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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 16m

I don’t know if my stuff is intelligent, but it’s at least coherent.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 5h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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objet petit ott @isheoughtto.bsky.social · 21h

under pritzker's watch. if he doesn't just WANT this (if) the only conclusion is politicians are more afraid of "their own" cops than of the executive branch or of their constituents. this is obviously unsustainable

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

A small number of demonstrators attempted to protest/march in the street.

Massive number of ISP troopers in riot gear responded by blocking 25th, threatening arrest, shouting into megaphone about an unlawful assembly.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 9h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 4h

What’s great but also scary is how they scurry away when the whistle starts blowing in.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 6h

Cognitive dissonance incoming.

momsformamdani on Instagram

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 18h

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 21h

This @lopatto.bsky.social banger completely changed my view of the Bari Weiss CBS takeover www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22h

I’m sick of pointing this out but JB Pritzker, governor of Illinois, put these cops here and bragged about it and wants to be president @govpritzker.illinois.gov

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23h

Fr. Dowling should perform an exorcism at that ICE facility. A little "the power of Christ compels you" couldn't hurt.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for every single journalist and political figure in America to simply say what “antifa” is the shortened version of.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

Worth seeing if you enjoyed The Mummy but thought, “Okay, Karloff is great in this role, but could he also play a mad Egyptologist?”

Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1d

Japanese poster for THE GHOUL (1933)

The poster features a painting of Boris Karloff staring up at a statue of an Egyptian god with madness in his eyes.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand, tariffs are eliminating markets. It’s called checks and balances, people.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

In an unusual acknowledgement, the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

“Do you want the blue pill or the red pill? By the way they’re both blue pills now, but for Republicans and Democrats.”

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. Then any legitimate atrocity photo you don’t want to see becomes “This is AI.”

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 1d

I sincerely believe this is an intended consequence of the push for AI in everything.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

PTA’s real accomplishment in One Battle, the thing he lifts from Pynchon, is that he makes dystopia seem kind of livable and engaging.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

But, but, Mike Myers and the elbows …

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I feel like the Nobel thing was a clever move on the part of aspiring GOP power vacuum-filler Marco Rubio, to give people an anti-Trump who still keeps the Overton window at “Regime change in the global South is peace and freedom.”

Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

Robert James “Kid Rock” Ritchie Circa 1998

Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

Liberals: Wow, pretty CRUSHING that they gave the Nobel to a REAL peace activist and not Donald Trump!

The prize winner:

“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!”

Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 1d

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