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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 8m

Abolish, prosecute, imprison forever

Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 1h

It is absolutely essential that Democratic decision-makers be made to understand that "Abolish ICE" is the one and only acceptable position for them to take on the matter.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 1h

It is absolutely essential that Democratic decision-makers be made to understand that "Abolish ICE" is the one and only acceptable position for them to take on the matter.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 8h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 19m

I love Computer on a neurological deep level and still I know this to be true as fully as I know Jesus Christ is raised. I can't "know" any harder than that.

I don't know how we get out of this.

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 24m

one of the world-bending and epoch-changing elements that came from photography and moving film was the surprising and total capture of “life” in a camera, compared to art or theater— even the background tree leaves quiver!— and it changed how we all think. Computer may have broken the trust.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 24m

one of the world-bending and epoch-changing elements that came from photography and moving film was the surprising and total capture of “life” in a camera, compared to art or theater— even the background tree leaves quiver!— and it changed how we all think. Computer may have broken the trust.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 2h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

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

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Dr Professor Pfooti actually. @pfooti.social · 1h

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 27m

(please don’t scold me, I think I know what I’m saying, and it’s relative effectiveness in the current moment) I still think the median move for all of us is to teach people in our lives to be suspicious of what we see on a screen

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 31m

yeah i just think its very not poggers someone unfamiliar with llms can download sora and generate realistic(ish) pro ice agitpop within 10 minutes

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

"we must restore labor discipline with the lash and the deportation order."

*touches earpiece*

"all my workers gone? all of them? oh"

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

i would not be surprised if business types, particular family business tyrants, are starting to sweat things as their cravings for ~labor discipline ~ have given way to fears of labor shortage

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 8h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

30 minutes or less or it's free/discounted hasn't been true since 1989

8-ʙɪᴛ™ @the8bitidiot.bsky.social · 3h

Free her!!!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 4h

Please share a weird animal fact. Or a lesser-known animal fact.

FACT: Coyotes climb trees. (Coyote Ethos: “Never tell me the odds.”)

Your turn!

Coyote in an evergreen tree. Full story here, including more photos: https://goeddelphotography.com/blog/coyote-climbs-tree-and-steals-bobcats-duck/

Coyote in a fruit tree. 📸: Janet Kessler of coyoteyipps.com—arguably, the most fun and informative website in existence.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 3h

As someone in a committed relationship with a food blogger who is frequently canning until 2 in the morning I genuinely appreciate seeing this

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 7h

I think he was on a tuckpointing crew working in my alley a couple years ago

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 10h

CANNED EGGS

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 11h

You can also use this to find a congregation. There are more queer affirming Lutheran churches than you'll find here, but with these you can be sure.

www.reconcilingworks.org/ric/findric/

Find an RIC Partner - ReconcilingWorks

Are you, or someone you know, looking for a faith community that is committed to the welcome, inclusion, celebration, and advocacy for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender ...

www.reconcilingworks.org

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 11h

If you're looking for this in Chicago, feel free to ask me for suggestions or a personal invitation

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 12h

Really try not to bang the gong too often to my Internet friends, but: really: queer-affirming Lutheran church is great, you should check it out sometime

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 12h

Really try not to bang the gong too often to my Internet friends, but: really: queer-affirming Lutheran church is great, you should check it out sometime

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12h

The ability to "be natural" in front of, let alone toward, a camera lens is a freakish artificial skill and the demand for it almost certainly has left scammers and sociopaths overrepresented in political leadership; probably not great that we've now organized everyday society around it too

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

It's a sign of how many people (and journalists) live inside a media-created alternate reality that skill in the style of televised public performance associated with Hollywood actors is considered equivalent to 'authenticity'

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

This is an obsession of mine - a huge pathology of the press is coverage suggesting that politicians who are less skilled performers are somehow less "authentic"

Me on Romney coverage in CJR: www.cjr.org/united_state...

Me on Hillary Clinton coverage in The Upshot:
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/u...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 1d

"Your new moons and your appointed festivals
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
When you stretch out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood."

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...