Fam, this is a challenging moment. We (as reporters) are trying to balance urgency of news & amplification of resistance narratives with not assisting in putting people in prison. It's tough for everyone right now with how fast videos go viral. There's a lot we are not sharing.

here’s the other one: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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It’s important to say if you ever find an injured bird of prey, you should always contact your local wildlife charity / rehab centre before handling them. That option wasn’t immediately available to us, but as soon as we found a professional willing to help, they were involved each step of the way.

What is happening with ICE across our country is anti-policing. It is illegal. It is immoral. It is ineffective. And it is also stupid. It’s bad enough when police act like the hall monitors for a city. It’s worse when they act like the school bullies. And ICE ain’t police. it is utterly wrong.

He’s not saying it because he believes it. He’s saying it because saying it makes other people believe it and provides justification for killing/imprisoning Americans for political beliefs.

all the love and solidarity to the good people of the los angeles, dc, Memphis, Portland, and Chicago areas A president of the United States is not allowed to use the US military as his play thing to deploy his gleeful vindictiveness against enemy populations, esp. not of American civilians. This…

I want to be clear: there is no need for military troops on the ground in the State of Illinois.

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

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@kith51.bsky.social Blog I mentioned www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-point-...

this is hardly the most important piece of Diddy news today but it's pretty funny that the court sketch artist drew the Bailiff's badge as a circle A anarchist symbol

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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You know what I am going to be today? Today I am going to be fair. Today I am going to have grace. Today I am going to bite my fucking tongue until it bleeds because someone else is holding more pain. Today I decide who I am going to be and good luck to anyone who thinks they can stop me.

What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that. Shameless!

“Words cannot begin to describe the loss and devastation my family feels,” said Mario’s son, Oscar. “I am in utter shock and disbelief the government has punished my father for simply doing his life’s work of journalism.” “He is the reason our home feels like home,” he continued.

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

Amidst the other chaos of the government shutdown you might have missed the fact that the House’s version of the appropriations bill bans federal funding for all gender-affirming care, for any patient of any age. transitics.substack.com/p/the-new-ho...

Greg Bovino leads a group of federal agents, including BOP, ATF, and HSI, out of the Broadview ICE facility to confer with Illinois State Police before pushing protesters back.

The emergence of Philomena, Harbinger of Autumn:

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

And here I was thinking this timeline couldn’t get any more stupid.

Thread of Portlands being amazingly and beautifully unhinged while protesting ICE

“These lies are pissing me off,” said Senator @markwarner.bsky.social. “This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants—that’s already against the law. It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums.”

“Agricultural employment dropped 6.5% from March to July, a loss of about 155,000 workers, reversing two years of growth.” “If you’re thinking of a new orchard, greenhouse, or warehouse,” said one expert, “you wouldn’t do that now because you would not get workers.”

they pulled families out of their apartments overnight, and ZIPTIED KIDS TOGETHER this country. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

The administration took down the form required for my family get reimbursed for recovery work after our farm was destroyed in Helene. Hard not to see this kind of stuff as intentional.

Character countdown 22, Pauli Murray: Lawyer, writer, and storied civil rights activist accomplished in the practice of "confrontation by typewriter”; student at the Garland Fund's Brookwood Labor College. @simonandschuster.bsky.social #TheRadicalFund

The more that civilian leaders treat the military as a partisan institution, the more the military will start behaving like a partisan institution—and the less it can be relied on to fight and win wars. www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/...

RIP Jane Goodall

This bit, & the one in the next reskeet, need to be fully unpacked. What Hegseth is asserting here is that the zero defect concept, which plays an important role in an up or out military, is going away as long as he's SecDef. 1/

I'm watching coverage of the gov shutdown. Absent is the recent Supreme Court action allowing the president to rescind budgeted funds. They destroyed the negotiation necessary for this process. How can there be compromise when one side has established that they won't abide by agreements they make?

This is an absolutely brilliant piece.

"For no kingdom can maintain itself by force alone. Force does not work the way its advocates think in fact it does. It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of the adversary. On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of the adversary." -James Baldwin

“The way you stand up to a bully is not to cave to the bully. The way you stand up to the bully is to say no to the bully,” Goldstein said. “So if you say no, we will have your backs.” #shutdown federalnewsnetwork.com/government-s...

I wasn't planning on showing up Sat night until I saw this video. Fuck these out of town motherfuckers coming into Chicagoland terrorizing us. They will charge at you, throw you to the ground, then charge you with a felony *for talking.* It's the highest risk protest environment I've ever seen but

Another epic scoop by @marisakabas.bsky.social. Independent media for the win 💪

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

On today's Lawfare Daily @klonick.bsky.social spoke to @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @annabower.bsky.social, and Bob Bauer about the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and what it says about the Trump administration’s ongoing politicization of the Department of Justice.

I think this is actually the nub of our constitutional crisis

HUD.Gov right now has a delusional partisan popup and banner. This is what the Trump admin is all about, spending tax payer money to make shit up about their opposition.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

These dogs just took an 1,800-mile adventure across six states to their forever homes ❤️ #partner