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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 9h

Federal agents deployed multiple canisters of tear gas in a residential block of the East Side neighborhood Tuesday to quell a clash with residents who demanded the enforcement officers leave the neighborhood.

Tear gas used by federal immigration agents following East Side traffic crash, neighborhood uprising

Federal agents deployed multiple canisters of tear gas in a residential block of the East Side neighborhood Tuesday to quell a clash with residents who demanded the enforcement officers leave the n…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

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Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago IS a welcoming city.
Except when you bring violence to our doors.
We don’t want you, don’t need you, and yes: shame needs to change sides.

A sign at a cafe reads everyone is welcome here .. except I.C.E.

Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 1d

“She didn’t look like a Greeley.”
We hear the helicopters over Evanston and Chicago. ICE agents stand with their unmarked cars and their masked faces, waiting for the people they want to snatch, like crocodiles in a swamp.
They can take anyone. They aren’t being held accountable. Who can stop them?

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 1d

We must now expect the worst. The cruelty box is open, and the sadism will know no end.
Some of us knew and saw it coming (83% of Black voters cast their vote for Kamala Harris, only 15% for the other guy). It’s too late to complain. We need to get back democracy.
Oct 18: Non-violence is crucial.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 2d

Vielen Dank für das Gespräch, Anne Preckel: Vatican News,
www.vaticannews.va/de/welt/news...

USA: „Es ist wie ein Pulverfass“ - Vatican News

Als explosiv beschreibt die in Chicago lehrende deutsche Theologin Hille Haker die Lage in den USA nach der Ermordung des christlichen Influencers und ...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 2d

Remember? Immigrants were eating pets. Now, Democrats are eating the clock. So much unhealthy food in the USA.
And Speaker Johnson cannot do anything. He was so sure 12 out of 79 days of congressional work in Washington would be enough to bend the Democrats’ opposition.
Now he is really angry.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

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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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Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 3d

In Broadview at the detention center this morning. We wanted to be let in so that the people held there illegally would be able to celebrate the Communion with us. Our priests and Sisters were not let in.
A clear violation of the First Amendment. A case for the Commission on Religious Liberty?!

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Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nice try , Mr Thiel.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 4d

The Department of Health and Human Services also saw major cutbacks, with roughly 1,100 to 1,200 employees affected, the filing states.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE‼️The Hill reports at least 4,100 employees fired today as Russell Vought and Trump devastate our government agencies and slash the federal workforce.

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 5d

Ein Professor der über die Antifa forschte, hat nach Morddrohungen die USA fluchtartig mit seiner Familie verlassen.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 5d

May she rest in peace.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

BREAKING: Sister Jean Dolores Bertha Schmidt, chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men’s basketball team during its Cinderella run to the 2018 NCAA Final Four — has died.

Sister Jean, Loyola University hoops chaplain who captured nation's heart during Cinderella run, dies at 106

Sister Jean emanated a certain love and grit that sunk into students on and off the court — and made for great TV.

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Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 5d

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/09/t...

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago

Arguments in federal court over an emergency restraining order that would bar a National Guard deployment began Thursday with lawyers sparring over what constitutes a “rebellion” that such troops m…

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Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 5d

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago

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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 5d

Yet again, Trump is grossly abusing the criminal justice system by directing an unqualified political lackey to indict his adversary.

Let’s be clear: this kind of corruption is how authoritarians become dictators.

And this is also on every Republican who doesn’t speak up.

Grand jury indicts N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump opponent, on bank fraud charge

James, a Democrat, has clashed with President Donald Trump after bringing civil charges against him in New York.

www.nbcnews.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 5d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Every day it's just helicopters all day long now and people are somehow still unsure whether to call this an occupation

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Hille Haker @hillehaker.bsky.social · 6d

So … the conclusion is that you are going to pay the hospital the same then for two pregnant women who go to the ER? It doesn’t even make sense as an example, let alone that he has any evidence.
Bottom line is: Their bill takes away services, it does not add any.

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