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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 8h

Just craven. Israel will not stop the cruelty.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 8h

Palestinian families eager to reunite with loved ones due to be freed learned that Israel had deported them instead. Amid the pain and the decimation of Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the “dawn of a new Middle East” at the Knesset.

mondoweiss.net/2025/10/pale...

#Palestine #Israel

Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace

Palestinian families eager to reunite with loved ones due to be freed learned that Israel had deported them instead. Amid the pain and the decimation of Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the...

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 12h

Can’t find much on the digital numbers, but as of June the print numbers cratered to below 100k subscribers

www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 12h

You can mute certain words or phrases which helps.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 12h

Imagine going back in time to tell 2015-you that in 2025 armed masked secret police are driving around Chicago, asking to see papers, kidnapping dozens of people a day, and arresting citizens who record them, while launching tear gas into neighborhood streets.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 13h

You officially live in a “show me your papers” nation, if you were wondering how far along things are now.

And ICE took his unhoused friend.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13h

it's interesting how languages adopt plant/animal names from various different sources. some get local translations, some get butchered hard, some get accepted as is.

feels like each name has its own, long history on how it got to the other side of the planet.

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Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 15h

It's all one enterprise. Musk, Inc. As Tesla shareholders will discover as soon as Elon can get his hands on Tesla's cash to shovel into the xAI cash incinerator.

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16h

It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible

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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 15h

I’d say the signs were already there from Operation Lone Star, other states deploying national guard to Texas for a showy and expensive “border security” mission as they defunded red state schools and essential services.

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 15h

Wait? Which one is the party of states' rights and against "big government" and federal "interference"? theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 16h

Also section 5...."based on talking to their lawyers we think they're planning to destroy evidence before the trial".

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 16h

From a motion just filed by Chris Parente, attorney for Marimar Martinez. She's the woman shot by U.S. Border Patrol in Chicago before being charged with assault.

"The credibility of DHS agents … will be the focal point of the defense at trial."

Background: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 16h

I do like the (2010) Tron legacy movie quite a bit but Jared Leto completely tanked my hype to see Ares

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 18h

Casting Jared Leto is like putting raisins in potato salad. It should absolutely never happen, but by the time it does you're so far down the bad decision matrix that it's not like you were ever close to making something good.

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 1d

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

Oh sure, actual sex pest Jared Leto gets to roll up to work and force everyone to call him by a different name, but the second someone gives their pronouns...

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 1d

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17h

No Kings Means No Paychecks.

Literally saying if you don't pay fealty, you don't get YOUR OWN TAX MONEY BACK. You really couldn't write a bigger advertisement for this thing.

I swear if the elected Dems fold before this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Pumpkinloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social · 17h

In Chicago, we're getting a few different protest group archetypes:

1. Indivisible/No Kings type: diverse but skews towards gen X+ white women

2. Broadview ICE site: diverse as well but skews younger, more LGBTQIA+

3. Immediate response: full community style response representing of the ara

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 1d

More people should probably know about the riot NYPD held in 1992

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · Apr 29

From that incident I learned about the 1992 riot — riot by the NYPD

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Broadview, Illinois 10/10-10/11

Press scrum around Rabbi Ben Yosef talking to state Police officers

State police arresting anti deportation demonstrator

State police arresting anti deportation protester laying on the ground

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 1d

Clearest frames of his name and badge number. Might be #10339

Frame from video showing Austin Police Department officer Garcia's last name and badge number.

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 1d

Some police brutality in Austin, Texas on 6th street this weekend: APD officer Garcia (looks like badge number 10338 or similar) appears to sucker punch a man.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

1) truthnuke

2) I think it's funny to consider seven months a long time to prep for a complete-and-total overhaul (really abolishment) of the de minimis program

3) UPS did not have seven months to prepare because the Trump admin has changed the de minimis rules like 5 times at this point

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

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

I have rounded up everything going on re: rainbow crosswalks in Texas. Galveston became the first city to remove theirs this week. Houston and Austin say they'll get rid of theirs, and San Antonio and Dallas are holding firm: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

These Texas cities are getting rid of rainbow crosswalks

"If this really was about traffic safety, there would be data."

www.chron.com

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