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The Death Expert
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 6h
There is a local hospital system here that does a gun safety PSA with the tag line “kids are safe when a gun is locked in one” and I just want to say that it’s important to hire good copywriters
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6h
wow guys I am starting to think tariffs are not useful tools to force down China's trade surplus
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 6h
🇨🇳CHINA’S SEPTEMBER EXPORT GROWTH HITS 6-MONTH HIGH Y/Y IMPORT GROWTH HIT A 17-MONTH HIGH. CHINA SOYBEAN IMPORTS HIT RECORD HIGH FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AT 12.87 MILLION METRIC TONS. SEPTEMBER COAL IMPORTS AT NINE-MONTH HIGH OF 46 MLN METRIC TONS. #CHINA #SOYBEAN #COAL
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7h
You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17h
The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h
He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

—Declaration of Independence, 1776
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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d
ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h
DHS agent wounded in active combat, from shots fired by other DHS agents who decided DHS agents were actually antifa. The genius of Kristi Noem.
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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 7h
Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;
Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h
Because the orders of the Dear Leader may never be questioned, says the judge.
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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 8h
Inflatable rabbit caught in teargas
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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 11h
Imagine invading an American city for fascism then getting recalled because the dear leader saw you on TV and thought you were too fat and unattractive.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 15h
The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...
Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards
An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12h
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 31 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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h
Some of the Illinois Department of Corrections SORT team we saw at the Broadview ICE protests Friday and Saturday.
five cops with large seven point stars and SORT patches, militarized gear SORT officer sullivan in olive gear with arm patch he is eating a snack and looking at his phone
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 5d
“I don’t wish death on Jay, I wish for her and her team to grow a conscience. I disagree with the decision and how it was handled. My account was taken down without any explanation for almost a full day in what can only be viewed as a retroactive ban.” grow a conscience is why Link was banned
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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 5d
“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link
Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet
Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h
Unfortunately the warnings were ”being cops” and “having tear gas”
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 11h
A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 11h
Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 11h
Every day it gets worse.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12h
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 31 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 Death Expert @thedeathexpert.bsky.social · 9h
Verdict: monster showdown
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12h
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 31 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 Death Expert @thedeathexpert.bsky.social · 10h
This database goes back to the days of W. This week, Bondi’s DoJ won a big motion on Reese v ATF, and now 2A rights groups have 21 days to turn over their member lists.

Sure feels like a federal gun registry.

www.propublica.org/article/gunm...
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...
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The Death Expert @thedeathexpert.bsky.social · 10h
I wanted to call it a showgirl showdown, but we know they don’t work that fast
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h
We didn't include a number of people kidnapped today in this because we honestly just don't even know anymore.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h
ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.
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The Death Expert @thedeathexpert.bsky.social · 10h
It’s Sunday Night Football blind guess time! It’s Detroit Lions at Kansas City Chiefs. I predict it will be an “epic” showdown #snf #carrieunderwood #nfl
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ALT: a neon sign for nbc is lit up in a dark room
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The Death Expert @thedeathexpert.bsky.social · 19h
Seems like the industry made it themselves.

www.propublica.org/article/gunm...
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...
www.propublica.org
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d
No fingerprint or DNA tests were conducted in Jeffrey Epstein's cell after his death. Sus AF.

Release the Epstein files. Now.
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The Death Expert @thedeathexpert.bsky.social · 1d
Holy #^^%#}€ that meal was amazing!
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d
I know we should celebrate Tony Fitzpatrick for his Chicago art, but I'll always love his portrait of NYC's Flaco
A colorful, vibrant collage with Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl at its center, a multicolored pinwheel on top of him, and various iconography, including the NYC Parks Department logo (a green London plane tree leaf), the old subway-token design, a map of Central Park, etc.
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