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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 10h

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 11h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 11h

You could doomscroll, or you could literally go take a shower and then go to bed earlier than usual. One of those options will make you feel better than the other. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 11h

in the goonies the ultimate
villain after the crime family and dead pirates is the developer who wants to force all the families out

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 13h

It used to be understood that real estate developers were evil in movies, we gotta get back to that. Not just a politics thing it’s just a good plot device.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 15h

i know what you’re saying but refusing a deployment is incredibly difficult and i understand why they might be hoping they’re mostly gonna end up standing around

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 15h

these dudes didn’t sign up for an unprecedented deployment to chicago and when you make jokes about their appearance you sound like fucken pete hegseth

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 17h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 1d

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 1d

comics panel where j. jonah jameson holds up a photo of an astronaut and says "the youth of this nation must learn to respect real heroes--men such as my son, john jameson, the test pilot! not selfish freaks such as spiderman--a masked menace who refuses to even let us know his true identity!

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 1d

still absolutely fucking wild to me that the dudes wearing masks to keep from being identified in this video are federal law enforcement agents

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

you know what i actually do believe that bill belichick wrote that obsequious letter to trump in 2016 www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

Report: UNC staff has been directed not to tweet Patriots-related content

With nothing about its current football program to celebrate, North Carolina could have taken a social-media victory lap last night following the biggest NFL win from former UNC quarterback Drake Maye...

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

do you not see the difference in the things we are talking about or are you just trying to change the subject

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

we were talking about posting

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

would you risk the safety of your trans kid or your loved one who traveled for an abortion on it

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

i think the question of "is this Actual Historical Fascism" is not a particularly useful one to spend more than a few minutes thinking about but the stuff this guy thinks needs to be happening to call it that is one hundred percent happening

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

there are stories that i know it is simply not safe to report even though they are true stories and worth telling, that is not something i had ever experienced before in my career

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 2d

it's impossible to know what people *aren't* posting and why, but i assure you that "is this safe to post" is a real concern that is shaping the decisionmaking of many real people right now

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 4d

really trying to manifest making just being out and about in a city feel as dangerous as they think it is

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 5d

it really is impressive how people whose interpretation of "free speech" was "personal duty to be maximally offensive at all times" have grown more nuanced in their views, i wonder what sort of edgy material dave will do when he plays the trump casino in gaza in 2028

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 5d

if you don't WANT to say stuff like "sawing up a journalist you murdered and stuffing his body in a suitcase is bad" then i guess you can say whatever you want, sure is a lucky coincidence

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 5d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 5d

just aesthetically, the blonde woman walking ramrod straight after him like she’s the fucking terminator and then the spin reveal to see that the entire class is doing the same thing, give this director a marvel movie

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 5d

the stretch from the twenty second mark to the fifty second mark is as good of filmmaking as anything in one battle after another

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 6d

can not WAIT till 2031 or whenever these come out

damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 6d

still have a copy of betty rip on order and refuse to cancel it

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 6d

this shit makes me feel like we are living in the part of one of the paintball episodes of community before the first commercial break and we are about to get into the next part

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6d

I told OpenAI's Sora to make a video showing "Body cam footage of cops arresting a dark skinned man in a department store." It took less than a minute.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 6d

smart thread on creating a permission structure for trump voters to treat that decision the way people who bought teslas in 2023-2024 treated their cars this spring

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 6d

Obviously the biggest reason this works is because Trump is indeed acting like a Mad King! But if I am right about Pritzker's approach, what he's trying to do is get people who previously dismissed the idea that Trump is a threat to the Republic to *reconsider w/out admitting they were wrong.*

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 6d

john fetterman's approval is up 46 among pennsylvania republicans and down 44 points among democrats since january

DEMS SOUR ON FETTERMAN WHILE GOP VOTERS APPROVE OF HIM
Voters 46 – 38 percent approve of the way Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, is handling his job, with 16 percent not offering an opinion.

Republicans 62 – 21 percent approve of the way Fetterman is handling his job, while Democrats 54 – 33 percent disapprove. Independents are evenly split, with 43 percent approving and 43 percent disapproving.

This compares to January 2024 when Republicans 75 – 16 percent disapproved of the way Fetterman was handling his job, while Democrats 80 – 10 percent approved. Then, as now, independents were split with 42 percent approving and 43 percent disapproving.

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