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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 15h

All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

This is actually a great example of the adorably hilarious comic relief that you get when you foster kittens. 😹

On the left side of the screen are 3
Kittens, staring at the right side of the screen. On the right, the bottom half of a fourth kitten sticks out from the pile of pillows she is in the midst of burrowing into.

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

I have a few people interested in maybe adopting some of these babes!

I love when friends and family adopt my foster kittens, it's so much fun to watch them grow up and be with their permanent families. 😻

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

This crew is also very well-traveled for being 8 weeks old. They've been in several Ubers/Lyfts, made friends with 2 babysitters and several cats and dogs, and been around the general SE Wisconsin area. They've view each new location as a new jungle gym.

A small kitten being stupidly adorable. Her chest, front paws, back pataloons, and bottom of her face are white, and the rest is muted grey with orange spots. She's standing on a lilac pair of sandals, with her front paws on one shoe and her back paws on the other.

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

It's so weird how happy I am to have super mild asthma, to keep me eligible for fucking COVID vaccines. Dumbest fucking timeline.

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Stout is my master jailbreaker from the kitten enclosure. I'll wake up, his sisters are all still where I left them, and he's like this.

A very dramatically happy, sleepy kitten. He's passed out on top of a person's arm, with a little smile on his face and his front paws cuddling up to said arm. The kitten is mozzarella white with tabby markings on his head, tail, and a couple of spots barely visible on his back.

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I knew I loved her from our first Zoom appointment in 2020. I had on some repro rights shirt and she went out of her way to tell me she liked it. Perfect, good fit, I'm in. 🤝

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

I love this lil crew so much!

A calico kitten with her back legs on a shelf and her front legs on the side of a bed. She has a white chest, bottom of her face, and back pantaloons, and is mostly muted grey with orange elsewhere. She's really fucking cute.

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

When RFK gets to make his very own concentration camps, can I put in a request to be in one that's both queer and neurodivergent? tyia

Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

I do think the ADHD work camp will be the funniest, when they take away our meds and then expect us to do things.

Though now that I'm thinking about it, putting us queers all together to try to make us straight actually sounds ... super fun? Do we get DJ equipment?

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

My check-ins with my psych provider now always include a little interlude along the lines of:

- So how are you doing?
- You remember what my job and interests are, right?

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

It will be called the camp for "I don't know, THOSE people." With an accompanying had gesture.

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

I do think the ADHD work camp will be the funniest, when they take away our meds and then expect us to do things.

Though now that I'm thinking about it, putting us queers all together to try to make us straight actually sounds ... super fun? Do we get DJ equipment?

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

I'm mostly curious which camp I'll end up in. There are so many options! Camp for queers, neurodivergents, political dissidents, women with big mouths, unmarried women, people on SSRIs, cat ladies with purple hair...

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

And I stand by my answer. 💁🏼‍♀️

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Then someone else from my group read out our comments, but I'm fairly certain everyone in the room knew it was me (and would have known even if we weren't in small groups).

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 1d

Facilitator at a work conference: What do you hope for this group one year from today?

Me: That we're not in a gulag.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The toddlers in Trump's Cabinet all think of him as their daddy and they get very very cross if anyone says anything mean about their daddy and their daddy is going to beat up your daddy just you wait

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 2d

The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

You know, if the Democrats were actually doing a good job of fighting back, I might at least emotionally understand why people are like “don’t criticize their historical complicity” but also they’re a fucking dumpster fire right now

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Jamie Lynn Kitten @jamielynnkitten.bsky.social · 2d

The polar fucking opposite of what we need to do.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Something Ezra Klein hinted at in his conversation with TNC last week is still gnawing at me: That Liberals / Democrats may need to redraw the boundaries of what is acceptable so that Trump is no longer excluded. I think that is precisely the wrong answer to our current situation.

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