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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 2d

real you’re-getting-it-worse-because-you-held-your-hand-up-one-time-as-I-repeatedly-struck-you vibes

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 4d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 4d

And the US is taking a 10% stake in Trilogy Metals. Regulate and participate. No conflict of interest here. Socialize those losses. Privatize those gains. Socialism for capital. Market discipline for everyone else. Got it.

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 4d

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 4d

Whether or not you think we should have, we were. Now, we are not and people are dying and that’s on us. Get fucked with your bad-faith-fiscal-responsibility arguments. There is enough and this is a choice.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.bsky.social · 5d

If you’re able, please support Rudy and his team as they continue to build a separate community for us on #blacksky! They deserve all the support for how they’ve handled things from day 1 for our community.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 5d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · 6d

“Reactions online seem to be simple disbelief that COVID damages brains- but this is anti-science…However we still have a hegemonic refusal to acknowledge COVID as a threat from the far-right to the far-left, it is a largely united front to treat COVID as the cold it is so clearly not.”

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 7d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 6d

Unhinged loser shit.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 7d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 7d

So insane. Is this a real guy? Like a real human person? So gross. 🤮

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 7d

bravo (earnest)

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 7d

Hurts the heart to read. Tragically, the list of domestic examples is increasing.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 7d

queen shit, rest in peace

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 7d

www.courtlistener.com/docket/70496...

Exhibit Amicus Brief – #166, Att. #1 in Newsom v. Trump (N.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-04870) – CourtListener.com

First MOTION to File Amicus Curiae Brief filed by Steven Abram Cash. Responses due by 9/2/2025. Replies due by 9/9/2025. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Amicus Brief, # 2 Proposed Order Proposed Order)(Cash...

www.courtlistener.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 9d

“BuT tHe DiScoUrSe—“

No. I didn’t log on to win hearts and minds. I come on here to occasionally chortle while siphoning from the fire hose of despair.

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 9d

I think what is happening is he is on his way out the door and smart, evil people know his “cultural” (gross) influence is not transferable and are doing their best to publicize his endorsement (real or not) of their plans and world views. They know their window is closing. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 9d

I think what is happening is he is on his way out the door and smart, evil people know his “cultural” (gross) influence is not transferable and are doing their best to publicize his endorsement (real or not) of their plans and world views. They know their window is closing. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 9d

Second COVID infection in kids doubles risk of Long COVID.

Parents: consider www.flomask.com or zimiair.com

#MaskUp #Covid #SarsCoV2 #LongCovid

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study

Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

www.thelancet.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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jon @virtuallyonline.bsky.social · 12d

This rules!

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