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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5h

Read @nlanard.bsky.social on the latest black hole ICE is reporting to with no due process or national connection www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Julie Bogen @juliebogen.bsky.social · 5h

A reminder (from my 2019 @theatlantic.com reporting) that as military families go without pay this shutdown, many of them are single-paycheck households relying on the servicemember's income because the spouses have been pushed out of the workforce.

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

The Dismal Career Opportunities for Military Spouses

For the partners of America’s active-duty service members, finding a stable, well-paid job is often impossible.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 5h

This is an incredibly weak place for them to be. If they end up tear gassing a bunch of librarians and kids in strollers at the family picnic that is No Kings it could trigger the type of support that ends a regime.

I'll see you on the 18th.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 5h

to be clear i would be much less stressed out if we actually existed in the world where LLMs were glorified markov chains/autocomplete and we understood exactly how they worked

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 6h

The only hard problem here is "what if you get buried alive or some other fate worse than death situation" but deciding it's a better idea for your body to just inevitably fall apart after just 80 years or so is a pretty extreme solution

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 11h

'CEOs need to take a backseat:' MindsEye devs accuse studio execs of fumbling layoffs and mandating crunch

Almost 100 current and former Build A Rocket Boy employees have signed an open letter containing allegations of debilitating mismanagement–and some workers are even filing legal claims.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 15h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Chris Edelson @chrisedelson.bsky.social · 12h

I am not an expert on the military, but I had thought that even adversarial countries establish lines of communication in order to avoid inadvertent conflict. trump sees Illinois and other states governed by Democrats as hostile countries and acts as if he is at war with them

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h

JB Pritzker also talks about his inability to get any top Trump officials on the phone, probably because they *want* this to be experienced as an invasion. He explains why this could make law enforcement officials on both sides *less* safe. Total dereliction. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

Pritzker also says ICE's treatment of peaceful protesters has gotten so bad that Illinois law enforcement has to protect them *from* ICE.

"We’ve got Illinois State Police standing in between ICE and the protesters," he says.

This is the America Miller wants. 4/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22h

One of the reasons to reject the obligatory demands for conservative affirmative action in liberal institutions is that the people who take advantage of it almost invariably function as a fifth column explicitly dedicated to destroying the institution from within.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

Tweet from Axel Folio, PhD: "To Poland where they are from"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 23h

the thing about the hype around AI is that it's mostly not saying, "oh you can use AI to make new kinds of odd art!"

it's saying, "AI can allow you to make art exactly like old art but somehow without artists."

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

newrepublic.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 1d

In the year Earth Century 225, in the middle of this conflict, are two women: Eris, an airheaded true believer in love and harmony, and Comet Halley, a jaded ex-revolutionary now forced to work for her enemies. Will idealism prevail, or will humanity's future in space be decided by betrayal?

Star Sword Nemesis by Love Conquers All Games

mecha betrayal girls love in distant space

loveconquersallgames.itch.io

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of this is just practice but one of the most useful things you can do is get really into a text that has the depth for a lot of people to have written about it from multiple angles. You will learn a lot about critical reading from, say, Robert Alter’s annotated translation of the Hebrew Bible

otter-wa.bsky.social @otter-wa.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have any tips/resources for getting better at critical reading or writing in general? Most of my higher education kind of glossed over this part (trusting that the students already knew all this) and I always worry that I'm one of the kids described in these types of pieces.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

All servicewomen serving in combat roles already have to meet stringent gender-neutral physical standards.

But Secretary Hegseth is intent on smearing those women as unqualified — and pushing all women out of military service.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Moves to Push Women Out of the Military

From eliminating the Pentagon’s gender advisory committee to misrepresenting women’s combat readiness, Hegseth’s record shows a clear campaign against women in uniform.

www.aclu.org

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d

it’s not a perfect solve but BG3 making the silent protagonist cool again is going to do a surprising amount for player expression

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

I think choice is becoming a victim of technological advances and player expectations. If you choose whether Bob or Jim live in a SNES RPG, you’ve got a different set of pixels and text boxes. Now you‘ve got a new set of voice lines, Hollywood tier animations, etc.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about it, the original Deus Ex may be the king of choice in a game with a story, because your choices are significant, linked to gameplay and unforced. From the very start, for instance, whether you use or avoid lethal force against the “terrorists” determines something about you.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

I think choice is becoming a victim of technological advances and player expectations. If you choose whether Bob or Jim live in a SNES RPG, you’ve got a different set of pixels and text boxes. Now you‘ve got a new set of voice lines, Hollywood tier animations, etc.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about it, the original Deus Ex may be the king of choice in a game with a story, because your choices are significant, linked to gameplay and unforced. From the very start, for instance, whether you use or avoid lethal force against the “terrorists” determines something about you.

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