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aoc.bsky.social
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
jargon9917.bsky.social
@flatwaterfreep.bsky.social @nebraskaexaminer.com
The weekly ICE pickup flight is on its way to Eppley right now. GlobalX stops every wednesday in MSP then OMA, and returns either to Texas or Louisiana--districts friendly to the Trump admin's deportation plans.

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May 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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atlsarah.bsky.social
THEY ARE ROUNDING UP PEOPLE, DETAINING THEM IN LA, TX, AZ, AND SHIPPING THEM TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

Six rendition flights left the US yesterday 👇🏻
jjindc.bsky.social JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · May 1
🧵 WHAT WE SAW WEDNESDAY ✈️

ICE operated nine known aircraft, all under the TYSON callsign. Three planes moved humans between US facilities, and six more performed rendition flights abroad.


Today, we’ll start with the roundup flights. One of them was going overnight.
May 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
jargon9917.bsky.social
He killed the goddamn pope
April 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
jargon9917.bsky.social
Omaha 🔵
April 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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numb.comfortab.ly
CHUCK SCHUMER: I call, in very strong words, on Trump Administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to United States.

CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: I went to El Salvador, and met with Kumar, he is alive.
April 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
PAYING THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TO KEEP HIM AT CECOT
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 16
Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13.

“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 16
Senator Chris Van Hollen is speaking live from El Salvador, where he just met with the Salvadoran VP: www.youtube.com/live/pYZPzHy...
April 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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jjindc.bsky.social
🧵 The ICE "Slave Ship" Fleet

Until recently. it was relatively simple to track the ICE charter fleet from any online flight tracker: You just put "GlobalX" in a search window, and all their active flights would just pop up.

But that all ended a couple days ago...
April 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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jjindc.bsky.social
🧵 ICE FLIGHTS THREAD - 16 APR 25

Because they want to hide them 😬

Watching 10 aircraft:
8 x GlobalX Airbus 320
2 x Eastern Air Exp Boeing 737

Starting locations:
3 x A320 at La Salle LA
3 x A320 at Harlingen TX
2 x A320 + 1 x B737 at Phoenix
1 x B737 at San Antonio

Updates will appear below ⤵️
a man in a military uniform is sitting in a classroom with other men and says `` it 's classified . ''
ALT: a man in a military uniform is sitting in a classroom with other men and says `` it 's classified . ''
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April 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
(Bloomberg) - JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it now expects the US economy to fall into recession this year after accounting for the likely impact of tariffs announced this week by the Trump administration.

$JPM
April 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
jargon9917.bsky.social
It's as though when Russia announced the military action against Ukraine, they just launched the first bomb right into the Red Square
April 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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crzyfkinworld.bsky.social
There is a tracker for how much of the Project 2025 agenda has been implemented.

