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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 3h

The little taunting dance at the end!!!

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 8h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 3h

In the last year of his life, my dad kept being convinced that his phone was broken & going in to the Apple Store to get them to “fix it”, which they did by just…closing whatever app had “taken over” his phone.

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 4h

The fact that the final sentence of this excerpt starts with “This misfire provided a window into how…” and somehow DOESN’T end with “deeply addled and unfit Donald Trump is for the office of the presidency” is pretty wild.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 7h

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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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 4h

Well ok sure but it seemed more vibes-based. And I’m also not sure why bonding over a shared perceived enemy would cause you to abandon your other critiques of a person. I would potentially accept that this leftist was overly prone to flattery rather than that Weiss was inherently charismatic.

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 4h

I was driving home from a dinner tonight & remembered “The Christmas Adventurers” and started laughing.

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 4h

lol his line deliveries were completely impeccable

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 5h

The story I’m fascinated by is the dirtbag leftist who went to do an expose on her & ended up doing a fawning profile. I always took this as evidence of her supposed charisma, but I wonder if it’s an in-person thing that doesn’t translate on screen (that said I’m confident I would not like her lol)

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 7h

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 6h

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 15h

When this is over, the MAGA true believers will slink back into their deeply unsatisfying private lives & commiserate bitterly among themselves until they die.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 17h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Catherine P. Henry @catherine-p-henry.bsky.social · 18h

"Chicago"--by Carl Sandburg
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:...
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has
never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse,
and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing!

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 16h

🤫 I’m not trying to start Discourse over here lol

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 17h

Like sure there are movies that don’t think as deeply about character or tone or context, but does Paul Thomas Anderson make THOSE movies? Like I’m all for critique, but do A CRITIQUE, you know? You know?!?????

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 17h

Losing my mind seeing an influencer post basically “I thought this thing about the PTA movie was BAD, but someone pointed out to me that it was INTENTIONAL so now I think it’s actually GOOD.” Like, you thought this MAIN THING was an ACCIDENT at first? Explain how you think films are made.

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 1d

Them trotting out abortion rights on this is as wild as comparing abortion laws to vaccine regulations under the guise of “bodily autonomy”. Like, do we live in a fucking SOCIETY or NOT???

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 1d

Talmud undefeated in the sheer number of sincere, impassioned debates about nonsense

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8 describes the 2nd of the 10 plagues: ותעל הצפרדע ותכס את ארץ מצרים. "The frog [singular] came up and covered the land of Egypt."

Using singular to describe a group is apparently not uncommon in biblical Hebrew, but some rabbis debated if the plague was actually a plague of One Big Frog.

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 4d

Portland Frog vs Fascist ICE.

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 1d

Well, a continuation of the same regime because Mike was installed by him after I wouldn’t bend the knee (can you IMAGINE?! What a BULLET dodged)

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 1d

He also had a “#vampiremode” hashtag when he…stayed up all night…sending emails???

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 1d

HASHTAG HUSTLE, STEVE!

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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 1d

The disgraced former managing director of my old improv theater used to talk about “winning”…at improv. He also forced service workers to high five him all the time & used the hashtag “#hustle” on all his posts.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

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