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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12h

Inflatables Yes.

ICE No.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

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Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 12h

Truth...or a mix

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 16h

Trump is a convicted felon, and adjudicated rapist, as well as an accused paedophile who is disappearing people based on the colour of their skin and has declared war on half of the American population.

Bringing about peace in the Middle East does not in any way negate these facts.

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Angela St. Lawrence @literatrix-angela.bsky.social · 15h

Spread the joy. 🥹😆🤣

I Should’ve Been a Cowgirl @seizeday.bsky.social · 1d

If this is living rent-free in my head it can live in yours! 😎
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 16h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1d

There wasn't even a moment's hesitation about my Halloween costume.

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Puppet @greenjoel.bsky.social · 1d

Let me tell you a joke- Why we must prevail against MAGAs Kleptocracy and Kakistocracy and their assault on truth.

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The day the universe changed Episode 1. The way we are: It started with the Greeks. James Burke

Dailymotion video by tantrumturtle

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Angela St. Lawrence @literatrix-angela.bsky.social · 1d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Live performance of "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield in 1967. The song was written in 1966 in response to the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles. It became an anthem for generational conflict, civil unrest, and later anti-war movements.

"The lyrics are still so relevant."

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Angela St. Lawrence @literatrix-angela.bsky.social · 1d

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

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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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 1d

The “Dual State” Theory Was Invented to Describe Nazis. The Supreme Court Could Take Us There. – Mother Jones

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Might not be any way out of this except for more people to feel direct, personal pain from the regime, in particular people who voted for it and/or don’t pay attention.

So the way Trump, Vought, etc. are reacting to the shutdown by accelerating illegal abuses is, while awful, a longer-term good.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Angela St. Lawrence @literatrix-angela.bsky.social · 1d

Oh come on.

They insult the intelligence of the very people they are trying to convince.

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2d

Pure propaganda.
But not even good propaganda.

At least Leni Riefenstahl had talent.
These people are just hacks.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is trying to weaponize the DOJ & the military to punish his enemies

But the courts—and the Constitution—are fighting back

Democracy’s immune system is working

I break it down in my NEW @contrariannews.org Publisher’s Roundup 👇

contrarian.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian moves signal weakness, not strength

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

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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Puppet @greenjoel.bsky.social · 1d

a cylon garbage dumpster

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 3d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 4d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

religionnews.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The Chicago raids send a worrying signal about the ideal ICE agents in Trump's America

The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we’ve seen it before.

www.msnbc.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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