defunctup.bsky.social
@defunctup.bsky.social
proponent of the war on tough
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News and bystander videos have documented immigration officers firing pepper balls at people's heads and encasing entire neighborhoods in tear gas.

"They are clearly violating people’s rights,” a former DOJ civil rights litigator told us.
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.
October 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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October 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I assume that we won't get Surgeon General reports about the epidemic of white men shooting people and sociological studies about where their fathers are?
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Let's rephrase: people held against their will in US concentration camps have been disappeared:

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Officer Joseph Treacy was named in four lawsuits in the past six years that cost taxpayers $524,000, according to a recent analysis by WTTW News. He was one of 272 Chicago Police officers named in multiple misconduct cases since 2019. Here’s some background. 🧵 1/13 news.wttw.com/2025/09/23/r...
Repeated Police Misconduct by 272 Officers Has Cost Chicago Taxpayers $295M Since 2019: Analysis
Chicago taxpayers paid $295 million between 2019 and 2024 to resolve lawsuits naming officers whose alleged misconduct led more than once to payouts, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News...
news.wttw.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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ICE is deporting people to African nations like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.
www.rollingstone.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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American doctors volunteering in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces.

Now the physicians are seeking accountability.
US doctors in Gaza find evidence that kids are being targeted by the Israeli military
American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability.
revealnews.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Today, Illinois celebrates the second anniversary of the successful implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act and the end of money bond!

Read our full statement here: endmoneybond.org/2025/09/18/c...
September 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Remarkably blunt words from United Nations officials who just declared Israel is committing genocide:

"Gaza will be with me for the rest of my life."

"Netanyahu, like everything he says, is simply lying."

"The treatment of children, the amputation without anesthetic…That will haunt me forever."
BREAKING: UN Commission Concludes Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza
In an exclusive interview, Mehdi speaks with two of the UN commissioners behind the shocking new report, which lays out the evidence for the crime of crimes.
zeteo.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It happened in a white-majority crowd in a white-majority town in a white-majority county in a white-majority state by the way...but somehow "gang violence" is the issue?
September 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I guess you can spout great replacement theory all you want if you’re wearing a nice suit and have money. other guys with nice suits and money will bend over backwards to portray you as reasonable
September 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
September 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Updating statistics is an important job so someone has to do it.
September 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
aaaanyways...words have consequences, y'all.
September 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I'm telling all of you that they are going to do what they ALWAYS do. What you do or do not say has no impact on what THEY WILL DO AND SAY. [just going to leave that here]
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-N.C.) said the shooting of Kirk, for motives unknown, happened because of Democrats.
Nancy Mace Blames Democrats For Kirk Shooting
www.huffpost.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
September 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM