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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 14m

Precisely how does one “abuse” a constitutionally guaranteed right?

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 19m

If she bothered watching the episode, he actually directs that joke partially at himself. She’s making the joke he already du made.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 26m

I’m just gonna have to start posting my recipes on here.

The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 59m

Ok, I hear you. But I have two questions. First: what the fuck are you talking about? And second, and I really need an answer to this one: what in the FUCK are you talking about?

The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1h

So how much dark money did you take to come up with this banger revelation?

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 6h

The differences in those two words is part of the engine of manufactured consent that I try to warn my friends about. The words they use based on the position you take is important. Hostages become “detainees” when trying to rehabilitate Israel. Prostests become “riot” for defending the state.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 6h

Notice the difference?

Also Israel has killed dozens of Palestinians since this “ceasefire” began. Including a beloved journalist named Saleh Aljafarawi who was only 28 years old.

He spent this genocide chronicling life in Gaza. And they murdered him while claiming peace.

B B C NEWS
Palestinians celebrate return of detainees freed by Israel
Today's Podcast
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All 20 living hostages in Gaza freed by Hamas as peace plan holds

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 11h

People whose entire worldview is based on provably untrue things have a tendency to manufacture a reality where their alarmist views are vindicated.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 11h

They’re manufacturing consent for violence against protestors.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 12h

If that were the case then “board member” and “landlord” would be the groups affected rather than journalists and office workers.

Futurism @futurism.com · 15h

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

trib.al

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 18h

If he does keel over I hope to god it’s during one of those cabinet meetings. Like they spend 30 minutes sucking his dick from the backside then turn to him and say “Mr. President?” And he just falls over and his been dead for a half an hour.

The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 19h

Oh my god, he’s gonna die soon… like he got bad news in his last check up…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 19h

Oh my god, he’s gonna die soon… like he got bad news in his last check up…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 20h

M I supposed to drop to the floor frothing at the sight of a Turkish style mosque and some camels? What race science bullshit is going on here?

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can generate it for you, wholesale.”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Solipsism as a service. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

With Sora, you can do exactly that, in 10-second increments. Soon, your phone might be filled with hundreds of fond memories of things that never happened and places you never went, moments you can sit back and “relive” when there’s nobody else around except your AI pals.

Generative AI already has the power to put us in little boxes, isolated from one another. Why wait for a friend to answer your text when ChatGPT will cheerfully answer right away? Why go through the trouble of making a new friend when you can turn to digital companions embedded in apps like Instagram or X?
These new forms of entertainment are becoming the lake to our Narcissus: You can gaze into your phone and see yourself staring back, having all kinds of thrills, spills and chills.

The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Every shitty freshman writing class student thinks adapting a Shakespeare line is genius gold, but you’re going to do it at least do it all the way. “Cry havoc and let loose a million hit pieces.” Put some fucking effort into it.

The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, will do, you’re a fucking hack.

A screen shot from this person article saying, *beleaguered sigh* “cry havoc and write a hit piece.”

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Before you yell at this person, remember when the title is a question, this answer is almost always “no”

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not good at money, is this good?

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

Call your China tariffs.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t this the plot of the Dark Knight?

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Ya, I should note more just how shitty this dude is at basic philosophy. Like his evoking of the antichrist gives off “guy who only saw boss baby watching boss baby 2” vibes.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.

A picture of two identical Mortar and Pestles one priced at $191 dollars, and the other priced at $1430 dollars.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, how do we keep getting mollywhooped by midwits with philosophy majors?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 1d

My running theory for this is that Green and Fetterman both entered into the magic-shop-that-appears-when-you-need-it while in the middle of the argument, and the old ethnically ambiguous man behind the counter promised he had a way in which they could see each others perspective better.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

Rage comics… now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time…

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

Close second is Gojira.

a black and white photo of a monster with lightning coming out of it 's mouth .

Alt: A scene from Gojira featuring the titular monster powering his iconic radioactive breath.

media.tenor.com

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The Terrier, Now with Spooky @jackshawhan.bsky.social · 2d

It’s cliche, but Seven Samurai. I just love Samurai movies, and it’s probably the best Samurai movie.

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