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Jimmy Carl

@jimmycarl.bsky.social

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Well, I've wandered over here from Twitter (I never called it X). I'm the same beer brewing, bee keeping, activist retiree. Just more disillusioned. Candidates come and go. The sentiment remains. #NotMeUs jimmysrant.blogspot.com

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 1d

War torn Portland.
I am

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 2d

This is his go-to answer. He always says he doesn't know, hasn't seen it, or needs to learn more about it.

There's only two choices here: he's willfully ignorant or he's lying. Neither are acceptable for a Speaker of the House.

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 3d

Tomorrow will bring obscene displays of Trump self congratulation propaganda via corrupted mass media, so take care, avoid or be prepared for the mental assault, its great there’s a pause & exchange of hostages but Palestinian death & suffering continues in Gaza & the conveniently ignored West Bank

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

The airstrikes may have stopped, but the real war in Gaza has just begun, a silent war of grief and shattered hearts.
Every night without those we lost, Gaza turns into one endless house of mourning.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 4d

My father was an immigrant, and later naturalized citizen. I am first generation. These terms matter. Especially, as they try to gut the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship.

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 4d

This is mislabeled. Melania is not first generation; she's an immigrant. Barron is first generation. (As are Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric).

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 4d

The fact that they don't is a good example of why most of us now ignore them.

@cbsnews.com
@nytimes.com
@pbsnews.org
@npr.org
@cnn.com
@nbcnews.com

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 4d

Why is this surprising? Hillary is rabidly pro-Israel. What about Bari Weiss would offend her.

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 4d

This goes for Illinois, as well!

Concerned in California @claudiadd.bsky.social · 4d

We need EVERYONE to turn out next Saturday for a peaceful No Kings protest near you. Please look for an event near you and show up. Let’s make this the biggest ever. We cannot give in to authoritarianism and fear. We are losing our freedoms and our country. www.mobilize.us

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Concerned in California @claudiadd.bsky.social · 4d

We need EVERYONE to turn out next Saturday for a peaceful No Kings protest near you. Please look for an event near you and show up. Let’s make this the biggest ever. We cannot give in to authoritarianism and fear. We are losing our freedoms and our country. www.mobilize.us

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 5d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 6d

Closer? If Congress can't, or won't, make him stop, it already is a dictatorship.

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 7d

To be clear, this is TODAY, in Carbondale, Illinois.

#TroopsOutOfIllinois

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 7d

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Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 8d

Unless the so-called opposition party, & the unions, organize & call out mass, sustained, demonstrations, and a general strike, the country will accept anything. Ignoring the 4th amendment, concentration camps, the occupation of one of the greatest cities in the world by troops from another state.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12d

Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.

This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.

Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

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Michael Anderson @michaelander45.bsky.social · 11d

This is an easy fix for the IL legislature and @govpritzker.illinois.gov to fix ASAP.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

Have seen a few troopers out here without their name patches. This one tells me they're not required to wear them "with this uniform."

Asked him to identify himself and he then told me his name is "Tad Nelson."

Khaki shirt state trooper

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 13d

'Surreal Moment for America': ICE Agents in Chicago Drag Children Out of Their Homes, Ransack Building www.commondreams.org/news/ice-rai...

'Surreal Moment for America': ICE Agents in Chicago Drag Children Out of Their Homes, Ransack Building | Common Dreams

Federal law enforcement officials in Chicago conducted a controversial raid, dragging residents, including children, from their homes.

www.commondreams.org

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 13d

This is piracy! The navies of the United States, U.K. , E.U. countries, and Turkey, should be protecting this flotilla in international waters. Heck, they should BE the flotilla.
#LetTheAidIn!

#Gaza

Jimmy Carl @jimmycarl.bsky.social · 14d

Watching Judgement at Nuremberg. I first saw it, when I was a young boy, on Bloody Sunday, when the cops attacked civil rights marchers in Selma. It's frighteningly more relevant today.

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 15d

This is Steven Millers America 👿👎🏽👇🏼💙

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16d

The White House made a big deal about the shooting at the ICE facility, but they dont want to talk about thr actual shootibg victims, one of whom is being kept alove by machines but is still shackled to his hospital bed. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out

Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."