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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsone of the ice agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
Every last one of them must be hunted down some day.
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
— Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T13:54:33.908Z
ICE continues to assault us.
— Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T12:01:26.740Z
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Eliot Rosewater
(34,173 posts)Theres no way to show anything thats on there to anyone that doesnt have blue sky that I know of.
People I know who do not have this app is almost everybody, even when I post it on Facebook theyre not going to see it.
Its like the Charlie Kirk thing, if people dont know that he said that Biden should be killed and all Gay people should be killed etc. of course theyre gonna say what a sad day it was when he was shot. Yes it was sad because violence is wrong not because he was some great guy.
littlemissmartypants
(29,893 posts)The problem arises with posting some blue posts if the op has their content set to private. Then they won't show up.
If you want some tips on posting from other places, lmk and I'll help you. ❤️
Eliot Rosewater
(34,173 posts)ICE continues to assault us.
— Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T12:01:26.740Z
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
OK I see it works here, I really meant Facebook I guess because thats where Im usually trying to post them. When I do this over to Facebook all anyone sees is the blue sky name and they have to go to the site and I think to watch it they have to be a member.
They mustve changed something, Ive done that over 100 times and did not see anything but the words blue sky in a box and now it appears to be going over whether or not people who are not members of blue sky can watch it when they click on it I dont know.
Yes, something definitely has changed over at bluesky and thats great, without your response I probably wouldnt have tried again.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,173 posts)Of their profile, and if I click on it Ill be able to go to the app and watch it but I doubt anyone who is not a member will be able to and this is on Facebook.
Also I hit the arrow on the post hit share via then hit copy then texted it to a friend who is not a blue sky member and he could not watch it.
And when we tap on it here on the play button it does not play the video here it takes you to the app to play it and I would ask a non-blue sky member here to try that and see if they are able to see it.
littlemissmartypants
(29,893 posts)What youre encountering is a privacy setting preventing you from sharing. One workaround is do a screenshot, then upload as your own post. I hope that helps. Lmk if you have more questions. ❤️
Dave says
(5,254 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 19, 2025, 05:15 PM - Edit history (1)
for suspicious activity over 3 months ago. No more information than that was given. I appealed. Not a meaningful word back. I think I was banned by bots and the 2 emails I got back in response to my 4 sent to them are meaningless bot blather.
Still no idea what happened. I certainly wasnt doing anything at all except reading other peoples posts. I now just assume Im banned without cause, a victim of a degree of ineptitude over there. But it is annoying when I cant read DU links to posts over there.
ON EDIT: this is my second BlueSky post in as many days. Apologies, I dont mean to flood the board. Guess I was hoping someone could direct me to a fix.
Iris
(16,697 posts)Could you try again with a new acct?
defacto7
(14,140 posts)They must be inundated by malicious actors so that some of us get undeservedly snared in their not so accurate radar. Unfortunately, once I mentioned it online out of frustration some may have started thinking they might be right, so I seemed to have been ignored a lot. Maybe it was my imagination. The net is weird these days.
Dave says
(5,254 posts)I've been here since 2002. While I don't post often, I've got 5k under my belt.
defacto7
(14,140 posts)Meaning here or anywhere else I've mentioned it trying to get a handle on it. I don't mean ignored as in the ignore feature; that I can't know. Just fewer comments. I know bots are necessary when there's high volume, but I miss human monitoring. I doubt we'll see that again.
enough
(13,622 posts)Deuxcents
(24,180 posts)That lady was no bigger than a bird. And the SOB pushed her down hard! It might have made him feel like a manly man, showing off in front of his "buddies". But he was actually a little wimpy titty-baby coward.
Irish_Dem
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Irish_Dem
(75,395 posts)Walleye
(42,630 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,395 posts)Walleye
(42,630 posts)littlemissmartypants
(29,893 posts)ReRe
(12,037 posts)Tell me and I will try to remember.
Norbert
(7,388 posts)that is, if he found a woman desperate enough to want to marry him.
obamanut2012
(28,843 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,395 posts)If they are sexually assaulting women in public, what do they do in private?
