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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 11h

Especially pussy-ass bitch fascism

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 16h

“ICE needs to go into Chicago because the Chicago police are incapable of protecting the city but ICE can’t protect themselves so the Chicago police must protect them”

God I hate fascism so much

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 12h

YOURE FUCKING KIDDING ME

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 12h

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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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 11h

Of all the people who don't exist, she doesn't exist the most.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 11h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 11h

You can attest and prosecute people for dating people who you claim are what now?

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 11h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 11h

Not sure if Terrifying Driver on the road was drunk or just extremely old.

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 12h

"IP law is leftist" is one of those ideas you have to turn over in your mind for a little while. Not because the idea itself is correct or interesting, just because you have to marvel at how someone could arrive at it.

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 16h

'“Moral policing and leftist ideology are destroying America's AI industry. I've cancelled my OpenAI PLUS subscription,” another replied, implying that copyright law is leftist.' www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 12h

It's is going to be an interesting winter, when it comes.
youtu.be/ZDt3jeXGfDU?...

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 20h

Octopus in Yoruba is apparently "Ayéfófo" or more recently "ẹja ẹlẹsẹ mẹjọ." The latter literally means the eight-legged fish. When consumed as meat, it's called "fọ́ntọ́nfọ́ntọ́n", which I personally translate as "eww! yuck! Squishy!"

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 21h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 13h

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

In my early interviews, it came up organically, initially without my even asking.

It quickly became clear that this was a common experience.

E.g., here's what the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a Methodist minister who has been protesting at the site, told me.

The Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist pastor who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, has also protested at the Broadview facility on several occasions. She, like Black, said she has been shot multiple times with pepper bullets, including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole. She said she often prays for the ICE agents, but especially for the immigrants detained inside.
"I am praying for all of the people inside to be returned to their communities," she said. "These are our friends, our family, our cousins, our uncles. These are our community members, and they are being stolen."
At least once, Kardon said, agents fired a pepper ball at her without warning, leaving her with a bruise on her abdomen that has lasted for weeks.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

In local communities, but just as importantly, in Mainline Christian clergy circles.

Those guys talk a lot and they could really manufacture quite a lot of spectacle and outrage nationally if they got mad enough.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

It is genuinely shocking behavior, even and especially the worst cops usually handle clerics with special care because the optics are SO bad.

Our press continues to fail spectacularly at documenting all this but when you're doing this in the streets, word gets around.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that the agents were laughing while they did it says to me that they have way way overreached with their mass recruitment and incitement of ICE agents here.

They have not remotely done the propagandic footwork needed to make shooting a collared Christian cleric palatable to the public.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h

Congressional Democrats Find That Taking a Stand is Popular

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 19h

This didn’t happen to us, it happened because of us.

Failed 70s & 80s policies restricted what we could build and where, choking our housing supply and leaving too few options for people at every stage of life.

We can fix this, if we’re willing to act with urgency today.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

i do think it’s telling that this large chunks of this admin exist solely to create content for a social media app that doesn’t even clock into the top five most used

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 19h

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 13h

How did US farmers think this was going to go last year? They've made it extremely difficult to extend any sympathy.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 14h

HOLY SHIT

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 15h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 13h

Hm. Not just a DC thing apparently.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 16h

A federal grand jury has refused to indict a Chicago couple arrested during a violent protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview last month, a rare move that prompted prosecutors to abruptly drop the case.