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Walter Olson
about 10 hours ago
Remember, though, it will hurt Kristi Noem's feelings if you call them secret police.
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Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags â now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say theyâre meeting regulations.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/09/federal-immigration-officers-ice-dhs-license-plates-immigration
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart
about 20 hours ago
My publisherâs been very patient. Iâm not doing everything I said Iâd do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because Iâm an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
https://www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68DQBH3U0CUUWZyWRw
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Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio) Pretty late when this owl showed up in near darkness. Images edited in Lightroom.
#birds
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Mark Histed
about 12 hours ago
Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win. But at NIH we have seen this exact play before. It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture. A đ§”:
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-layoffs-measles.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
about 12 hours ago
Amen
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Joyce White Vance
about 12 hours ago
Fighting for the independence of the judiciary matters. We know this is true, because Trump is trying to take it away.
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When they Bukele the Courts
When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was first deported to El Salvador and his lawyers went to court, arguing an immigration judge had previously prohibited it, Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff,...
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/when-they-bukele-the-courts?r=5n3e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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amanda moore đą
about 17 hours ago
Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
about 12 hours ago
I remember when people were debating if Israel would actually strike a single hospital while they were leveling an entire civilization
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Martha Crawford
about 13 hours ago
I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons
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Grudgie the Whale
about 14 hours ago
We have barely even sniffed around the insider trading crimes of the WH and its friends
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 16 hours ago
One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.
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Carole Cadwalladr
about 14 hours ago
The least surprising news ever. But also thank you to
@robevansgdn.bsky.social
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@direthoughts.com
for shining a light on how two Silicon Valley lobbyists have joined forces to advance their billionaire-funded techno-accelerationist agenda into the heart of UK govt.
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Ron Stonebear Shields
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Brandon Friedman
about 14 hours ago
Another one
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Dr. Jack Brown
about 16 hours ago
Donald Trump is engaged in the biggest cover-up in American history â and he's threatening members of congress to be complicit in his crimes. Release the Epstein files.
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Seth Abramson
about 14 hours ago
The joke is on Trump. The ethnic cleansing is simply being moved over to the West Bank. Who in their right mind would believe the Israelisâ under Benjamin Netanyahuâabout *anything*?
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Clara Jeffery
about 17 hours ago
We will need Nuremberg-like trials
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The Tennessee Holler
about 21 hours ago
Imagine that
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Gillian Brockell
about 20 hours ago
Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage âIf someone says itâs raining outside and someone else says it isnât, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.â
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Chris Geidner
about 19 hours ago
This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people â and recognition of trans peopleâs history â from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.
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Marc Elias
about 19 hours ago
The biggest news story of the week that you may have missed is the real possibility that TikTok will go MAGA. Subscribe now to have all of Democracy Docket's premium content, including my exclusive newsletters, sent straight to your inbox.
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⊠disarrayâ
about 19 hours ago
PORTLAND, Ore. â A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cherâs âIf I Could Turn Back Time.â
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'
Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dancing-frogs-unicorns-protest-portland-war-zone-rcna236887
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Universal Hub
about 20 hours ago
Looks like Mass. and other Northeast states picked a good time to set up a regional public-health system.
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Charles Ornstein
about 19 hours ago
This is staggering. âThe staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off.â Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Joshua Erlich
about 19 hours ago
guards ignoreâbut are trainedâthat withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent the fact that they were *wrong* about this personâs emergency doesnât make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent
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Marisa Kabas
about 20 hours ago
New â Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says heâs not allowed to speak to him âby lawâ and another says âWeâve arrested American citizens for being too closeâŠIf he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.â
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Will Stancil
about 19 hours ago
By the way ICE in this video is driving a $100k luxury SUV. Theyâre literally gangsters with a $100 billion dollar budget, which, like any gangster, they have used to buy themselves luxury cars and guns. Pretty soon theyâll start gold-plating their weapons, because why not
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Chris Murphy
about 20 hours ago
They are building a Propaganda State. They are cooking the books on job creation. Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.
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Universal Hub
1 day ago
Judges order more immigrants freed from
#ICE
clutches, including 13-year-old boy now locked up with men at ICE's office prison in Burlington
www.universalhub.com/2025/judges-...
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Chris Murphy
about 20 hours ago
When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode. Pedal to the floor.
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Lee-in-Iowa đ
about 22 hours ago
Funny, my normal labwork never calls the results âexceptionalâ. Also of note, this guy got ALL the vaccinations. Also of note, nobody believes his cardiovascular health is FOURTEEN YEARS YOUNGER than his actual age.
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Richard E Frankel
about 22 hours ago
Trump, 79, has âemotional ageâ of 10-year-old, people outside the Bubble say
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Grudgie the Whale
about 23 hours ago
This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and itâs barely even a story
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Peter Jukes
1 day ago
Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gillâs office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other thanâŠ
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Moby Dick
1 day ago
I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.
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13 days ago
Suzi Eszterhas, award-winning wildlife photographer known for documenting animal family groups
#WomensArt
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Andy Adams
about 24 hours ago
Must see:
youtu.be/npwmcJxgLic?...
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ORWELL 2+2=5 - Official Greenband Trailer - In Select Theaters October 3
YouTube video by NEON
https://youtu.be/npwmcJxgLic?si=JjWCSWUy_Ya7rufb
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Ashton Pittman
1 day ago
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 sightâsoon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.
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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.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/a-long-way-from-home-mississippi-father-faces-deportation/
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Bill Kristol
1 day ago
The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to âthe right of the people peaceably to assemble.â I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.
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southpaw
1 day ago
What an emblem of the billionaire classâdescending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.
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David Corn
about 24 hours ago
Trump cites a murderous war criminal to attack the Nobel Peace Prize committeeâs decision. Truly absurd and disturbing. And narcissism of a pathological degree.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg
1 day ago
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html
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Tony Yates
about 24 hours ago
I thought this sentence was a joke about hypocrisy at first but he actually said it!
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JonReilly1313
1 day ago
4 unnamed Co-conspirators.
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Sarah Kendzior
about 23 hours ago
"A great way to get censored in this country is investigate Epstein and Maxwell and to research the origins of the Maxwell family and Robert Maxwell's ties to organized crime."
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Sarah Kendzior: The Fiction of Antifa, Plus, Answering the Epstein âFilesâ Question
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTWKV5NqPk
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Prem Thakker ă
1 day ago
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman â the news producer just detained by Trumpâs CBP agents â saying it violates the âjoy of TikTokâ
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Zoomer Antimillenarian âšïž
1 day ago
I understand why she is gassing him up like this. The Maduro regime is one of the few regimes in the world even less competent and humane than the Trump regime, and Machado is desperate to overthrow it at any cost, and to avoid a rapprochement between Trump and Maduro. Still incredibly gross tho.
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 days ago
Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize
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Prisonculture
1 day ago
This is truly BONKERS.
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City Nolan
1 day ago
Hizzoner delivers a pretty remarkable broadside against the press, claiming it was responsible for killing his reelection after a subway crime press conference, singling out reporters. We chased him out of the station. Me: âWould you take the upgrades again?â Adams: âIâm so glad your backâ
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