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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1h

Daniel O'Connell's boldness in denouncing chattel slavery had helped make the Irish "Liberator" a controversial figure in America, and Frederick Douglass admired both his eloquence and that his concern for human liberty went beyond his native land. The two met during Douglass's tour of Ireland.

What Frederick Douglass Learned in Ireland

And what Ireland learned from him

www.thefitzwilliam.com

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 6h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 1h

#jawboning #ICE

thehill.com/policy/techn...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1h

The inherent corollary of "this is murder" is that we prosecute and punish people who commit murder.

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 1h

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4h

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 2h

I think you have to be a certain age and have some real familiarity with Nazi medals to get that comment, but I loved it. 😎

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 2h

Provided in reader mode to get around the annoying pop up. I wonder where they got these ideas? 🤔

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 6h

These Afghan's helped keep American troops alive. Trump's indiscriminate mass deportation insanity is a stab in the back to these people, a certain death sentence if they get sent back to Afghanistan. This is taxpayer funded moral & political depravity.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 6h

I HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve been at the local No Kings protests, and if I have one piece of advice for sign writers, it’s USE FEWER WORDS.

Two pieces? Ok fine: MAKE THE WORDS BIGGER

Your audience is driving by in a car. It’s not the time for a manifesto.

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 7h

We don't pull any punches in this one. And for those who may not know it, DHS publicly threatened my colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social for his superb work exposing their lies about one specific ICE misconduct episode.

Joe Verruni @verruni.bsky.social · 8h

@davidjbier.bsky.social & @pgeddington.com chat assaults on ICE and the constitution on the @cato.org Podcast

Protecting Immigration Enforcement Officers and the Constitution

Podcast Episode · Cato Podcast · 10/14/2025 · 32m

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 8h

Fact: No authoritarian regime can function absent cash. A months-long government shutdown will lead to mass departures of ICE & other federal agents currently carrying out Trump's orders, & also prevent more bogus National Guard call ups. The only question is this: will Senate Dems stay the course?

Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 1d

The shutdown is having the desired effect on Trump’s domestic tyranny machine. Now is not the time to let up. My latest, out now.

On Starving Tyranny

Now is not the time for Jeffries or any other Democrats, especially Senate Democrats, to go weak in the knees over shutdown politics.

www.therepublicsentinel.com

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 21h

In a mistaken-shooting-of-colleague police case, the Eighth Circuit said it was up to the judge not jury to assess the reasonableness of the defendant's factual mistakes. Cato cert amicus brief argues that displacing the jury’s role undermines a vital constitutional check on government power.

Green v. Tanner Brief: Juries, Not Judges, Need to Determine the Reasonableness of Mistaken Use of Force

By converting disputed factual questions of reasonableness into issues of law for judges, the decisions stripped juries of their constitutionally assigned role and gutted the mechanism Congress design...

www.cato.org

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 23h

Better late than never, I guess.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 23h

There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.”

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

The Irredeemable DOJ

Why James has an even stronger case of selective prosecution than Comey.

open.substack.com

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Gene HA!unt @geneha.com · 1d

Albany Park is my mom's neighborhood in Chicago. Rogers Park is my brother's neighborhood. Both peacefully drove away violent kidnapping raids by US Constitution hating ICE thugs.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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 say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 1d

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

windycitytimes.com

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 1d

"George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and these other traitorous colonists are not part of some organic protest movement--they are clearly funded by the French monarchy, which constantly seeks to undermine the authority of the British crown." A spokesman for His Majesty, George III

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”

“Aug 28 has been set as the date for this mass invasion of the captial by upward of 100,000 negroes…”

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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.com · 1d

Let's hope the spinal transplant takes hold. Permanently. 🤞

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, sure, Mr. Speaker, #NoKings is antifa, whatever.

Imagine being assigned to find antifa as part of a scavenger hunt and the closest thing you could find was me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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