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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Crockett: We're talking about them going after Clyburn in South Carolina, Andre Carson in Indiana, Reverend Cleaver in Missouri. Emilia Sykes in Ohio, three of the four black representatives that we currently have in the state of Texas. So don't tell me this isn't about race…

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 04/07/2025

Happy Independence Day, TX-30. Let this day be a reminder that democracy doesn’t protect itself. We’ve got to keep showing up, speaking out, and standing firm—until freedom feels real for everyone.

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pajarita.bsky.social @pajarita.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I’ve been thinking this all along. If they need to be deported, send them home. If they need to be locked up, the prisons should be here after a trial and guilty verdict. How can they just be shipped off to prison in another country and why are my tax dollars paying for it?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/06/2025

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2025

MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 21/06/2025

My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street. This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 21/06/2025

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention. "The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/06/2025

ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer. I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.

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Warren, Markey call for probe into ‘escalating aggression’ by federal agents in immigration raids - The Boston Globe

The Massachusetts senators called for the investigation in a letter sent Wednesday to the US Department of Homeland Security.

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Sidney Morss @sidneymorss.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Calm down…

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 18/06/2025

I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.

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Democracy Under Siege @chasg76.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I see that Carlson is still doing Putin's bidding.

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Imagine @speedimart.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Why are the American taxpayers footing the bill for 10 armed "ICE" agents to arrest one un-armed man in a suit at a courthouse when all they had to do, if just cause, was to have one person hand him a warrant? Where is the document? What was the reason? WHO are these guys? Why did they not show ID?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2025

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

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Democracy Under Siege @chasg76.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Unfortunately, they don't line up quite well enough for a stereogram. I lean to the left to avoid the frontal assault.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This doesn’t happen in America. This is what happens in dictatorships, when federal agents silence lawmakers for asking questions. A sitting U.S. Senator was physically removed and restrained by his own government. That’s not just a breach of protocol, it’s a warning sign.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

“.. ‘Whether people are legal or not, they don’t care,’ Alvarado said. ‘If chaos and fear is what they were after, they’ve accomplished it.’” @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/ice...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Mark this for the history books: “We’re talking about the president exercising his authority, and the president is of course limited to his authority. That’s the difference between a constitutional government and King George,” said Judge Charles Breyer.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/06/2025

Rep. Lynch: "In late March, ICE agents wearing masks detained Rümeysa Öztürk. And those of you who watched that abduction, when you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland ... it does look like the Gestapo."

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/06/2025

Wow. California Sen. Alex Padilla is wrestled and detained by federal officers after showing up to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. (video from Bill Melugin of Fox News)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/06/2025

277 men remain imprisoned at CECOT after they were illegally rendered without due process from the United States. (And one is, thankfully, back in the United States, facing Trumped up charges that were filed in a pathetic attempt to save face.)

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way: "If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/06/2025

Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/06/2025

Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/06/2025

Rep. Lynch: “Trump deported a 10-year-old girl, a U.S. citizen who was recovering from brain cancer…Trump deported another U.S. citizen, a two-year-old toddler, from Fort Lauderdale…Are cities safer now that this ten-year-old girl and this two-year-old toddler are gone?”

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 11/06/2025

We're living at a moment when ICE is threatening not only to arrest and deport immigrants but arrest and prosecute everyday people and leaders for educating others about their constitutional rights. Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️

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How to Defend Immigrants Against the Most Common ICE Tactics

These “know your rights” videos have crucial, easy-to-understand information.

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Democracy Under Siege @chasg76.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

ACLU's playlist of all the "We Have Rights" videos: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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ACLU x Brooklyn Defender Services: We Have Rights - YouTube

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Kaitrin Snodgrass @kaitsnod.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

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Timothy Keeney @timothykeeneyphotography.com · 10/06/2025

I was having a chat yesterday with another user about Rialto Beach, so I thought I would share a shot from there. The sea stack here looks quite similar to the one from yesterday. #timothykeeneyphotography #photography #landscapephotography #olympicnationalpark #washington #beach #seastack #waves

I wave crashes on shore in front of two sea stacks. The one on the right is larger and has trees on its right side. The one on the left is smaller and has a tree at the top. The sun is setting, making the lower horizon a golden color which is reflected in the wet sand.

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Democracy Under Siege @chasg76.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Oh, you mean the ones where the agents SSNs weren't redacted!?

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Democracy Under Siege @chasg76.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Yeah, I didn't think Home Depot was a common hangout for MS-13 or Tren De Aragua.

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 10/06/2025

This morning, I signed an Executive Order seeking greater transparency from ICE in response to secret police tactics we have seen. The City of Boston will regularly submit FOIA requests to DHS on federal immigration enforcement activity, to find out who they are detaining and arresting, and why.

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мɑгκ @drumrollplease.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

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Democracy Under Siege @chasg76.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"The special election on Tuesday is a primary, but there is not a Republican in the race. So, the winner between Timmons and Harrison will be sworn into office." www.koco.com/article/okla...

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Democracy Under Siege @chasg76.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

How is a 50 point shift not a flip. Please explain.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

1. When Trump ran for office, he pledged to "restore free speech." Then, as president, he deployed the military against people protesting his immigration policies. This wasn't an isolated incident It is part of an attack on freedom of speech, targeting anyone who does not share Trump’s ideology

A central promise of President Trump’s 2024 campaign was that, if elected, he would “restore free speech.” In September 2024, at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, Trump said, “I will bring back free…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/06/2025

Barragán: "This is not an effort to really get criminals. It's an effort to see 'let's see who we can sweep up along the way.' Why are they doing this? Bc this president said he was going to deport millions & the numbers have not been adding up. There aren't that many serious criminal offenders."

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This 147-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both Democracy and Personal Liberty.

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Noah @bedmounds.com · 10/06/2025

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

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Democracy Under Siege @chasg76.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I thought this was some type of water fountain when first looking at the thumbnails.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Carvalho notes that Stephen Miller is deploying Homeland Security claiming that elementary schoolers pose a national security threat.

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