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Fuck fascism in all its forms. Pro abortion. Email compliance and privacy, anti spam. Chicago by way of the Bay Area (Go Cubs GO) Just trying not to make things worse. He/Him

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chuff @chuff.bsky.social · Sep 12

He "could be bigoted" and "wasn't afraid of people who disagreed with him."

Call me crazy, but I don't think the world needs more fearless bigots right now, or ever.

These are fearless bigots. Is the Boston Globe applauding them as well?

White nationalists at Charlotte's "Unite the Right" white power tiki torch yelling party in 2017.

White nationalists with home made white power shields with crosses; they're all pathetic loser men, and they're wearing white polos and khaki colored chinos like some really weak school boys.

Kyle Rittenhouse walking with an AR-15 before he shot and killed somebody in a state he didn't live in, because he's a racist piece of shit.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 2h

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Gaines: I want to challenge AOC to a debate.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 55m

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: On the eve of Greg Bovino's court-ordered appearance before Judge Sara Ellis, lawyers in the case ask her to fully bar the feds from using tear gas until she rules on a preliminary injunction.

"Something must be done. Defendants are plainly in contempt, and sanctions are warranted."

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · 3h

His caller ID said the scammer was CIBC.

At what point are phone companies going to start being held responsible for basically vetting phone scammers?

89-year-old scammed out of $1.7M in life savings — blames RBC and CIBC for not protecting him | CBC News

A Victoria man says two of Canada’s biggest banks failed miserably in protecting him from one of the largest bank investigator scams ever reported. Royal Bank and CIBC claim they have robust protectio...

www.cbc.ca

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seachange12.bsky.social @seachange12.bsky.social · 3h

⚠️ Many state government lists don't provide a comprehensive list of all available sources.

Find one near you.❤️
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Food Pantries, Soup Kitchens, and Food Banks
www.foodpantries.org

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3h

Yet another new filing today in the federal court case over DHS officials' & immigration agents' behavior in Chicago.

This one addresses yet another alleged violation of Judge Sara Ellis' previously-entered restraining order: agents' gassing of the affluent Lakeview/Wrigleyville area on Friday.

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Plaintiffs’ Notice of Violations of the Court’s Temporary Restraining Order
Plaintiffs, by and through their attorneys, respectfully request that the Court take notice of violations of the Court’s Temporary Restraining Order (Dkt 66) that took place in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, stating:
VIOLATIONS OF THE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
1. On Friday, October 24, 2025, DHS agents (1) used tear gas in a residential neighborhood multiple times and without warning, (2) subjecting many people to significant risk and
harm, and (3) did so while failing to wear identifiable alphanumeric numbers or badges, in violation of this court’s TRO. These events are described in the declaration of _____, Exhibit 89, social media,
1 video footage, attached as Exhibits 90, 91, 92, 93, the
declaration of ____, Exhibit 94, photograph, Exhibit 95, and further video footage, Exhibit 96.

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2. As Plaintiffs understand the situation, federal agents apparently made an arrest of a
person in the front yard of a residence in Lakeview, which was met with prompt protest.
3. The submitted sources show that, on Friday October 24, 2025, residents gathered to
protest and observe several DHS agents near Lakewood and Henderson in the
Lakeview neighborhood. Federal agents drove two SUVs, one driving the correct
direction on a one-way street and the other driving backwards down the one-way street.
Agents were present inside the vehicles, while others stood on the exterior of the cars,
and still others were positioned on the ground. See generally supra n.1, Exhibits 90,
91, & 92.
4. Most of the protestors were slowly walking in pace with the SUVs as they moved
through the neighborhood. See, e.g., Exhibit 90. The protestors were non-violent and,
though strongly opposed to the presence of the agents, were filming, blowing whistles,
and expressing their desire that the agents leave their neighborhood. Id.; see also
Exhibit 93 at 0:00-38.
5. Without any verbal warning, and without any threat to the officers, an agent in the SUV
going backwards threw a tear gas canister out of the window of the car directly at a
group of people. See Exhibit 93 at 0:39-41. Almost immediately after, what appears to
be the same agent threw a second tear gas canister out of the vehicle window at the
same group of residents in the street. Id. at 0:41-1:00. As before, no warning was given
before the second canister was deployed. Id.

