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Zeb Haradon @zebharadon.bsky.social · 16h

Racists would rather fly on a plane with a blind white pilot than a competent black one. And, they are. We're all in the plane with them.

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 21h

Trump tries to kill renewables — and accidentally sparks green energy boom: report

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Trump tries to kill renewables — and accidentally sparks green energy boom: report

President Donald Trump and his subordinates have done everything in their power to slam the brakes on renewable energy development — but despite it all, the industry is booming, The New York Times rep...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

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

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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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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 17h

[to mafia thugs extorting me in a “protection” racket] excuse me, but you took an oath to protect me

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𓅓🌈 skyler🔆𓅖 @glittergore.gold · 15h

those "find the 10 things wrong in this image" games were inserted into our childhoods by a time traveler trying to prepare us to spot AI

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 16h

That mugshot is a decade old.

Here are current pics of Harold Alston Smith, who the right-wingers call "Tommy 2" - comparing him to the other MAGA bully down there, Tommy Allen, who has been arrested multiple times himself.

Smith goes by ArkAssassin93 on Twitter

Big white guy with long brown hair holding a flag

Big white guy with long brown hair being arrested

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Luka Grafera @grafera.zone · 15h

Mass Defense Hotline can help with support and advocacy when you call from jail in Portland— but only if you have the number handy! Here's a little reminder to write it somewhere discreet on your skin whenever you're risking arrest. Download and distribute ↓

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Mass Defense Hotline Card

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 1d

so THAT'S antifa's gf

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

gene kelly is antifa

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

My uber driver: So ICE shot things at you and now you’re checking into their hotel? What if they shoot things at you in the hotel?

Like please let them tear gas me in the lobby of the Hilton.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent thread on how the right projects political violence onto the left. They consistently reframe violence perpetrated by right-wing affiliated people as leftist. This isn’t new and is a common tactic of their projection and distraction.

David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 3d

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

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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YourAnonRiots 🐈️🏴🇵🇸🇲🇲🦋 @youranonriots.bsky.social · 3d

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3d

Some people will do anything for Canadian citizenship

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

chat it's happening

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Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 3d

Portland police arrested a right-wing agitator at the ICE facility. Protesters say this man punched a woman in the face on video. I’ll update if I see the video, but it seems very likely given how fast PPB responded and what everyone is saying.

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 3d

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Comrade Survival Fund

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Chicago

sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 3d

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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By Way of Plymouth @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social · 4d

Please reach out if you have more info about Joseph William Behling of Manchester NH, previously of Hooksett NH! Allegedly “Marcus NH” of Patriot Front & the New England Active Club, and involved in Patriot Front’s efforts to recruit teens, Behling is potentially a serviceman in the US Navy.

A triptych of images of various points in Joseph Behling of Manchester NH's life. The first is him at his Londonderry High School Class of 2021 graduation ceremony. He wears: a blue graduation gown and cap; a corded sash in red, white, and blue; a medal with a red, white, and blue ribbon with several pins attached; and half-frame glasses. He holds his graduation certificate in its shut holder. He grins, blithely. The second is from a Patriot Front photo op, taken in front of a concrete wall in a wooded area somewhere in or around Manchester NH, during December 2022. A man who is allegedly Joseph Behling holds his right fist to his heart, and conceals his face with a white gaiters and tan baseball cap with a black variant of the Vermont Republic flag. He also wears what appears to be a Colombia Ascender softshell jacket, khaki pants, and glasses. The wall behind him has been vandalized with graffiti, of which a Patriot Front fasces symbol is somewhat visible. The third is allegedly of Behling during Patriot Front's standout against SatanCon in Boston MA during April 2023. A white man of average build, he wears a white gaiter that covers the lower half of his face, including his nose, black aviators, a tan baseball cap with a Patriot Front flag patch on the front, and a navy blue zip-up jacket with a hood. The right sleeve has a pair of patches: the Christian identity flag, and an Appeal to Heaven flag. His right arm is extended outward, and he clutches a cross (with a figure of Jesus crucified upon it) as if attempting to ward something off.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 4d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 4d

the new york times has helpfully clarified that buildings in oregon are made out of modern construction materials.

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