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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

Last Sunday, @demiforillinois.bsky.social, @raygunsite.com and I hosted a No Kings protest sign-making party with the best problem:

So many people showed up, we ran out of table space.

This is what community care looks like.

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 16m

Silly mass surrounding of kidnappings without intervening but distracting to seperate victim from attacker is peaceful good trouble

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 8h

No one knows how many people ICE has kidnapped, how many have been shipped overseas or how many are still detained. Many have no contact with family or any lawyers, and no one who knows them knows where they are. Many are being held indefinitely in facilities that refuse oversight

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 18m

"No Kings means no paycheck" they are holding Americans hostage to force our obedience in advance of a wannabe King

LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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Xennial Farmer @xennialfarmer.bsky.social · 20h

Whatever immunity they think they have will not save them.

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 19m

Reminder that not all immigrants are Spanish-speakers. We know they're using our criminalization to justify it but they will get everyone.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3h

Trump said he'd focus on the “worst of the worst," but he's mostly focused on people like Melissa Tran — a MD business owner who's lived here 30 yrs and is a fixture of her community.

Cruel.

I salute all who fought for her release. After months in ICE detention, she's finally home.

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after 5 months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 33m

Act first, litigate later is the Republican strategy so do it @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

The Pentagon’s new press policy bars journalists from reporting anything that hasn’t been approved by the Trump regime.

The NYT, Washington Post, Atlantic, and NPR are refusing to sign the agreement.

Kudos to the media outlets standing up to this blatant authoritarianism.

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Repugs R Stinky @artfulscribe.bsky.social · 19h

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 34m

Don’t tell JB but I’m rooting for him to rise to his power. You will still see me pressuring him though. Someone has to be the bad guy

LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 21h

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 4h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 35m

Because asking nicely works well with tyrants @governor.ca.gov should know @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 47m

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 36m

You haven’t learned from @governor.ca.gov He has the same strategy of asking them and not defending his citizens and it’s not working out.

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 39m

I wrote this unserious but the more I think about it, it’s a genius way that’s non-violent. Dance or be silly surrounding the incident, maybe doing a conga line in numbers separating victim from attackers but not intervening. Just dancing in flash mob. Teamworkkkkj

St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

If we see someone dearresting we totally shouldn’t all crowd around them to create silly and peaceful chaos distraction in numbers so they can get away. Distractions gives them time to run and hide. Maybe everyone is confused where to stand. Tots not intentional just confused people

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 55m

What would be hilarious is if inflatables surround an arrest incident and start dancing allowing distraction for dearrest and safety opportunity. Peaceful strategy 😇

St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

If we see someone dearresting we totally shouldn’t all crowd around them to create silly and peaceful chaos distraction in numbers so they can get away. Distractions gives them time to run and hide. Maybe everyone is confused where to stand. Tots not intentional just confused people

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

We should use them on them when this regime falls. Federal agent Clarence Thomas will need a custom fit

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 5h

Sadists. Truly sick people.

ICE is thoroughly un-American.

Don't you want to know—as I do—how many of these armed, masked, warrantless, insignia-less, nameless, essentially untrained Big Government goons are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and other J6 runoff? apnews.com/article/immi...

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

A better dearresting from zip-ties tutorial for no reason at all

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

Federal agents do not have authority over U.S. citizens yet look at them here making a U.S. citizen guilty until being proven citizen. They’re our collective enemy. They hate the Constitution and we defend it.

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

Dearresting from zip-ties techniques

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

Most of us can’t afford to leave so let’s have clarity to what brought us here: An intentionally insufficient Constitution to amplify political status quo over Constitutional status quo

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U.S. Constitution is Incomplete, no teeth like the United Nations

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

Release the Epstein Files so Israel has no pull over the West.

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 1h

Sadly, I predicted as much.

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Trump threatens to disarm Hamas ‘violently’ as Israel violates Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

They’re normalizing this to kill Americans. They’re already killing immigrants under the appeasement of @governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov so when they kill you your governor will defend the Gestapo

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1h

Oh no everyone responding will bait martial law @governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1h

Two weeks into the government shutdown, the Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion that had been reserved for more than 200 projects primarily located in Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states