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giddy up grant 🤠 🐎 @grantlikesbeer.bsky.social · 25m

#GoMariners

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11m

Her name is Habeas Corpus

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 2h

clubhouse rack

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 3h

Oh he's gotta! Either that or at his feet.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 6h

That guy behind the gimmick account you like turned out to be Aranthulax, Harrower of the Wretched

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

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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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 1d

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

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Jgiu @jgiu.bsky.social · 1d

My most bipartisan take is, fuck this guy

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Oceania Syme @civilr3sistanc3.bsky.social · 22h

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22h

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.

southsideweekly.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 20h

At some point one of the Gestapo is going to pull the trigger in a crowd and America will be forced into a place it may not be able to ever fully recover from.

The fascists are going to end up killing a lot of people before this is all said and done.

Laura N. Rodríguez Presa
@LAURA_N_ROD
X.com
A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.
Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 21h

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a clip of the Zach Bryan song that has MAGA furious.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 1d

First pitch now set for 4 p.m. PT.

Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 1d

Viewer alert: The entirety of the Mariners-Tigers ALDS Game 3 will air on FS2, as well as the MLB Network and FOX One app.

FOX Sports: MLB on X: "The Blue Jays vs Yankees ALDS Game 3 begins at 8pm ET on FS1. When the delayed Mariners vs Tigers ALDS Game 3 begins, it will be live on FS2, MLB Network & the FOX One App. https://t.co/LRUHcGxrej" / X

The Blue Jays vs Yankees ALDS Game 3 begins at 8pm ET on FS1. When the delayed Mariners vs Tigers ALDS Game 3 begins, it will be live on FS2, MLB Network & the FOX One App. https://t.co/LRUHcGxrej

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

The "but hardly surprised" inside the em dashes here really encapsulates the vindictive meanness that has been characterizing the Harrell campaign since the primary.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

Bruce Harrell's campaign has decided to start calling Katie Wilson a quitter because she dropped out of Oxford six weeks before graduating.

I was the first person in my family to graduate from college. My parents, hard-working city employees, overcame racial bias and financial hardship to create a better life for my brother and me, just as Joanne and I have done for our children.

For my family, like most Americans, a college education isn’t just a piece of paper; it’s a gateway to financial stability, opportunity, and family pride.

So I was shocked — but hardly surprised — to read in The Seattle Times that my opponent dropped out of Oxford just weeks before graduation because she was turned off by “careerism.”

As the Times notes, her story reflects “no small amount of privilege.”

In Seattle, we celebrate educational advancement and career opportunities.

This program is rooted in an initiative I started while on our City Council for South Seattle youth from disadvantaged communities–the kind of kids whose families work hard to send their children to local college, let alone Oxford–and these kids don’t quit to make a political statement because they value the opportunity.

When things get tough in our city, or when forced to compromise, will Katie quit and walk away?

At a time when Trump is threatening violence in our cities, and our economy is fragile, we need a Mayor who understands and prioritizes the challenges facing our families, and who will fight for our future.

I’ve never taken access to education or opportunity for granted, and I’ll never quit on Seattle.

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Lauren Mahon @leekvs.bsky.social · 1d

Well, at least he's using her name now?

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 1d

Bruce Harrell's campaign has decided to start calling Katie Wilson a quitter because she dropped out of Oxford six weeks before graduating.

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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 1d

Viewer alert: The entirety of the Mariners-Tigers ALDS Game 3 will air on FS2, as well as the MLB Network and FOX One app.

FOX Sports: MLB on X: "The Blue Jays vs Yankees ALDS Game 3 begins at 8pm ET on FS1. When the delayed Mariners vs Tigers ALDS Game 3 begins, it will be live on FS2, MLB Network & the FOX One App. https://t.co/LRUHcGxrej" / X

The Blue Jays vs Yankees ALDS Game 3 begins at 8pm ET on FS1. When the delayed Mariners vs Tigers ALDS Game 3 begins, it will be live on FS2, MLB Network & the FOX One App. https://t.co/LRUHcGxrej

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Well, I, for one, am proud of us for doing the sensible thing and basing our entire economy on computers that tell kids to kill themselves

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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