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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 10m

The action is in the reaction. A shortcoming of the mass rally/march as a tactic is that it often fails to raise significant tension, allowing the enemy to just ignore it, which can be demoralizing. Luckily Stephen Miller, a zealous but incompetent authoritarian, has solved this problem for No Kings

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 21m

Trump intermittently rediscovers that China is a large country that manufactures many things so a trade war with them has much larger economic costs than with e.g Brazil, so he keeps retreating from infinity tariffs to limited symbolic fights

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 1h

That was gonna be my suggestion

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h

Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 2h

‘“And I can tell you, trying to get leverage in front of a meeting with Donald Trump is a bad idea,” Bessent said.’

How odd that China’s leaders have gotten a very different impression from the events of the year so far, what’s up with that www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Operation De-escalation

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused China of making a major trade “miscalculation” last week, but he also said he was “optimistic” the two sides can resolve their disagreement through talks rathe...

www.politico.com

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 16h

The wishcasting by China hawks over the weekend got pretty intense

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23h

“We hope and pray to God that this brings actual peace.”

Palestinian families told The Independent that soldiers had raided the homes of relatives on the eve of the prisoners’ release, warning them not to celebrate.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

‘All we see is destruction’: Palestinians fear the fragile ceasefire will not last

As aid trickles in, families reunite and people return to their homes, citizens of Gaza tell The Independent that they are still in danger

www.independent.co.uk

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

See below for the incredible way Meta’s AI tool describes this video.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 3d

They don't want to do that, tho, this was pretty obviously meant to increase their leverage in negotiations

Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 3d

So they really hate it when you follow them around and honk huh

Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 3d

This is fascism. This is a police state. Masked men with guns in unmarked cars are driving through residential neighborhoods during the daytime looking to kidnap women and children.

Resist this. Never normalize this or else these fascists thugs will some day be used against you and your family.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 3d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe Trump will retreat before Monday, or maybe not, or maybe everything collapses in a way he can't fix with a TACO post, who knows

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 3d

Lowest level for 30-year yields since April 7th:

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 3d

They defeated fascism first

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 3d

Back to hard decoupling at 4:50pm ET lol

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social · 6d

Commentary hasn’t shed much light on the perplexing question of what is motivating the move to war. From ‪@edwardluce.bsky.social‬, a good start:

“Trump is so pleased with the optics of these apparently risk-free fireworks [i.e. the boat murders] that he seems to be developing a taste for them.”
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 7d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 4d

Multiple reports of ICE incidents within walking distance (including a day care, a cemetery), but my favorite coffee shops are still open, and you hear snippets of conversation about ICE/NG once in a while, but you can still pretend everything is normal if you wanted. Bizarre, unstable

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 4d

To clarify, he is a pastor in the Presbyterian church (a denomination which does not practical clerical celibacy)

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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