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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 2d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 3h

heads up lesbians:

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 3h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 4h

Sunday late morning ear worm: youtu.be/_5UhRcpyLyc?...

Grace - Jim McCann - The Original & The Best Version

YouTube video by The Dubliners

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 20h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20h

Unlawfully fired from your job at HHS or CDC protecting the public health? Want to talk through how to tell your story in the press? I'm happy to help you think through messaging strategy.

I’ve spent years doing public health comms and talking with reporters. You can see my work at matthewcort.land

Matthew Cortland

Matthew became a lawyer by necessity. Now they use their training in public health and law to help others.

matthewcort.land

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 1d

Bless Taskmaster for always making me laugh.

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 1d

For a while, in the deep depths of the pandemic, eating it or throwing it out felt like a bad omen--it would be gone and suddenly I'd get sick/need it/whatever--but then it just kind of faded in to the back of the freezer and my mind. And here we are, ~five and a half years later.

Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 1d

I've had a two pound deli container of butternut squash soup that I made on March 20th, 2020 in my freezer (in two different apartments!) since, well... March 20th, 2020. Today, because I needed the freezer space and because this has gotten absurd, I took it out to defrost and pitch. End of an era.

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 1d

Saturday morning ear worm: youtu.be/ADtnUC_ctNk?...

The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by ABKCOVEVO

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Chron.com @chron.com · 1d

Its history includes an unusual character who actually lived there.

Galveston's coolest tourist attraction is a 103-year-old shipwreck

Its history includes an unusual character who actually lived there.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 1d

I just started an email with "I know it's 4 pm on a Friday and nobody wants this, but [...]"

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 2d

Ripping millions of people away from the fabric of our communities is creating unfathomable mass trauma

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 2d

once again, I want to have the dems they've invented

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Desperately needed aid is in position on the Egypt-Gaza border, ready to be delivered to millions of Palestinians. The UN says it has received approval from Israel to begin deliveries on Sunday.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Another reason to mask at protests, aside from COVID safety and protection from doxxing, is that a lot of responsible documenters don't want to publish protesters' faces (esp without their consent) right now. Your face being in a shot may prevent people from sharing a worthwhile image publicly.

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 2d

Idk! I've heard about a green sauce existing at some carts here but never been offered it until today. I asked what it was and the guy was like "It's a cilantro, vegetable type thing. Here, I'll put some in the corner so you can try and know for next time."

Edit: A quick search says yes, probably!

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 2d

I sent a picture of my lunch to a friend who no longer lives in the land of cheap and plentiful halal carts with "*angelic chorus*" and yes, she was jealous. 😂

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like I unlocked a new level of halal cart. I was offered a third sauce color (beyond the usual white and red) today - green! It's some sort of zingy cilantro deal. Not bad!

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Astronautpants @astronautpants.bsky.social · 2d

Bumi has that joie de vivre

ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 3d

At the Saint Louis Zoo, one-year-old rockhopper penguin Bumi had a blast with bubble enrichment! Keepers set up a bubble machine for the indoor habitat at Penguin & Puffin Coast for a fun bubble party!! 🫧🥳🫧 #WildlifeWednesday

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Rachel @tunesandtales.bsky.social · 2d

Ayyy, new Dessa!
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Camelot

YouTube video by Dessa - Topic

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