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Jill

@jillehughes.bsky.social

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Writer, mom, reader, analytical weirdo. Current Chicagolandian. Former North Sider. Former South Sider. Former Ohioan. Completed several marathons, against medical advice. Cancer survivor. Cubs fan. Opinions my own.

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Jill @jillehughes.bsky.social · Apr 14

Friendly reminder that you don't have to hack and harass an innocent person who did nothing to you just because a Twitter propagandist grifter told you to.

Also, hacking is a crime.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 12h

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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Sparky MD/PhD @neurospark.bsky.social · 15h

I’m in Chicago. I awoke to a faint noise of people screaming. People screaming… and cow bell. It’s the war ravaged Chicago, marathon day.

Marathon runners 🏃‍♀️ on Lasalle st heading north around mile 4. Sears tower in the distance.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 8h

“The House speaker is losing control of his party”

Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown - The New Republic

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Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown — The New Republic

The House speaker is losing control of his party.

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 8h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

He speaks like a poet.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane.

@acyn.bsky.social

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6h

Children deserve to feel safe at home & in school. This new bill I signed:

➡️ Bars childcare facilities & state preschools from collecting immigration info
➡️ Protects parents’ legal rights & kids’ security if separated
➡️ Ensures schools have safety plans in times of crisis

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13h

Nothing is more important to establishing true freedom in the United States than reducing Peter Thiel’s influence down to his vote

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

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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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

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.

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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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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 14h

The reboot of “Law & Order” is a Temu version of the show

The original (the first 20 seasons!) stands the test of time, whereas the reboot plays like a cheap knockoff relying on empty tension to fill in the gaps. A tremendous bummer!

My newsletter this week is an in-depth compare & contrast

Why is the reboot of “Law & Order” so bad?

It’s as if everyone forgot how to make the show.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 8h

Work harder and die

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

NEW: Trump meant to send a Truth Social DM to Pam Bondi about indicting his rivals. That sounds like official business, so I'm filing a FOIA for her DMs, plus those of five other cabinet members. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/my-latest-...

My Latest FOIA: Trump's Truth Social DMs

Recently, Trump posted a message to Pam Bondi that was meant to be a direct message. I want to know what other official messages he's sending to cabinet members.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Today in an interview with NBC News, Vance said that Trump was considering all of his options for deploying the National Guard to major cities, including invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, which grants the president emergency powers to deploy troops on U.S. soil.

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 8h

Did ABC give George the go ahead to shut him down? Did they learn their lesson from giving in? Cos you know this isn't gonna go unnoticed...

JD Vance Rages After Interview Goes Sideways

JD Vance Rages After Interview Goes Sideways

The vice president had a fiery encounter with ABC mainstay George Stephanopoulos.

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justfara @justfara.bsky.social · 8h

'He's a coward': Onlookers ridicule 'cranky' JD Vance after wild ABC interview

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'He's a coward': Onlookers ridicule 'cranky' JD Vance after wild ABC interview

Vice President JD Vance was hit with extensive mockery on Sunday after his interview with ABC.Vance over the weekend lashed out at ABC's George Stephanopoulos after the host pulled the plug on an inte...

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Blue Freedom Quest 💙🌊💙🌊 @bluefreedomquest.bsky.social · 8h

'Verbal jujitsu:' ABC host ends interview as JD Vance refuses to answer bribery question

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'Verbal jujitsu:' ABC host ends interview as JD Vance refuses to answer bribery question

ABC's George Stephanopoulos, a host and former White House Communications Director, shut down an interview with JD Vance after the vice president refused to answer a question about a reported bribery ...

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 8h

you know i just saw a thing where george stephanopolous was talking to jd vance and he was like propublica says several of your cabinet members have multiple mortgages and jd vance was like well i don't know but i question the source. but like. he can text them. this isn't 1980

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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 7h

Pritzker calls out JD Vance on his tidal wave of lies and follows it up with a Nobel Prize insult to Donald Trump

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Static ⚡️ @staticunicorn.bsky.social · 7h

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

We have significant concerns, however, about any compact or policy that could damage or depart from our nations competitive merit base system for research grant funding. That system has been the foundation for science and and innovation for decades. Since World War II that special partnership among the federal government, industry, and research universities has fueled tremendous growth in our economy and educated the next generation of highly skilled American workforce contributed to the health of our people and made our nation more safe and secure.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

No need to hunt all over for Antifa headquarters. It's located in Arlington National cemetery. There are 400,000 members there.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 7h

Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s ultimate goal is to bring in the National Guard to cities like Chicago to militarize the country’s Democratic-controlled enclaves as a form of political payback.

Gov. JB Pritzker points to Trump inconsistencies in deployment of National Guard to Chicago

The federal government has emphasized the Guard’s mission would only be to protect federal immigration enforcement agents and property.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 7h

Given that we know how online JD Vance is, we must also consider that he is actively going on ABC to reference this meme so he can smirk about it in groupchats later. Call me old-fashioned but I think that the office of the Vice President should be above that.

Matt Separa @mattsepara.bsky.social · 13h

He's literally doing the @internethippo.bsky.social meme

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