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Flotation Device

@flotationdevice.bsky.social

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I mean, I am technically buoyant. Yes, I'm a real person. My actual name is too boring. I block lavishly if you set off my bot-dar or just seem irritating.

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Flotation Device @flotationdevice.bsky.social · Jan 15

Realizing I could just post "Well, that's fucking God awful" every morning and it will always be appropriate.

Flotation Device @flotationdevice.bsky.social · 6d

After sixty years of research, I am really fuckin tired

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 6d

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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Legend @fubarrockchick.bsky.social · 7d

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10d

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10d

If State Farm is truly interested in being a good neighbor, it should be transparent and let the numbers speak for themselves.

Other insurance companies work with us on this, but State Farm has refused.

Without the data, homeowners have no assurance.

Illinois sues State Farm for not releasing homeowners’ insurance data

State Farm responds to lawsuit filed by the Illinois Attorney General's Office

www.25newsnow.com

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 10d

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 10d

Today we delivered to senior management in NY a petition signed by 1,300 ProPublica readers, donors and supporters, as well as fellow journalists at peer newsrooms and former ProPublicans. It’s clear that we have wide support for a fair contract NOW.

ProPublica Guild Secretary Jeff Ernsthausen presents CEO Robin Sparkman with our petition signatures.

ProPublica Guild members gather in CEO Robin Sparkman’s office delivering petition signatures.

ProPublica Guild members gather in the hallway outside CEO Robin Sparkman’s office, delivering petition signatures.

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Flotation Device @flotationdevice.bsky.social · 11d

Damn, Everett

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 16d

🔥 🚨🔥 Meet Randy Erwin. Randy is the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees — a union representing ~ 150k employees across the country. We need more RANDY ERWIN ENERGY in this country! Sound ⬆️ & Share. 1/2

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Flotation Device @flotationdevice.bsky.social · 16d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck

kermit the frog stands in front of a red curtain with the words quiet time is over above him

Alt: kermit the frog stands in front of a red curtain with the words quiet time is over above him

media.tenor.com

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 20d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 18d

New set is out now Friends

MAGA Mega Mad over Bad Bunny Bowl

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 19d

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 19d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 21d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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Flotation Device @flotationdevice.bsky.social · 21d

So, crazy thought: we could make it so everyone could just enjoy their lives without getting fucked over. Like, I think that could actually be possible.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 23d

obligatory sturgeon mention content

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

A protester tackled and arrested by state police for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

A protester tackled and arrested for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 22d

ICE has no legal authority to arrest an American citizen who is asking to see their administrative warrant, while pursuing an administrative warrant (if they even have one).

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 23d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Flotation Device @flotationdevice.bsky.social · 23d

They're traumatizing a lot of ordinary people too. Sure seems like that's part of the plan.