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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 1h

And god bless him, bc when i got the inevitable fundraising text, I took the time to say "I'm supporting your primary opponent" before I sent the STOP

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

Trump take cars

CNN @cnn.com · 3h

New car buyers can expect to shell out an average of more than $50,000 for the first time, according to a report from Kelley Blue Book. https://cnn.it/4odLnaO

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 1h

yeah, that was what I'd thought the takeaway was!

Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 2h

I just watched this short that's leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of the month, and it's just so *pretty.* I wish I could see it on a big screen. www.criterionchannel.com/flores

Flores - The Criterion Channel

Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2017 • Portugal Starring André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge Jácome Drenched in lysergic lavender, this sci-fi pseudo-documentary is both a dreamy vision of ecological...

www.criterionchannel.com

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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 3h

I literally thought we already knew this. Is this a Mandela effect? Or do I just pay more attention to information out of Chicago than the NYT does?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

A team of researchers analyzed the anatomical dimensions of an infamous imprint on a Chicago sidewalk, sifting through photos and measuring mammal specimens in museum collections to put what they were seeing in context.

Their conclusion? The Chicago Rat Hole was not made by a rat.

The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat

A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 5h

fascism exists to protect scared little bitches

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like we're going to have to do this with all of Tricia's lies.

www.thedailybeast.com/senior-ice-b...

Senior ICE Barbie Official Posts Totally False Information About Violent Arrest of Teen Girl

DHS communications lead Tricia McLaughlin made the false claim over a video that went viral.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 6h

I remember that story! But yeah, I think this in particular, especially in that location, would be basically mean an automatic whistleblow and "illegal" protective action, iykwim

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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 6h

Have they been moved back out of SF? This sounds like they *were* at least in a place that someone would be able to stop Trump from destroying them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMES_P...

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt - Wikipedia

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 9h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 13h

CDC HR employees were brought back from furlough to process these RIFs and then end their own department

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 13h

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

the Republican party of the future may not find a figurehead that can replace Trump but it's getting worse by the day, the next generation thinks Stephen Miller is a squish

these are very, very bad people

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

If it's something America can be proud of, they will destroy it.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 1d

I’m an old enough American that this was just Received Knowledge about Nazi Germany (except it was a year, not 12 weeks, and it was officers, not every SS member). I don’t even remember where/ how I “learned” it. From the comments here, it seems to be an Anglophone creation.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone ever come across any *primary source* material that confirms that SS soldiers had to break the necks of German Shepherd dogs they had raised & trained with for 12 weeks in order to earn their stripes? It sounds like nonsense to me for various reasons.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 1d

UFW’s use of social media to show us the labor that goes into our food is brilliant.

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 1d

"Maria" is rolling up raisins under the hot Madera sun. To earn $70, she has to roll 1,000 sheets! Each row has around 250 sheet. It's hard grueling work walking on the burning sand for hours rolling one sheet after another. #WeFeedYou

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Also lying:
- your own eyes
- every bit of video evidence
- the fabric of reality itself

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

the Catholic church to all the people I hate right now

Prince of Darkness screenshot of old computer screen (blue-white text on black screen) that reads "In fact, YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED!"

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