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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Feb 14

The humiliation of doing nothing in their position would be unbearable for me, but these people are so used to being special little birthday boys out for treats with papá that they have forgotten we live in a fucking society

Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Feb 14

Every day in this country the poorest, least powerful, most vulnerable people make hard choices and sacrifices for the sake of their integrity and values, while everyone else, from wealthy elected officials to journalists, make this face 🥺 when asked to make any kind of stand for public good

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Micah @rincewind.run · 57m

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 1h

It'll forever kill me that the oldest extant remnants of New Amsterdam, pieces of a city now 400 years in the past, can be found directly in front of a Le Pain Quotidien

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 11h

"There's no rule that says a dog can't be an oil tycoon!"

--Th'air Will Be Bud

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 11h

sometimes when my friends and I play d&d and it's my turn I'm like, "I'm considering committing supermurder", and 100% of the time they encourage me to commit supermurder

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Bee🐝 10/18🎂 @beepetty.bsky.social · 1d

October is our birthday month! 🎃 As a disabled nonbinary lesbian couple who can't work we're asking for mutual aid

Please help us stay housed by donating and sharing if you can

Thank you for the support! 💕

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cash.app/$beepetty0

ko-fi.com/beepetty

gofund.me/f640f7701

A picture of Serana (left) and Bee (right)

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 13h

Literally they've shot two people in Chicago alone, we're all unbelievably fortunate the woman they shot last fucking weekend survived

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 13h

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 21h

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 22h

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

Texas GOP candidate
Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children
By Jay Root, Staff Writer
Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · 1d

it's been repeatedly proven that giving people free money is cheaper than not doing it

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 1d

my exercise bike wants me to get high

the odometer on an ativafit stationary exercise bike, which reads 420.0.

there is a letter M in the lower right corner, which I think means to add one thousand to the number, but 1,420.0 wouldn't be as funny, so ignore it.

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 1d

the moon looks incredible tonight

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🎃trash🎃 @dollarpbr.gay · 1d

don’t think this vid can ever be topped

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 1d

would you still love her

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 1d

I love this game's soundtrack

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 1d

I fell asleep while hungry and had a dream where I was essentially thrust into a horror movie, but for most of the dream I was just gathering food. I spent almost the entire 3rd act eating, there was even a credit roll while I was eating some fries. The fries were cold though, to suit the genre.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.

burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...

We Can't Live Like This

Trump's ICE agents are wantonly breaking the law across the country, while he sends the national guard to forcibly occupy blue states. It's up to the good citizens of this country to oppose this uncon...

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 2d

but what if someone paid you to relentlessly bully them? if that was the source of my paycheck, I'd work overtime

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 2d

just update the terms of service to be honest: "users must show deference and respect to the petty, braindead CEO at all times or risk suspension or banning"

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d

with Portland there's the depressing addendum that 90% of why this is happening is the right wing media grifter ecosystem got badly addicted to viral Portland content during the Trump years and they've been fiending for another hit ever since

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 2d

oh come the fuck on! losing this was the only good thing about him being banned! 😭

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 2d

Superbad

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