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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 7h

Guys you don’t understand this is all coded

Shark costume = demolitions expert

Giraffe= crew served weapons (mortar speciality)

Garfield : CQC and prisoner restraint

Cow : counter intelligence and drone operations

THESE ARE PROFESSIONAL KILLERS

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10h

STOP THE ANTIFA TERRORISTS

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Ben Morgan AKA Alaskan AtomChild @benmorgan1030.bsky.social · 6h

DC Cover of the Day

If you see this, post a DC Cover you love.

STRANGE ADVENTURES #130 featuring THE WAR WITH THE GIANT FROGS!

ICE Agents see this Cover and crap themselves.

Art by Sid Greene

#ComicSky

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 6h

Democrats stop handing it to trump challenge fail in perpetuity

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bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 6h

FFS

Axios @axios.com · 6h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 6h

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 9h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

“The Raines say ChatGPT offered to help their son write a suicide note and on the night of his death in April, it provided step-by-step instructions for the method Adam used.”

‘He would be here if not for ChatGPT': Grieving parents sue AI companies

It has become a trusted companion for millions of teens. But it’s not a person. It’s an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence – one that’s trained to generate human-like responses. And some fea...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

A message from the frog resistance
youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

We must stop RFK

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 22h

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11h

It'd be remiss of me not to wish the US navy a very happy birthday, of course - and unlike virtually everybody else I'm going to include a picture of a genuine American warship to do so...

Yeah, ok - USS Chesapeake was only briefly American before becoming terminally British after a wee bit of "an incident". Having decided that a little bit of giving up the ship would be fine, actually, the Chesapeake was captured and eventually wound up being sold for timber and reconstructed into a mill. It's now a lovely antiques centre with a well-regarded teashop attached. It's also the best preserved of the early US frigates, at least in terms of the number of original timbers and tactfully ignoring their precise arrangement...

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webwidget @webwidget.bsky.social · 9h

Top Tier, Sir!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

I say it all of the time because it's true. On the whole, we aren't brave as individuals. But there's strength in numbers.

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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 11h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 11h

arthritis is just early onset rigor mortis.

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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · Aug 17

Happy 50th birthday, fractals! daily.jstor.org/fifty-years-...

Fifty Years of Fractals - JSTOR Daily

A half century ago ago, Benoit Mandelbrot coined the word "fractal" and pioneered a new type of geometry.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

"She wants to grab him," Ricky Patel said before he had had any exchange w/Ras Baraka. Even after Baraka left the facility, Patel said, "I’m going to place the Mayor in handcuffs. We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 18h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 14h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 11h

Just absolutely ridiculous that in all likelihood, my state will have had different congressional maps in 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2026, due to a combination of court orders and mid-cycle redistricting.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 11h

I mean really there’s no reason for anyone to have this person on their tv

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h

North Carolina still does not have a state budget:

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13h

BREAKING: North Carolina Republicans announce plans to vote on a new U.S. House map as a nationwide redistricting battle unfolds.

North Carolina GOP announce plans to vote on new House map amid nationwide redistricting battle

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders say they will vote next week on redrawing the state’s U.S.

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Wiley Nickel @wileynickel.com · 12h

I’ve seen this movie before — and I didn’t like the ending. NC Republicans gerrymandered me out of my seat and cost Democrats control of Congress.

Now they’re coming for Don Davis. They couldn’t beat him at the ballot box, so they’re going to cheat. That’s not democracy — it’s rigging the system.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13h

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

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Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 16h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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