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Deena Walker
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thetnholler.bsky.social
What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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johngramlich.bsky.social
"Millions of younger American women are increasingly imagining their futures elsewhere." In a new @gallup.com survey, 40% of younger women in the US (those ages 15-44) say that, if they had the opportunity, they'd like to move permanently to another country. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...
Line chart showing a sharp increase in the share of younger women in the United States (those ages 15 to 44) who say that, if they had the opportunity, they would like to move permanently to another country. The chart is based on Gallup surveys.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Notably, Canada's 1970s immigration policy allowed Nat Thakkar to set up a factory in Ontario, which is now run by his son Amit. The factory has created countless jobs for Canadians. Unfortunately, Trump's tariffs have hurt their business, which also harms US farmers since Roopa uses US cotton.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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pbump.com
While I was at The Post, a group of us (hi @crampell.bsky.social!) made a tool that used third party grocery price data to track food inflation. It’s up, except for the eggs.

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November 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
bsky.app/profile/mand...
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 8d
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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needhibhalla.bsky.social
“This weight presses on me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help.”
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 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. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
newsjennifer.bsky.social @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8d
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 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. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 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. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
And if that doesn’t work, try 202-224-3121
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Flood the phones:
(202) 224-3121

Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…

There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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gregpak.net
Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.

Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!

Find them here: reps.fyi
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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debbie156.bsky.social
Hey Arizona!
If you’d like to help out for the holidays, please drop off your donations, or scan the bar code to donate!
Midwest Foodbank
725 E Baseline Rd
Gilbert, AZ 85233
Any and all help is welcome!
#ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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eosnos.bsky.social
Take 22 minutes to watch this. Trust me. The end of USAID through the story of a baby named Jane Sunday. "We've found the formula and we delivered it. And then we took it away," says @agawande.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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axidentaliberal.bsky.social
Elon Musk called USAID a terrorist organization

He wielded a chainsaw as he bragged about DOGE “feeding [it] into the wood chipper”

MAGA cheered

Now 400,000 children are dead

Their demise is Musk’s legacy

NEVER let him forget it
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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assignedmedia.org
6 Nov 2025 -- Homeland Security (DHS) opens public comment on new rule allowing it to impose mandatory “biological sex” DNA testing on millions of immigrants as part of its mass biometric surveillance program, putting targets on the backs of trans & intersex people. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
DHS Wants to Make Some Immigrants and Visitors Take a DNA Sex Test
The public comment period for the proposal has begun.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
The inside story of COVAX, started in January 2020, and led to 2 billion doses of Covid vaccines given in 146 countries, with 2.7 million lives saved. FAIR DOSES, by
@drsethberkley.bsky.social

A clip from our Ground Truths conversation today
Link to full: erictopol.substack.com/p/seth-berkl...
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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repfletcher.bsky.social
Tomorrow, join me at 7 p.m. CT for a virtual town hall on the government shutdown with special guests from AFGE and Community Health Choice. To join and submit questions, you must RSVP at: fletcher.house.gov/events
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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governorferguson.bsky.social
This morning, we received guidance from the federal government on how to administer partial SNAP benefits. That guidance indicates SNAP recipients will get 50% of their usual benefits.

Despite the president's callous social media statement this morning, we're proceeding full steam ahead...
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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getmoresmarter.com
It's a real cool club, and you're not a part of it.
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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newjerseyoag.bsky.social
Our team in the Department of Law and Public Safety is committed to ensuring our elections are safe, secure, and fair.

Run into issues while voting? Call the NJ Secretary of State toll-free: 1-877-NJ-VOTER.

Have evidence of an election crime? Contact OPIA: 1-844-OPIA-TIPS.
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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joedudekjd.bsky.social
This genuinely hurt me deep in my soul.
www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz-beyond-...
Application - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM