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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 6h

the mighty quinn

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22h

Whenever you hear a tech CEO spinning out *absolute fucking nonsense* using star trek language, some of what you're hearing is a screeching positive feedback loop between him and the crackpots he's spending all of his time listening to.

Some of whom he literally created.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 9h

The “who is more American” game is the path to the Dark Side.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 12h

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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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 10h

captain 'astings, one of these people is a murderer

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Gary Gehman @glgehman.bsky.social · 15h

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

Opposing a power mad despot is literally the most American thing an American can do. These guys got a lot wrong but they nailed that one. It is fundamental to the core of this country.

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 12h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov aren't these guys supposed to be protecting protesters from ice?

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 16h

hello from outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois.

i’m at the corner of 25th and harvard, where a small (for now) crowd is gathering to protest the masked federal agents abducting people throughout chicagoland.

state and local police have already made a handful of arrests today.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 12h

sally army comfort afflictors, walk away from god

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

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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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 21h

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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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote about some movies this week, most pressingly about The Perfect Neighbor, in theaters today and one of the only true-crime films that'll actually be worth watching on Netflix www.avclub.com/the-perfect-...

The Perfect Neighbor stares helplessly at a perfectly ordinary American murder

The Perfect Neighbor uses bodycam footage to capture the inevitable, racist, deeply American murder at its heart.

www.avclub.com

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 13h

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12h

Illinois State Troopers if I'm not mistaken @govpritzker.illinois.gov

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

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

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 12h

tbf afaik gutfeld never vandalized a woman's car to get a date with her

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 17h

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 15h

You all can’t have healthcare so Trump can have those tax dollars to spend on playing Napoleon while your family members die.
Got it?
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

I’ve never wanted anything more than CONCLAVE: THE GAME

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 23h

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43...

Habemus Papam

A game of intrigue, and hidden agendas in the race to elect the next Pope.

boardgamegeek.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

worth reading vought's 2022 essay where he lays this out, focusing on his complaint that congress can shape policy against the wishes of the president americanmind.org/salvo/renewi...

Renewing American Purpose

Statesmanship in a post-Constitutional moment

americanmind.org

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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