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Mike B.
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#SeparationOfFelonAndState Certified non-prophet I never speak in absolutes. Writer ✍️ Novelist Essayist History Politics Science Recovering marketer Amateur movie/media critic #SeparationOfChurchAndState Four give a neat eye pose.
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Every photo caption and chyron should read: "Trump, finishing what bin Laden started."
Also, the guy who is hypercompetitive with other billionaires is unaware of one of them? 🤔🙄
New to him, I googled and learned.

I can't deny his truths, however his YT videos lack *any context whatsoever. Instead—and judging by the comments from his huge following—he seems to be only justifying FauxNews types' hatred of others.

From that limited perspective, I do not like. 2/2
Late last eve I learned my childhood stomping grounds from the literal street where my home once stood to my high school one town over got the CharlieBo treatment.

This, it turns out, is a bad thing:

Chicago's "most gang ridden ... ", "most ghetto ... ," "most dangerous ... ," etc.

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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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That’s by design. Billionaires monetize rage bait, and it has the added bonus of keeping us fighting with each other while they rob us blind. But one day soon, all the anger from the culture wars they’ve cultivated to distract us from the class war will be turned on them.
One of the biggest revelations of the social media age imo is how much people are addicted to getting mad, so much so that they'll actively create reasons when there are none.
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NEW: More than 100 federal judges have now rejected the Trump administration’s new policy to lock up nearly everyone facing deportation — including 12 judges appointed by Trump, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Only 2 judges have sided with ICE.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy
A POLITICO review of the rulings shows judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have rebuked the administration’s new interpretation of immigration law.
www.politico.com
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Re: the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System "Mobile Field Force."

These are cops from departments in the suburbs (ex: Oak Brook, Lake Forest, etc). When they're not at protests as part of this team, they're working regular beats. We don't see them in Chicago because CPD has no need for them.
Yet another variety of cop has arrived—NIPAS/assorted suburban Illinois cops from various departments recruited for riot control.

Dogs barking.

ISP just gave another warning, ordering protesters to disperse or potentially face chemical weapons or "pain compliance techniques."
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This thread is about Evanston, but this has also been going on without reprieve in Elgin, Aurora, and other Chicago suburbs—a metro area of nearly 10 million people.
Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.
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I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"
Pirro sensed a lens cap dangling somewhere in this direction.
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Others have already spoken to this, but a major element of Midway Blitz is the admin signaling that nothing and nowhere is sacred. Holidays, graveyards, school campuses, churches, homes.

Nothing is off limits to the roving bands of masked, heavily armed strangers who say they're here to save us.
The 2028 Democratic party's campaign slogan has got to be, "Fuuuck this."
Seriously, did no one else watch 'Person of Interest' back in the day?
Vietnam ... Venezuela ... he ran away from one jungle only to stupidly stumble into another.
Had a chance to participate in a discussion regarding a potential attack on Venezuela. I have questions…so does Congress. Answers aren’t forthcoming. With @anacabrera.bsky.social
BREAKING: U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela, according to Miami Herald.
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Speaker Johnson: “If we had a contingency fund for SNAP we’d use it.”

REALITY: There is one, Trump literally just deleted it off the USDA site 🤷🏼

More: www.notus.org/trump-white-...
Great song, though I can usually only hear Dionne's voice when it crosses my radar. This was a little before my existence but still got airplay. I looked up the release date of One Tin Soldier ... and it literally was one of the first new songs I ever heard. 😁
This is one of the earliest songs I remember.
Caucasian
Bullshit
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Weiss living up to her name, which translates to white.
Bari Weiss makes a clean sweep, firing all women, Blacks and Hispanics in high-profile positions at CBS News. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Dems: We’ll vote for a budget if you let sick people go to the doctor.

Republicans: Let us take doctors away from sick people or we’re gonna take food away from poor families.

#shutdown2025
Oof!

I enjoy good, snarky hot takes, including Ron's. This one strikes me as a bit tone deaf, though. Equating constituents with victims of serial rape and molestation ...

... the least heavy comparison is Sheldon Cooper likening himself to Rosa Parks because of a movie theater line cutter.
Mike Johnson allowing Jeffrey Epstein to keep Arizona’s 7th congressional district without representation for now nearly 8 months.

700,000 more Epstein victims thanks to enabler Mike Johnson, who has weaponized the files against them.
The ICE thug who grabbed her by the bra cup, launched her in the air, and caused her to crash onto the public pavement will probably sue for emotional damages, too. 🤦🏼

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Kat Abughazaleh has been federally indicted for quietly knitting (and yelling at bad people).

Federally indicted.

For protesting federal overreach. ⬅️ That's the kindest way to describe what these goons are doing to the metro.

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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
Happy to learn this! Thanks.
How refreshing it would be if maga mouthpieces who left home for college or military, were exposed to other people and cultures, and married and raised families with these "others" as they now portray them, encouraged their adherents to go out, see the world and learn "others" aren't boogeymen.