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thehorribles.bsky.social
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My 2026 word is "mortifying"
January 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
This has been a really fun thread but basically every lawyer uses Office365, it's a huge portion of Microsoft's income, and so any linux future meaningfully has to offer alternatives to these specific rentier empires and not just gaming. Gaming is a good start, but LibreOffice does not cut it.
willsmith.fun Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun · 21d
My lawyer has yelled at me every time I’ve opened a contract with gdocs and fucked up their sections and subsections. It’s cheaper to pay $100/yr than $600/hr for them to fix stuff.
December 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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mirandayaver.bsky.social
Congrats, Rand Paul, you’ve invented health insurance companies.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 24
Rand Paul: "What is the Republican plan for healthcare? My plan would allow for people to buy their insurance through a collective. Basically to buy their insurance through Costco or Sam's Club or Amazon."
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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dansinker.com
With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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louiseseamster.bsky.social
For decades, scholars have argued education’s hidden curriculum is about disciplining and socializing children as future workers, and they just….tweeted it out
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
i often get asked why it's so difficult to figure out how to cover local judges, or how to approach voting for them.

this Chicago publication has a great project of crowd-sourcing information for the next few months.

check them out/spread the word!
injusticewatch.org Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · Nov 18
As we research the candidates to create our next judicial election guide, we need your help. Have any of the candidates been your attorney or judge? Take a look at the list of candidates and send us your tips. buff.ly/DlOqYRA
airtable.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
keunghui.bsky.social Keung Hui @keunghui.bsky.social · Nov 18
Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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whetmoser.com
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
thehorribles.bsky.social
Retaliation for giving us Florida
normcharlatan.bsky.social Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · Nov 16
I’m not sure what they did, but sending the people of Spain the Commanders and Dolphins seems like a pretty harsh punishment.
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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north0fnorth.tgirl.gay
now that eric adams is leaving office can we please get him to do a buddy comedy movie with lori lightfoot where they’re roommates trying to revive their political careers together
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.

www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
Allowing CPD to spend unlimited sums of taxpayer money is a “crazy way to run a city,” said Justin Marlowe, a professor in the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and the director of the Center for Municipal Finance.
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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walmsley.bsky.social
the future of the democratic party is a coalition of the wokest people on tumblr and absolutely dead-eyed pursuers of the national interest and the maximization of GDP
tiredgenerally.bsky.social Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · Mar 23
funny that the two groups in the political class who have been the least enthusiastic about trump term 2 are like neocon blob guys and economists
josephpolitano.bsky.social Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Mar 22
I feel like the econ policy people have been less annoyingly centrist on Trump than the rest of the think tank ecosystem purely because the only concrete policy he’s pursued in two months are tariffs, which like none of them like
March 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
I don’t know how @theonion.com stays in business, when it has to try to out-satirize this sort of reality.

Anyway, pretty sure making someone watch this would violate multiple international treaties and the beliefs of most if not all major and minor religions.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Nov 5
Follow Election Night developments with real-time political and cultural analysis from Charlamagne Tha God, Ben Shapiro and more.

Watch CNN's Election Livecast starting at 8:30p ET at CNN.com/watch
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
WLS in Chicago is running ICE ads. The FM station. Boycott accordingly.
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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dell.bsky.social
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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unraveledpress.com
At some point today amidst threatening rapid responders, detaining a citizen and abducting people, red beard here changed his clothes.

Blue hoodie in Edgewater. BP uniform in Albany Park.
Red beard blue hoodie tan hat gray SUV Red beard tan hat olive border patrol uniform gray suv
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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thewayoftheid.bsky.social
Curious framing here since the “close ally” is an alderperson who was manhandled by agents for protecting an emergency room patient
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
if we want bluesky to have the oft-invoked "juice", i need baseball posters to step up this postseason. none of this namby-pamby "we lost but i like your team and im rooting for yall" reddit crap. i wanna see bloodlust and vendettas. i wanna see death threats. i wanna see feral, ape-like hooting
September 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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miawong.bsky.social
Wait they chased off an ICE raid in WHEATON?????????? WHAT???????????????????????????? For people who don't know Chicago imagine like Brigham Young or Liberty University chasing off an ICE raid this is fucking WILD

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
mulchy.bsky.social shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · Sep 17
in wheaton, illinois, this morning—

it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store.

multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.
five masked agents surround wearing green body armor surround a sedan on a street corner. one person's vest reads "ERO." the same five masked ice agents talk to the driver of the green sedan. they're wearing jeans and green camouflage tactical vests.
September 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM