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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 10h

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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Mark II generally has exposed cables and articulated multi-segment legs

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(Not to be belligerent but that's a Mark III suit)

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Core designs more like core protection amirite

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See I can't stand Mk. II because it has an obvious weak spot in the central torso. Was this designed by people looking at where the Thunder Warriors had been injured

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20h

it just kind of goes unremarked upon that these two paragons of christianity are fucking, have been fucking for years, as both are married to other people

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 21h

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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The seeds of a lot of this were here for a long time! but the flowers are a new development

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2h

I will grant that there were always bad things. I will grant that not dealing with the bad things allowed them to get worse. But I refuse to believe everything was always *this* bad, because I remember them being relatively better.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2h

It's not going to matter much in the coming years if a Democrat supports Policy X over Policy Y; the divide will be between people who understand how American politics have changed and people who think we're one good congressional softball game away from being friends and governing buddies again.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2h

The key divide in the Democratic Party during Trump II is between people who want to turn the clock back to 2014 and people who recognize a clean break with the past when they see one. "Let's get back to the way things were" isn't a viable vision for the future and some people have no other.

Seentoomuch @seentoomuch.bsky.social · 3h

That our current system was unable to prevent this is a sign it probably should not recover

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 2h

Oops! Turns out the U.S. hates brown people more than we like to eat food.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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june $118/$3900 @juneever.green · 26d

it’s so funny how expressing your needs to people who care can actually get them met. has anyone tried this?

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 2h

now would be a great time for those “well-regulated militias” the constitution loves to talk about but that only seem to exist when it’s to enforce racism

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

that the entire republican party and the supreme court have enthusiastically gone along with this is a structural issue that also needs to be solved and we cannot simply return the pre-trump status quo, yes

Seentoomuch @seentoomuch.bsky.social · 3h

That our current system was unable to prevent this is a sign it probably should not recover

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h

You guys really are overreacting! Just because local and national law enforcement unions are coming out as pro-black bagging civilians doesn’t mean they have consolidated any power. It’s a secret third thing!

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3h

when police unions expressly equivocate, another word for this is "lying"

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h

Damn, Greg Sargent really is dooming by directly suggesting that the political subjugation, no matter how clownish, of blue urban corridors is a form of power consolidation.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 3h

a bar that reads top, latest, people, feeds. below it, text reads no results found for people being normal

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Hi Lotus!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3h

I'm not a Biblical scholar, but if I'm reading Matthew 25 right, Jesus says that Rubio, Trump, Musk, and all their helpers are all going to hell.

Matthew 25:41-46, NIV

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

it does seem increasingly apparent that next year will be when things really unravel

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 4h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

www.reuters.com

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