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🎃 Fall-mode pink cat 🎃 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah.

In case you haven't kept up with the news.

The USA are at the "Hiding the Franks in the attic" stage.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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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🎃 Fall-mode pink cat 🎃 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 5h

This is horrifying!!!!

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 8h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Will, Chocolate Double-Dip Deluxe @wkdart.bsky.social · 5h

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Sammy Hains @madferret.bsky.social · 5h

"Well clearly this kind of discipline didn't work, because you turned out to be abusive as well."

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Tofulicious Xal @tofuliciousxal.bsky.social · 10h

#Weretober2025 Night 7: WHALE SHARK

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 8h

I want Square to remake Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1 & 2 next purely because I want more Nu Mou and Bangaa fanart in the world.

People do not draw those critters enough.

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 18h

Is america great again yet.

image froma news report of military families having to rely on food banks

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WereRolo 🌕🐺 @rolobear.bsky.social · Oct 2

A not-so mini werewolf Rolo from last year!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Sammy Hains @madferret.bsky.social · 7h

Okay, but I feel I could get over that for the sake of the digimon.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 8h

Well that was a ride.

Also never heard about this because WWII nerds love glossing over the Pacific front.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

setting aside the fact that they just don’t know what jokes are, this gives a big insight into the mind of white nationalists. they are deeply paranoid about the idea of being percieved as anything other than Epic Stoics

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Syrus Hyena @syrushyena.bsky.social · 8h

A fucking classic

Training Guts ahead of the pregnancy @kinkgo.bsky.social · Nov 19

How come no one posted this here yet

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garmmy @garrrzzz.bsky.social · 8d

i sketched this a year ago and only coloured it now 😩
i can't possibly fit all my faves in one template but here are some digis i'm fond of! to celebrate happy time stranger and soon beatbreak day!

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Zeiros Lion @zeiroslion.art · 20h

I saw this orc that @thelastenvoyyy.bsky.social drew and I just had to take a crack at this gromp. But instead of gromp, I wanted to make him smile. So now Xargo here is smiling!

#Orc #Orctober #Xargo

Xargo, a big ol softie of a male orc, standing there shirtless with a warm smile on his face, eyes squinted shut from how genuine this smile is. He has plentiful dark brown hair, much of it tied up into a loose ponytail, more of it spilling down his shoulders and his back, and a lovely beard that has braids in it. He also has plenty of body hair peeking through the many scrolling red tattoos on his verdant skin. There is a gentle light on his body, really amplifying that lovely mood of his.

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Wimphyena @wimphyena.bsky.social · Aug 30

They're putting wifi in everything these days.

A screenshot of a google search summary that reads. "Female Grevy's zebra, for instance, have 'smart' vaginas."

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 21h

From the Larchives: Someday I'll hopefully write a story to go with these characters :

cartoon: A Hallowe'en illustration. A witch and her grandchildren are whipping up a brew in a cauldron with their pumpkin headed friend and owl familiar

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 19h

3d: Madame. Recreating the puppets in my life :) I don't think I can print this model until I find some size appropriate feathers and a boa. I wonder if Barbie has costume jewellery that could be glamourous enough?

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Kyote Damaskinos @kyotedamaskinos.bsky.social · 19h

Honestly, these chodes are the best salesperson for the Democrats, because these fictional Dems sound so much cooler than the ones we ACTUALLY have

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Kyote Damaskinos @kyotedamaskinos.bsky.social · 19h

"Hello, GOP? This is the American People. The Dem you sold us is broken. You said they'd make Communism for Transgenders the Musical required K-12 learning. Instead, they're funneling taxpayer money into the Pentagon. Can we return them for one that will do all that cool stuff you said they would?"

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Sammy Hains @madferret.bsky.social · 20h

Spider Molting on a large mammal.

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Yay, Sound of Terror🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @yeaunganimation.bsky.social · 22h

Animated this little dance cycle of Vee jamming to one of my favorite halloween songs.

BG and Compositing by AMAZING @yibozone.bsky.social

Song : It's a monster holiday by Buck Owens

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Sammy Hains @madferret.bsky.social · 20h

That's it. I've peaked on bluesky. It's all downhill from here.

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