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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 10h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3d

Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 15h

deleted a post about this, because I don't want to ruin a phrase that elicited the loudest theater laugh I've had in a while

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile at Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.

Only at The Onion on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15h

Saw this last week. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll learn about Epstein's mad basketball skills.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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bskwitter.bsky.social @bskwitter.bsky.social · 15h

People are saying that early screenings have caused some health emergencies. Apparently you can laugh too hard and rupture your spleen. But hey, you can live without a spleen

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

After everybody went nuts over it in theaters last week, we decided we wanted Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile out there as soon as possible.

We're releasing it this Thursday, and we've made it free for everybody.

All we ask is that you watch it, hopefully on a TV, next to as many people as you can.

The Onion @theonion.com · 15h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile at Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT.

Only at The Onion on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.”

“We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16h

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat
Pentagon Claims Little Red Vessel Working With ‘Narco-Terrorists’

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18h

Get it now?

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 19h

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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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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 1d

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

Some folks have reported experiencing extended nausea and dizziness since being tear gassed in Brighton Park on Saturday. General reminder to seek medical care even if you think you can tough it out—document it all and start a paper trail. You never know if you may need it.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 18h

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

You gotta read some Barry Hannah.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

Highest long-term inflation expectations in 18 months. (March 2024)

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 19h

NY FED: SEPTEMBER ONE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3.4% VS. AUGUST’S 3.2% NY FED: SEPTEMBER THREE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION UNCHANGED AT 3% NY FED: SEPTEMBER FIVE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3% VS. AUGUST’S 2.9%

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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