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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 23h

Dance party protests might be one of the best moves right now.

These make fascists look ridiculous, counter the "Portland is dangerous" narrative, and showcase joy and community at a time when those things are in short supply. Keep it up.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 20h

Is that not your name or...

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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 20h

As a Christian I really can't imagine doing this and thinking Christ will be welcoming you into the afterlife.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 1d

There is now one spot left in @michaelzapata.bsky.social's online Intensive Coaching Cohort that begins one week from today! Won't you join us?

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#writingcommunity

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🍂Skulliam💀Boo-tler👻Yikes!🕷️ @yeets.biz · 1d

today is septidi 17 Vendémiaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating summer squash

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The Devouring Mother @ragnell.bsky.social · 1d

I've found it!

The gender neutral term is Failspawn.

I repeat, FAILSPAWN.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 1d

It goes without saying that if Obama had ordered the Illinois National Guard to invade Texas, Greg Abbott would have ordered all of those soldiers shot on sight.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1d

Most normal people care about the cost of food, utilities and healthcare, and those costs are all going up. Many MAGA people care about the Epstein files, and none of those are coming out. These are two drums Democrats should be beating. One brings people to them, the other fractures the opposition.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful MAGA

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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent piece...I learned in 4th grade that when someone cheats at Monopoly, you have to stop playing Monopoly with them--but that baseball card analogy works, too.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Same thing the 9/11 hijackers' families said.

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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Lauren you are asking people to discuss things online with nuance and subtlety and I'm sorry we don't do that here

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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 1d

"Jared Longshore." I'm sorry this is fake. This is a Thomas Pynchon name.

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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Apr 30

AI will never be able to experience the pain of a Banger Post not landing.

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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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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 2d

Next you are gonna tell me the red and blue states aren't actually red or blue.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

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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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 2d

It's awful this is a thing, and it sounds like the most astroturfed thing ever.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

He lies. And he divides. He’s the absolute worst of us.

Trump did NOT win the 2020 election.

Haitian migrants were NOT eating your cats & dogs.

Other countries do NOT pay for Trump’s tariffs.

Democrats are NOT the enemy from within.

Portland is NOT burning to the ground.

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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 2d

Whoah.