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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 5h

Nyssa! 🐐

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 23h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Cold leftover Chinese food. Sips of soy sauce directly out of the bottle.

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 3d

June 14th is his birthday. Big fight for President Birthday Boy!

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but is the Temporary Restraining Order vegan and locally sourced?

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CONCLUSION
For the above reasons, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 6, and temporarily enjoins Defendants' September 28, 2025, Memorandum ordering
the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard service members to Portland. The
TRO expires in fourteen days on October 18, 2025, and the parties are ORDERED to comply with the attached TRO. The Defendants' request to stay or administratively stay the Temporary Restraining Order, see Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining
Order, ECF 35 at 41, is DENIED.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 4th day of October, 2025 at 3:40 p.m. pacific daylight time.
/s/ Karin J. Immergut
Karin J. Immergut
United States District Judge

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 8d

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

tilting oregon is a far portland suburb kind of

clackamas oregon and im being generous giving it the town and not the county

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 7d

I believe a Mariners World Series victory could take us off the dark timeline that the 2016 Cubs put us on.

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 9d

VeggieTales isn't perfect, but "God made you special and loves you very much" is so much kinder and more welcoming than other Evangelical Christian media of the 90s-00s.

All Hallow’s Steve @lessdismalsci.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, yeah, we got veggietales in the cultural divorce.

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 11d

Somebody find out if the Unipiper knows "Ashokan Farewell."

Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 11d

The rockets go up. Where will they come down?
"That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun.

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 12d

This week's @worstpossible.world is the best episode ever. Whit who? This is a BAR RESCUE podcast now.

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 13d

I'm more of a Civil War guy, but the fact that all of the war otakus have plenty to talk about right now is... not good!

Micah @rincewind.run · 13d

the problem with doing WW2 revisionism on here is that everyone on this website is a thirty eight year old nerd who spent all of high school reading WW2 history books

Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 16d

I watched this a couple nights ago and loved every second. It has the exact right balance of irreverence and sincere wonder. (With gorgeous bird footage to boot.)

The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 23d

I wrote about the Reiser brothers and their hilarious, disgusting Listers documentary for Slate:

slate.com/culture/2025...

One of the Funniest Documentaries of the Year Is Streaming for Free on YouTube

Listers is a journey into the dark and cringy heart of one of the world’s most peculiar hobbies.

slate.com

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 19d

Are you 100% sure this is France and not Risa?

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The Roddenberry Foundation 🖖 @roddenberryfdn.bsky.social · 20d

When the government can silence one artist, it threatens freedom for all.

#picard
#startrek

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 20d

Hmm. Doesn’t look like I can. Your DM settings, maybe? Thank you for sharing! Env history is what I miss most since moving to high school teaching. [email protected]

Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 20d

Sounds like a blast! I’d love to see the syllabus if you’d be willing to share it.

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · 22d

If it weren't for slavery (and the ensuing war about it) Harpers Ferry would still be in regular Virginia!

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · Sep 6

Number one criterion for the primary: Who has read David Blight?

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · Sep 3

"proposition" like, say, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal? that proposition?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 3

man.

Our ancestors would be astonished to learn that they were fighting for a “proposition.”

They believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants.

America belongs to us, and only us.

If we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist.

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · Sep 3

While Governor Newsom may be taking hairstyle tips from Captain Pike, he appears not to know that Starfleet is one word. "SAD!!!"

egg price watcher @bluser12.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’m dying lmao

Governor Newsom Press Office V• 2h g..
BIG MISTAKE BY DOZY DON!!!!! SPACE COMMAND BELONGS IN SAN FRANCISCO, NOT ALABAMA (A TOTAL DISASTER OF A STATE).
EVERYONE KNOWS SAN FRANCISCO IS THE FUTURE HOME OF "STAR FLEET ACADEMY" ("LIVE LONG AND PROSPER"). THAT'S BECAUSE CALIFORNIA IS #1 FOR AEROSPACE, #1 FOR TECHNOLOGY, #1 FOR AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, VERY SMART PEOPLE, MUCH SMARTER THAN JD "JUST DANCE" VANCE, WHO HAS LOW IQ). SAN FRANCISCO IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD FOR ENGINEERING AND INNOVATION... ROCKETS, SOFTWARE, "THE STARTUPS." ALABAMA'S GOVERNOR "KRAZY" KAY HAS NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON. JUST LIKE LITTLE HANDS, SHE IS SLOW AND BURPS A LOT. SHE HAS DONE NOTHING FOR HER PEOPLE AND MADE THE STATE VERY UNSAFE!!!
A MURDER RATE 190% HIGHER THAN CALIFORNIA'S. "SPACE COMMAND" MUST BE HERE IN CALIFORNIA, THE GREATEST STATE IN AMERICA, WITH ME, THE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL GOVERNOR GAVIN C. NEWSOM.
THE SLEEPY GOLFER IN THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T MOVE IT HERE. HE HAS NEWSOM DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (NDS). SAD!!! —
GCN

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Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · Sep 1

I wonder if the bars themselves have designs. I miss the molded movie tie-in chocolate bars Nestlé did in the 90s.

Jordan Keagle 🖖🏻 @shorthistorian.bsky.social · Aug 28

If I may make a suggestion: bsky.app/profile/kjhe...

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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