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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 1h

I hate to “well actually,” on this but this is, well actually, not what alt text is for. Someone who is visually impaired has no idea what the exchange is even about

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 1h

Like i said bsky.app/profile/prop...

ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

This is why I always chuckle whenever I hear some elected Dem talk about a bipartisan deal to re-open the government like dude you're the last person left on earth that hasn't heard about the business stylings of Donald Trump. The Art of the Deal is not paying for services rendered

ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 1h

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 1h

Big Oil forced to confront some tough choices as 'monster profits' fade into memory

A weaker crude price environment is expected to put the industry’s generous shareholder payouts at serious risk over the coming months.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 9h

Vance spent years being fellated and fawned over as this intellectual titan of the New Right with piercing insights into the American psyche that you just HAD to pay attention to, and he really is just the most vilely demagogic bottom-feeder we've seen in national politics in a long, long time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 2h

So many years of publishing and reporting copaganda they can't understand that the bad guys are the "law enforcement officers."

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, so countries and multinational conglomerates have over leveraged themselves? Oh, and it’s creating political instability and personal insanity?
Oh, and it’s straining electrical grids and water suppl? Seems great.

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve never been as confident about anything as I am that AI will cause a worldwide economic crash

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 2h

QT this post with someone you wish was still alive

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 2h

Start a “Canary Mission” for unmasking Trump’s Gestapo agents

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3h

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 5h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

They like Trump and want to help him rule us like a king

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3h

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 5h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3h

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 5h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 10h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 2h

I watched The Alabama Solution on HBO tonight. An amazing piece of documentary filmmaking that needs to be seen far and wide.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system

In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

www.theguardian.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

everything rightwingers eat somehow looks like poop

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4h

Trumps head of operations for the war being waged in Chicago is openly trying to channel the supposedly masculine imagery of the Nazis

Make no mistake these domestic enemies waging war against the states are Nazis.

Bovino is really trying to sell its aesthetic now.

Bovino standing in a Trenchcoat in a hallway lit red. It’s giving Temu fascism.

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 8h

If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there. — Malcolm X

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 8h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 8h

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

chicago.suntimes.com

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 6d

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 5h

Rather than a prisoner being forced to file a habeas petition, the government would have to file a deportation petition. Dems could demand this as part of reopening the government

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 5h

Forcing deportations to go through the courts is a surefire way to to bring the mass-deportation policy to a screeching halt.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 6d

ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process.
prospect.org/justice/2025...

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers

‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

prospect.org

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