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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 12h

Portland folks chose instead of escalating things, to show how absurd this whole situation‼️

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The Cola Corporation @cola.baby · 12h

Thanks Mike! To anyone interested, these are unionmade in LA and sold at cost

www.thecolacorporation.com/products/the...

THE PROTEST TEE (CHICAGO EDITION)

THIS TEE FITS SMALLER THAN CLASSIC COLA TEES. CHECK THE SIZE CHART AND FIT VIDEO. DOUBLE-CHECK THE SIZE CHART AND FIT VIDEO. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The inside sleeves of the Protest Tee (Chicago Edition)...

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FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.social · Nov 20

Which lets me once again post Clara Bow’s assessment of Gary Cooper: Poor Gary. He’s got the biggest cock in Hollywood but no ass to push it with.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · Dec 1

Her: You better not be cunty western Gary Cooper when I get there

Me:

A black and white very early photo of Gary cooper in western gear, slicked down flapper hair, makeup, and smoking a cigarette

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 12h

Holy shit. I slept on this and they are out of stock in my size but that doesn’t mean they are out of stock in *your* size, now does it?

The Cola Corporation @cola.baby · 14h

Check ur inboxes

Graphic of black tee. Two blue stripes in background at top and bottom. White and red text reads Protest at top and Chicago at bottom. In middle is a diptych of black and white photo of Chicago protests 1968 and a color photo of man carrying USA flag amid tear gas at Broadview Illinois in 2025.

Close up of text on inside sleeve

1. "¿Soy libre de irme?"
Si no: "¿Me están deteniendo?"
2. "Deseo permanecer en silencio. Quiero hablar con un abogado."
3. "No doy miconsentimiento
ara un registro"
4. Ademas de 1-
de 1-3, cállate.
5. En serio, cállate
5. En serio, cállate.
Gremio Nacional de
Abogados
(872) 465-4244

1. "AmI free to go?"
If not: "Aml being detained?"
2."i choose to remain silent.
"I want to speak to a lawyer."
3."I do not consent to a search."
4. Besides 1-3, STFU.
5. Seriously, STFU.
6. National Lawyers
Guild Chicago

Close up of tag inside tee collar.

UNION MADE IN THE U.S.A
100% COTTON
SMALL

In background is image of Chicago flag

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Heather Wylie @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 23h

Why. Why.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 12h

This person is really funny and seems really nice, and is looking for a job but my lab studies lactation which has nothing to do with birds so here’s a controversial ornithology meme to drive engagement

🧪

The “change my mind“ meme with the guy sitting at a folding table with a sign. the sign says:

HOSP equals rats with wings

change my mind

“HOSP” is an abbreviation for the house sparrow, which in the United States is an invasive species that drives out bluebirds and other vulnerable secondary nesters. They have serrated beaks that they use to behead baby bluebirds. They’re real assholes.

All of that is not in the photo. I just thought you should know it.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 12h

Will, regrettably, update the third-country removal tracker soon.

Reuters @reuters.com · 13h

Guatemala receives first flight from US with third-country migrants reut.rs/3W08Z6Q

Guatemala receives first flight from US with third-country migrants

Guatemala's IGM migration authority said late on Friday it had received a first flight from the U.S. carrying foreign migrants returned from the United States, as well as Guatemalan citizens.

reut.rs

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joes-spot.bsky.social @joes-spot.bsky.social · 13h

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Zahr K. Said @zahrsaid.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent piece on why the compact is one of the stupidest “policies” by an administration full of stupid ideas.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down newrepublic.com/article/2013... via @newrepublic.com

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 19h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18h

You break it, you own it. Kudos to @akalhan.bsky.social.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 15h

"The report called Amazon “the ultimate keeper of the data that enables detentions and deportations,” while MIT Technology Review called Amazon the “invisible backbone” of ICE’s crackdown on immigrants."

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

littlesis.org

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 21h

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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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival’s lawsuit alleges.

How a new firm with DHS ties won a $915 million contract to help immigrants "self-deport"

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

www.motherjones.com

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like these guys never got to the part of literally any color revolution or scifi movie or famous Super Bowl commercial where the regime's symbolic omnipresence just creates endless potential sparks of revolution.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hadn’t realized we reached the Fascist Leader Talking In An Endless Loop At Sites Of Mass Transit stage of the dystopia.

Good to know.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 15h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 17h

“Turn around or you’re gonna get the dogs.”

What the fuck country is this?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

Sidebar: It’s wild that the guy making the arrest has an accent, and the guy being arrested doesn’t.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Kinniska @kinniska.bsky.social · 14h

Looking for validation on this, your opinion @testpatern.bsky.social ?

Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 14h

Australia explained for Americans courtesy Arun Chandran

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 19h

Consequence of the shutdown, many civil servants and military members are lining up at food banks because they have not been payed yet.

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