How many ICE victims are getting raped?
moniss
(8,124 posts)an ICE-Gestapo goon, especially with sandwich, it is felony assault but if an ICE-Gestapo goon grabs a protestor and needlessly throws them to the ground it is no problem in the eyes of the Feds.
LiberalArkie
(18,986 posts)their direction. LEO's are such fragile beings.
NoMoreRepugs
(11,638 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,107 posts)Notice how fast trump's rhetoric is moving.
allegorical oracle
(5,750 posts)reporters. A more ruthless tenor to them. Have hoped it's a measure of how desperate he's feeling.
ImNotGod
(1,146 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,395 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(9,133 posts)
Hekate
(99,594 posts)
malaise
(289,501 posts)That is all
greatauntoftriplets
(178,307 posts)It won't go over well in that community.
Buddyzbuddy
(1,563 posts)GoodRaisin
(10,536 posts)Soldiers picking on weaker people and throwing them down. Girls half their size. Krasnov loves picking on the weak. Tough duty for his tough guys. Wonder why we arent seeing this on national tv news?
Were probably not that far away from when he tells his soldiers to start shooting people. He will like that.
B.See
(6,780 posts)not only above the law, they ARE the law, and the law is whatever they SAY it is.
in Trump's fascist America.
flying_wahini
(8,202 posts)groundloop
(13,310 posts)And no doubt whomever dared to pull down their masks would be charged with assault, attempted murder, and any other made-up charge the gestapo could think of.
Timeflyer
(3,441 posts)bluestarone
(20,377 posts)Then they could file some sort of PHONY assault charge on you?
Exp
(595 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(9,133 posts)Because I am not so sure that their majority is as high as some people think it is.
To be honest (maybe because of the more rural areas I grew up in), I have never met someone who owned 'one' gun.
Exp
(595 posts)mostly bolt-action, not the 30 round magazine semi-auto rifles that many right-wingers have.
That's what i was thinking of, fire-power, the ability to kill in mass. I think we lefties are outnumbered.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,133 posts)Projectile weapons are just one type of armament these days.
We may not be in as weak of a position as one might think.
lastlib
(26,743 posts)This crap is intolerable. People. Have. Rights. - - - -
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Joinfortmill
(18,994 posts)Elections have consequences, and there will be mid-term elections. But it's gonna get really nasty out there around election time if the TrashCan in the White House isn't dead yet.
dlk
(12,968 posts)They know theyre committing crimes and, so wear the masks. Its what criminals do.
demmiblue
(38,764 posts)Tell you what, it is a pretty beautiful experience to live in a house with someone who is roughly one million times braver than you.
— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T19:00:38.730Z
AverageOldGuy
(3,000 posts)To do so and to say what I want to say would result in a visit from ICE, FBI, Secret Service, Gestapo . . . .
yonder
(10,151 posts)Effin pig.
Aussie105
(7,259 posts)In childhood, when I first read about Germany during WW2, how the uniformed goons that made up the Gestapo, the SS, etc were recruited.
Now, I wonder the same about ICE and the other violent Trump goons.
What is it in some people to feel it is ok to be hired to violently repress fellow citizens?
And why their nearest and dearest are ok with that?
red dog 1
(31,903 posts)LeftInTX
(34,006 posts)They also threw her in jail for three days.
Sparkly
(24,745 posts)I wouldn't believe the brutality if I hadn't seen this. What kind of training did these men have to treat fellow citizens so brutally, for peaceful protests? She was even moving AWAY when she was chased and assaulted!! Absolutely horrific.
I hope this video is widely broadcast and that it helps the broader investigation into the criminality of these ICE and National Guard assaults.
Sickening.
Ninga
(8,931 posts)Walleye
(42,630 posts)Every day citizens. Where on earth is the Illinois state police in this?
Ninga
(8,931 posts)Then assaulting her and throwing her to the ground. If you and I saw then authorities should see as well.
Walleye
(42,630 posts)Thats why I get so angry whenever they talk about they are protecting women. I know its bullshit.
Laura Ingraham cheered about this.