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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h

I made a little tool to answer the trickiest question in American politics. pbump.net/who/

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8h

Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.

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Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

You can't put a price on this kind of friendship.
www.cnbc.com/2024/09/03/t...

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 7h

Ty

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 7h

A message from the frog resistance
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A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 7h

A message from the frog resistance
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A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 7h

lol. One American news

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7h

Solidarity is the only way

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

Someday this could be you or someone you love

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 10h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve been really shocked how many people on here didn’t know any of this

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

One Appeals Court Gave Us a Taste of the Deference Trumpified Courts Want to Give the President talkingpointsmemo.com/news/9th-cir...

One Appeals Court Gave Us a Taste of the Deference Trumpified Courts Want to Give the President

District judges, including those appointed by President Trump, have been remarkably scrupulous...

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 14h

Good for this veteran.

Are you prepared to do what he did? He stopped this man from being tased, at least. That’s something.

Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social · 17h

If you are an American citizen, you should be very concerned about what ICE is doing.

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 13h

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is ready to strip press credentials from journalists who won't agree to new rules on reporting at the Pentagon.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

I posted about this on X, and Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, QTed me to say the kid was actually a hardened criminal arrested with a knife and a gun.

So far she has provided no evidence of this. I share this to give DHS's response, and for the possibility she is telling the truth.

My original post on X: "This makes NO SENSE. A 13-year-old was arrested by local police for unknown reasons, and then turned over to ICE, which is detaining him far away from his mother — who is going through immigration court, has an asylum application on file, and is legally authorized to work." Underneath that I posted a link to the opening paragraphs of the article and the headline.

In response, DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, @TriciaOhio, wrote: "Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h

The official account for Trump's border czar is blaming the Jewish puppet master for anti-ICE protests, to avoid reckoning with how truly unpopular ICE has become.

Tweet from Tom Homan: Happening now: 🚨 Illinois police are boots on the ground making arresting!

These paid Soros protesters and Antifa thugs are dropping one by one! 👊🏻"

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

Unprecedented corruption

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15h

Trump allies sold sponsorships to what appeared to be a Treasury event. It wasn’t

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Exclusive | Trump Allies Sold Sponsorships to What Appeared to Be a Treasury Event. It Wasn’t.

The Treasury said it didn’t approve a marketing pitch for a private Oct. 21 event about AI that is headlined by Scott Bessent.

www.wsj.com

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 13h

Taco?

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 14h

Is Trump a paper tiger? The US markets are bearing the brunt as he quickly reverses his tariff threats

The Curious Market Timing of Trump’s Tariff Threats

Donald Trump may know the art of dealmaking, but he certainly doesn’t know the art of stock-market timing.

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Sarah D. Wire @sarahdwire.bsky.social · 14h

Congress is losing its grip on the power to spend Americans’ money www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Congress is losing its grip on the power to spend Americans’ money

Congress is supposed to control spending, but increasingly, the White House is dictating how America’s money is used.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15h

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

ICE goons have detained the parents of a Marine serving his country as they tried to visit their pregnant daughter on the Camp Pendleton base.

ICE Barbie’s Goons Detain and Deport Dad of Marine

Family says stop at Camp Pendleton gate led to their father’s deportation.

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 13h

Yes

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 18h

Congressional Dems and the Biden admin should have put more effort into passing post-Trump reforms. We need more aggressive reform than what was on offer then, but it could really have helped

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 14h

Republicans are liars.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

This press release from a North Carolina GOP figure portrays the current redistricting wars as something *Democrats* started in Calif., ignoring the fact that this all began with the Trump White House and first unfolded in red Texas.

According to them, Republicans are once again The Real Victims™

House Redistricting Chairmen Brenden Jones (R-Columbus) and Hugh Blackwell (R-Burke) said, “We’re stepping into this redistricting battle because California and the radical left are attempting to rig the system to handpick who runs Congress. This ploy is nothing new, and North Carolina will not stand by while they attempt to stack the deck. President Trump has called on us to fight back, and North Carolina stands ready to level the playing field.”

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

Sordid stuff thanks to SCOTUS and SCONC's Republican majorities

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

In LA, DC, and elsewhere, DHS officers are reportedly pulling over work vans without warning and detaining everyone inside.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 14h

This is a state where Dems can win statewide races

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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