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Rob
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Pamphleteer (he/him) | serial & short fiction Current Issue: No.60 thedreadfulpoint.com/2025/09/15/60/ Home: thedreadfulpoint.com
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 15h
"American civil society has more than enough financial and organizational muscle to stop this authoritarian offensive. But it requires collective resolve. And it requires leadership, which has been in painfully short supply."

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.
www.thecrimson.com
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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 12h
The wingless Sphinx hasn’t notice you…yet. So you still have time to prepare for her riddles
An illustration of a walking wingless sphinx in profile moving to the right. She has bright red fur with a slightly darker spotted pattern on her back. Her face is pale with dark scleras and bright irises. She has a patch of light fur on her chest and tail
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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 16h
Thank you, I assume
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 16h
Nobel Prize in literature officially announced
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d
Chicagoans have arrived at Trump Tower, chanting "all power to the people, no human is illegal!"
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d
Michigan Avenue right now.
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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 1d
I think that conservatives' inability to experience joy or enjoyment might have a negative side
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 2d
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.
news.bloomberglaw.com
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 3d
i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl
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Defector @defector.com · 3d
No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...
No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…
defector.com
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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 1d
the free shipping bookshop dot org sale is a good time to buy my collection of original weird fiction which i guarantee you'll love
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Toadstones
Check out Toadstones - <p>Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star's lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper's final job for her late employer. An exhumation to ...
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d
Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable
unusual whales @unusual_whales X.com Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d
NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d
I’m going to sound old here but playlist/algorithm culture has eroded the pride people used to take in digging in the crates, going through some archives, or stumbling upon an act and finding some dope stuff they can claim as a discovery.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d
you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both
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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d
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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 2d
Coherence was intended to parallel The Aeneid in a way similar to if less exact than the way Ulysses parallels The Odyssey

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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 2d
A single member of Fugazi is called a fugazo
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Rob @thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social · 2d
One must imagine Cookie Puss happy
Carvel Cookie Puss ice cream cake
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 3d
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d
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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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4d
ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d
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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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
www.oregonlive.com
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d
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Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say
The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.
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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5d
per reddit this is the 'ten car' incident -- weird!
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 4d
"When Trump sends troops here, how will we stand up to them insistently and make clear New York doesn’t need them, New York doesn’t want them, New York is resisting them?"
I spoke to @bradlander.bsky.social about ICE, Trump, Zohran, and the future of New York.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/brad-lande...
Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist
The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
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