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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

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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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 16h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14h

Important content.

Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 15d

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 13h

And lots of them destroy good things that will be very expensive and slow to rebuild once they're lost. We're already settling for so much lower quality in so many aspects of our lives.

But at least those emails write themselves.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 14h

So maybe destroying career paths because you can and not thinking about the long-term repercussions might not be good after all. Imagine that.

But anyhoo, won't people who like to code just do it in their spare time?

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 14h

Not one enabler stops to think about whether any of the possible uses are good uses, and no one wants to do anything actually useful when they're making money tearing good things down.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 14h

That's a telling detail. Do senior coders arise from the sea or do you need junior coders to move into senior positions? The techbros don't care about destroying our ability to produce anything because they're stockpiling their billions. But the idiots who happily help them are something else.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 14h

And thereby create a fuckton of unnecessary and unread emails that say nothing of value. You'd thing that they'd figure out that they can automate those systems and omit the your job entirely.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 14h

And somehow the tech bro jobs are not ones that can be replaced despite being the kind of thing a reasonably well-trained golden retriever would good at.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 14h

At least you are open about how the goal is just to make everyone poorer and the world a shittier place to live in.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like he and H.P. might have a lot of similar views.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

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 · 17h

"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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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 15h

Somewhere, someone has a portrait in their attic that is looking younger by the day.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 15h

Not the important thing, but why does Thiel look like he has had some procedure that replaced all his human skin with new skin of unknown origin that he has to keep well-basted with olive oil?

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 18h

peter thiel has gotta be the wettest of the oligarchs

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 20h

Please go through this thread if you are having a bad day. I promise you, it’s the loveliest thing I’ve seen on Bluesky for a while 🥹

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like to brag but I do think our cat Jim is probably better at stretching than virtually any other cat in Britain.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

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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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Just tossing out tear gas out of an abundance of aggression now. Did Trump’s goons have any training at all?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d

ICE incident at Rico Fresh
Logan Square, Chicago

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Sophronia Borgia, maybe. @sophronia.bsky.social · 1d

There is so little support for disability in our medical system. Raising a kid with high needs means a huge amount of time and money and frustration, and everyone knows that the US medical system will not help and will not change. So people look for someone to blame.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, agreed. When we get into the weeds of discussing how many weeks, etc, it cedes the ground to people who want to curtail rights. Ignore the bait, stick to the principles.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Or that as Americans, we hold that equality and freedom are bedrocks. Not hard to change the focus from distractions like “what if we took away just a few rights, to appease the busybodies.”

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

But phrasing the messaging to appeal to anti-rights voters doesn’t mean compromising on any rights. Change the conversation to talking about how women and families can make better decisions than government bureaucrats, or that government should not regulate personal decisions.

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Likewise Civil Rights, immigrant rights and LBGTQ rights. Once you start compromising on human rights, what is the difference between the parties?

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