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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 45m

Our pupusa vendor has always sold on a corner-drug-deal, buy-from-a-runner basis, so afaict her business continues uninterrupted, gracias a dios

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 50m

This rules

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 58m

I love people's creativity and the various ways they have found to support each other. I've seen several examples of people doing this in Chicago. If you know a local vendor, can you do the same for them? Sell their goods so they won't be vulnerable to ICE?

A Facebook post by Jaime Andrade promotes a tamales and champurrado sale for Ms. Maria on Thursday, October 9th, at Kedzie & Byron to support her family. The flyer features tamales, a mug, and contact/payment info.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 3h

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure.

We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 1h

I guess I always assumed that, to non-urban whites, the sight of any darker-skinned people minding their own business was tantamount to a horizon-to-horizon hellish inferno—and so they were telling the truth as they perceived it.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 1h

Tuesday’s HCR post draws fascinating parallels between the current regime and the Harding Administration: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Please forgive the Substack link.

October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1h

This song is taking me OUT

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 9h

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 6h

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 7h

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 11h

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 6d

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 6d

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 7d

1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 10h

Man if this isn't the perfect quote re Weiss: “She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16h

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 11h

The talking point “whatever you think of AI it’s here to stay” is a political position and a radical one, not a statement of fact.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 20h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 17h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 11h

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 16h

As you fight ICE in your neighborhoods, always look for potentially positive outcomes to counterbalance your anger and despair. For me this continues to be meeting more neighbors, talking to more neighbors, and finding that others close by have also been fighting in ways I was unaware of.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 12h

Petition that everyone only ever refer to 1,000,000,000 as “one thousand million,” as in, “Elon Musk has 496,000 million dollars. Imagine a briefcase with a million bucks in it in hundreds. Elon has 496,000 of those briefcases.”

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 14h

tbh I only want to vote for a party that doesn’t exist called the “full and equal human rights for all party”

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 15h

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 15h

Rachel is in the kitchen making cumin-lamb buns. I married so, so well.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 15h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 15h

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 17h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15h

Honest to god the biggest scam in America right now is whatever Dem consultants are being paid

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 17h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15h

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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