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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 18h

Stumbled onto the finding aid for Dani Bunten Berry’s papers and code at the Strong Museum of Play, and now just quietly having a big feelings moment at work.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 2d

I will not stop recommending Lote to _everyone_. Historians, librarians and archivists, writers. These are all the types of people I’m aware of and they all simply must read it so I can ask them my questions.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 4d

Could you call them up to defend your people against ICE and the cops? There are no rules anymore, get creative and have FUN

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d

Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not reposting the Gen X nostalgia slop video that’s apparently from a three letter agency, but I did want to say the whole thing smelled like a smoker’s car.

Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 6d

I didn’t expect “Pavements” to get a sequel…

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 7d

Finn Wolfhard is adapting Bob Mehr's epic Replacements biography 'Trouble Boys' into a movie

Finn Wolfhard Adapting Replacements Book 'Trouble Boys' For New Movie

The Replacements lived out one of the most entertaining, heartbreaking stories in rock history, and author Bob Mehr told that story brilliantly in the 2016 biography Trouble Boys. Now Finn Wolfhard is...

www.stereogum.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 7d

Charlie Kirk's memorial was a flop.

The pundit class panicked, thinking it was going to be some huge win for Trump.

But really, it exposed why the MAGA movement can't expand past its base. The thrid rate Christian rock exposes why.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why

The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem

www.salon.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8d

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

A fundraising text

NEW MESSAGE
FROM:
Chuck Schumer
Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 8d

I needed a nice young man to help me with a printer today. 👵🏻

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10d

Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10d

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
bsky.app/profile/qjur...

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10d

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 13d

Witnessing a Sarah Paulson wife and David Cross husband couple has got to be one of the best parts of living in a college town.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 15d

You want to live in a world where Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and Matt Parker and Trey Stone are inside the line that must be protected at all costs...

but Black journalists and academics and professionals are outside of the castle walls, and are acceptable losses in a siege.

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ceej @ceej.online · 16d

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16d

I cannot emphasize this enough:

The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent.

They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so.

Doomers are not realists.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16d

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 17d

how much state violence are we willing to accept?

Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 17d

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Group of workers reportedly detained while working on roof in Naperville, homeowner says

A Naperville homeowner was left with an unfinished roof and in disbelief after neighbors told his family they believe ICE agents came to his house and detained crew members working on his home.

abc7chicago.com

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 18d

Reluctantly voting for the primary winner who used "The Middle" as a campaign song.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 18d

Pledging my vote to the first politician who announces a plan to declare the Gin Blossoms song "Follow You Down" to be about a t4t relationship.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18d

"We" who, Ezra. "We" fucking who.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18d

"We are going to have to live here with each other" is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree about. Their proposition is mass immiseration, mass expulsion and mass murder. The only way to oppose political violence and avoid further political violence is to contend directly with that fact.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 21d

"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

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