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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9h

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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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 3h

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 4h

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 7h

ICE Propaganda Video Hit with DMCA Takedown Over Use of The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love.

ICE Propaganda Video Hit with DMCA Takedown Over Use of The Cure's "Friday I'm in Love"

A Department of Homeland Security social media post featuring The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love” has been removed following a DMCA takedown request.

consequence.net

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betsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social · 9h

This afternoon, Eurasian Green-winged Teal duck swimming in the marsh grass at high tide, Albany Mudflats, Albany, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Large duck swimming in marsh grass. Grass is green and brown, water reflects the colors of the marsh grasses. Duck has reddish brown feather on head with bright green stripe on side, wide gray bill, brownish delicately patterned wings and body.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 11h

It has put orgs and people who work with unhoused people on the back foot for sure! The right has reframed the way a lot of people look at homelessness and not at all in a good way.

It is going to take time and real work with people in our communities to begin to undo those perceptions.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 11h

Well, yes I do think that homelessness and drug policy discourse over the past few years has been under a sustained attack from billionaire funded disinfo PR and political operatives to change public opinion and they’ve been very successful with that.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 11h

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 11h

Sure do. A second guy Robert Justus was also convicted of aiding and abetting and got a life sentence.

2020 boogaloo murders - Wikipedia

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 11h

I think growing up in the shadow of that plant was a part of why he wanted to get out of town. He didn’t want to end up working there. Too bad for the rest of us he became a right wing propagandist!

He’s not gonna say anything about workers the union says are being trafficked into that plant. smh

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 12h

Greeley Colorado is Michael Shellenberger’s hometown where the meat packing plant is (and has been) the town’s biggest employer for many decades under various corporate owners.

Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 12h

Michael Shellenberger’s hometown where the meat packing plant is and has been the biggest employer for decades under various corporate ownerships.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 12h

This is Michael Shellenberger’s hometown and the JBS meat packing plant has been Greeley’s biggest employer since 2007. The beef processing plant has been central to Greeley's economy and employment for many decades, dating back to when it was owned by Monfort, Inc.

Reveal @revealnews.org · 14h

Hundreds of Haitians came to Greeley, Colorado, looking for a place to stay and a good job at JBS, the largest meat producer in the world.

Instead, they found squalid housing and an unsafe workplace.

Now, they’re being deported.

Haitian immigrants went to Colorado for the promise of jobs. What they found is being called human trafficking.

Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss had Seneca Scott debate for the FP. That’s more her style. He took the most reactionary position possible & still lost despite, the debate audience being rigged because tickets were made available to FP subscribers first & therefore made up the vast majority of the voting audience. 😂

THE AMERICA DEBATES
PRESENTED BY
THE FREE PRESS AND FIRE
HAS CRINANAL JUSTICE REFORM
MADE OUR CITIES UNSAFE?
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER VS
LARA BAZELON
SENECA SCOTT
KMELE FOSTER
MODERATED BY BARI WEISS
FORT MASON CENTER FOR ARTS & CULTURE,
Cowell Theater
SAN FRANCISCO, CA / JUNE 6TH, 7PM
GET YOUR TICKET NOW

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I agree with that.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 1d

That said, I think it is a matter of basic respect and human dignity to be conscious about using words that reflect how people experiencing a lack of housing see themselves.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 1d

Language frames the way we see the world.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 1d

I was forced to endure sleeping in a tent as a teen fleeing a parent who had been convicted of child abuse against me.

I prefer to use the term unhoused because a house is what I was lacking. I was “home” already in the neighborhood and hometown I had grown up in. I had just become unhoused.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Heterodox This @heterodoxthis.bsky.social · 1d

Disinfo influencers.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

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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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

bubble dance party

a person in an inflatable unicorn costume and a person in an inflatable peacock costume dance as a person holds a bubble gun shooting lots of small bubbles over them

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 2d

It's perfect!

"Renowned Puppy Killer Kristi Noem" scared of protesters in frog costumes.

Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 2d

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

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