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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 20h

If Chicagoans in general don’t fuck around, radical Chicago clergy fuck around even less

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 18h

"In the US, 35% of all corn and >90% of soy becomes animal feed. In fact, 67% of all crops go to animal feed while 27% go directly to humans (the rest goes to biofuels). Globally, 77% of all soy goes to animal feed [which is hugely inefficient]; only 7% goes to human food like soy milk and tofu."

Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 2d

"How much soy we produce shouldn’t be a barometer for how well our agriculture sector is doing, but for how unsustainable it is."

I wrote for @newrepublic.com that the trade war with China shows we grow too many crops to feed not people but factory-farmed animals.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Trump’s Tariffs Should Force a Reckoning With America’s Soy Industry

The industry became the world’s second largest not because of human demand for soy, but to feed China’s pigs.

newrepublic.com

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 18h

Kinda puts a damper of the reactionary theory of the unitary executive when it doesn’t seem very unified.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18h

Broadview faces off against Illinois State PD.

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Gauchohaulic 🗽 @gauchohaulic.bsky.social · 18h

Global Elites working together to make it much easier for me to completely write off the 2026 World Cup, the 2028 Summer Olympics and the rest of the biggest sporting events.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Apr 23

It’s really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it’s clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it’s all “please don’t forget you have to feed your troops” and “if someone asks if you’re going to attack them consider lying about it”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 1d

Tweet from @dril: turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

earlier this week I argued that Democrats should never vote to fund ~this~ government. Any negotiations at the margins sends the signal that this administration is legitimate when it is very clearly not! I stand by this. Make Republicans reopen this government all on their own!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 1d

Okay who did this

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

“The fact that figures like Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have seemingly done better — or at the very least no worse — than credentialed diplomatic professionals has striking implications for how we think about expertise in foreign policy” hmm also the fact that they take huge foreign bribes—?

Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 1d

In his foreign policy, Trump launches illegal attacks, murders people, and starts pointless and destructive trade wars. Is that what Douthat wants at home? Because he’s already getting it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?

www.nytimes.com

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1d

The lengths that ICE agents will go to throw citizens under the bus who document their transgressions on public property is absurd.

Women arrested by ICE in front of Chicago elementary school, accused of stalking agents.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Women arrested by ICE in front of Chicago elementary school, accused of stalking agents

Two women were arrested by ICE agents on Friday in front of a Chicago elementary school near the University of Illinois at Chicago campus on the West Side.

www.cbsnews.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Friday, Antifa warriors! 🥂🩵

Funny meme with a picture of an "Antifa" headquarters that reads:

Just got to my desk at Antifa. I can't believe Karen in HR scheduled the mandatory Molotov cocktail safety training today.
Nobody feels like that shit on a Friday.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d

Thune says this like it's a bad thing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 2d

you go out to these protests, it's kids, old folks, grannies, all kinds of people, and they're still going with "professional protesters" which I guess maybe works on the fox news crowd? but nobody else

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 2d

someone should tell Trump they don't give the Peace Prize to people who blow up boats and murder those on high seas nor to those who deploy military against their own people. NEVER.

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Gauchohaulic 🗽 @gauchohaulic.bsky.social · 2d

Tired: Owning the Libs.
Wired: Owning the autocrats.

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Marsinout @marsinout.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Committee has just give a middle finger to crook Trump and dictator Maduro, by announcing the Peace Prize award to the Venezuela opposition leader.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

www.bbc.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2d

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 2d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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