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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 7d

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

Mar Awa III, in red cassock, smiles as he gives the jersey to Leo, who looks as though he's been given a bomb to hold

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 9d

More of this. All the time. Every time they appear. Constantly. Fuck ICE.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 9d

More from the scene

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Siegfried Martens🇺🇦 @siegmart.bsky.social · 11d

After a redesign, it will make a fine shelter for immigrants in a few years🇺🇸✊

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11d

The 90,000-square-foot ballroom will be 1.6x bigger than the White House itself. 😭

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A 3D aerial view of a large white government building — where an orange man lives — surrounded by trees and landscaped grounds. Over the image, a transparent yellow L-shaped structure is superimposed, extending from the side of the main building and covering a portion of the grounds in front. The overlay represents a proposed building addition that is 1.6x bigger than the main building.

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Siegfried Martens🇺🇦 @siegmart.bsky.social · 16d

Personally I just listened to Elizabeth warren give a hell of a rallying call on the Boston common - we’re happy with our leaders in Boston ✊✊

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16d

This is correct. Participation was great, engagement and bringing in new people and teaching them about movements is great, and organizers literally telling people at the end to literally go home and have brunch is… the worst. So we just have to use the good parts as raw materials.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16d

Yes it’s an absolute truism of these protests that the protests are good and the attendees are good and the leaders are bad. Just ignore the speeches! The people know why they’re here, even if too many of the organizers often don’t really seem to regard Trump as any kind of distinct evil

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 23d

Great stuff here from @gregsargent.bsky.social

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23d

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/

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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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Oct 2

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Oct 2

I’m not generally the sort of person to say “hahaha fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you” BUT
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · Oct 2

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 29

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · Sep 29

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Siegfried Martens🇺🇦 @siegmart.bsky.social · Sep 28

Scary and accurate comparison

You’re Comparing Trump to the Wrong Fascist Dictator

The “Is Trump Hitler?” debate misses his sinister parallels to another 20th-century European tyrant.

slate.com

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Siegfried Martens🇺🇦 @siegmart.bsky.social · Sep 25

Here is how a democracy handles a criminal president

Sarkozy Sentenced to 5 Years in Libyan Campaign-Funding Case

www.nytimes.com

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Siegfried Martens🇺🇦 @siegmart.bsky.social · Sep 25

I think that graph just shows approvals in first year of first term?

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Siegfried Martens🇺🇦 @siegmart.bsky.social · Sep 24

I have nothing but praise for Ed Markey, but imho, 86 is just too old to run for reelection to the senate! On the other hand, anyone but Seth Moulton, please! Does Ayanna Pressley have a shot statewide? Any chance Deval would get back into politics? #edmarkey #sethmoulton #masenate

Moulton Readies Primary Challenge Against Markey in Massachusetts

www.nytimes.com

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Siegfried Martens🇺🇦 @siegmart.bsky.social · Sep 19

So Europe finally decides to start its own rare earth refining, since China has 99% of this key market, and where do they put the factory? In Narva, Estonia a few feet from the Russian border. Interesting location for a strategic asset – are they insane?

The Race Is on to Make Rare Earth Magnets Outside China

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Did u guys see the Tesla robot video? I think it's dying

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Week after week, month after month, they embarrass themselves, undermine their colleagues and demoralize their voters. Theirs is a record of cowardice and capitulation."

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 3

"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better."

I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan

This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better

www.theguardian.com

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Siegfried Martens🇺🇦 @siegmart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Chuck Schumer needs to lose his next primary. What are the odds he doesn't run for reelection?

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Sep 3

Chuck Schumer going door to door at the nursing home trying to recruit more elderly politicians to die in office

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Brian Wilcox, the Friendly Curmudgeon @brianwilcox.bsky.social · Sep 3

Trump REALLY, REALLY, REALLY doesn't want the Epstein files released.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 22

14/ For Halimi and his family, those actions would have far-reaching consequences.

Read the full story by @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro:

DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

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