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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 2d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 3d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
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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…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll say it again: the best actually imaginable outcome for “abundance” is for it to become politically polarized such that it’s a *progressive shibboleth*.

Do the stuff locally and at the state level. When we have a national trifecta, we can shove it down their throats.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible on its own terms, and also poisoning the waters in congress for any kind of bipartisan deal on transmission/permitting issues.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 1d

“Gen X…are particularly miserable”.

Yup.

Darin Self @darinself.com · 1d

Silent Gen/Boomers had far higher experienced economic growth and have higher levels of trust.

Millennials with lowest levels of experienced growth but somehow more trustful than Gen X who are particularly miserable

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

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A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 1d

An answer for where I grew up: “always” is pronounced “all-wez”

An answer for where I’ve put down roots: “Reagan National” is pronounced “National”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 4d

If there is good news it seems to be that exposing the interior to the immigration despotism of the borderlands through ICE’s manhunting seems to be having the exact same radicalizing effect that exposing the North to the slaver despotism of the South did through the Fugitive Slave Act’s manhunters

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 2d

LKY / Singapore admiration really is a synechdoche of *pre-Trump* American right-wing thought.

Rigid cultural conservatism, a state explicitly aligned with large firms, and maybe most importantly: a system of formal racial equality paired with an obvious and unquestioned racial hierarchy.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d

two thing that annoys me about Lee Kuan Yew worship is that nobody who does it seems to care about *modern* singaporean politicians and American right-wingers who do it would never accept LKY's policies of, e.g., massive public housing projects in a country that makes posting racism illegal

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

DEI for me, not for thee.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3d

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3d

No you genuinely can’t bring down healthcare costs without breaking the back of the American Medical Association

Coonbaya My Lord @powdercuff.bsky.social · 3d

The ridiculous cost of healthcare in the U.S. has little to do with paying doctors what they’re actually worth omfg. Also are we forgetting that medical residents are basically slaves in this country. Working 24hr shifts, no sleep for literally nothing. They’re victims as well.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 4d

Scottish doctors make about half as much as US doctors, and until someone figures out how to get from here to there calling it a right isn't going to help.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 3d

From Wikipedia:

Charles I was accused of treason against
England by using his power to pursue his personal interest rather than the good of the country.
• 266) The charge stated that he was devising "a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people". In carrying this out he had "traitorously and maliciously
levied war against the present Parliament, and the people therein represented", and that the
"wicked designs, wars, and evil practices of him, the said Charles Stuart, have been, and are carried on for the advancement and upholding of a personal interest of will, power, and pretended prerogative to himself and his family, against the public interest, common right, liberty, justice, and peace of the people of this nation."[266]

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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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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 5d

Supreme Court term will tackle executive power, executive power and executive power - NPR

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The tackling:

a bunch of football players are playing a game on a field .

ALT: a bunch of football players are playing a game on a field .

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 5d

patriotic americans pioneered the amphibious invasion so patriotic amphibians could repel illegal invasions

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Sam G. Howard @samghoward.riliberator.com · 6d

A guy who you can use to judge them by the standards of their time:

Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 6d

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,981

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,981 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Silas Soule. Born in 1838 in Bath, Maine, Soule grew up in the abolitionist world of New England reformers. His parents hated slavery. By the time Soule was a teenager, Kansas was becoming a political issue. Thanks to Stephen Douglas deciding to blow up the Missouri Compromise in order to […]

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been skeptical of her candidacy (not that it matters, I live where she used to live, in DC). But now I think she deserves to—needs to—win her race.

Simply because she sees this and then says this so clearly. This kind of urgency and clarity is THE LITMUS TEST for any Democratic official now.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

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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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7d

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 9d

#KavanaughStop

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 9d

some more work from me here for the academic crowd interested in "ai polling"

Verasight @verasight.bsky.social · 9d

In Verasight’s second synthetic data paper, @gelliottmorris.com, Ben Leff and @peterenns.bsky.social find that the performance of synthetic samples does not consistently improve (and can perform worse) with additional administrative data or real survey responses. Link in the thread.

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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 10d

I will be writing a sequel called “The Decline and Further Decline Of Congress, Concluding With Complete Constitutional Abdication” (working title)

Book titled The Decline and Resurgence of Congress

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 13d

“We can’t help poor people because that will help black people” is an unusually honest expression of Republican policy goals

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Jul 18

These are some of the most odious people alive.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 12d

Here’s the thing about America: you know which mf in this vid we’re rooting for.

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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