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"The willful doomscrolling of one's own soul." Retweets and Quotetweets (including quoted text) do not necessarily reflect my own views.
October 7, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Presidential Libraries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB1-...
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Patricia Smith, a Chicago poet 'who writes screams'
By @neilsteinberg.bsky.social
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Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.
I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us
07.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 12827 🔁 4126 💬 705 📌 311Hill/WH reporters Me TV reporters
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Footage allegedly shows vehicles involved in Brighton Park Border Patrol shooting - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4qB...
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The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...
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08.10.2025 03:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0<Oregon AG Dan Rayfield warns:
"Anyone who’s seen the visual presence of what it’s like to live in an authoritarian country knows it’s a very different existence. That can never become a reality for us."
Stephen Miller is trying to acclimate us to this.>
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Bulk up, kiddo. We need you healthy.
08.10.2025 03:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0<Vance constantly projects his own insecurities. He clawed his way from poverty to Yale to MAGA darling by performing gratitude for elites like Peter Thiel. Now he expects everyone else to play the same role — or be condemned as “ungrateful.”>
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<If you start from the premise that the entire probe was political, then seeking lawmakers’ toll records would be inherently bad. But if you view the probe as righteous or justified, then it’s not hard to see why those records would be pertinent.>
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Thanks, New Yorker
07.10.2025 17:40 — 👍 20262 🔁 6332 💬 209 📌 201INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.
“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”
Brittle. That's a good word.
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IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:
djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."
Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."
djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."
And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.
#PedoPrez
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to 'dementia' and obsessive fixations www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/g...
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Oak Park elected officials stand against ICE after township trustee Juan Munoz detained in Broadview www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/o...
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By @mjsdc.bsky.social
'It can all end today'— Chicago's Israeli consul general on the war in Gaza - Chicago Sun-Times
By @neilsteinberg.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
What's happening in Chicago is not normal.
The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
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By @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
