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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 30m

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 2h

My grandmother: *utters a long diatribe in Yiddish*

My friend: "what did she say?"

Me: "she said that life is a whimsical dance of ups and downs and the only rule is the music stops"

My grandmother: *in Yiddish clearly indicating that not what she said*

Me: *nodding sagely* "She's so wise"

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 12h

I have actually never seen a politician say anything even remotely like this. Whatever the follow-through, or not, even the fact he said this is really, really something

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 8h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 19d

I am an anti fascist

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 8h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 10h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 6h

I think it should be clear at this point that like the US federal government has collapsed.

There are no branches. There are no rules.

There is just one man and his truth social posts.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

lmao called it

National Guard deployed to the Bass Pro pyramid

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 11h

If I see you posting AI slop, it's an instant block. Even if you think it's cute or says a lot about society. If you are purporting that some AI slop is real news, I will report you for misinformation, and then block you. Sloppers should be marginalised.

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Lithuanian Skeletor @tarheeldead.bsky.social · 10h

Crazy how much better of an approach this is than "welp there are real concerns about youth sports but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" horseshit offered up by the Gallego, Buttigieg and Newsome types.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 10h

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 9h

its a good video you should watch it

spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 9h

this 4 year old video was in my yt recs

How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis

YouTube video by The Gravel Institute

www.youtube.com

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 9h

“They ARE arresting journalists” THEN POST THAT. STOP POSTING SLOP THAT CAN LATER BE USED TO FACT CHECK THESE KINDS OF THINGS AS FALSE.

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spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 9h

this 4 year old video was in my yt recs

How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis

YouTube video by The Gravel Institute

www.youtube.com

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Lina Morgan @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 10h

Mamdani standing up for transgender people living in America is a huge part of why he is dominating the mayor's race in New York City.

Giving a shit about trans people, immigrants, and the unhoused is a winning strategy. I hope that reminds you of what Trump wants you to forget:

People are good.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11h

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Retired engineers, people who left careers that were science adjacent and suddenly have lots of free time, for generations these were the guys who end up having grand unified theories they gibber about.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jan 1

The physics crackpot video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lP...

physics crackpots: a 'theory'

YouTube video by Angela Collier

www.youtube.com

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 1d

The only explicit purpose of all Gen ai is to steal labor/deny wages

Thats it in its entirety. They don't want to pay for someone to write, draw, voice act etc

(worse still in the cases of falsification of a person they also want a puppet that can't say no)

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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