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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 7h

BOOM.

Chicago pastor sues Trump admin after allegedly being shot by ICE agents

Rev. David Black alleges ICE shot him without warning in Broadview; joins suit over protester rights violations.

www.newsweek.com

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 18h

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 17h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 12h

I am not a lawyer, but if that pastor is on a public street this seems like an EASY lawsuit.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I understand that you never want to be on the business end of what appears at first glance to be some kind of rifle.

I get that.

But this coked out motherfucker looks to be holding a paint gun with some weird-ass, flesh light "optic". If you're LTC, like some of us 😉, make him think twice.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.

Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 1d

From @friendlyatheist.com:

WHAT. THE. FUCK! You NEVER, EVER point your firearm at something you are not prepared to destroy.

This Christian pastor preached a sermon while pointing an AR-15 at the congregation

YouTube video by Friendly Atheist

www.youtube.com

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

🎃 October 7 🎃
Hard to believe she used to be a homely caterpillar

Nubian goat with a pronounced under bite and only two teeth sticking out, wearing a butterfly headband in a beautiful iridescent blue.

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 1d

If it takes the threat of vengeful "god" for you to be a good person, then I hate to tell you... You're not a good person.

Trump 'knows he's dying' as he battles mortality again as he rants about heaven

President Donald Trump has fuelled speculation that he 'knows he's dying' after admitting that he wants to prove to God that he's good enough to reach the 'next step'

www.irishstar.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Let’s try this again it’s a new day. I’m bewildered that no one has answered.

Dear MAGA: why would Donald consider pardoning Maxwell, a sex trafficker for Epstein? Again a reminder, Biden is not president and you guys called for the release of the files repeatedly. So… why?

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 1d

Don't give me the excuse, "This is a photo from the last time the insurrection act was invoked."

All CNN had to do was add some alt text to say it's a photo from 1992, yet they didn't. That photo is doing EXACTLY what they want.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 1d

Ah... the, "Charlie Kirk rationalization."

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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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 1d

I think someone photoshopped the bottom image just for giggles, but that is DEFINITELY Robert O'Neill cosplaying for Fox News. The downward tilt of those eyes doesn't lie.

The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, there's a big fucking surprise.

Of course he's going to give her an out - he needs an alibi, no matter how suspect it is.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 2d

And here is the second salvo of the steady march to a civil war. A direct threat from one Governor to another.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yeah... Richard FUCKING Nixon was widely known for being politically correct.

Why do people listen to this fuckwit?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 3d

I always check a ham's QRZ page before I answer their CQ. I turn the dial if I see, "Come and take it," or pictures of you fondling your rifle.

Grow up, asshole. Advertising you're a loot drop is not the flex you think it is.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 3d

Elderly praying mantis. With a side of dehydration.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans."

REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.

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Larry Mathys @larrymathys.bsky.social · 4d

There are more of us than there are of them.

It's time to organize, folks.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 4d

🎃 October 4 🎃
I didn't take this one head on, because I didn't want you to turn to stone.

3/4 shot of a black and white goat with a nice beard and a crown of snakes

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