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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1h

"I’m a US citizen; a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason."

"ICE cannot be allowed to operate in the shadows, unchecked & unaccountable. Civil rights mean nothing if those in power face no consequences for violating them. Accountability is the only way forward."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Vought: "We're gonna keep those RIFs rolling throughout this shutdown ... think the Minority Business Development Agency that divvies up business grants on basis of race. Think Environment Justice at EPA ... "

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 1h

"These reckless actions are disrupting and destroying the lives of everyday working people who are constantly being used as bargaining chips."

Federal Workers Are Being Used as Pawns in the Shutdown

“People are scared," asks one federal worker. “Is WIRED hiring?” jokes another.

www.wired.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson is upset that millions of people will protest kings on Saturday for the love of America.

NO
KINGS,
For the love of America.

October 18
NoKings.org

Picture of Statue of Liberty.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 4h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2h

We're taking to the streets this Saturday at hundreds of protests nationwide to reject the Trump administration's attacks on our rights.

Find a No Kings protest near you at nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=a...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Yesterday, white nationalist paramilitary forces attacked another Chicago neighborhood with chemical weapons. Families and at least one infant were gassed. This morning, they are kidnapping more immigrants both here and in other metros (D.C., L.A. still being terrorized).

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 5h

John Cornyn, who is up for reelection, thinks the people of Texas are blind to the Republican government shutdown

Maybe he needs an earful from his constituents

Could airport delays stop the two-week long shutdown? Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., is doubtful. "I haven't seen anything that breaks the stalemate," he told Semafor, adding: "This whole thing is stupid." After the House's stopgap bill failed again Monday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune switched up tactics, setting up a vote later this week on a defense-only funding bill. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin wants Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson to meet with Democratic leaders and President Donald Trump: "It's time for us to sit down and resolve this." There's no sign of such a meeting yet - and some senators say the hutdown isn't breaking through back home.
Most of my constituency back in Texas doesn't know the government is shut down, except for delays in air traffic," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Semafor. "It's obviously a battle of wills."
- Burgess Everett

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5h

“I’ve never done a bond or a habeas for a kid this young, ever." – U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns

"The boy remains trapped in a prison 500 miles away from home with an unhealed broken foot, sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket, and crying to his mother on the phone."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4h

Trump administration cut funding floods to Alaskan villages bc “DEI” and now some of those villages have been inundated by floods.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

I know the whole “every accusation is a confession” thing but it’s pretty clear this is the most elitist government that’s existed in decades. It’s just 12 billionaires in a group chat sharing banned Reddit memes

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 18h

Two dozen masked ICE Federal Secret Police, who are kitted out like they are going to war, kidnap a local and brutalize the community.

Toward the end of the video, they throw a gas cannister that almost hits a baby. 😟

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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 4h

GOP’s Medicaid cuts will raise health care costs for millions.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

AOC speaks with Americans about GOP’s crushing health care cuts

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York released a video Tuesday addressing the GOP’s Medicaid cuts that will raise health care costs for millions who are already struggling. In the ...

www.dailykos.com

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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 4h

📍 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐎, 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐎𝐈𝐒:

ICE agents reportedly fined a man $130 for not carrying his papers — even though he is a legal resident. They questioned him, drove him around, and only let him go after verifying his status. #AbuseofPowerWatch

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4h

"Here's the Truth About Trump's 'Peace Plan' for Gaza"

The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide - regardless of the 'ceasefire' deal.

Read/share/subscribe:

Here's the Truth About Trump's 'Peace Plan' for Gaza

The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide – regardless of the 'ceasefire' agreement.

zeteo.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 5h

Rank-and-file Young Republicans are more upset at the guy who leaked their leadership’s Nazi group chat than they are at their leadership for being in a Nazi group chat.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4h

“… plenty more evidence has surfaced of how immigration officers are abusing the constitutional rights, civil rights, and civil liberties of US citizens who happen to not look like Brett Kavanaugh or walk around in places other than his fancy wealthy DC neighborhood.”

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine the sadism necessary to be an armed federal agent, under no threat whatsoever, willing to shoot a priest in the head.

ICE is “a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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