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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Franki Butler @frankitheb.bsky.social · 2d

There's at least one study out there on how Black children aren't really children in many people's minds. I assume that with the immigration gestapo the adultification/dehumanization combo applies to all non-white kids.

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2d

Im still wondering what goes through the mind of someone who joined ICE just for the benefits when they're told to rip a mother away from her screaming children or to kidnap a child from school...

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 2d

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

Art is going to be so bad when only privileged wealthy people can afford to make it.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 2d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 2d

Photogs at Broadview doing a fine job in tough situation. Ashlee Rezin of @suntimes.bsky.social took this now viral image of Rev David Black 9/19. Part of new story abt judge banning chemical irritants/projectiles (which I saw cops still carrying at Broadvw btw) chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Judge rules federal agents can't deploy chemical irritants at journalists, protesters who don't pose threats

The temporary ruling stems from a lawsuit filed this week by news organizations, unions, independent journalists and protesters against the Department of Homeland Security following tense interactions...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 2d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 2d

My first professional acting job was in an off-Broadway play with Diane Keaton in 1976. I worked with her again when she directed an episode of China Beach. She was smart, kind, funny and very, very talented. What a loss.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 2d

IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY IS DUE TO DRUG ADDICTION. IT'S A MEDICAL EMERGENCY YOU FUCKING GHOULS.

This is part and parcel of what's keeping us from having universal health care: they really believe that some ppl deserve medical care and some don't.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 2d

“i’ve always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women.

when someone says about a woman, ‘i’m sorry, that’s just wrong,’ i tend to think she must be doing something right”

rip diane keaton💔🕊️ (1946-2025)

Photograph of Diane Keaton by Norman Seeff

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 3d

CHAPPELLLLLLLLLLL

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

Imagine Watergate and the Saturday night massacre combined but instead the media ran cover for it. That's what this is.

Alt text: Screenshot of a CNN Politics article headline reading “Lindsey Halligan didn’t coordinate NY AG Letitia James indictment with Pam Bondi’s DOJ.” The byline lists authors Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Evan Perez, and Hannah Rabinowitz. The article was updated 1 hour and 55 minutes ago and is labeled as a 2-minute read.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 3d

a tremendous resource now broken on purpose - no fixing it per se

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 4d

Hayley Williams performed True Believer positioned at the back of the stage with most of her black musicians at the front. I’ll post the lyrics below

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 4d

Segregation 101 paired with AGGRESSIVE medicority

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 4d

OPINION: "Mississippi’s white leaders haven’t done nearly enough to reckon with our white supremacist past, nor its ongoing manifestations, to expect Black folks to live as if Jim Crow never was," MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.

Editor’s Note | Mississippi’s Evil Past Still Haunts Us

News Editor Ashton Pittman writes about how the response to college student Trey Reed’s death illustrates how Mississippi’s past haunts its present.

buff.ly

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