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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 6h

Bad night for baseball

Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 7h

The man had a major biopic with a Hollywood a-list star twenty years ago! What is even going on here

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

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 1d

We do! But now it's filled with AI slop which is what they're feeding him all day long

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 1d

Extrajudicial murder

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 2d

Symptom of the same fundamental problem though

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, took a while to look up original poster, she deserves the credit for the video

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 2d

Boy maybe that whole Electoral College thing was a really dumb idea, and without it we'd never even have "red states vs blue states"????

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 2d

Kavanaugh Stops are brutal race-based secret police action

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 2d

Joliet used to be called Juliet. Right next door is the city of Romeoville.

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 2d

Matches the reporting on how all the tech bros stew their brains in reactionary group chats all day everyday

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 2d

Great intentional propaganda judgement, though

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 2d

I think you are a very dumb and vapid man

Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 2d

Glad you got defunded

Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 2d

They do care. They want them traumatized.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 3d

Game-winning touchdown

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 3d

"Vengeance after 2020" what universe do these goobers live in

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Brugroffil @brugroffil.bsky.social · 3d

They should all be disbarred

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