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KPM
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Chicago Gay. Day job is healthcare analytics, unpaid night gig is trying to get my friends to play math rocks with me. Recovering policy addict. Cat pics are my own, but it's not my cat.
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Sometimes life serves up art.

Kudos to @unraveledpress.com and @atrupar.com for keep a spotlight on this when more-resourced news organizations act as PR mouthpieces for the regime instead of doing their journalistic duty to our society.
Bluesky feed showing two skeets: Top skeet from Unraveled Press, over a still from a video depicting two women assisting a third personwho has collapsed to the ground. One of the workers is wearing a hazmat mask. The skeet reads "ICE still out here at Broadview firing bpepper balls at protestors. Some folks got hit pretty hard. Air quality out here is awful and people ar retching." Bottom skeet is from Aaron Rupar, depicting Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly. Skeet reads: "Trump to UN: Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize."
September 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
kpmcgrath.bsky.social
This is some brazenly fascist shit:
Over time, the post-9/11 fusion center system turned on the American people in ways the general public did not anticipate. By contrast, the new militarized law enforcement structure contemplated in the Project 2025 Border Security Workgroup documents has civil rights ramifications built into its DNA. A significant portion of the documents discuss domestic counter-intelligence. The draft proposals contain recommendations to investigate, prosecute and even seize the assets of non-governmental organizations, along with state, municipal and federal agencies that provide services to immigrants and refugees. [Text highlighted from here:] Documents describe some NGOs and specific government agencies as potential targets because they are perceived to oppose the priorities of the president, and because they are "accomplices to immigration crime."[End highlight] "An insider threat to this strategy can be expected that works with nation-state, transnational and non-governmental entities to subvert the President's plan," the documents state further. "An active counter-intelligence effort must be organized, integrated across all levels, and actively conducted to identify and prosecute any individuals working for and providing classified or operationally sensitive information on border security plans and activities."
May 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
kpmcgrath.bsky.social
The protests in downtown Chicago this afternoon:
Chicago, Cook County, and American flags flying at Daly Plaza in Chicago, with protest signs beneath
April 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
kpmcgrath.bsky.social
Fuck. Arresting an Afghan refugee, who worked for us and is at risk if deported, as he's at his regular check-in...

That is evil.
Text from article above: "On February 24, his lawyer wrote to ICE asking them to release her client, noting his lack of a criminal record, that he was not a flight risk and had an active asylum case related to his work supporting the U.S. military in Afghanistan. James Mullan, the assistant field office director at ICE’s Washington field office responded that ICE was declining to release him. “The priorities that you mentioned in your email ended on January 20, 2025,” Mullan wrote, referring to the date of Trump’s inauguration."
March 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM