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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 5h

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 3h

Spotify thinks that if I'm listening to Black Messiah (and too cheap to upgrade to premium) I might be interested in hearing about the audibook of a biography of Sam Altman.

Just a bit outside.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 6h

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 7h

8 days ago I bought ghost peppers at Safeway for use in "grownups eat hot peppers after practice because kids won at baseball." Cooler heads prevailed, habaneros eaten instead, but today I was GP-curious. Did not touch with bare skin, avoided seeds, wrapped the pieces in Havarti... I liked it!

Melissa's Bhut Jolokia "Ghost Peppers" in a tortilla with plenty of Havarti cheese

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 19h

6. No Kings protests are this weekend (2025-10-18). I have to regret this time around, with too much else going on that Saturday, but if you have the time and the courage I strongly recommend finding your local event(s). You don't need to sign up either. (No one needs your private info.)

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 19h

No matter who it is said to, or how private the conversation seems, if someone is "lov[ing] Hitler" or throwing racial slurs around or calling sexual assault "epic," that is a what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you situation. If someone's friends don't call them out on it, they need better friends.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 19h

The worst things I ever wrote weren't on a group chat. They were blog posts when I was 26, objectifying teen girls, that "resurfaced" 17 years later (in 2018). My past words got me banished from a community I loved. That is a consequence, albeit a harsh one. Anyway I have zero sympathy for the YRs.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 19h

5. Our pathological liar VP wants to excuse "kids" (mostly mid-20s, one a year younger than he) for racist, pro-nazi, & pro-rape garbage on a Young Republican group chat. I'm highly confident the worst things you ever wrote on group chat aren't nearly so bad. Vance himself, I am less confident.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 19h

4. Elon Musk has asked for government assistance to deal with drug addiction, symptoms of which include erratic behavior. That is technically true (of the notorious ketamine abuser) but slightly misleading: Musk actually wants federal troups sent to San Francisco, a place Musk does not live.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 19h

3. The Arizona attorney general has finally threatened to sue the Speaker of the House to get Adelita Grijalva seated, weeks after she won her special election.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 19h

2. Major media outlets refused to go along with the Pentagon's new loyalty pledge. The Department of Defense then revoked press credentials en masse.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 19h

1. The $20 billion bailout to Argentina is now a $40 billion bailout to Argentina.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 19h

News, 2025-10-15, specifically excluding the latest fascism taking place in Chicago (I've already written about it a lot).

If you're seeing this anywhere other than Bluesky, bsky.app/profile/matt... is my social media home base now.

bsky.app

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h

My editorial comment: This is exactly the situation Chicagoans would benefit from avoiding. Some Facebook users were able to learn where ICE was from a Facebook group that Meta (as "influenced" by the regime) recently shut down (as also reported by the Sun Times)

matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h

"He was then transported to a federal law enforcement facility not affiliated with CBP or ICE, where CBP agents held him, handcuffed, in the back of a vehicle in a garage-never booking him, never reading him his rights, never stating why he was detained, & never allowing him to contact his mother"

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h

"[A 15-year-old] boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours 'without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,' [his lawyers] said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, [according to his lawyers]."

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h

"In addition to residents, 13 [Chicago Police Department] members also were overcome by tear gas while on the scene to try to de-escalate tensions between protesters and federal agents, police said."

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h

"The feds then used tear gas and other chemical irritants on the crowd. In a video posted to [Reddit and] Facebook [among other places], parents can be seen running from the area carrying a baby in a carrier." [Reddit emphasis mine]

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h

"A large number of armed Customs and Border Patrol agents responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying at least three rounds of tear gas over the area, even with children and seniors in the area"

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h

"Federal agents chased a car through a residential neighborhood on the Southeast Side of Chicago Tuesday, and then intentionally crashed into the car in a risky maneuver restricted by some police departments nationwide."

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 20h

ICE-hole MF Chicago fascism of the day, as chronicled by the Chicago Sun Times at chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

chicago.suntimes.com

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 21h

Baseball ( #nobodycaresaboutyourfantasyteam )

Turns out my 2024 auction league team (12th place of 14) wasn't a year late on George Springer, Spencer Torkelson, & Andrew Vaughn; it was a year early.

2025: 4th place for the third time in four seasons, just enough for exactly recouping the entry fee

matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 1d

7. Various other observations (example: I hear 3 interesting songs in a row in the radio). Sometimes Bluesky, sometimes maybe it wasn't interesting enough to be posted anywhere after all.

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