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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · Dec 1

Her: You better not be cunty western Gary Cooper when I get there

Me:

A black and white very early photo of Gary cooper in western gear, slicked down flapper hair, makeup, and smoking a cigarette

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Peter H @henderburn.bsky.social · 10h

I wish she’d gotten more of a chance, she was great in The Hunt!

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Dan Warren's Greatest Hits.m3u @danlwarren.bsky.social · 10h

Every sane person agrees Betty Gilpin is only a fraction as famous as she deserves to be, but apparently she is a pretty damn good writer too.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Dear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin

The Emmy-nominated actor and author pens an open letter to the AI avatar that's got Hollywood in a tizzy.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h

Our vaunted business titans are weenies

Several executives said they had discussed opposing some of Trump's policies, including tariffs. Before a meeting with Trump and the Business Roundtable this year, some executives discussed how to quietly confront the president and question his policies, people with knowledge of the discussions said. But when Trump showed up, no one asked tough questions.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

Weird right wing people are not interesting because they’re mainly just stupid or racist. Weird left wing people are insane in interesting ways. This is why we will wins

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

one thing that's funny is the weirdo canadians/nazis on x the everything app increasingly have to monitor this place to get their rage fix now. you won! enjoy your cool app with your cool friends

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 20h

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19h

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?

chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨

Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19h

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 23h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

He may not have ethics but ain’t nothing wrong with his eyesight

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18h

"The flip of Silicon Valley tycoons into fetid, frothing pro-Trump voices was sudden enough to cause whiplash. And it raised a host of questions: Why? What happened? And how had Americans missed this stunning shift?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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Peter H @henderburn.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, this is it. People want to catch him in some sort of hypocrisy but we need to understand the police as an independent power center that is always on the side of fascist crackdowns.

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 19h

It’s easy to call out Pritzker on this but something darker may be happening here. I’m not sure if he is secretly helping Trump behind the scenes. I think he’s terrified to test whether state police would obey him at all if he used them against the feds

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 20h

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 20h

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 23h

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 19h

We continue to be hostages to the most illiterate men on the planet

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 19h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 19h

This is basically like if they gave the Nobel to Ahmed Chalabi

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 20h

And @microsoft.com's MSN bows to religious fascism, whitewashing content from outlets like Christian Post that portray LGBTQ+ people as violent, controlling and focused on converting children.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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