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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 2d

no, i’m not tired of ‘being nice.’

yes, i still want to ‘go apeshit.’

these things can coexist.

now stop asking me.

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sonyuhhhhh @lxvndxr.bsky.social · 1d

svt: so this is about how getting to meet someone new feels illegal right?
pantheress:
svt: ok good woooOOOwoooooobit feels illegal~

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

superpower whose economy is built on data center construction, sports betting, healthcare extortion, and subprime auto loans. very healthy

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 2d

The secret door.

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🎃trash🎃 @dollarpbr.gay · 1d

an edited version of a tweet that originally said “people on here will tweet anything. “charlie brown had hoes.” no he didn’t. that isn’t true.”

it has been edited to read:

people on here will tweet anything. "johnny cash is considered uncool." No he isn't. That isn't true.

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sonyuhhhhh @lxvndxr.bsky.social · 1d

nothing beats a shower after a jet2 holiday~

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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sonyuhhhhh @lxvndxr.bsky.social · 2d

WAHHHHHHH

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 3d

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Anime styled graffiti art on a train car depicting a male demon looking seductively at another man while saying "That's a good boy", with the phrase "kiss yr homies goodnight" in the bottom left corner.
Artist seems to be "Akira BPD"

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 2d

Archive photos of 100th Antifa Chemtrail Group

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sonyuhhhhh @lxvndxr.bsky.social · 2d

the mapel leaves are truly the eldest daughters of the nhl 😔

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 2d

Chicagoans have arrived at Trump Tower, chanting "all power to the people, no human is illegal!"

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sonyuhhhhh @lxvndxr.bsky.social · 3d

lib watching from florida……

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 3d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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sonyuhhhhh @lxvndxr.bsky.social · 3d

watching twenty of my little boy grandchildren the Sweet and Innocent mappee leapps go to fight the war against the Evil Canada league of evil rn

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Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · 3d

Being trans in 2025

A still of Ricky from Trailer Park Boys looking to the camera, saying "I don't think it's a big deal but according to the police it is"

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sonyuhhhhh @lxvndxr.bsky.social · 4d

is it a kink or something for the espn broadcastors to keep camera focus on bedard as he’s spitting. like why aren’t we pulling away why are we watching this 19 year old spit on that thang

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...

Southern Reach told me Area X keep eatinh his expeditions so I asked how many expeditions he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new expeditions afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding expeditions to Area X and then his daughter started crying.

(adapting a tweet about coyotes eating cats)

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

ELWOOD, Ill. (AP) — Texas National Guard troops have arrived at an Army Reserve center south of Chicago ahead of expected deployment.

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