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@Psopheigh from the bird app 🖤 she/her 🖤 Intersectional Feminism, (Crow) Bird Nerd, ND, Survivor, Idealist, and Rebel at Heart | Chicago

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Crow Grrrl @psopheigh.bsky.social · Jun 25

LOOK at this handsome American Crow fledgling! 😍🖤 His parents are valiantly protecting him from humans, off-leash dogs, and other predators. This is the same kiddo my fellow rescuer and I have been checking on since yesterday. She has a real camera that snaps gorgeous shots like this. 🪶

Impossibly adorable crow fledgling with bright blue eyes sits in a patch of green grass in the park. Some baby floof is visible on his head. Photo taken at crow eye level. 🖤

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 2d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

I love people's creativity and the various ways they have found to support each other. I've seen several examples of people doing this in Chicago. If you know a local vendor, can you do the same for them? Sell their goods so they won't be vulnerable to ICE?

A Facebook post by Jaime Andrade promotes a tamales and champurrado sale for Ms. Maria on Thursday, October 9th, at Kedzie & Byron to support her family. The flyer features tamales, a mug, and contact/payment info.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 10h

This is really fucking scary and the only thing we can do is basically show up with solidarity as much as possible. Whatever mark and their family need

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16h

“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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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 14h

Rogers Park moon.

Just after Full Moon, over Lake Michigan, with mångata on the water. Clouds on horizon, leafy fall foliage in foreground.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 2d

"GET OFF MY DUNE, BRUH" 🪶

Same whimbrel on the sand dune moments before takeoff, beak parted, exposing the long sloping pink of his gullet. Looks grumpy

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justin de kahruvel🌻 @justinesparza.bsky.social · 14h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

A closeup of Princess Atta from the movie, “A Bug’s Life.” A Pixar-animated ant princess with light purple skin, large blue eyes, small wings, and a leafy green crown.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 5d

That she's cool as fuck?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an
X.com
Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an
"AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla.
What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt?
AUTISM

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 13h

BILLION BIRD NIGHT!!!
#birds #fall #migration

BirdCast map showing 1.24 billion birds headed south at 9:50pm EDT on October 8, 2025. Most of the migration is concentrated in the east, especially the southeast.

NEXRAD radar composite map showing birds and weather.

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Kylie @kyliemmason.com · 2d

Really struggling today with the fact that Autistic kids are 'encouraged' to get various kinds of therapy to help with social skills yet non-Autistic kids can be vicious little arseholes to anyone who's different and that's just 'normal'.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 11h

This the dude with the nuclear codes. 😬

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Annie Ruby @annieruby.bsky.social · 12h

Three hours without an update I am absolutely terrified about the implications right now.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16h

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

video can't really do it justice but having 1000s of crows fly all around you is the closest to heaven we'll ever get

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 6d

BEAUTIFUL MURDER OF CROWS TONIGHT!!!! 🪶

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

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

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 14h

A heron at North Pond, Chicago.
#birds

A heron perched on top of a log in the middle of a pond at night. It is in the middle of a reflected beam of light from pathlamp

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Zach Malm @muzach.bsky.social · 13h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Sophie Scholl (1921-1943), member of the White Rose resistance movement.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
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A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

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The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 15h

And before you come at me:

I live in her former district, and am friends with several of the staffers she abused.

This is not about gender. This is absolutely about how she treats people who has less power than she does, and the type of leadership we should strive for in our party.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 15h

Porter was legitimately abusive to her staff, and we shouldn't sweep that under the rug.

This isn't about her gender, it's about her quality of character. Playing it off as being a gender issue undermines the fact she's well-known in OC circles for abuse, particularly toward those w/ less power.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 19h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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