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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 58m

Hell yeah Saucony

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty sure I read a book about this as a schoolboy

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4h

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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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 1h

Haha I like it.

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 10h

Some of the most fervent volunteers for Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign are Republicans who voted for and still embrace Trump.

Cuomo’s Last-Minute Push Takes Him Into MAGA Territory

The former governor courts Trump fans, finding common ground in dire warnings about a future under Mayor Mamdani.

www.thecity.nyc

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 4h

pepe is trans. pass it on.

Kentucky Hills @meliakelley.bsky.social · 4h

Frogs can also naturally change genders, based on environmental pressures or unbalanced sex ratios. Not that fascist versus anti-fascist has anything to do with genders, but frogs are adaptable creatures and I love that about them.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 4h

'Living room with my sister,' (1847) is one of several Adolph Menzel painted of rooms in his house at 18 Schöneberger Strasse in Berlin - private experiments in capturing different light sources, moonlight, late sun filtered through curtains and in this case, artificial light.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 5h

Durbin is retiring but yeah.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 8h

Er how could it be the Democrats fault that the suburbs are (supposedly) overbuilt? Aren't NJ suburbs fairly conservative like in Illinois?

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 9h

If you missed it earlier this week, here's Claire's piece on what's happening in the room at Bessent's Fed chair interviews www.ft.com/content/6875...

Scott Bessent grilled Fed chair candidates on rates and quantitative easing

Trump administration ends first round of interviews to find replacement for Jay Powell

www.ft.com

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 9h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 9h

reel gud brah, reel gud

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 13h

De minimis: "UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems: Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance" www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 12h

Booming business at Chicago Housing Authority — a total of almost $22M — for the boyfriend, sister and daughter of longtime CHA board member Debra Parker.

My new investigation for @wbez.org and @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Chicago Housing Authority pays $22 million to companies tied to board member

The three vendors include longtime CHA Commissioner Debra Parker’s daughter, sister and boyfriend, shows a WBEZ investigation, but Parker says she hasn’t helped them.

chicago.suntimes.com

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 1d

I somewhat agree here, the degree to which there was a backlash against progressives, versus simply a backlash against progress *in general* isn't always clear.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

This is what they signed up for!

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/

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Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

Earlier this year, Speaker Johnson swore in two Republicans less than 24 hours after their elections.

It’s been 17 days since @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social won her election, and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

She would be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

VIDEO: 🇺🇸 Hundreds protest against National Guard deployment in Chicago

US President Donald Trump sent the National Guard to the Democrat-led city to aid ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents as they carry out immigration raids as part of Trump's mass deportation campaign

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

I might end up talking about this graph all day.

I think one thing Dems need to realize is that "Americans" are not buying into the "cities on fire" lies of this admin.

It's JUST Republicans. So if you're a governor of a solidly blue state, or a blue-city mayor, the national story is NOT YOURS.

Gallup poll showing a wild divergence in "is crime rising" over the past two years, w GOP at 90, independents at 68, Dems at 29.

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 1d

We are at the terrifying point where Doug Wilson is being interviewed by Ross Douthat, and there is no earnest caveat of his extremism.

I interviewed Wilson in 2020. Compare Douthat's interview and this, and you'll see only one is not normalizing his bigotry:

www.hcn.org/issues/52-8/...

As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven - High Country News

Extremist pastors are using the COVID-19 pandemic to push their conservative religious ideologies.

www.hcn.org

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