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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

Everything you say is true, but so many people have bent (or broken) rules for Trump; so many ostensibly good people have bent the knee, that I still think it's possible.

Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

Just speculating here, but Hamas might feel that their negotiating position is improved every time Israel refuses an ostensibly reasonable request: "Well, if you won't give us this, then we are forced to demand that."

Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

Out, liar.

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 1d

Context for the whistles (though the above is about Rogers Park/Edgewater, not Little Village): blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/17/i...

In Little Village, Residents Are Blowing Actual Whistles To Warn Neighbors About ICE

Residents have equipped themselves with bright orange whistles amid ramped-up ICE arrests. "People could hear that noise, and if they don’t have legal status, go the other way," one immigrant advocate...

blockclubchicago.org

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

"'Must' is not a word to be used to princes, little man…"

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

"'Must' is not a word to be used to princes, little man…"

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 2d

The answer to the question: Are you a Pharisee? is -- no, I am not a first-century Jewish expert in the Torah.

The title of the video should instead be: 3 signs you might be a *bad Catholic*.

Note how "bad Catholic" is equated with being Jewish.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 1d

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

I don't suppose we'll ever find out now, but I wonder how they planned to use the material. Was it to attract support? To dismay Israelis? To use in recruitment videos — "join us and you can do this"? Or did they just take it for granted that their supporters would enjoy watching murder porn? 2/2

Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, absolutely. But ISTM there's not a huge difference between "let's slaughter lefty peaceniks" and "let's slaughter everyone we encounter". They planned, and documented their slaughter too. IMO that shows it was a deliberate choice: they were committing outrages for the propaganda value. 1/2

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 1d

Corollary: it’s profoundly devastating that the victims on the Israeli side on October 7 were generally peaceniks and leftists who wanted to live in peace and equity with the Gazans

Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 1d

worth pointing out: one of the many reasons Bibi didn't give a shit about the hostages is because they were all from Shaar haNegev, a region that, before the attack, was full of peaceniks and leftists who wanted to live in peace and equity with the Gazans and consequently did not vote for him.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Chaim Peri told another Nir Oz hostage, who was released in the first ceasefire, that a general hostage deal would take two years, because "it's Bibi and we're leftists." He was subsequently murdered last year and never saw his prediction come true to within days.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

It's still a choice they made. They could have avoided civilian areas, or taken them without murdering everyone.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

Playing the antisemitism card.

Lain Kaplan 🏳️‍🌈💗🏳️‍⚧️ @lainkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, here we go, the scathing critique.

thelehrhaus.com/culture/a-ga...

A Game by Any Other Name | The Lehrhaus

Todd Berman warns of antisemitism in strange places.

thelehrhaus.com

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing as political discussion in the UK about pulling out of the European Convention of Human Rights is almost entirely determined by Reform and Conservative Party attitudes towards immigration, it's probably worth a reminder about the rights which the EHCR protects.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

When a baby elephant gets excited to see its caregiver, it often shows its joy through playful behaviors

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 3d

RISQUE GALORE

Dozens of sex toys have been found washed up on a Scottish beach.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

Twice!

Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

Surely only one of those could be said to be consequential. Israel should release all bodies, immediately, unconditionally, but ISTM that can't really affect the situation going forward.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 2d

Everything reminds me of her

Carved jack o'lantern in a yard, with a scared, screaming expressed as little white pumpkins were attached all over, carved with large pointed teeth and mouths and made to look as if devouring the large scared orange pumpkin

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 1d

Who were the combatants?

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Must-read report from @blackvotersmatterfund.org and @fairfightaction.bsky.social lays out the absolutely enormous stakes of the redistricting case that could destroy the remaining provisions of the Voting Rights Act bit.ly/VRA-under-at...

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 2d

How can their rulings not be *formally* legitimate, though? I know they're cut to fit the Administration's convenience, but if they call it a SC ruling then that's what it is.

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Jason Murphy @jasemurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Something super hopeful:
A way to treat Alzheimers that is totally new and was just shown to work amazingly in mice.

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport | share.google/U23UhLehCUUC...

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 2d

my founder of antifa told me pam bondi keeps arresting her girlfriends so i asked how many girlfriends she has and she said she just goes to the protest and gets a new girlfriend afterwards so i said it sounds like she’s just giving protest girlfriends to pam bondi and then her frog started crying

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 2d

An illustration of Alice in Wonderland with that cat on a tree. Text bubble from cat says "We're all a little mad here." text bubble from Alice says "At me?"

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