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Hoyt

@jphoyt.bsky.social

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Chicago by way of Boston [He/Him/Himbo] Hubby, Dad, Bassist, heavy/light equipment mechanic. USMC Veteran🇺🇸 FAST Company, F2/5. All stated opinions my own. I like punk rock and tacos. Hate fascism 🇺🇦 🌻 https://youtube.com/@jasonhoyt7262?si=2f9_UaFApRo8LG-j

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Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Throwaway Heroes @throwawayheroes.bsky.social · Aug 8

It’s Bandcamp Friday and we finally have something to share!

Check out our new EP “Countdown” on Bandcamp and soon all major streaming platforms!

#Bandcamp #BandcampFriday #Punk #PunkRock #Chicago #ChicagoPunk

Countdown, by Throwaway Heroes

5 track album

throwawayheroes.bandcamp.com

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McBarry (Funny Rectangle Appreciator) @mcbarry.bsky.social · 10h

Last year FEMA received credible threats from locals who had been radicalized online following Hurricane Helene and needed Law Enforcement escort...

It was the biggest item in the news, and Miller wants you to forget about it.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 12h

This is the worst I can remember without a massive hurricane blowing in. #ClimateChange folks.

WMBF News @wmbfnews.com · 12h

A look at the photos and videos of Friday's coastal flooding across the Grand Strand.

WATCH: Coastal flooding impacts Grand Strand communities

Coastal flooding impacted several communities across the Grand Strand on Friday.

www.wmbfnews.com

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Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 9h

Correct.

This is the dumbest fascist takeover of all time.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

The Trump admin being incredibly vindictive to the federal work force and threatening to withhold pay and conducting mass layoffs are really self defeating moves because they need a staffed work force for to actually enact the policies they want.

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Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 9h

I was thinking this might be more appropriate for Chicago

a woman in a red dress is standing next to a man in a suit .

ALT: a woman in a red dress is standing next to a man in a suit .

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Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 9h

Quick!

Somebody activate the 5G!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 9h

Even MTG know that the democrats aren’t to blame for this shutdown.

What’s that?

MTG went crazy again and is blaming J6 on Antifa?

Yadda yadda, stopped clock, yadda yadda… 🤷‍♂️

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

ICE claims it’s going after “the worst of the worst” and good people are being hit incidentally. What’s incidental about going after tamale vendors? Where’s the “worst of the worst” there?

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 16h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 10h

Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂

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Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 9h

Trump claims, the Chicago River has had so many illegals in it, that it now consists only of nacho cheese.

We speak to dairy farmers in the Chicago suburb of Harvard about how JB Pritzkers policies affect their flood insurance rates at Nine.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 9h

Kid Rock makes music for people who have gold teeth but no Dental insurance.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 10h

a man and a boy are sitting at a table and talking .

ALT: a man and a boy are sitting at a table and talking .

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump announces he's putting a bajillion percent tariff on China

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 11h

Ven diagram of two circles. One reads things that happened, the other, reads this.
The circles do not touch

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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Judith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social · 12h

this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

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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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 12h

When I talked to bystanders they said agents accused Brockman of “obstruction,” which sure sounds a lot different than this DHS claim

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 14h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 13h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 12h

🚨In Chicago: ICE deliberately crashes into a woman’s car and drags her out while holding a B&T APC9 sub machine gun!

As predicted, nobody is safe under authoritarian rule. Republicans brought this into our lives.

#HandsoffChicago #AbolishICE

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Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 12h

This fascism problem will not end when Trump is either, removed from, or leaves office.

And yes, I understand folks feel like there’s a chance we might not have elections at all.

But this shit we’re seeing right now would still be happening under a President Vance.

It’s time to think bigger.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14h

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

TikTok video by Ms RK

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 14h

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Hoyt @jphoyt.bsky.social · 13h

Remember when Benny Johnson was a paid Russian shill?

Now he’s doing pressers with the AG.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...