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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · Sep 22

Grand Woke Army of the Republic

Joezilla ( ジョジラ / Joe Ji Ra) @ejoe.bsky.social · Sep 22

Wait, GWAR are democrats?

Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 8h

This is how it ends

Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 11h

No, the children are wrong.

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Peter Nickeas 🎃 @peternickeas.bsky.social · 14h

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

in 1940, the Imperial Wizard of the national Ku Klux Klan purged the leadership of the New Jersey Klan for their association with the German-American Bund, and repudiated any ties between the Klan and the NSDAP. (interestingly, the purged NJ Grand Dragon later had this to say:)

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12h

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

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Peter Nickeas 🎃 @peternickeas.bsky.social · 14h

Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 19h

Shouldn’t the New York State Department of Labor be opening an investigation?

Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 19h

no kings except this guy

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 20h

Articles like these are a recession indicator

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 20h

GOOD MORNING, ILLINOIS!!

Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 1d

We saved transit.

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 21h

Don’t negatively engage with Yglesias‘s bad takes on issues and the “salience” of ICE tear gassing my city.

Instead, positively engage with this good analysis by @davekarpf.bsky.social

It isn’t about policy points but stories.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

Such a good point here from @davekarpf.bsky.social: If Dems don't engage forcefully enough on Trump's terror raids, Trump/MAGA propaganda filters down to the "inattentive public" and risks persuading people this is normal and acceptable.

Check out our full exchange:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 23h

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also not popular! Gassing (my) neighborhood before the kid‘s Halloween parade is definitely an issue worth making more salient!

He doesn’t have to live this way.

Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 1d

Pictured, liberals:

"Liberty Leading the People" by Eugène Delacroix, 1830

Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit is dancing on a stage while two men hold his hand .

Alt: a man in a suit is dancing on a stage while two men hold his hand .

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

It will be interesting if Jay Jones doesn't get the same grace from VA voters that so many lefty bro type media pundits are dying to give to Platner in ME. ...

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

We have a bit of a clearer portrait in #VAGov (unsurprisingly)

Roanoke College shows

-Spanberger leads Sears by 10 points (51%-41%)
-Hashmi beats Reid 42%-40%
-The BIG news is Jason Miyares now pulls ahead of Jay Jones after the text messages (46%-38%)
www.roanoke.edu/news/rc_poll...

Spanberger leads Earle-Sears by double digits; Jones now trails Miyares

Lieutenant governor race is close in latest polling.

www.roanoke.edu

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing.

On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Checking in on Shaq

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@shaq34diesel swimming in the clear blue ocean nest to a marilyn Monroe mermaid

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

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Shriketastic @shriketastic.bsky.social · 1d

Cuomo isn’t the Democratic nominee.

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a basketball player wearing a lakers jersey is talking to a referee .

Alt: a basketball player wearing a lakers jersey is talking to a referee .

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Steven @stevevance.net · 2d

you had me at “end the undervaluation of vacant land”

Drake Warren for Cook County Commissioner @drakefor10.bsky.social · 2d

Property tax bill: say it three times, if you dare. Repost this video and sign up to volunteer using the link in the bio to help keep this monster behind the mirror. #chicago #illinois #cookcounty #urbanism #propertytaxes #happyhalloween

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Steven @stevevance.net · 1d

If you live in cook county district 10, shown here, you can vote for Drake Warren on March 17

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I believe that he has a collection of speech acts to his credit. No political record. No public service.

Some of those speech acts credibly speak louder than others. It is perfectly rational to question how aligned a person with a maybe Nazi tattoo might be with issues that stem from bias.

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