Marie Biersdorf

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MSU basketball video analysis on the Spartans’ 83-66 win over Kentucky

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Glad that you guys didn’t “clean up” your video! 💯

Check out this video from Lansing State Journal:

MSU football video analysis on the coaching and quarterback situation

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The GOP claim that Democrats are responsible for the shutdown keeps being undermined by Trump, who is demanding they unilaterally end it by abolishing the filibuster. Trump says Republicans are being killed and he’s not wrong. They control the federal government.

An end to the shutdown is in sight. A senior Dem Senator tells me there will be more than enough Democrats to vote in favor of re-opening the government tonight. They’ll get a promise of a vote on health care — but nothing more. Most of the Democratic leadership will likely vote against it.

“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’ Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

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Ellen V. & Philip L. Glass Holocaust Commemorative Series | Memory and Warning: A Kristallnacht Commemoration - Illinois Holocaust Museum On the night of November 9–10, 1938, a wave of coordinated, state-sponsored violence swept across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Known as Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” this po...

Glencoe, IL: On Monday, November 10th, I will be speaking at the Illinois Holocaust Museum's Kristallnacht Commemoration.
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Thank you. We will be there.

What this DOES mean is that we need to continue helping our neighbors. Visit NoKings.org/Alliance and answer the call for #MassMutualAid 🤝

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.

It’s important to note this was a procedural action, not a ruling on the merits of the underlying case. Justice Jackson wasn’t siding with the Trump administration; she was making sure the legal process unfolded correctly and fairly.

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Thank you.

‘The use of force shocks the conscience’: Judge issues sweeping injunction on Chicago tactics of immigration agents The incoming preliminary injunction replaces a temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in early October that was set to expire at 11:30 a.m.

Federal judge cracks down on Bovino & his thugs, while surfacing the lies coming from him, DHS & DOJ.

From the Chicago Tribune. Gift link.

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Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

Here's a good recent example of what I mean, where a Democrat pushes back instead of accepting a Trump-friendly distortion as the premise.

Thanks @hankhoffmanct.bsky.social for alerting me to it, @corybooker.com for sharing/praising it, and especially @neguse.house.gov for doing it.

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Note that “they are going to where the undocumented workers are”..not undocumented freeloaders as Republican pols and MAGA would have you believe.

🚨BREAKING: 2 fed courts have issued orders blocking Trump’s attempt to defund SNAP. Congrats to @democracyforward.org, its co counsel and clients, and Dem State AGs.

D65, ETHS close campuses amid ICE reports Mayor Daniel Biss says federal agents were "all over Evanston" Friday.

D65, ETHS close campuses amid ICE reports

Mayor Daniel Biss says federal agents were "all over Evanston" Friday.

Gov. Pritzker on Federal agents swarming a Halloween parade in Chicago:

“Don't believe it when they tell you that they're busting the worst of the worst, gangs, or gang members. They're attacking peaceful neighborhoods and terrorizing kids in Halloween parades.”

🎙️NEW SPARTAN SPEAK POD: @chrissolari.bsky.social and I discuss MSU’s football team and program heading into this week at Minnesota. Plus, what we saw from MSU basketball in the exhibition at UConn.

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Feds charge 9th District candidate Kat Abughazaleh, local politicians in protests outside Broadview ICE facility - Evanston RoundTable Protesters stand in the street outside an ICE holding facility in Broadview on the evening of Friday, Sept. 19. The U.S. Department of Justice has

Feds charge 9th District candidate Kat Abughazaleh, local politicians in protests outside Broadview ICE facility - Evanston RoundTable evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/29/f...

If ICE refuses to give EPD credentials are they going to just assume that the actions are legitimate? That doesn’t seem like they are serving as the community’s protectors.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry

Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

Superheroes have arrived in Broadview to protest against ICE!