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She of Little Focus @myzdevyneone.bsky.social · 24m

You know, I think what Kamala Harris meant when she talked about the capitulation was that she didn't realize how many people were just itching to break the law when it was convenient. When they would have cover & when it would serve an individualistic evil purpose at the expense of our democracy

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1h

Just today, here's a story from the @chicago.suntimes.com -- not only are ICE/feds masking themselves constantly (and some local cops too, I've seen it), now they're driving around without license plates. More "laws for thee, whatever I wanna do for me" in action chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent read.

bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 3d

today at IHTOV:

@mikebarthelauthor.com goes long and deep on billy joel in a beautiful, gorgeously written essay on being a joel fan. you're going to want to read this one. put a few minutes aside. it's good ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/life-...

Life in a Glass House

All of which is to say that I loved Billy Joel because I loved my dad. I loved that he’d moved 300 miles away from Farmingdale to some little rural town (the Hudson River line would only take you part...

ihavethatonvinyl.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 4h

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 5h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Tamara (Rhymes With Camera) Sellman @rhymeswithcamera.bsky.social · 5h

I wish I knew who the artist was

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 18h

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 6h

AI slop posted only by clickbaity social media sites.

mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 7h

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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 7h

that's cool! where do you get it from?

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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 7h

@clairewillett.bsky.social aw phooey, I used to be able to reply to your posts - was it something I said? 😥

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Reminder: Trump vaccinates himself 👇🏽

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 8h

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 19h

Press needs to assume everything McLaughlin says is a lie. On Saturday within an hour or so of it happening, she was tweeting about the woman they shot and
Everything
She
Said
Was
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Lie

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 21h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 20h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

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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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 22h

but I thought people only go there after they've had too much to drink already

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22h

That press conference shows the tragedy of Eric Adams. He had some real successes: City of Yes, trash containerization, crime reductions, etc. but couldn't stop tripping over all the bags of money he and his aides kept taking from people and now thinks it's the media's fault for reporting on it.

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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 22h

Squirtle!!

mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 22h

maybe we can ask AI to design a printer that works

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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 22h

I was too old for that show and thought it looked bizarre, but then again, my generation watched HR Puffinstuff and Sigmond the Sea Monster which are both thinly-veiled acid trips brought to life.

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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 22h

standing up from a squat position

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

12. What was easier in childhood but difficult as you get older?

mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 22h

(they are *tasty*)

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mjfrombuffalo @mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social · 22h

My first bagels were blueberry bagels from the supermarket and I toasted them and topped them with peanut butter so I know GD well I'm never winning anything in NYC.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

Come the fuck on

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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