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Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · 22h

RIP to the great Bernie Mac!

Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine how demoralizing it must be to be all dressed up in your battle gear and have a barefoot guy in his pajamas who clearly just rolled out of bed to support his neighbors telling you how pathetic you are

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Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · 2d

Or one of them, at least—Fruitvale is right there near Coast Guard Island

Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · 3d

All reports and Mayor Lurie’s statement only reference San Francisco, not the Bay Area at large. ICE is stationed at Coast Guard Island, on the Oakland Estuary between Alameda and Oakland; Oakland, San Jose, and surrounding areas all have large immigrant populations and are still at risk.

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Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · 3d

Note that they are specifically talking about SF—Oakland, Berkeley, and other communities are still at risk, so folks should keep their guard up.

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Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · 3d

Coast Guard Island is even easier.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

For the sake of posterity I thought I'd do a thread on all the epically stupid things Trump has done in recent days.

1) Let them eat ballroom

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 8d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9d

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

open.substack.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · 12d

“Wouldn’t I be a first class fathead?”

🎃 The Pantastic Mr. Pox 🦠 @mrfox.bsky.social · 12d

Enjoy Frank Sinatra calling some jerk kids “Nazi Werewolves”

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · 18d

This is true only if you consider male athletes to be the only major athletes in America

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 23d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · Sep 24

I don’t often go to church, but when Solomon speaks I will bow my head

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Sep 23

very good i am glad you all came...

a few words on our collective moment

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The Weeping Somnambulist @pigeon75.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · Sep 18

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

A post on the importance of sending letters

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 12

Must read

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

www.bostonreview.net

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 12

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 11

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again

tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 27

tell me what u are doing
be proud of your work and share it here

bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · Jul 27

hearing that we're not supposed to be promoting our stuff on here? seen a couple of posts disparaging that practice. still have no idea what this place is about, what is ok to post or not post, feeling like i'm dog paddling here

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Spooky Boooollivan @sullikasey.bsky.social · Sep 10

age verification: I called popcorn to find out what time it was

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

Here,
those circumstances include:
that there is an
extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English. Cf.
Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 884-885 (listing "[a]ny number of factors" that contribute to reasonable suspicion of illegal presence). To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court's case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a

KAVANAUGH, J., concurring
"relevant factor" when considered along with other salient factors. Id., at 887.
Under this Court's precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States. Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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