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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · Mar 3

an index of threads

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 1h

i didn't think it was going to pan out when people kept trying to tie them together but this like those stories of lawyers having mythologically incompetent clients

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 1h

"that was 2008 maybe that's been retracted" no

www.epa.gov/radtown/radi...

Radioactivity in Tobacco | US EPA

Tobacco farmers use fertilizers that contain a naturally-occurring radionuclide, radium, to help crops grow. Cigarettes made from this tobacco still contain these radioactive elements. These elements ...

www.epa.gov

Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 1h

i love how "there's polonium in cigarettes" sounds like a conspiracy but it's been known for years and is basically because radium in the soil and fertilizer that decays into radon, which sticks to sticky tobacco leaves as it decays into polonium-210

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue

The major tobacco manufacturers discovered that polonium was part of tobacco and tobacco smoke more than 40 years ago and attempted, but failed, to remove this radioactive substance from their product...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 2h

living around there, Harvard mostly exists as an obstacle to good traffic flow of pedestrians, cyclists and cars

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

The relentless @djbyrnes1.bsky.social has spent day after day in court this week tracking what's happening with suits against DHS filed (disclaimer: we're plaintiffs in one of them), as well as protesters facing charges.

Get up to speed now:

Trump’s ‘Midway Blitz’ hits the courts in Chicago • The TRiiBE

The legal impacts of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts landed hard in Chicago’s federal courthouse this week, with more developments expected in the coming days.

thetriibe.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h

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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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 8h

There’s a strain of brain rot where people begin to see everything as a “false flag.”

Such paranoia voids reality itself because all things become extremely suspicious. Good news is bad news, etc.

Skepticism is healthy, but False Flag Brain—aka 4D Chess Brain—is political dementia.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 8h

“Who Are The 'Influencers' Israel Is Paying $7k Per Post?
We actually don't know and that's likely illegal” 10/3/25 responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influ...

Who are the 'influencers' Israel is paying $7k per post?

We actually don't know and that's likely illegal

responsiblestatecraft.org

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 4h

too many people are surprised by this when it goes back to fucking Leni Reifenstahl and Triumph des Willens.

fascism is obsessed with you perceiving their aesthetics, primarily because it makes the populace easier to control if they're afraid, and you can do that with less people thanks to editing

Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited, and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress (rally) in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters.[1] The film contains excerpts of speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress, including Hitler, Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher, interspersed with footage of massed Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) troops and public reaction. Its overriding theme is the return of Germany as a great power with Hitler as its leader. The film was produced after the Night of the Long Knives, and many formerly prominent SA members are absent.

Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 4h

Tea app except it's about which guys on grindr are a cop

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7h

when you are worried that THIS supreme court will rule against you on invoking the insurrection act, a statute that famously gives enormous deference to the president ... maybe that's a sign that your military deployments are pretty baseless

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 7h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 6h

that's how good posts work

Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 6h

what happens when the swiss guard stand off against ice

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 6h

when's his gear review on those things gonna drop

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

"Either what Trump is doing is legal, or it is illegal. If it is legal, then Trumpism must be defeated and there then must be a concerted effort to reform the law....If it is illegal, then eventually, someone has to go to jail." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 7h

why lean into the christofascism halfway.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 13h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 7h

Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in.

If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality.

So...🧵

(And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 7h

I'm confused but that doesn't detract

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 16h

i think a lot of people will have a better time with silksong if they treat it more like a rhythm game

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 16h

i think a lot of people will have a better time with silksong if they treat it more like a rhythm game

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

ICE arresting nannies while they’re caring for kids in Chicagoland parks is quite a scene. Once again, fuck ICE.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h

Not to put too fine a point on it, but unprecedented numbers of immigrants are dying under the second Trump administration. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...

The “Moral Monsters” Among Us

Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?

www.thebulwark.com

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