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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 15h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 11h

Well, yellow is not exactly my most flattering color. But I’ll make an exception.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12h

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12h

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 17h

So apparently the latest preferred taking point from MAGA and the bots brigade is, “America doesn’t have a king, what are you talking about?”

Just for the record, do not bother responding to it. These “people” are not misinformed, they are not “just asking questions.” This is trolling.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 1d

Their malevolence is in a constant race with their incompetence

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

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

Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 2d

This means GPT6 etc, isn’t going anywhere and they know it. So just like Elon, they’re making a play to be an everything company.

Exactly how much longer do we have to suffer this grift?

WIRED @wired.com · 2d

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 3d

They have the money for a $20 billion bailout for Argentina to prop up investments made by Trump’s billionaire buddies, but no money for health care for working Americans. America First, right? 😏

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 5d

Generative AI is, at best, a reasonably good assistant. But the hype surrounding it stands to cause very real harm.

futurism.com/future-socie...

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse

Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

futurism.com

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 5d

Exceptional essay from @brianbeutler.bsky.social:

"If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like 'never again.'"

"Despotism doesn’t impose itself on everyone all at once. It creeps inward from the margins of society."

www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 5d

Clearly,a war-ravaged city.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 6d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for saying it. The loss of objective truth and belief in the need for evidence is insidious and infectious. We can’t allow ourselves to succumb to it.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 6d

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 6d

“Bucking tradition?”

NPR, you do realize that he’s going to try to destroy you, no matter how carefully you try to soft pedal what he’s doing, right? Right?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 7d

The misogyny just drips off of him, doesn’t it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Mike Johnson on AOC: "She hasn't read the legislation and I'm not sure she would understand it even if she did."

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 7d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 7d

We have now arrived at the opening crawl to The Phantom Menace.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 7d

We will stop calling them fascists when they stop doing fascistic things.

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Peter Vogel @peterevogeljr.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve been using the term narrative, but agreed. Beyond each individual, outrage, beyond all of them collectively, is the stress of seeing all these things and knowing that otherwise same people will insist that you are lying about it, no matter what evidence you present.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 8d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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