Image included in the new court filing, showing a masked federal agent hanging out the window of a silver SUV with a gas cannister in his hand.

Image included in the filing, showing tear gas billowing down a residential street with houses in the background.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 8h

Refusing to feed people while building a massive ballroom is a fast track to eat the rich. No pun intended.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him.

And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it.

But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Interesting cover from NY Post

Weird fetish art ran by the NYPost of Zohran

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4h

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 3h

A huge swathe of my community is mobilizing to fund our food banks & ensure people will be able to eat when SNAP benefits lapse on Friday. Even some of our local conservative megachurches are getting involved. This crisis has definitely broken through to those who aren't terminally online.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4h

Every poll is like:

"Should we eat our own shit?"

31% yes
39% no
30% don't know

but there are still people getting paid to argue for how Democrats can finely tailor an eat-some-shit message to win over the median moderate voter, of which there are zero.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

It's darkly funny anytime one of these consultant pamphlets comes out about how Democrats can scientifically carve up the electorate to eke out a win, meanwhile the current president spent the campaign swaying on stages, giving 45 minute speeches about who's nice to him. Riding in a garbage truck

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4h

Well, they already clearly weren't before then. IL congressmen have been trying to access the Broadview processing center for months with no success.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: ICE says it no longer has to provide Congress access to detention facilities — thanks to the shutdown.

That requirement was part of the appropriations law that expired last month — and now operations are funded by Trump’s megabill.

w/ @myahward.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Another shutdown consequence: Democrats can’t visit ICE detention facilities

Democratic lawmakers had been suing the Trump administration over their previous attempts to visit ICE facilities.

www.politico.com

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 4h

Egads. Illinois residents to see 78% average increase in cost of Affordable Care Act exchange plans if subsidies expire www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/27/i...

Illinois residents to see 78% average increase in cost of Affordable Care Act exchange plans if subsidies expire

Illinois residents to see 78% average increase in cost of Affordable Care Act exchange plans, if Congress allows subsidies to expire

www.chicagotribune.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4h

really incredible how fan-hostile sports has become

Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social · 5h

Posting again as a public service (and because I can't freakin' remember either):

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 5h

angewomon's gbf@speegul.bsky.social • 16h
crazy what a beer and a concert will do for the mental health

[username redacted]
Begging to differ, though I catch your lighthearted tone - my brother fell in with a drinking crowd, a classy military one - was diagnosed with acute alcoholic hepatitis, and died Feb 18.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4h

It's really too bad California policymakers saw a PGE bankruptcy as a horrible catastrophe to avoid rather than an opportunity to clean house and nationalize it. When they asked to raise rates because of their huge wildfire lawsuit payouts regulators should have just said "no"

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chuff @chuff.bsky.social · 4h

Fortnite will continue the IP and nostalgia regurgitation until it regurgitates its own nostalgia.*

*It may have already done this but I'll never know because I've never played it and I never will.

Polygon @polygon.com · 5h

The Simpsons are coming to Fortnite this week! Here's when

A teaser trailer for Fortnite's Simpsons season is here

The Simpsons are coming to Fortnite this week! Here's when

www.polygon.com

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5h

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5h

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez V @AOC
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Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn't have come in fifth.
Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_• 17h
We're being destroyed from within

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids

Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025

New: mutual aid fund supporting immigrant families impacted

All donations support families in Chicago IL who have been directly impacted by detention, deportation, and ICE raids

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 5h

I’ve always wondered how anyone could separate economic issues from social issues given that there’s an entire population descended from human beings who spent centuries treated as property—literal capital.

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 6h

I’m so sick of the economic issues are more important than social issues people. 44% of the US is non-white, 30% are white women. We’re all included in “DEI,” a group they’re trying to kick out of the job market. It’s hilarious that anyone thinks they can have an economy without us.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 5h

I think every generation of rich corrupt people decides that *this* is the era when technology will allow them to completely suppress the masses without any actual human support and every time they find out the hard way that they’re wrong

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.

It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 8h

lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.

There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 6h

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

This is obviously a horrible comment to make, but it illuminates something critical about ICE's tactics in a large metro. They are skimming human beings from the most vulnerable populations and spreading themselves very thin to do it like this on purpose—because it works.

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