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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/12/2025
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A Nativity where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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The Lever @levernews.com · 03/12/2025
🚨 NEW: A majority of Americans now support Medicare for All even if it ends private insurance and raises taxes. The tipping point is here because the ACA is failing to keep health care affordable. New polling shows a 50-point shift in just six years.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"Kushner is continuing to collect these fees as he serves in a top foreign policy role for the Trump administration. This is precisely the kind of behavior the Foreign Emoluments Clause was designed to prevent."
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Too on the nose for comfort: Indigenous actor Elaine Miles was detained by ICE. She says ICE called her tribal ID “fake.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul.

At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants.

Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization.

The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected.

Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency.

We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
How can anyone continue to support this??
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
We will need tribunals and Democrats need to start talking about that
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
One of the big ones.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is about Taylor Taranto. He attacked the US Capitol and was convicted. Trump pardoned him. He went on to take a gun and a machete to Obama's house and vowed to car bomb a federal building. The fired prosecutors were arguing for a heavy sentence for those crimes. abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...
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DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob' of 'rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack
Two federal prosecutors have been told they will be put on leave after filing a brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attackers a "mob of rioters," sources say.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The governments that starved their own people in need were never the good guys. No matter how much you twist yourself in knots to justify cutting SNAP when emergency funds exist, this is an act of evil against our fellow Americans by the Trump Administration and the Republican Doormat Congress.
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CamAnn @livefree58.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
a video of the young man's arrest shows him backing up, following commands, while having a weapon drawn on him. He's then surrounded, thrown to the ground, jumped on, and detained. shared with permission.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22/10/2025
Here's who's in the Pentagon's new "press corps," covering world's most powerful military: Out: New York Times, Washington Post. In: Tim Pool's Timcast, Gateway Pundit, the MyPillow guy's LindellTV. wapo.st/49iiXbn @scottnover.bsky.social
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Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout
A new crop of conservative media and influencers signed an agreement with the Pentagon, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“.. It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025. This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies. Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024. Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
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KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
November 4th is the BIG day. Vote YES on #PROP50. Your state and your country deserve the attention to this matter. Use your power!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
If Adelita Grijalva was a Republican, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago to the office she was elected to. If she wasn’t the deciding signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago. All his bs excuses are lies.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“You can’t shoot ‘em in the head (with pepper balls),” the judge said. “You can’t deploy tear gas. You can’t use flash-bang grenades. You can’t drive a car through a crowd.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...
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Federal judge demands answers from Trump admin on following order to avoid violent encounters with Chicago protesters | CNN
A judge in Illinois said she has “serious concerns” over whether federal law enforcement agents are following her order to avoid violent encounters with protesters and journalists in Chicago.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.” But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background. Don’t believe his lies for a second. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.
Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.
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KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Democracy is on the line! California can save it. #Prop50
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/10/2025
Donald Trump is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to Argentina – to help his political ally stay in power and bail out Wall Street hedge funds – while Americans at home can't afford health care or groceries.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 14/10/2025
At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
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Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request
The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12/10/2025
New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.
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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck. "I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!" Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door. Hoffman Estates, Illinois
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.
Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
VascluarEp. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it. Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device. The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...
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This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
BlinkRX, an online prescription drug delivery company, stands to benefit from proposed changes by Trump that would allow pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs directly to patients. His son, Eric Trump, is on the company’s board. Always follow the money.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Trump’s tariffs and cutbacks are bankrupting farmers. He thinks they’ll keep supporting him no matter what, but his approval numbers say otherwise.
Tweet from Amy Klobuchar that reads:
“27 million pounds of chicken
2 million gallons of milk
67 million eggs
That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.”
Below the text is an image showing trucks on a highway with a banner labeled “CANCELED” and a caption: “Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid.” The source line reads: “From projects.propublica.org.”
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 08/10/2025
I cherished every day I got to call myself a Soldier—but ordering troops to intimidate the very Americans they sacrifice to protect doesn’t make us safer.   Trump is wasting millions to terrorize citizens exercising their First Amendment rights. It's wrong.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This was never about deporting criminals. It’s about Stephen Miller’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Tweet from Alex Tabarrok reads:
“Sergio Garcia, celebrated Chef who came to the US before ICE even existed. Deported after 36 years.
The picture tells you a lot about the decline of the Republican party.”
Attached photo shows Sergio Garcia standing with Laura and George W. Bush outdoors. The photo is signed: “To Sergio Garcia, With best wishes – George & Laura Bush.”
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 06/10/2025
Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 04/10/2025
Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick. Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 01/10/2025
I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements program spent two times as much on administrative costs as on health care costs — while preventing thousands of eligible Georgians from accessing health care. Say it with me: Medicaid work requirements don’t work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMqYttKv1c
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Medicaid Work Requirements, Debunked
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Tired Jamie Lynn @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Israel has terrorized fucking Doctors Without Borders out of Gaza. Are there seriously still people who refuse to acknowledge that this is straight up genocide?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Just…unbelievably and grossly negligent.
A screenshot of an X post from @factpostnews, posted 14 hours ago, featuring a news broadcast image. The post reads: "Host: In those critical moments after flash floods ripped through Texas, FEMA's acting administrator David Richardson could not be reached for 24 hours. That meant that under new rules put in place by the Trump administration, key resource deployments could not be approved. Search and rescue teams that are typically on the ground within 12 to 24 hours of a disaster didn't show up for 4 days." The attached image shows a news segment from "The Washington Post" on MSNBC, with a headline about Texas floods and FEMA, featuring a person speaking on air, with text overlay mentioning Acting FEMA Administrator Richardson and government indecision.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/09/2025
Nexstar, the largest TV broadcaster, needs Donald Trump's approval for a $6 billion deal. If approved, Nexstar would control TV stations reaching 80% of households — violating the cap set by Congress to protect against monopolies. This censorship of Kimmel reeks of corruption.
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