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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 32m

Social arsonist OpenAI.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

gizmodo.com

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 6m

The Trump administration is trying to conjure into being a non-existent conflict in Portland just as it is trying to conjure into being a non-existent conflict in the Caribbean.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16m

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30m

I am begging men to go to therapy instead of running for office

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1h

Speaking at a church, Jack Ciattarelli suggested he be called “big daddy” instead of governor if he wins:

“…his grandchildren do not call him grandpa. …They call him big daddy, and I was thinking when we win this race I kind of like that better than governor. Big daddy.”

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Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 6h

It is not possible to guarantee safety for a minority group except through a multicultural society. This is a basic fact of hard reality. Wise up, Steve.

Stephen Daisley @stephendaisley.bsky.social · 1d

The Manchester synagogue attack is a story of mass immigration and multiculturalism. We must bring an end to both.

My latest for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/immi...

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 2h

Especially stupid that Duffy feels compelled to punch down on this too, but he'll get some likes on it and maybe be able to forget he's got rolling shutdowns of airports to deal with for a few minutes.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 2h

If memory serves, this was the crosswalk near the Pulse nightclub and they're bulldozing it because DeSantis is such a small man that he's turned it into a dick-measuring contest that he won't just walk away from, even if it means bulldozing a respectful memorial to a mass shooting.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 33m

This is obviously hateful, but for people indifferent to the hate, just a big waste of money. You have the Secretary of Transportation cheering the destruction of functional public infrastructure.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 35m

Anyway, read the full story here: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 35m

I spoke to another pastor after publication, Rev. David Swanson.

He's only been to the facility once (last Friday), and wasn't shot w/pepper balls.

Instead, he says senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino just walked up to him — in full clerical garb — and began shoving.

He put it this way:

I've been at many protests in our city over the years for a variety of different things, in my clergy attire, desiring to be a presence for peace in situations that can get volatile, desiring to be a person who different sides can be able to approach and talk with and have conversations with. I do think this is one of the important roles that faith leaders can play in contentious public situations.

This was the first time that I felt like there was absolutely no regard and no respect for a person who was visibly associated with the faith tradition. It did not seem like it made one iota of difference.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 41m

In my early interviews, it came up organically, initially without my even asking.

It quickly became clear that this was a common experience.

E.g., here's what the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a Methodist minister who has been protesting at the site, told me.

The Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist pastor who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, has also protested at the Broadview facility on several occasions. She, like Black, said she has been shot multiple times with pepper bullets, including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole. She said she often prays for the ICE agents, but especially for the immigrants detained inside.
"I am praying for all of the people inside to be returned to their communities," she said. "These are our friends, our family, our cousins, our uncles. These are our community members, and they are being stolen."
At least once, Kardon said, agents fired a pepper ball at her without warning, leaving her with a bruise on her abdomen that has lasted for weeks.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 58m

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

My evolving views on mob movies

Midwit meme:

-lower quartile the godfather is so cool mobsters are like a warrior aristocracy
-peak: nooo mobsters are violent thieves
-top percentile: yes that’s why they are like a warrior aristocracy

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 54m

It may not be as personality-driven as the hot stories, but I think people should read this article about the "conversion therapy" case.

The right is recasting child abuse as autonomous kids making their own choices.

It's vile. It's victim-blaming.

www.salon.com/2025/10/08/s...

How SCOTUS covers for the abuse of LGBTQ kids

In conversion therapy case, conservative justices imply queer kids are born hating themselves

www.salon.com

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 1h

Attorney says video shows 'CBP agent taunting her—“Do something, bitch” before "steering unmarked vehicle into hers and opening fire."

"“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in #Chicago, [h]er attorney says body-cam footage shows agents provoked it." migrantinsider.com/p/chicago-la...

Chicago Latina Shot by Border Patrol Survives, Lawyers Up

“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in Chicago. Now her attorney says body-cam footage shows the agents provoked it. The public deserves to see the tape.

migrantinsider.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

keep calling and telling them to stand strong

the difference between last time (when they got yelled at incessantly for caving) and this time needs to be a chasm in terms of the feedback they're getting from constituents

we can get them to hold

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 3h

"at what point was the Republican party turning in to this inevitable" is actually an important question to answer for doing political reconstruction and "it was always exactly like this" is a useless answer for it

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neccomimi.bsky.social @neccomimi.bsky.social · 1h

I transitioned 13 years ago, things are blatantly substantially worse today in ways so bleedingly obvious that it's beyond risible to suggest otherwise.

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neccomimi.bsky.social @neccomimi.bsky.social · 1h

whyyyyy are you people debating if we should have kept the expanded child tax credits but in a weird and creepy way that couldn't be better designed to alienate women and liberals?! christ on a bike, this website.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1h

I do not regret to inform you we are going to win, etc.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 15h

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, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

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

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 6h

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 15h

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, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

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

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