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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 11h

Christ.

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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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 14h

THIS is the bold policy initiative that will solve the “men and boys crisis.”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 14h

somehow, the polycrisis returned

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

I do think it's unclear if anything load-bearing snaps, but I do think we're looking at a multi-faceted national healthcare crisis, an AI bubble correction, and a farm crisis

Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 14h

Eminently relatable gay content

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14h

I fucking love buying books.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 14h

Cripes

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Robert Balkovich @robertbalkovich.bsky.social · 18h

These people are so incompetent that I do think not that long from now anybody who capitulated without a fight is going to look profoundly foolish and weak (more so than they already do).

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h

ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.

Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
@S
_OkudzetoAblak
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Ghana is not accepting Abrego Garcia.
He cannot be deported to Ghana.
This has been directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities.
In my interactions with US officials, I made clear that our understanding to accept a limited number of non-criminal West Africans, purely on the grounds of African solidarity and humanitarian principles would not be expanded.
Ghana strongly objects to these misleading media reports.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 18h

The free press is a vital part of American democracy

Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 2d

Urgent new statement from the Pentagon Press Association, on Pete Hegseth’s new, forthcoming media restrictions:

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 20h

Get some!

And don't miss out on our commemorative USNS Harvey Milk gear: outinnatsec.threadless.com/designs/hono...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 21h

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

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🌶 Bonus! Eggybread Wonderlatch | Extra Hot Great

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

Let me see if I can figure out a way to post it to the Internet.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

Let me know when he and Andrew Scott kiss

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

So, I saved a VERY old episode of @extrahotgreat.com which is just endless roofing on different anagrams of Benedict Cumberbatch for 10 or 15 minutes. I hope that the host will one day do this for Timothée Chalamet.

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

CHRIST

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

Truly love that this was Francis’s Dick Cheney

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: if it had not been Nancy Pelosi, she would’ve been the first female Speaker of the House.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

Our QUEEN

Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 1d

Leaning into the witchy allegations hoping to catch your attention.

Healthcare is on the line, it doesn't take a psychic to see that.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet fancy moment

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

A DeSantis supporter posted a mild critical comment about Hegseth's speech on X, and Kristina Wong, the Navy spox, has been posting proudly about how she caused the woman to have to lock her account due to harassment after Wong targeted her. Wong also asked on X who the woman's military husband was.

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

A college or graduate level class where the only texts are “Hamilton” and “Get Out.” Discuss.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 1d

Listen, if Charlie Jane is suggesting it, it must be a good idea!

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2d

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 1d

This is delusional. You can't support a hospital on only an ER - they're not the profit center of a hospital! ERs take enormous charity care losses due to EMTALA and have to be cross-subsidized by more profitable service areas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

Whew yes the Pope! It still pleasantly surprises me whenever a church leader says something that actually sounds like Christian values

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 1d

I am given to understand that this is the kind of scandal that the New York Times will put on its front page for months.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 2d

Why is the President of the United States trying to communicate with the Attorney General about government business via direct messages on the social media site he owns?

And is a direct message on a privately owned social media site kind of like a private email server?

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 2d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Queer Hand Luke @lfschleusener.bsky.social · 2d

Werq

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 2d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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