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Radio vet/thereministe/writer Free Palestine🍉 Bluesky °1,822,661 MUTINY: We're taking back this ship 📍 Dallas/Guam

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · Jan 18

I've been borrowing books from Dallas Public Library for years & always just used my DL on checkout. I didn't even know they had an actual card until today.

It features Brad Oldham's iconic affable Traveling Man & Bird friend reading together. I got choked up holding it.

I💗my library.
#Booksky

A library card with an illustrated scene featuring a friendly-looking robot and a small bird reading a book together. The robot is gray with circular eyes and a gentle smile, holding an open red book. The bird is perched comfortably beside the book. The background features DALLAS iconic cityscape with various skyscrapers and a reflection in a body of water in front of them. The sky is a light blue with a few clouds. The bottom right corner of the card contains the text "dallaspubliclibrary" and a website address.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 28m

If the tyrant became so demented that he had not one toe planted in reality, how would we tell?

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14m

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 12h

🎵I'll leave my love
Between the stars 🎶
💗💗💗

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

UPDATE: Media outlets are collectively rejecting Hegseth’s authoritarian rules about reporting on the Pentagon — even Newsmax (!!)

Embarrassing for the Secretary of War On Journalism
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 13h

***cues up Ennio Morricone

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 13h

This is Israel's defense minister. Just to be clear: Israel interprets the deal allowing continueing the violence even after the freeing of the hostages.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13h

The gutting of the VRA in recent years is one of the topics mostly likely to get me in a fight with folks on social media, mostly because so few even know what Shelby v Holder was, or to what extent voting has not been free OR fair in much of the South, in the most racist ways imaginable.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 13h

When I tell you this is his primary mode of operation. He's like an irrascible mule in dog form.

A brown dog that is somewhere between a chihuahua and a pug stands at attention in a blue harness looking off into the wild blue yonder with his eyes squinted as though he were Clint Eastwood. Go ahead. Make my day is the message of his irrasable and stubborn countenance

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 13h

Israel has been kidnapping, raping, murdering Palestinians for well over 75 years. That Music festival massacre was an everyday occurrence for Palestinians. It'd be really neat if you could educate yourself on the history there.

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 14h

"permitting protests?" " ABUSING THEIR RIGHTS TO PROTEST"????

Ma'am, do you even understand how PROTESTS work?? Lol

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 17h

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.”

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 14h

It cost me $40 to get a doctor's note for work.

My employer required a doctor's note for me to come back and I still got penalized with attendance points because I didn't have any sick time.

Forty dollars to return to a job that doesn't even pay a living wage.

FORTY DOLLARS

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 23h

Til that cheese is like weed for dogs...casein something something casomorphins.

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 23h

The dog won't eat his breakfast if I don't put cheddar in it. 😳

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 23h

The dog won't eat his breakfast if I don't put cheddar in it. 😳

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 1d

I made a super creamy pimento infused tuna casserole crowned w a roasted garlic cheddar mixed w another cheddar that was smoked for 9 hours in a hickory wood smoke. 😍

A pan of creamy tuna casserole topped with crusty golden crunchy cheese

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 1d

PHOTOS: Views from this afternoon outside the ICE processing facility in suburban Broadview.

A federal law enforcement officer checks the lock on the gate of a fence constructed on Beach Street outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Around 50 protesters gather with lawn chairs, blankets, and yoga mats and listen to speeches from Jane Goodall and Mahatma Gandhi outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A small group of protesters continue to rally on the corner of 25th Avenue and Harvard Street after Cook County Sheriff’s police officers attempted to disperse protesters near the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A protester dressed in an inflatable bee costume walks over to the corner of 25th Avenue and Harvard Street after Cook County Sheriff’s police officers attempted to disperse protesters near the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Border Patrol is terrorizing Gage Park this morning (video from Facebook, 55th & California reportedly 9:40am). SWRR reports agents are highly active and were also seen at the Pulaski orange line again: instagram.com/p/DPtwEY7DhTy

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 2d

When do we talk about the genocide that the regime is initiating in this country bc they are actively killing MILLIONS of people in slow motion with this. You don't need bombs/guns to kill people. You just need ghouls with the power to destroy the infrastructure that is required to sustain life?

Christina(Tina) Hex Hendriks 🎃💀👻 @renissance1.bsky.social · 2d

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 1d

@kamalaharris.com I just saw the embarrassing video of you and am disappointed, but not surprised that your loss to a felon did not force any sort of soul searching or self reflection. The sniveling condescending arrogance that defined your campaign is still there & seems to be getting worse. 🫩

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 1d

It was this snivelling arrogance that contributed to her loss. We saw this attitude during her campaign stops. She remains an irredeemable a-hole.

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 2d

I have had 10 vaccines in the past 6 months:
Flu,
Covid,
MMR booster,
Shingles + booster,
Hep B + booster,
RSV,
TDAP, &
Pneumococcal.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

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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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 2d

The treasury

The radical left has chosen to shut down the United States government in the name of reckless spending and obstructionism. As a result, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s websites will only be sporadically updated until this shutdown concludes. Please refer to Treasury’s contingency plans for more information.

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 2d

Department of Justice