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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · Jan 20

my first test of a social science hypothesis:

If you leave a sizable bucket near a public path people will fill it with small bags of shit.

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 2h

So it's working. It's making them desperate.

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 3h

A CBP thug shot Marimar Martinez while she was doing this. Most likely the "ramming" story is BS.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Federal agents taunted Chicago woman to ‘do something’ before shooting her, attorney claims

Officers say woman was in chase ending in ramming border patrol vehicle during Trump’s immigration crackdown

www.theguardian.com

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 3h

Hey now

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4h

Ellis highlights the attacks Reverend David Black has suffered at the Broadview facility, finding plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged that the feds' use of force against praying people "substantially burdens their excercise of religion."

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 6h

Johnson's unrelenting and loathsome shit eating grin is a metaphor for his entire character.

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 6h

Ukrainians suffer fuckin sadistic Russian bombing followed by relentless onslaughts of American "well ackshully"

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

I want a social media that protects me from unbombed opinions

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 7h

"I'm not following the news on that" is his standard dodge; he's like the worst informed American politician beneath the starry firmament.

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 7h

I saw those responses separately and, like you, screamed silently.

Of course when ICE deports meatpacking labor in Iowa we'll just have citizens come slaughter and butcher up their own hogs.

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 7h

They are excellent suggestions, if the goal is producing deeply committed advocates for unrestrained immigration in a very short time.

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Anna @annadistracted.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t want to be too mean but man suggestions like these (if earnest) make me want to scream

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

publisher / author / literary agent

We Call Them Water Dudes @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 10h

Corporate/ personal injury /criminal defense

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 9h

Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 9h

Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally coming to an end.

Nia Molinari @niamolinari.bsky.social · 20h

First person account. Tomatoes, squash, and corn rotting neglected in the vast farm behind me. It had been more quiet this whole year, but eerily quiet recently. Walked over and saw this. It's abnormal.

Found out the foreman was taken by ICE a few weeks ago. 1/2

Large farm with vegetrotting on the vine.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

The sign holder with the beard in this photo has been doing it for years and is one of the best at getting his (usually excellent) message in an uncroppable part of the frame

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9h

NEWS: James Comey pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that followed President Trump’s demand to prosecute.

The judge set a Jan. 5 trial date — but Comey is expected to try to kill the case before it starts, including by disqualifying Lindsey Halligan

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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

Pam Bondi is incapable of answering simple questions.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 10h

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-08 13:37:18 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 57.09 F | 13.94 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: N at 4.608 mph | 7.41 kph // Humidity: 75%

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 9h

I wish Luke Farritor an exceptionally long life, with every nanosecond haunted by the agonized screams of the thousands of children he personally starved and sickened.

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 18h

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 9h

yeah and he wasn't an office-holder when "lock her up" became a slogan chanted at rallies.

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 9h

The blocked post's content can be inferred. If your thesis is history repeating, you should at least know the history. We're not seeing anything like the lead-up to Kent State. Moreover, preventing a repeat of the massacre became fundamental in National Guard training and culture.

Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 17h

Look I don’t wanna say that bad shit isn’t gonna happen but I think if we’re gonna talk about Kent State we need to start from the point that absolutely everyone in the decision-making process that led to the Kent State massacre was completely insane

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 10h

garbage in, no-bill out

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 10h

Trump prosecutors got no-billed AGAIN, this time in Chicago.

Garbage in, no-bill out.

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (1)

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 10h

That'd be this Alex Padilla:

Senator Alex Padilla put face down and handcuffed by federal officers.

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 10h

Bondi wants people like Padilla face down and shackled.

Senator Padilla is put face down on the floor and handcuffed by Federal agents for asking DHS secretary Kristi Noem questions at a press conference.

The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 10h

Bondi was performing for an audience of one.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21h

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.