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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 2h

Over this way it is very wet, as well as blustery and chilly.

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Callies Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things @calliedot.bsky.social · 1d

I do think it would be amazing if hundreds of protesters just showed up dressed like ICE. They’d be absolutely baffled, they’d have no way to tell who’s who. They’re all dressed in off-the-rack Cabelas clothes since they don’t seem to have a standard uniform so it’s easy.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 12h

Well, yes. But Trump believes that tariffs are paid by the originating country, and all efforts to tell him otherwise have failed. He thinks that trillion dollars they collected so far has come from foreign nations. His world is not the real world.

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 1d

We just ditched spotify. How about you?

moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 2d

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment advertisements.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 1d

The simple truth is we've allowed journalism to become a simulucra of journalism.

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 1d

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She-wolf of Naarm, Prowling for Narrative Work @jadedsynic.bsky.social · 1d

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Sa-ilent-hill Bajaj (Still Looking for Work) @sahilbajaj.dev · 1d

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 1d

What happened?

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 1d

When they turn up at someone's door and tell you there's a tariff to pay, and that they only accept bank or cashier's cheques, how is anyone supposed to deal with that?
You can't pull one out of your arse for a sum you weren't told about until that moment.

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 1d

Most days I can't tell if he's a fascist arsehole lying through his teeth, or a tragic gullible senile doddering old man, unable to distinguish reality from the lies his staff are feeding him.

Or maybe a bit of both.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I think this guy is actually president imo

Trump is a doddering old man, barely aware of his own surroundings, getting worked over by underlings.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 2d

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

This is the right question! All these so-called fightin’ governors sure don’t seem to be commanding the resources they do have to protect anyone.

Goodpapajama @goodpapajamma.bsky.social · 1d

When ICE agents use excessive force and flout state laws, why are they not being arrested on the spot? Why are the state and cities not telling their troopers and police to watch what is happening and intervene when necessary to protect their citizens.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 17d

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 2d

Since learning that I'm being laid off so many lovely people have offered support, saying "let me know what I can do". So I wrote a zine:

Things You Can Do For Your Depressed ADHD/Autistic Friend While She Looks For Work

PDF here: bit.ly/TYCDFYDAAFWS...
On itch for $0 here: bit.ly/TYCDFYDAAFWS...

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 2d

Pointless. It looks like all the coal power plants in QLD will be shut down long before that.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power reut.rs/42BhtoJ

Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power

Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables and in turn making national emissions reduction targets harder to achieve.

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 2d

I'm pretty sure that the Nobel Peace Prize is never going to go to the sort of person who wants to rename the Department of Defence to the Department of War, and who says he wants increased brutality from his troops.

Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 3d

Look, as long as the runtime is 90 minutes or more, I say let them do it and find out how fucking time-consuming and expensive it is to get even a shit result.

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 3d

The frog *could* be armed. He might be holding a tiny plastic fork underneath that costume. And the very idea completely emasculates the ICE troops. They're practically wetting themselves in terror of the unknown.

I'm concerned that they're going to just start shooting live rounds, like cowards.

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 3d

So, I've been watching the footage of wizard-frog — or whatever we're calling him right now — and what struck me is that these ICE clowns are basically desk-jockeys, stuffed into uniforms and playing soldier. They're all authority and bluster, only so long as NOBODY LOOKS LIKE THEY CAN FIGHT BACK.

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 3d

They arrested Roosevelt's girlfriend?

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Stu Barrow @functionary.bsky.social · 3d

If the industry can be killed by asking permission from artists it should be killed by asking permission from artists.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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