past few weeks showing ICE agents, and Chicagoans reacting including a man with a flag walking through tear gas clouds, a pastor being sprayed with tear gas, an ice agent pointing a gun out a window, a bike messenger being chased by ICE

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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