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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 2h

Banksy-style wall prints depicting man throwing a hoagie in protest

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 13h

“It’s a snuff film—state-sanctioned, -sponsored, -broadcast snuff film—that should make everybody fucking furious!” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A Year of Convulsions in New York’s Prisons

Jennifer Gonnerman reports on how two murders and a strike exposed a system at its breaking point.

www.newyorker.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

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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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch The Phantom Meanace, particularly the scene where Jar Jar Binks asks “Yousa thinking yousa people gonna die? Gungans not giving up without a fight. Wesa warriors” The clarity of that brought down an empire

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

we showed the brutality of the anti-Black (and anti-ally) violence by police in 2020 (and before) yet we still got Trump for a second term and police violence has only worsened.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Rob from Chicago (Sleeper Service) @robfromchicago.com · 1d

describe your bluesky account in a single image

A sketchy looking black metal barrel labeled “Guaranteed to Contain Nothing But the Pure Sweet Fat of the Hog.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 1d

I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Photos: Carol Guzy

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

This Evanston Roundtable article is phenomenal. The pictures are wild, but also it reports the chaotoc attack on protesters, in which IL State troopers participated, was directly ordered by Noem herself and led by Bovino who called the "Free Speech Zone" for protesters a "Free Arrest Zone." Do read.

Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 2d

Photo: Richard Cahan evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/04/b...

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Tom Bellino @tombellino.bsky.social · 2d

Refreshing to hear this true statement from someone in power. It’s the main key to understanding what’s going on.

Section of the article: “During his follow-up Q&A with reporters, Johnson said the “rightwing in this country wants a rematch of the Civil War.””

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 1d

Best of luck to the working journalists at CBS

Disgruntled NYT journalist to ‘anti-woke’ power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go?

After leaving the New York Times, she turned her Substack into an unshakable pro-Israel voice. Now as Paramount eyes acquisition of her company, Weiss is poised to become Trump’s ally among media elit...

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 2d

i was too busy playing hades 2 to watch her latest stream

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 2d

Hades 1 or 2

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Apr 22

"A fascist society is one in which some people are deputized to do violence, and everyone else is forced to defend themselves. Those who have lived under an authoritarian regime know how it weakens collective self-defence." www.bostonreview.net/articles/mut...

Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism - Boston Review

As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.

www.bostonreview.net

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 3d

How many Senate and House seats does the NFL have

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raventerp1.bsky.social @raventerp1.bsky.social · 3d

Waffling? Get real. The GOP owns the House, Senate, POTUS, SCOTUS, and DOJ. MATH. Tell the far left, the "purity" clowns, and those that stayed home that didn't vote. Tell those "Genocide Joe" and "Abandon Kamala" idiots. They doomed the Palestinians. All of them helped to elect a NAZI.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

ISP gets in formation and a number of them march away from the intersection, toward the parking lot neighboring the ICE facility (it belongs to a business, not ICE's lot).

The crowd starts a rendition of The Imperial March.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center—

IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 3d

The Democratic establishment waffles about Trump’s police state while the NFL is happy to book the most anti-ICE superstar

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3d

Locals, CPD, press, a few protestors and legal observers remain on scene but the feds are gone. Air is still foul from all the chemicals. One protestor found one of the gas cannisters feds were deploying into the crowd

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3d

It seems the agents have left the scene via back alleys leading away from Kedzie. Walking west from the initial scene there's a trail of people coughing, neighbors turning on hoses to let people rinse their eyes.

A local going by Jose says he was caught in gas an agent fired out a car window.

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