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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 3h

Rewatching The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor and all I can wonder is what gods I'd have to offer sacrifices to, in order to see Mike Flannagan make The Haunting of the Overlook Hotel.

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🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.social · 3h

"The Biden FBI"

On January 6 it was still the Trump FBI.

Because January 6 is when congress formalized the election results, and January 20th was when Biden was sworn into office.

I cannot stress it enough:

TRUMP. WAS. PRESIDENT. ON. JANUARY 6.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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5nark Twain @5narktwain.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKingsDay

October 18: No Kings Day 👑✊ Because I want my 4 pillars back—rule of law, inclusion, diversity, and that old-school promise of America. Funny how demanding democracy feels rebellious now. #NoKingsDay #RestoreThePillars #Resist #SnarkTok

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3h

No Kings Day is almost here.

The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them.

But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah- what he is committing to is transferring money from one pot to another in a way that is not normally legally allowed and then demanding the payroll system process it (with said questionable money), all in roughly 24 hours (holiday weekend) with a likely mostly furloughed office.

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 17h

Useful advice for ways to combat the fucking terrible world we live in. www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...

How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids

Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors

www.qasimrashid.com

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 17h

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire...

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

Short Thread...

It's been a full week since DHS issued a press release claiming TEN CARS ambushed them—and have since:
•charged ZERO of those alleged 10 drivers
•arrested ZERO of those alleged 10 people
•filed ZERO reports of alleged property damage, &
•offered ZERO evidence of their claim

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 18h

The far-left "Kamala would be have been no better than Trump" crowd really needs to fuck off forever.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 21h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 19h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

This shouldn't be our reality, but it is.

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 2d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

“America First” means:
•$20B to Argentina to screw American farmers
•$38B to Israel for genocide
•$??B to Qatar for new Air Force base in Idaho

Meanwhile—US Service members stand in food lines because Trump’s government shutdown has them furloughed without pay. So much winning!
Are we great yet?🤔

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Let's just all agree to call ICE the American Gestapo from now on, shall we? Kudos to this guy, and may we all follow his example - but quietly, without giving interviews afterwards from now on out, so that we offer safe shelter for the next family, too, because we're all in Anne Frank's world now.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 5d

This is an amazing photograph. But while it entertains and illustrates that the Portland mobilization is an invasion, not a peace force, moments later, the military force sprayed pepper spray into the ventilation holes of the frog suit. Cruelty and fascism is the point. Never forget that.

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 5d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 5d

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

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cr0wgrrl @cr0wgrrl.bsky.social · 5d

Conversion therapy is torture, plain and simple. It was outlawed for a reason.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children.

That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

slate.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 7d

People in Chicago: Know your rights when faced with federal forces.

Know Your Rights: Federal Forces Being Sent to Chicago

President Trump’s decision to send federal forces, and National Guard troops, reflects his authoritarian desire to control any community guided by policies and principles that conflict with his

www.aclu-il.org

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 10d

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/vide...

Pritzker calls for Trump's removal from office under 25th Amendment

Gov. JB Pritzker for the first time is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment, after the president said cities like Chicago should be used as “training g...

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 7d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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