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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2h

I say this with love, some of you are going to lose your life savings to a man who says you have parking tickets that can only be paid in Target gift cards

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2h

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 2h

if they’re teachers and accountants they can just quit. Try deep dish and Portillo’s on your own time

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 10h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 4h

in London for a few days and yeah they have a lot of the same problems the US cities have but it’s clear that a little more public investment really makes things a *lot* less stupid

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 7h

I do in fact enjoy the bloody tesco

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 7h

another good reminder of how all of our struggles are intertwined

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think you need to describe a 77-year-old as “jumping” into anything. More accurately they are ambling slowly into the race while pissing off everybody around them

Axios @axios.com · 17h

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19h

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19h

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 22h

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 20h

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 21h

smashing two of these together like Stone Cold

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

it’s entirely possible that our legacy news sources are so incredibly diseased that it will force Americans into a basic understanding of media literacy

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists

Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

www.middleeasteye.net

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

me comin to slice this thing in two

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

The Bari news sucks but I dunno man 95% of the programming on CBS is already just a show called “Army: Retribution” that has been on for eight seasons somehow

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

still better than going to LAX

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

California's governor says Hollywood-Burbank airport has no air traffic controllers this evening due to the federal government shutdown. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/ne...

Hollywood Burbank Airport without air traffic controllers Monday night due to staffing shortages

The Hollywood Burbank Airport will be operating without air traffic controllers on Monday night, which could create considerable delays for travelers.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

“Jiro Dreams of Tushie”

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

I do legitimately believe this project will fail and I think a big reason why is simply how annoying and weasel-like this guy is

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

alright bro either cut a big check to the ACLU or join DSA or something but other than that own it and shut the fuck up

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

“who are the *real* fascists? The actual violent fascists who currently occupy the government, or the people who are against those people?”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

the usual useful list:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 1d

Literally one week ago www.nprillinois.org/chicago-il/2...

Dozens of federal immigration agents took individuals into custody during a winding patrol Sunday through downtown Chicago, and a top U.S. Border Patrol official told WBEZ the agents were arresting people based on “how they look.”

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