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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1h

So as of now this sounds like Bibi is on board. It does require a cabinet vote in Israel.

(Per JPost/Times of Israel)

🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2h

This isn’t official until we see confirmation from the Israeli government. We’ve been in this spot over and over.

US says- cease fire reached

Israeli far right says- Not so fast my friend

Bibi says - cease fire? What cease fire?

Fingers crossed but braced to be disappointed

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 1h

If Trump is saying it, I’m double checking it.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 2h

This isn’t official until we see confirmation from the Israeli government. We’ve been in this spot over and over.

US says- cease fire reached

Israeli far right says- Not so fast my friend

Bibi says - cease fire? What cease fire?

Fingers crossed but braced to be disappointed

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 6h

Menchaca forever!

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 6h

No lie, I worry about this. I’m not in an impacted city. But since ICE seems to throw this stuff around with zero thought, I’m concerned about what happens if Mom and I are at Lowe’s and ICE decides to do a raid. She’s got wicked asthma, and pretty sure tear gas is not good for that

Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 6h

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve shifted to talking about following false prophets and fatted calves. It lands better anyway. Plus I’m Catholic. Which amuses me since these folks like to yell at me for idolatry :)

4/e

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 6h

Even today I’ve seen folks here on Bsky use it as a swing against Jewish members.

So as a Christian, I get it. 💯

But we don’t get to tell any minority group that they’re overreacting to a word that’s been used to slander their community for ages.

3/

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 6h

Have been used as part of the basis of a range of antisemetic acts over the millennia. Particularly the admonition against the Pharisees shifts from this one subgroup to all Jews.

We can say “that’s not right”. Doesn’t matter. Because it’s been used again and again AGAINST Jews. 2/

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 6h

Okay. Fellow Christian here who had to navigate this discussion earlier in the year.

For you and me, with the distance of history- this passage seems like a no brainer to use in describing MAGA Christians.

What we’re missing is that this passage and others related to the Pharisees 1/

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 8h

Mom’s friends with a former commander. Trust me I KNOW

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 10h

Wasn’t there an incident at Paris Island with recruits in dryers during the Obama administration?

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 11h

Yup. Portland PD is NOT a fan of a lot of the local laws and policies in Portland.

They’re not doing more than the minimum to assist ICE. These are not woke officers by any definition.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 11h

leave officers at risk. In an environment where officer safety is stressed in daily briefings, ICE introduces an alarming level of unpredictability.

Local PDs aren’t bulwarks of resistance. ICE is just this bad at doing their job.

Local cops don’t like people who make their job worse. 2/e

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 11h

The national police union, and more than a few local unions are one of the real barriers to police reform.

Bottom line- local PDs aren’t helping ICE because ICE is making their jobs harder and less safe. Poor arrest procedure, failure to establish scene safety, and provoking protesters 1:

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

#WarRavagedPortland

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14h

Local El Paso coverage has much more detail on the package of information presented to Pope Leo, including the video:

"Together, let us be a church that refuses to abandon our people, one that walks in faith, justice, and love"

elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

elpasomatters.org

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 19h

THEY FILMED THIS AND SHARED IT

I mean dear god.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 19h

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 20h

Did you see the video clip of Noem in war torn Portland? Maybe 15 protesters. And a woman in a chicken suit

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 1d

The drain this hostile political propaganda is putting on our mental health must not be underestimated. We're constantly bombarded with division & hatred headlines. We're supposed to keep calm & carry on but we're only human & it's so hurtful. We've got to up the kindness & solidarity. No other way.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 20h

Amen. My bestie has been dealing with it for 30 freaking years. Shes a damned rockstar. I’m 3 years in to mild/moderate long COVID that’s likely migrated to MECFS.

I’ve been called lazy by former friends. And dear god…fuck that and them.

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🎃CK DexterHaven🎃 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 22h

Welcome!

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 1d

Fish cranial kinesis model is now listed in my Etsy shop! Hopefully useful for showing the mechanism that opens and closes a teleost fish's mouth.

(Ships from US) blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt #SciComm #BSNM #ArtShop #Fish

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