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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago restaurants are struggling as ICE fears mount.

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has restaurant owners, chefs and workers on high alert as they cope with staffing shortages and safety concerns. blockclubchi.co/46JEoRe

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 5h

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Andie Wyatt @andiew66.bsky.social · 7h

You could fit that in a bag of chips.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7h

“Nearly every agent on Baltimore’s domestic terrorism squad was reassigned this year to work full time on immigration enforcement, forcing them to walk away from investigations of a network of violent predators that targets and exploits children online, according to two former FBI officials …”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7h

And as that bitter old man is targeting his perceived enemies bc he’s a bitter old man, he’s letting child predators and other criminals get away.

“FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online.”

Mass Deportations Do Not Make Us Safer

“FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online,” a new report reveals.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

You must defer to the president’s determination that there is an armed rebellion in Chicago, argues the govt’s lawyer.

That’s the Trump admin’s stance on everything. When the law doesn’t allow it, lie about the facts until it’s something that would be legal, then insist others live inside the lie.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 12h

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 14h

Democrats should demand the firing of Stephen Miller as a condition for reopening the government.

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Andie Wyatt @andiew66.bsky.social · 15h

Again, MAGAts and other conservatives think white supremacist, eugenicist, patriarchal hierarchy is natural law, and that’s all they ever mean by “law” or “order” — the exact opposite of what the phrase “rule of law” actually means.

Their ideology is entirely incompatible with having a society.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Andie Wyatt @andiew66.bsky.social · 1d

The people of Chicago should not be paying salaries or wages for people to facilitate the rollout of a partisan federal agenda targeting us for cruelty. It’s outside cops’ job description, bullshit as that is. If the local cops want in on that MAGAt ICE shit, they need to ask Trump to pay them. LOL.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Andie Wyatt @andiew66.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately MAGAs define their reality by hierarchical loyalty rather than by evidence or reason, so, no. For them there are no “real” conditions apart from what Leader says. Which is of course even more incredibly dangerous.

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Andie Wyatt @andiew66.bsky.social · 1d

(That’s entirely distinct from Aspie supremacy, btw. All neurotypes have tradeoffs. Types that diverge from the most common aren’t better, just vitally important to the collective. And not for their utility; high support needs people matter too.)

Andie Wyatt @andiew66.bsky.social · 1d

Evolution doesn’t operate solely on a zero-sum competitive, individualistic level like classical (and social) “Darwinists” believe. At the population level, having a subset not neurally pruned into the same shape, to make the same predictions, is vital for survival and progress.

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Andie Wyatt @andiew66.bsky.social · 1d

Neurodivergents more often (not always!) evade this and seek truth as actual correspondence with observed reality, which is why those in power are feverishly trying to discredit, suppress, and straight-up eliminate us.

AI is central to the fascist project to take advantage of normie conformity.

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1d

Humans evolved a cognitive 'social proof' system for establishing what's true (if enough of the people around me believe something, I'll go along) and media fragmentation + social media has completely and totally hijacked it

Feels like AI will only make this worse

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

"no in the future people will cryptographically verify what's true and-" no they will not. People are fucking stupid.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, this @brianbeutler.bsky.social idea of the "median experience of tyranny" is a good way to say that while majorities oppose the lawbreaking/abuses of power, Miller is banking on the middle lacking deep conviction about all of it (as I suggest)

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

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

"Every time Chuck Schumer....says that Democrats are looking to open the government through a negotiation around and deal on ACA subsidies, he is acquiescing to the idea that a government in which Border Patrol agents can shoot bullets at protesters in Chicago after screaming “Do something, bitch!”

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Jared Rizzi @jaredrizzi.bsky.social · 1d

The entire piece is excellent, and strikes the tone that is so crucial for this moment. But I'm most intrigued by Meredith's question near the middle: "Who is served by pretending we live in an America different from this one?"

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I basically think Sora is poison and the people who made it are evil people.

J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 2d

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

futurism.com

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 2d

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 3d

I find this encouraging, from @indivisible.org:

A defining feature of an emerging authoritarian regime is that it makes the opposition feel like shit on a daily basis. Every day, there is some new atrocity committed; some new institution attacked; some new democratic norm demolished. Some of it -- much of it -- we have little ability to stop in the moment.

But that’s not how to measure the health of an anti-authoritarian movement. Instead, we should measure it this way:

Are we more unified than we were before?
Are we bigger than we were before?
Are our tactics proliferating?
Is the regime’s popularity falling?

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 3d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 9d

"Past efforts to stem biodiversity loss and nature’s decline have not met their goals because they have failed to address the underlying causes: deeply rooted, interconnected social and cultural patterns that shape, influence, and reinforce direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity loss."

Transformative change to address biodiversity loss is urgent and possible

Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often appears overwhelming. This Perspective highlights the key messages from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and how everyone can be ...

journals.plos.org

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