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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h

The idea is that you're supposed to "grow out of" your youthful dalliance with Rage Against the Machine or The Clash or whatever, in order to graduate into adulthood, when you simply resign yourself to How Things Are. But you were right all along to believe in all that shit!

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 23h

onetwothreeFOURfive sixseveneightNINEten eleventwelve

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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justin @slowdeli.com · 2d

it's working for me

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 3d

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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you're not steampunk and i'm telling everyone @homarus.bsky.social · 3d

Swan Boy is one of the best things on the internet, bar none.

Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social · Sep 17

swanboy.com

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justin @slowdeli.com · 3d

emotional letter opener

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justin @slowdeli.com · 3d

I am also experiencing the warmth of the forehead laser

a ancient man @saintchristopher.bsky.social · 3d

this is the literary equivalent of a sniper’s laser zeroing in on my forehead specifically

Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social · Sep 17

swanboy.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 5d

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 9d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9d

matt walsh's problem is he's trying to run white evangelical software on roman catholic hardware. many such cases.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9d

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.

The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Matt Walsh: Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here

@CatholicSat: The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 10d

When I was a kid the CPD would show up to schools and give this speech about how the police were the biggest gang in town and then like 3 years later we found out basically the entire CPD had been complicit in a massive drug syndicate run out of the department

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 10d

totally normal human behavior

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rat posting from the lab @gizmouse.bsky.social · 11d

academy award contending tiktok

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Chandra Steele @chandrasteele.bsky.social · 11d

“AI cannot take a happy person and make them happier, but it can take a lonely person and turn them delusional.”

A word from Josh Gondelman, human

Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 11d

After a brief delay, this week's That's Marvelous newsletter is now available to read and enjoy! It's a little bit about what comedy is now and a little bit about AI "friends" and a little bit about good cheese!

#151. AI "Friends" and You

Hi everyone, It's been a huge week for me, not because anything exceptional happened, but because I tested negative for covid and rejoined the general public. I was so happy to be in the same room wi...

www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12d

One advantage we have over the antifascists of old is the ability to widely disseminate footage that makes our enemies look like jokes

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 12d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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justin @slowdeli.com · 11d

I checked, and was relieved to find that I am not

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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · 13d

🎵bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug
🎵Mr bugman
🎵cent me a pede
🎵give him some feet that are many indeed

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justin @slowdeli.com · 13d

gord mooning

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17d

if you're a person who doesn't see the unalloyed good in Warner Bros spending $150 million on a loose Pynchon adaptation by Paul Thomas Anderson, we simply do not occupy the same reality

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Jul 21

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

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