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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2d

I was thinking about this after No Kings.

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.

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Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 2d

I always think of this.

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings 10/18/2025
Favorite signs

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Joyful Trouble @mini-marshmallows.bsky.social · 2d

Another photo of Doug Emhoff at No Kings in Santa Monica yesterday.

If Kamala had won we’d be at brunch. 🤭

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Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 3d

This is great.

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Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 3d

#NoKingsNYC

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Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 5d

Kinda like Facebook

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Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 5d

It really can’t figure it out.

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Lucifer @lucifers.bsky.social · 5d

Mike Johnson is that guy you don't let your children around.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 5d

Creepy MAGA lunatic Mike Johnson isn’t a Speaker, he’s a defender of pedophiles, a protector of Nazis and a terrorist who helped orchestrate the January 6 insurrection. The only room he should be in is a prison cell.

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

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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Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

Lolz

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Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 13d

Believe it when I see it

Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 13d

Yikes

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Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 14d

Friendly reminder never to support Gavin Newsom.

Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 14d

Sooo. Do anything about it.

Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 15d

Seems like this mayor actually has a spine.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 15d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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Hartwell @hartwellbrooks.bsky.social · 16d

Fermented garlic.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16d

ICE is going into Illinois and assaulting citizens while wantonly deploying tear gas everywhere while the Illinois state police is helping them.

Gov. Pritzker: "guess there's nothing we can do."

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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 16d

Update on Chicago Alder Jesse Fuentes who was brutalized and detained by Trump’s secret police this week. #JesseFuentes ICE agents are escalating in Chicago, storming hospitals, dragging people from grocery stores, operating with no judicial warrants.

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mrmky.bsky.social @mrmky.bsky.social · 16d

So far they have done nothing but comply. “Drop bombs here” “Blow up this fishing boat”, send marines to LA”, the latest, “let’s send the 82nd to Chicago”, or is it Portland? On the other hand, they did march poorly at his birthday and they didn’t clap or speak at Hegseth pep rally w tRump…

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17d

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17d

A friend of mine said they hadn’t heard about the ICE raid on Chicago apartments when we chatted this morning. Shocked I asked where he got his news and he said CNN. I checked around 9AM and they didn’t have a story on it.

A story finally showed up around noon today. Three days after the incident.

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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