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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1m

Pleasing symmetry. Wordle 1,574 3/6*

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 10h

Couldn’t agree more. A genius. A true original. Best rapper alive.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10h

For those of who have already entered the strange and wonderful zone of László Krasznahorkai’s fiction, the news that he won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature comes as no great surprise. “It seems something straightforwardly just,” James Wood writes.

László Krasznahorkai and Contemporary Europe’s Perilous Reality

The swirling sentences of the new Nobel laureate’s fiction overlay small-town politics with an uneasy sense of impending apocalypse.

www.newyorker.com

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe they can revisit Miles Davis next.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13h

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 13h

Every video I’ve seen has been streamers so this checks out! It’s weird to see it pushed so hard in my feed cuz I barely ever play video games.

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 13h

TikTok keeps feeding me videos of a game called Baby Steps, the object of which seems to be doing a boring climbing task for hours and hours and then, when you reach the crucial moment, falling helplessly back to the bottom. A bit on the nose.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 14h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 14h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 14h

Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 15h

Update: smart judge, not dumb judge

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 15h

JFC

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 17h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22h

Joining the ranks of media capitulation and cowardice is the Illinois Press Association. Under CEO Don Craven, the group joined a lawsuit against ICE’s attacks on the local press and protesters in the Chicago area. But his board ordered him to withdraw from the suit, and he resigned. 1/2

Illinois Press Association CEO Resigns After Dispute Over ICE Lawsuit

The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, resigned this week following a ...

localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 18h

(Deleted previous tweet because it was a quote from a doj attorney, not the judge.)

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 18h

Gotta hope the judge on the Illinois Nat Guard case has a working brain.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

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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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 19h

Also, as frustrating and slow as it is, the judicial branch needs to make ICE and DHS and the National Guard follow the law. An act of Congress means nothing if it can be ignored.

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 19h

Now we have to fight battle after battle for the next year with very little leverage. Things can get done, but not all the things!

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 19h

All these things are important! But the time to secure them was last November.

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 19h

This was the point I was getting at yesterday. Everyone is now throwing their pet demands into the mix. Soon whatever concession they can extract on healthcare will be characterized as failure.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 20h

Democrats should demand the firing of Stephen Miller as a condition for reopening the government.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 23h

The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Taken as Strictly True: Neuroscience and Sinology in Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens

Cha is a Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly journal dedicated to publishing quality poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, and reviews written in English, as well as photography an...

www.asiancha.com

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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 23h

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 23h

Still waiting for my coinage, “Laz Kraz,” to catch on. Maybe this is the moment.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 1d

“I haven’t done anything,” Miranda said to the officers in the video.

“Turn around or you’re going to get the dog,” an officer said. “We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.”

Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 1d

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

www.koin.com

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 23h

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