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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 1h

remind me tomorrow to do a Columbus Day thread with the thesis "why this guy?"

state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 2h

it is precisely the people not target by the regime* who are the most crucial to get on the streets

* white cishet middle-class-ish people w/o disabilities

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 8h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 3h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 8h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3h

i have a, uh, complex relationship to the idea that a general disdain for the citizens of the gulf monarchies is precisely racism, mostly resulting from the disappearance of every Saudi rape suspect i ever worked with (3) from the country before charges were brought

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6h

Mamdani is winning a plurality of the NYC Jewish vote, so the Jews going to hear him speak inside this synagogue are more representative of NYC Jews than the ones protesting outside.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 6h

Blood-and-soil nationalism + 19th century race science but Make It Woke

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 6h

if the pantone swatches don't work you can always break out the skull calipers

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 6h

where the fuck is governor Healey? Why is she allowing Trumps thugs to get away with repeatedly kidnapping Massachusettsers?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

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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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 6h

the next Democratic president absolutely cannot be as old-school nativist as Biden, we squandered a massive opportunity and it still ended up killing his approval ratings

Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 11h

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

I switched to Linux in 2016 and have never looked back

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

This is like the Frogger bit from Seinfeld but for people who "must be fun at parties"

state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

Someone please tell me to not be an idiot

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

It's like $30 bucks but I'm so so tempted to go all John Hampden on these motherfuckers

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

If King Donald wants to collect tonnage and poundage on my copy of This War Without and Enemy he should call a Parliament like every other King has to!!

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

"Being charged an illegal tariff on an English Civil War board game" might be the funniest thing that's ever happened to me but there are only a few dozen people in the world who would understand why

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

Mail addressed to "X or Current Resident" may as well be labelled "throw this out"

state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

Is today the day I try to get my roommate to play This War Without An Enemy

state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

*excellent not exclusive

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 10h

Exclusive Behind the Bastards episode about this

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 11h

YES HM I WONDER IF SOME FOLKS ARE BECOMING THE REACTIONARIES THEY ALWAYS HATED HM NO I'M SURE I'M RIGHT ABOUT SUDDENLY FLIPPING THE ENTIRE CULTURAL SCRIPT ABOUT THE CORPORATE OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SIDING WITH DISNEY COPYRIGHT LAWYERS BC I DON'T LIKE NEW THINGS

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 11h

please don't drag the rest of us into your weird humiliation kink

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 11h

The anti-Zohran crowd went from: "Zohran isn't visiting any synagogues," to "he isn't visiting the right kind of synagogues" (or to quote JG: "he isn't visiting any mainstream synagogues" [sic]).

To now just protesting that he is actually engaging with mainstream synagogues 🤦‍♀️

Screenshot of a Twitter post from @Olivia_Reingold.

It reads:
"Outside of Congregation Beth Elohim, where congregants are protesting Zohran Mamdani's upcoming speech this afternoon.

"Does anyone think CBE would invite a white Proud Boys member to speak?" - Ramon Maislen

Reporting for @TheFP"

Followed by a cropped photo of a small group of protesters outside the synagogue, holding US and Israeli flags.

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 11h

I guess it's a bit like the Patriot Act: give up some freedom and violate some rights in exchange for safety, and you don't actually get the safety

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 11h

to be clear I'm trying to understand and explain, not justify. There's no justification for supporting genocide, and on top of that, the State of Israel doesn't care about diaspora Jews
If you're going to sell your soul, you should at least *get something in return*

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 11h

yes. it turns out "every country" even includes the one founded for the explicit purpose of not doing that
guess that's just how the world is

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