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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sera @serageranium.bsky.social · 22h

There's nothing wrong with Hooters per se, but only a deeply sexually repressed society would be capable of producing Hooters. It's wild that it existed alongside Applebee's and Chilli's. Yeah man let's go to the psychosexual chicken wing place.

"I want to watch sports and eat chicken wings but I also want to constantly be aware that every waitress in this restaurant was hired for her fat tits. No I want them to be clothed the whole time. I just wanna know that like, in the background."

Any upstanding pervert could come up with a strip club. That's good honest fun. But even a normal pervert couldn't come up Hooters. You gotta be a pervert who doesn't even know you're a pervert.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

fantastic news! we got Newsom to actually sign something good! more housing near transit!

this is a big one

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 8h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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DoYouBleed_BvS @boptr.bsky.social · 2h

#MakePrincessPeachFat

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Tony @shintonty.bsky.social · 3h

almost forgot

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Renée @hirschybar.bsky.social · 2h

Many are saying this!!

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 1d

For context, several thousand US military personnel have rotated through Israel during this genocide. Whether THAAD battery personnel or working on the JLOTS (the "pier") or helping build out Israeli Air Force bases, our boys have been involved in the day to day operation of the genocide machine

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

“The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza…”

US sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor ceasefire deal in Gaza

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and privat...

apnews.com

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alice ♡ ∩_∩ @rabbitdelusion.bsky.social · 1d

need her

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Renée @hirschybar.bsky.social · 1d

Her worldview exhausts me every day

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Yourson Smells @tailboi.bsky.social · 1d

Banged out a paper on the psychoanalytic implications of cross class romance in 18th and 19th century British literature the morning it was due for an 11 am class while chain smoking in the outdoor area of the library. Got an A. AI makes you weak and powerless ... the mind is all you need.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Renée @hirschybar.bsky.social · 1d

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Renée @hirschybar.bsky.social · 1d

Going to the unc store at the chopping mall

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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erin @dracula3d.bsky.social · 2d

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2d

Lol, it really is all just cosplay

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 2d

Pete is out here playing Operator. We do not have a SECDEF.

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Renée @hirschybar.bsky.social · 2d

Great song

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

if the democratic party starts stepping away trans people they might as well sign this country away to the far right forever

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 4d

The 90s had a lot of missteps but the then-earnest belief in diversity and multiculturalism brought on by post-Cold War optimism was one of it better fruits

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Tirk @tirkarokujo.itch.io · 6d

capitalism patch notes:
-No Billionaires
-All Millionaires or anyone within a sufficient enough position of power are forbidden from using or looking at Social Media or playing video games
-All companies required to be named like "Smith & Wilhelm Dessert Company" instead of shit like "crumbl"

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

I said what I said.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 6d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 7d

Welp

Rob Sheridan v @rob-sheridan.com
Good thing a bunch of Democrats were tripping over their dicks to heap praise on a guy who will be completely memory-holed from the national attention span in a week because of some other off-the-rails reason Trump will jump on to demand more censorship and arrests.
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM

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