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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4h

I've said it before, I'll say it again: civil war is when the governments of the occupied territories meet force with force

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

if this isn't civil war i'm not sure what is

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 6h

It would be inappropriate to condition funding of the government on the government following any rules whatsoever

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 6h

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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jeff bezoar @vapingbaby.bsky.social · 4h

sandwich thrower graffiti being all over dc is a similar and related phenomenon

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 4h

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4h

I would WARN protestors of the risk so that they could make an informed decision.

And then I would PRAISE those who choose to do so anyway for their bravery and for what they are willing to sacrifice for freedom.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4h

The argument I would make if I were an Illinois Dem is, these dudes will murder protestors if things escalate so we have to curb it.

But they should not be making that choice for protestors. That is not their job.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4h

This is capitulation. Dems need to grow a spine and let ICE do its own dirty work

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6h

No protest from 6am to 9am in the Broadview free speech zone.

Just here with a handful of press waiting to see if we can catch the Texas National Guard arriving in Broadview tonight.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 6h

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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J. Effingham Booweather @jeffinghambellw.bsky.social · 6h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Young and smoking hot Jack and Roz Kirby

#comics

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Lady Samhain (she/her) @maggiesox.bsky.social · 6h

‘She’s 97 years old and we pulled her out of the nursing home by her hair.’

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 10h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Beck 🐧 @mastergatherer.bsky.social · 4h

Weird times to be living in

Beck 🐧 @mastergatherer.bsky.social · 4h

B/t the Dolly Parton health scare and ~literally everything else~ going on, I'm sure a lot of people are trying literally anything

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Beck 🐧 @mastergatherer.bsky.social · 4h

The Etsy witches have got to be working overtime right now

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 8h

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10h

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay,” Dolly Parton said in a new two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” https://to.pbs.org/4hc1DXB

'I'm not dying': Dolly Parton responds to concerns about her health

Late last month Parton postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years, citing “health challenges.”

www.pbs.org

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8h

Basically what’s happening is an expression of the larger national project of ridding us of the idea of public goods, and a public in general.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8h

And it’s wild because they just stopped the original Neiman Marcus from being closed downtown. So I don’t get the logic chain outside of downtown is for private luxury and not public business or enjoyment.

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 6h

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 15h

Last year the Secretary of Defense was a black general and now the Secretary of Defense is a washed up National Guard major who the military considered a white supremacist insider threat and said white supremacist is also an alcoholic accused of spousal abuse.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

again, more threats like this would be good!

furbabies.bsky.social @furbabies.bsky.social · 1d

After yelling and obfuscating to senators for hours, Dick Durbin hit her with this one: "Eventually you are going to have to answer for your conduct in this. You won't do it today, but eventually you will." Suddenly, she went SILENT.🔥 She knows.

You're phucked, Pam....just sayin'

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rawkitbawl @rawkitbawl.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't think "Scorched Earth Jimmy Kimmel" was in the realm of possibility.

Yet here we are. I'm now a fan of someone I thought about less than once a year about two months ago.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Beck 🐧 @mastergatherer.bsky.social · 19h

I mean there's a reason the hippie movement glommed onto those books way back when

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

it’s not just us! the English, with a literal king, fought a civil war over him trying to do this shit!

It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 1d

Literally why the English civil war happened.

Literally.

And the founding fathers specifically hated the mere idea of the executive doing that.

Literal basic US legal history.

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

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