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Nici

@nicijl.bsky.social

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Journalist; jam maker; suburban flaneuse; writes The Age's Capital Gain column on commercial property. Skeets deleted regularly. Knows how to use pronouns. Hating vegemite since an "incident" c.1967.

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Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 13h

1000 words on Hastie. Reader, I turned the page.

Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 16h

What a bunch of clowns.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 18h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

This administration definitely would jail the people hiding the little girl in the attic

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

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

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

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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Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 1d

A "theocratic libertarian". I knew there was a good reason I unsubscribed to the @nytimes.com. Douthat. What a douche. These guys sure have racked up a body count of awful crimes.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 1d

eh wut!

Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 1d

Condolences Celeste. My mother died in late June. What a year hey.

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Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 1d

Who?

Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 2d

Okay. I'm happy to be barred.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 3d

I think I joined antifa in 1981 when I signed up to Resistance, the youth wing of the Socialist Workers Party. I lasted less than three months but I'll be antifa forever. #antifa

Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 3d

Two days ago it was Monash dumping its climate think tank. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

‘Vanish in a puff of smoke’: Monash plans to close climate crisis institute

Fears that “redundancies by stealth” could hit about 100 researchers, staff and climate scientists on short-term contracts.

www.theage.com.au

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 12d

Trump was on the Jeffrey Epstein Plane!

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 4d

Giving out subs and hugs at the ICE Facility in Broadview Illinois!

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 4d

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Nici @nicijl.bsky.social · 4d

It's a four hour show? On a newspaper website? he won't be doing anything else...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.