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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 8h

Mariners win

Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

People keep saying "Top 10! What does Amazon want?".

But top ten only means there's interest in this type of show. If people flood the first three eps then quit, that adds up to lots of viewers and a good reason to cancel.

FTR, Coundown wanted to be big fun but missed. Butterfly lacked something.

Variety @variety.com · 20h

Amazon Prime Video has canceled "Countdown" and "Butterfly" after one season each.

Both series appeared on Nielsen’s top 10 streaming originals chart.

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 19h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 17h

Weird random meme-y shit (laudatory) like this is how it might eventually be called The Great Frog Resistance, where everyone wears a frog pin, & remembrance events in 50 years begin with reverent croaks. Just from some dude's choice of a frog for a costume. Humans are weird.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 19h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 16h

Kavanaugh Stop

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20h

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 17h

TBH, I'd never drop ice cubes onto hot cast iron, but I'd be tempted to try something less direct.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

for my sourdough loaves, i use a cast iron bread oven that you heat up at 450 degrees for an hour before baking. put the loaf in with a couple ice cubes, bake covered, for 20 minutes, remove the cover and bake for 30 more minutes and i consistently get a crunchy, flavorful crust with a great spring

Joseph Parisi @equinas.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t you need a special oven to make really good bread?

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 19h

I found the war on Christianity

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 20h

🧵 from the always invaluable Dr. Taber.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 20h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 22h

Pass it on: If you FILE A COMPLAINT about police activity, it flags the body-worn camera video so reporters can obtain it later via FOIA requests.

City: www.chicagocopa.org/complaints/i...
County: apps.cookcountyil.gov/oiig/
State: oeig.illinois.gov/complaints/o...

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

State troopers just dragged three people out of the crowd.

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graylola.bsky.social @graylola.bsky.social · 23h

Well now I'm definitely going to a protest that day.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 23h

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 23h

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · Nov 23

The Criminalizing Homelessness Cycle

There's a blog post about this #PoliCartoon at www.patreon.com/posts/115113....

Doing cartoons like this takes a lot of time - and I can do it because of all the super cool people supporting the work at patreon.com/barry.

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has four panels, arranged so that they can be read in a clockwise circle. Each panel shows the same character - a homeless man wearing jeans, a hoodie, and a knit cap. I'll call him "Knit."

TOP PANEL

Knit is lying on a park bench, looking like he just woke up, and with a confused expression on his face. A cop holding a billy club stands over him.

COP: Get up! Public sleeping is now a crime. You're going to jail.

An arrow leads from that panel to:

RIGHT HAND PANEL

Knit, looking confused and unhappy, is being kicked out of a building that has a sign over the door: "JAIL." Knit looks confused and unhappy. We don't see anything of the person kicking Knit out except for the shoe and leg that are doing the kicking.

KICKING GUY: You've served your time. Get out!

An arrow leads from that panel to:

BOTTOM PANEL

Knit, with a disappointed expression, is listening to a businessman-looking type wearing a necktie talk. The businessman has a stern expression.

BUSINESSMAN: You've been in jail! I'd never hire you, or rent to you.

An arrow leads from that panel to:

LEFT HAND PANEL

It's dark out; the only light is coming from a door which has been open a crack. Knit stands in front of the door. A sign above the door says "SHELTER." A woman inside is speaking to Knit through the crack.

WOMAN: Sorry, out of beds. Good luck.

An arrow leads from that panel back to the TOP PANEL.

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 22h

At this point, there's a compelling argument to be made that we should tax billionaires out of existence for their own good. All that wealth has isolated them and curdled their minds.

Take their money and make them live in the real world. It'd be good for them AND us.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · 1d

If I wrote an article about how Johnny Cash seemed uncool I would just look at what I wrote and then walk into jail or the sun, maybe both.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

wtaf are you talking about

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

So... you're in on it, too, eh?

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

"... her baby in her placenta."

-- a guy who thinks you should take medical advice from him

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking Democrats still remember numerous broken promises just like this one. "We'll address your issue after you address ours," is not a trick you get to play over and over.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating moment in the power of DC Think. Democrats are clearly *not* looking for an off ramp right now. They’re actually saying this. Which is a measure of how badly it’s going for the GOP. It’s the GOP that is actually looking for the offeamp.

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Harry Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

I had never heard of this band before the documentary about them came out. I saw the dude's mustache and thought it was a mockumentary, but I can not find any source to confirm the band isn't real. I'm being punked and the whole internet is in on it going back (checks YouTube video dates) 15 years.