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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 6h

Never heard the word bunt more in my life.

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 9h

Oooooo I need to watch this.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 10h

Oh my gosh! That is terrifying.

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 10h

Mind you, I would be eliminated immediately.

Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 10h

I am so weirdly obsessed with 99 to Beat. I wanna go on it.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

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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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 11h

Wow that grammar is atrocious oh well

Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 11h

I know Jake was ultimately fine, but I might have nightmares about how the doctor so was urgently yelling “is he breathing, is he breathing” when then brought him off the boat. 🐍 are scary. #Survivor

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 12h

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 12h

Oh my god

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 17h

Watching this week’s Survivor and as a Florida person, I know that snakes that swim are always bad. Nope no nope nooooo.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 1d

For the fourth time in eight days, Pope Leo has taken direct aim at Donald Trump's abuse of migrants in the United States.

In a new letter sent to Catholic Charities USA, he calls immigrants to the United States “witnesses of hope” and encourages Catholics to do all we can to welcome them.

Fourth Rebuke in Eight Days: Pope Leo Intensifies Clash with Trump Over Migrants

In his latest rebuke of Trumpism, Pope Leo praises immigrants as “agents of hope” and tells Catholics their faith is tested by how they welcome the stranger.

open.substack.com

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 1d

Well. Wow.

Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 1d

Smitty says he misses laughing with Martin, but there’s no way Martin is funny. Absolutely not. #BeyondTheGates

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 2d

Haha I grew up near Chassahowitzka and same.

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 2d

This show really makes me wonder how some people survive day to day life.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 3d

Gavin Newsom is trash. 🚮

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 4d

The idea that the Republicans are all just aok with millions of people losing coverage at once due to cost is insane. And evil.

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Carrie Raisler @carrieraisler.bsky.social · 4d

Not enough people are talking about how the individual insurance market is literally on the verge of a full collapse.

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