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@chicagomike.bsky.social

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🇹🇼 🇺🇦 Send ICE to Ukraine. 1980s, he/him, married A mile wide and an inch deep. Goldenhar syndrome (v.mild, v.lucky), but never met anyone else so lmk.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 2d

@404media.co , @jasonkoebler.bsky.social do great work tracking public surveillance systems used to track Americans. If you have not seen their reporting, I highly recommend it. I've noticed more and more automated license plate readers every week. So, I wanted to 🔎.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 2h

Call @guinnessworldrecords.com, Oct 18th has potential to be the biggest dance party on record.
#nokings #oct18

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

Asked by Kristen Welker on Meet the Press this morning whether the White House was seriously considering invoking the Insurrection Act, Vice President Vance said, "The president is looking at all his options."

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2h

US Vice President Vance said that the Israeli hostages will be released from Gaza ‘any moment now’-NBC News

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 2h

The Christian, pro-life party is led by a man quoted as saying maybe we should let some kids die.
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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 3h

Flamingos flying north for winter definitely indicates trouble. Burn baby burn.

OSINT Intuit @urikikaski.bsky.social · 4h

Cute...

#OSINT

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, an infernal CBP helicopter woke me up early this morning. They’ve been buzzing my neighborhood like harpies all weekend. It reminds me of occupied Ireland back in the day. The racket casts a pall of doom, provokes a mix of sorrow and anger.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 3h

a man wearing sunglasses and a colorful shirt is making a surprised face and saying wow .

ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a colorful shirt is making a surprised face and saying wow .

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 3h

Once I left a talk thinking 'those guys are batshit' because all the CEOs/visionaries were focused on money to THEN fix the world. If Thiel is what the mentality is morphing into, a weird divine right for "more correct thought", how ancient and unoriginal can one be? Been done for centuries.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 3h

Great news, hope to see some more pressure. I don't follow this too closely but I've noticed I have my car insured for more than most of the shadow fleet's oil leakers and floating fertilizer bombs.

Latvian MFA 🇱🇻 | #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 @latvianmfa.bsky.social · 4h

Latvia 🇱🇻 as part of the Shadow Fleet Task Force (G7 & NB8++: BE🇧🇪,CA🇨🇦,DK🇩🇰,EE🇪🇪,EU🇪🇺,FI🇫🇮, FR🇫🇷,DE🇩🇪,IS🇮🇸,IT🇮🇹,JP🇯🇵,LV🇱🇻,LT🇱🇹,NL🇳🇱,NO🇳🇴,PL🇵🇱,SE🇸🇪 & UK🇬🇧) joins the statement in Canada:

➡️ www.mfa.gov.lv/en/article/j...

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OSINT Intuit @urikikaski.bsky.social · 4h

Pakistani fighter jets continue to bomb Taliban targets in the Kandahar region. Since midnight last night, the Taliban has issued five ceasefire requests to Pakistan which have all been rejected!

#OSINT

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe cryptoboys haha. We were dining there one night and a waitress walks up to our table and asks "what brings the cryptoboys to lisbon?" We were perplexed and asked why she thought this and she pointed to my manager and we all lost it. good times

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 13h

This looks like my mom's youtube. It's fn wild.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 14h

would pet

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 21h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 14h

Our exclusive report on Russia’s tank production is out. Using internal files and state contracts, we show production plans for the next decade and current output. A short thread will follow soon, but for now, you can read the report

frontelligence.substack.com/p/exclusive-inside-russias-20262036

Exclusive: Inside Russia’s 2026–2036 Tank Fleet Modernization and Buildup Plans

In the spring and summer of 2025, as part of our own operation, our team obtained exclusive documents that provide new insight into Russia’s tank-production plans and confirm the existence of a little...

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 14h

That first one is a Diamond right? They look so sleek. Groovy beats.

a man wearing a plaid shirt is playing a trumpet

ALT: a man wearing a plaid shirt is playing a trumpet

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 14h

Anecdotal but I've heard there's a surprising amount of unused fibre capacity along certain parts of the "backbone" or whatever. Which is pretty nuts. We planned ahead!

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 16h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 15h

Yes! I would walk there with my old crew nearly every day after work. Just to the north of that memorial haha

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 15h

Reminiscing about living in SF nearly 10 years ago and jumped into Street View. My old car is still parked at 28th and Lake! Amazing. Miss ya bud.

Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 15h

Jealous. I used to live on the other side of the Presidio. Miss that place! If you're not familiar, I highly recommend this trail.
maps.app.goo.gl/tmXjh2LZowJf...

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 15h

The exhaust always looks so pretty. I want to touch it.

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Mike @chicagomike.bsky.social · 16h

not with people like will bunch around