Megan Ritter Judt
@meganjudt.bsky.social
Adoption advocate, nonprofit fundraiser, DAR lady, historic house museum aficionado, Catholic, transplanted Virginian.
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“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
With all due respect to the peerless Ella Fitzgerald, jellyfish do not, in fact, fall in love. They don’t even have a heart. Or a brain.
August 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
With all due respect to the peerless Ella Fitzgerald, jellyfish do not, in fact, fall in love. They don’t even have a heart. Or a brain.
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This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
The irony/idiocy of this banner currently draped on the Department of Labor building is not lost on me, given all the federal workers he's forced out of their jobs.
(Pic via Getty Images)
(Pic via Getty Images)
August 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
@jamestaylor-com.bsky.social Hope you’ll play On the Fourth of July at Wolf Trap tonight - it was our first dance at our wedding!
August 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
@jamestaylor-com.bsky.social Hope you’ll play On the Fourth of July at Wolf Trap tonight - it was our first dance at our wedding!
To be clear, this is both barbaric and blasphemous.
DHS is using the Bible to promote ICE, claiming ‘righteous’ fight against immigrants
DHS is using the Bible to promote ICE, claiming ‘righteous’ fight against immigrants
(RNS) — The agency refers to Scripture as it seeks to recruit agents who are pivotal in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
To be clear, this is both barbaric and blasphemous.
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As I've written before: "Once a society starts accepting attacks on entire swaths of Jews—for being too liberal, too religious, too secular, too pro-Israel, too anti-Israel, too whatever—that acceptance will grow." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
March 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
As I've written before: "Once a society starts accepting attacks on entire swaths of Jews—for being too liberal, too religious, too secular, too pro-Israel, too anti-Israel, too whatever—that acceptance will grow." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Hopkins is where my mom had her cancer treatments, giving us an additional 18 months with her, and where they helped us let her go as easily and lovingly as we could ever hope for. The Hopkins team are some of the most dedicated, brilliant, kind people on this earth and this is absolute bullshit.
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Hopkins is where my mom had her cancer treatments, giving us an additional 18 months with her, and where they helped us let her go as easily and lovingly as we could ever hope for. The Hopkins team are some of the most dedicated, brilliant, kind people on this earth and this is absolute bullshit.
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Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
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March 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
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Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.
BREAKING
The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
BREAKING: SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions
In December, Popular Information reported that Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial (WLF), a new venture backed by President Donal...
popular.info
March 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.
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While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.
February 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.
Sawyer is the best character on LOST, a show full of great characters, and it’s not close.
February 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Sawyer is the best character on LOST, a show full of great characters, and it’s not close.
Someone please ask him to name the members of any other Cabinet. He can start with the first one because it was so small.
Elon Musk at Trump's first Cabinet meeting: "I think this is the best Cabinet ever. Literally. So, uh, and I do not give false praise... I think it‘s literally the best Cabinet that the country has ever had."
February 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Someone please ask him to name the members of any other Cabinet. He can start with the first one because it was so small.
Beyond parody.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Beyond parody.
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Remembering members of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany, arrested by the Gestapo and executed four days later by guillotine in Munich on this day in 1943, for handing out anti-war leaflets: Hans and Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst.
February 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Remembering members of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany, arrested by the Gestapo and executed four days later by guillotine in Munich on this day in 1943, for handing out anti-war leaflets: Hans and Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst.
Our civic life would be a little healthier if more people had seen A Man For All Seasons.
February 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Our civic life would be a little healthier if more people had seen A Man For All Seasons.
And will Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children persuade him to change his mind as to which country carries the blame? That would be good but I’m not holding my breath.
🧑🧒🧒🇺🇦🙏 Donald Trump says he can convince Putin to return children abducted from Ukraine.
🧐 The American president called the situation "quite tough." According to him, he only learned about the crime yesterday.
🧐 The American president called the situation "quite tough." According to him, he only learned about the crime yesterday.
February 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
And will Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children persuade him to change his mind as to which country carries the blame? That would be good but I’m not holding my breath.
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I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.
February 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.
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at some point he is going to personally smash something important to every single person in this country and it depends whether or not they can bring themselves to accept that he’s done it
there is nothing here but an endless, rapacious desire to destroy
there is nothing here but an endless, rapacious desire to destroy
Donald Trump moves to abolish the Presidio Trust through executive order
Donald Trump moves to abolish the Presidio Trust through executive order
The federal agency was established by Congress in 1996 to oversee the 1,500-acre San Francisco park.
sfstandard.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
at some point he is going to personally smash something important to every single person in this country and it depends whether or not they can bring themselves to accept that he’s done it
there is nothing here but an endless, rapacious desire to destroy
there is nothing here but an endless, rapacious desire to destroy
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And like clockwork, the Russians are using Trump's words to demonize Zelensky and Ukraine.
What an unbelievable betrayal by the United States. Makes me sick this is happening in our name.
What an unbelievable betrayal by the United States. Makes me sick this is happening in our name.
February 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
And like clockwork, the Russians are using Trump's words to demonize Zelensky and Ukraine.
What an unbelievable betrayal by the United States. Makes me sick this is happening in our name.
What an unbelievable betrayal by the United States. Makes me sick this is happening in our name.
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If only Chuck Schumer knew someone in Congress
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
If only Chuck Schumer knew someone in Congress
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Again, this isn't funny & it would have immediately ended any previous presidency in the post-WWII era. It's a direct violation of our NATO & UN obligations & obscene in a moment where 🇷🇺 is occupying 20% of 🇺🇦 & denying the sovereignty of another country.
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Trump on what Trudeau could offer him to change his mind on tariffs: "What I'd like to see -- Canada become our 51st state."
February 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Again, this isn't funny & it would have immediately ended any previous presidency in the post-WWII era. It's a direct violation of our NATO & UN obligations & obscene in a moment where 🇷🇺 is occupying 20% of 🇺🇦 & denying the sovereignty of another country.
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Is that guy eligible to run for something?
![Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jky6uuetr73nlbaml6ytlzbi/bafkreibjh2gbp75z5bojibdoefdpfdwlclxwspai2i7qfjotajpraru3zm@jpeg)
January 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Is that guy eligible to run for something?
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"I'm gonna have to check back on whether we shut down 11% of the federal budget and health insurance for poor families" is next level incompetence
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January 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"I'm gonna have to check back on whether we shut down 11% of the federal budget and health insurance for poor families" is next level incompetence
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Seems very efficient to have one guy have to accept phone calls in which agencies have to beg for the money Congress already appropriated. What could possibly go wrong?
Asked how organizations that rely on federal funding should make payroll, Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says they should call Russ Vought and make a case
January 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Seems very efficient to have one guy have to accept phone calls in which agencies have to beg for the money Congress already appropriated. What could possibly go wrong?
“As a practicing Catholic…I am now going to casually accuse the church of utter venality.”
JD Vance attacks the church: "The US Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit & recognize that when they receive more than $100m to resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns or are they actually worried about their bottom line?"
January 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“As a practicing Catholic…I am now going to casually accuse the church of utter venality.”