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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 20h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 4h

"we see you're a woman, we recommend hateful dehumanizing misogyny!" tracks tbh

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 2d

political cartoon of jews in concentration camps with hands on hips: "history certainly won't be kind to hitler!"

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 3d

'At various points, there was no way to be in the thick of the protest without getting exposed to tear gas, or risking getting shot with pepper balls. At numerous points, agents fired from behind barbed wire fences, seemingly with no provocation — or even interaction — with protesters.'

“Even When They Gas Us": Hundreds Brave Tear Gas, Pepper Balls to Protest ICE

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

inthesetimes.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Michael Roche @michaelroche.bsky.social · 7d

ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 10d

I tried Google Reverse Image Search and still got nothing. Really frustrating and makes me think it's AI?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d

In the debates when they asked NYC Mayoral candidates what living Democrat they admired IIRC Mamdani was the only candidate to pick another mayor and he picked Wu.

Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 10d

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Boston Mayor’s Blowout Victory Jilts CEOs Seeking New Direction

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is coasting to reelection after her main opponent quit the race, giving her a commanding mandate that’s putting city business leaders on edge.

www.bloomberg.com

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 10d

a list of pathetic sellouts

• Dave Chappelle

• Kevin Hart

• Aziz Ansari

• Pete Davidson

• Andrew Schulz

• Jo Koy

• Bill Burr

• Jessica Kirson

• Jimmy Carr

• Louis C.K.

• Sebastian Maniscalco

• Maz Jobrani

• Tom Segura

• Whitney Cummings

• Jimeoin

• Russell Peters

• Andrew Santino

• Bobby Lee

• Chris Distefano

• Mark Normand

• Gabriel Iglesias

• Hannibal Buress

• Sam Morril

• Jeff Ross

• Omid Djalili

• Ali Siddiq

• Zarna Garg

• Chris Tucker

• Ben Hart

petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 10d

well on the plus side that shit will be washed out to sea by the next moderate hurricane season

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11d

Taking a nine-figure piece of property away from a college in order to give it to Trump for a new Trump Tower (with a presidential library tucked in there somewhere).

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Florida Plans to Hand Over Prime Miami Property for Trump Library

www.nytimes.com

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 10d

this you, @washingtonpost.com ? www.cnbc.com/2024/10/25/j...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10d

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 10d

when the us military starts shooting protestors i look forward to the nyt headlines about how the protestors smoked pot once

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 11d

Chuck Schumer, in an hour from now: The president plans to flood the streets with military personnel to oppress innocent people, but what he should be flooding the streets with is tax credits for the middle class!

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 11d

pathetic

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

www.theguardian.com

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 11d

you absolutely have to put all these people on trial once this is all over and I don't think anyone in power right now has any desire to do that

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11d

This passage nearly broke me.

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 12d

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 17d

naziism was not a manifestation of sexual repression and a lot of approved nazi art was weirdly sensual about the human body. they loved when people who exemplified their racial body ideals were naked and loved encouraging/forcing women to have babies.

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 17d

recalling something about how nazism was a manifestation of sexual repression

tiktok comments. comment 1: “Yes. I literally get annoyed seeing these scenes, it feels unnecessary.”

2: “it's not even it needs to be kept platonic but we literally don't need to see it clapping”

3: “GenX here. I also want movies and tv shows to have less sex in them. I would rather watch well-developed characters, like what you see in foreign films.”

4: “its so unnecessary in 90% of media”

more tiktok comments

1: “i think gen z likes it in our stories, i mean look at spicy booktok, i just think we dont like it being put into shows if it doesnt contribute to the plot or we are not invested in the couple”

2: “It's always awkward when watching with people and totally unnecessary when watching alone”

3: “It just makes it harder to watch comfortably with other people, and when it's not even needed? Yeah, no thanks.”

4: “It isn't used as a plot device anymore, it always a scene to pad the run time!”

more tiktok comments

1: “It's so rare that those scenes actually add value to the plot”

2: “It literally ruins a movie or show for me.”

3: “It literally ruins a movie or show for me.”

4: “it be mad random and pointless”

more tiktok comments

1: “It can just be implied. I don't want or need to hear actors grunting.”

2: “i skip past it. Always unnecessarily long, useless and adds nothing”

3: “it’s just awkward to watch”

4: “finally someone says it especially in horror movies”

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 17d

there has been absolutely no evidence to the contrary for my hypothesis that we are living in a beta universe

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together"

absolutely cursed sentence

Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 19d

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18d

is this not just kidnapping?

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 17d

A single $3 million donation would fund the Cartoon Art Museum indefinitely, pass it on

Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 18d

Every AI/San Francisco article is obscene. If investors put a hundredth of the funding into arts and education non-profits that they did into plundering arts and education, we'd have a Utopian society instead of whatever this is.

Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 18d

Remember how artists and writers used to live in SF before techbros drove rents so high they had to move? Now this thieving company is "growing" (as tumors do) and paying SF rent while paying only a fraction of writers for only a fraction of what it stole. www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 18d

love how every one of these people has missed the point of a solid 5000 years of human storytelling on the dangers of pursuing immortality

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 19d

I've been thinking about this piece for ten years. All the obnoxious little incels have been the same this whole time. harpers.org/archive/2015...

Come With Us If You Want to Live, by Sam Frank

Among the apocalyptic libertarians of Silicon Valley

harpers.org

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