By the look of it, they will complete their agenda before their 180-day deadline, July 20, 2025. www.project2025.observer?sort=status-...
Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
www.project2025.observer
March 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Here is the full text of Rachel Cohen’s firm-wide email:
Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, (i) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here. When I went to law school and to Skadden, I did so in pursuit of agency. I was driven by a desire to be in rooms where decision-makers were, to get to play a role in things that mattered, because things felt so needlessly terrible. It never occurred to me that the people in those rooms might feel that they were powerless. I am forced to hope that our lack of response to the Trump administration's attacks on our peers, both those at other large firms and the many people in this country with far fewer resources, is rooted in feelings of fear and powerlessness, as opposed to tacit agreement or desire to maximize profit. I still hope that is true. But it has not yet been borne out. It feels mortifying to say "I suspect you know who I am," but I suspect you know who I am. Over the last few weeks, I have devoted an inordinate amount of time trying to leverage various relationships and privileges to get our firm and broader industry to admit that we are in the throes of early-stage authoritarianism and that we are uniquely positioned to halt it. There is an open letter (now signed by over 600 other AmLaw 200 associates, many of them at this firm), mainstream media coverage and an oped explaining why I feel this way. To anyone who feels sympathetic to the views I've espoused but wonders why I have taken the path I have: on Thursday, March 6, after the issuance of the Perkins Executive Order, I sent emails to multiple trusted partners in management asking to help with whatever response we coordinated. One of them went unanswered. One of them replied, "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your With gratitude and ur... "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly. I did all of these things out of hope that we would do the right thing if given time and opportunity. The firm has been given time and opportunity to do the right thing. Thus far, we have not. This is a moment that demands urgency. Whether we are failing to meet it because we are unprepared or because we don't wish to is irrelevant to me— and to the world —where the outcome is the same. If we were going to resist, we would have done so already. If we were not going to respond to the EEOC (a refusal that would be fully legal), the firm would have already told us. This is the first firmwide email that has been sent on this topic. What. Are. We. Doing. Colleagues, if you question if it is as bad as you think it is, it is ten times worse. Whether what we measure is the cowardice in face of lost profits, or the proximity to authoritarianism, or the trauma inflicted on our colleagues who are nonwhite, or the disappointment that I feel in this moment, take what you suspect and multiply it by a factor of ten. Act accordingly. I recognize not everyone is positioned as I am, and cannot act the same way. But do not "Thanks, Rachel. Always appreciate your perspective." One of them replied offering to talk and then failed to reply to my email asking for a time until a week later, significantly after I had begun speaking publicly. Know that I attended internal meetings about this topic, sent emails to decision makers, avoided commenting on the EEOC investigation publicly or airing any internal firm discourse publicly. I did all of these things out of ho… Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't. To the many superiors, support staff and friends that I know I disappoint by making this announcement firmwide instead of talking to you first, I sincerely apologize. There are so many thank yous that I have for so many people at this firm. Please know that if you suspect that you have helped me or taught me or cared for me, that I agree and am eternally grateful. In the coming days, I will make every effort to reach out to you separately, but there is urgency here that makes it impossible to go to each of you first. I will do everything in my power to mitigate difficulties caused by my unexpected departure. Like any self-important adolescent, I spent most of my high school history classes wondering what I would do in the moments before true horror or chaos or where my values were tested and demanded great sacrifice. I do not wonder anymore. I know who I am. I thought I knew who we all were. Thank you for the opportunity. My personal email is cc'd. I wish each of you the best, and that you use the privileges you hold to work for the best for others. Rachel Rachel Cohen
March 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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kwcollins.bsky.social
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW ), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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muellershewrote.com
This should tell you all you need to know.
March 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Senate Democratic leadership essentially played dead today and greenlit the Trump-Musk-Vance coup. What is the point of the Democratic Party if it doesn't actually act like an opposition party? Hello?
March 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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POLITICO: “The Democratic base wants a fight. Chuck Schumer won’t give it to them.”

Surrendering to Republicans isn’t leadership—it’s weakness. While the GOP bulldozes its agenda through, @SenSchumer played it safe. Democrats want and deserve a fighter, not a bystander.
March 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Chuck Schumer should have been replaced 8 years ago.

One of the main reasons for the rise of American fascism is the cowardice from appeasement ‘centrists.’
March 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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yasharali.bsky.social
In a new statement, Nancy Pelosi is calling on Democratic Senators to go against Chuck Schumer.

“Democratic senators should listen to the women…”

Full Statement:
"Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across America. Let's be clear: neither is a good option for the American people. But this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable. I salute Leader Hakeem Jeffries for his courageous rejection of this false choice, and I am proud of my colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus for their overwhelming vote against this bill. Democratic senators should listen to the women. Appropriations leaders Rosa DeLauro and Patty Murray have eloquently presented the case that we must have a better choice: a four-week funding extension to keep government open and negotiate a bipartisan agreement. America has experienced a Trump shutdown before - but this damaging legislation only makes matters worse. Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way. Listen to the women, For The People."
March 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Have you ever heard the line you go out fighting not you go out hiding? Well fucking done @ossoff.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM