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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 6h

This alone worth the subscription

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7h

Find a rally. Show up.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 7h

May have found Halloween costume inspiration 🦀

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 10h

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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Mark Balletto @myrecordplayer.bsky.social · 10h

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try,"..

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11h

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 7h

Man who has never had a real job gleeful about cutting other people’s livelihoods.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7h

Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stalemate in Congress.

Vance warns 'deeper' cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day

Vice President JD Vance is warning of deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on.

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 7h

#fisheries and #marineinvert alert

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 10h

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

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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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7h

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murde...

theonion.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 13h

A big part of the Republican agenda is to make everyone forget that Trump was the president in 2020

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

I mean all orange teams amiright

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

My first slide while teaching a couple weeks ago

ECOL 4070L Sep 32
I know oct 2 but at this point I’m invoking the 1st amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

Are you fucking kidding me.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

Your boss won’t tell you to go for a ride. You have to tell yourself.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

Signs inspired by a friend that I keep on my wipe board as part of my charge as Director of Graduate Studies in a hellish time to be a young (or not) scientist:

sticky notes taped to my wipeboard (with autoclave tape), one says "RUN TOWARDS FIRE" the other "CARRY BOXES".

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

My kid needed these programs. F*ck maga ghouls.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

Have not confirmed this, but this is VERY very bad if true.

Also, more evidence of their eugenics roots.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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