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Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 5d

I guess the only solution is to hold them all in contempt.

Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 5d

These ICE thugs should be put on a plane and dropped off at the South Pole where they can revel in their native, icy environment.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 5d

We’re deep in Orwell territory.

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Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 5d

So, for example, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson could swear in Adelita Grijalva today or tomorrow? What are they waiting for?!?!? Go for it!

stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 5d

This is interesting 🤔

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 7d

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Ed Broyles @edwardbroyles.bsky.social · 7d

This is the plan.

Holli Winters @holliwinters57.bsky.social · 7d

I believe this is the Trump plan. He and Miller will order that the military pull people out of voting lines and demand that they prove their citizenship on the spot. Or just plain kidnap, like they have been doing, and release them after voting is over.

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Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 7d

Lee Greenwood is Donald Trump’s partner in the “God Bless the USA Bible” scam. Johnson is just doing his best to suck up to Trump.

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Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 7d

She writes notes to help herself be hateful. How pathetic.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 7d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 7d

I had to watch 3 episodes of Ted Lasso tonight just to wipe the image of Pam Bondi’s hate from my soul.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7d

“One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.”

“We could hear them laughing,” Rev. Black said.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 7d

These ICE agents are instruments of right wing hatred fostered by Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and Donald Trump.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7d

“Every time we have been attacked with pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray that I have been present, it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol,” said Rev. Kardon. “They are unhinged.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7d

The Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist pastor, “has also protested at the Broadview facility on several occasions. She, like Black, said she has been shot multiple times with pepper bullets, including while she was praying w/her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole.”

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Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 7d

ICE agents pepper spray a Presbyterian pastor. Their hate has blinded them.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 7d

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 8d

Someone's gonna lose their 💩.

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Mark Hurty @hurty.net · 7d

So when does the case for lying to congress go before the grand jury? Oh wait, the US Attorney for DC is Jeanine Pirro.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 7d

Pam Bondi won't say if Tom Homan kept the $50,000 in the Cava bag, so it's safe to assume he did.

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Archivist1000 @archivist1001.bsky.social · 7d

The thing about HOMAN is this:

We know about one instance that was an FBI STING

It's naive to assume THAT IS THE ONLY TIME HE TOOK A BRIBE. There was a 'sting' on him for a reason

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