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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

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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Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 2h

"Vice tax for being alone and unloved" may be an economically sound idea, but it provokes acrimony for the same reason people would be dismayed to check their mail and discover a fine for "public fugliness."

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4h

I have listened and learned. I will NEVER AGAIN call for increased taxes (carceral, eugencicist). Instead, income transfers should be decided through tax credits (humane, progressive)

Jack 대한 @jdaehan1.bsky.social · 4h

When people say we have a literacy crisis they need to include their fellow progressives and libs. Insane replies on a post that is just explaining the Child Tax Credit

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3h

Gonna say it, not enough games about defeating Klansmen, Confederates or neo-Confederates.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · Jan 29

Art by • Alvar Baptist

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Timothy Troutner @troutsky.bsky.social · 10d

My latest post takes on the Manichean vision of Stephen Miller, and the intellectual cover provided by the recent remarks of Hillsdale's Larry Arnn.

The Metaphysics of MAGA

Evil in the Eyes of Stephen Miller and Larry Arnn

open.substack.com

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Conan Quotes⚔️ @conanquotes.bsky.social · 5h

Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark.

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Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 5h

Go and talk to whomever said that, then.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

man.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 7h

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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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 6h

Post Office
Oreana, IL

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Peter Juul @petermjuul.bsky.social · 6h

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 6h

saintvitus on tumblr: "noted gender theorist fred durst makes reference to the concept of non-binary gender in limp bizkit's opus "rollin' (air raid vehicle)", which along with the "ladies" and "fellas" refers to "the people who don't give a fuck""

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Taran Fiddler @tfiddlerart.bsky.social · 6h

Weretober2025 Day 8 - Skeletal Slime!

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

The only thing I’d add as they are both debating an impossible premise, the antis are basically arguing for uninventing the technology (impossible), while the pros are arguing for outsourcing everything to it (also impossible)

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

both the mainstream pro- and anti-AI arguments are entirely various types of cope

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 7h

Last year the Secretary of Defense was a black general and now the Secretary of Defense is a washed up National Guard major who the military considered a white supremacist insider threat and said white supremacist is also an alcoholic accused of spousal abuse.

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Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 7h

"I think this is hill is dumb. I don't even want to be on this hill. I don't think this hill should exist."

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 15h

i set up an extra blog to dump my trash in. anyway this may prevent me from further engaging on this subject

gyges-blog.ghost.io/robot-slur-d...

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Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 8h

www.theguardian.com/books/2020/a...

John Boyne accidentally includes Zelda video game monsters in novel

Novelist says details from careless Google search are ‘quite funny’ and he will leave his book as is after reader spots Octoroks and Lizalfos in his new book

www.theguardian.com

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Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 8h

They are helping me research dye recipes for my realistic historical novel.

Marc Knelsen @marcknelsen.art · 10h

some lizalfos

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 9h

THE NONBORN KING (1983)
Mixed Media on Watercolor Board - 28” x 18”

Once or twice a year, for a change of pace, I work in watercolors as I did in this painting. Sometime later I decided that I should have used acrylics instead. 1/4

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Batchy @batchygyo.bsky.social · 17h

please let it be a true bloody bedchamber

the gaint pelvis bone of mohgwyn using as a bed, with canopy and belts on it. Mohg is lying on it .

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Plive 🐊 @plive.bsky.social · 14h

grass!! !

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 21h

Sunlight and Thunder

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 20h

Desperately need society to stop rewarding cruelty. To stop unleashing gratuitous, sociopathic cruelty. I think this is a phenomenon driven by the right but it’s infected all of us to one degree or another, and we need to remain cognizant of wanting not to be this way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22h

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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🌋Shini🔥 @42wv.bsky.social · 1d

「 #Weretober2025 」 //Day 06// - Carnivorous Unicorn -

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 23h

you don't hate the media enough

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

ngmi

Senate Democrats seem completely unprepared for the personal attacks @AGPamBondi came prepared to launch at each one of them today, and they are failing to rebut them.

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Syz @syzygial.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I check what's going on with Twitter (using a mirror), the place always seems meaner and more miserable than the last time I checked on it. Catastrophic vibe decay. So glad I don't have an account there anymore.