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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah!
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Reading, procrastinating, and no longer living out of a backpack in places both familiar and foreign, because it's (still) a damn pandemic. Mercenary educator. She/her.
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 6h
yeah, healthcare costs resources! those resources have an environmental impact! the solution is to STOP FUCKING UP THE ENVIRONMENT FOR STUPID REASONS so it has the resiliency to support everyone! not to shame disabled and chronically ill people for accessing care.
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Rachel K @xrkulik.bsky.social · 5h
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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 6h
There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;
SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY Donate "The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said. According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents. ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 5h
A resident of a nearby building asks a very important question:

“You claim you have warrants, but do you have a warrant to seize the entire building?” she asked the agents. “Do you have warrants to detain the entire building?”

Or: do people lose their rights if they live near undocumented people?
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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 6h
There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;
SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY Donate "The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said. According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents. ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d
For folks who are worried about the reverend: he's okay. He was cared for by folks on site.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h
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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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h
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.
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 8h
Here’s video of the incident
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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 6h
And I am in absolute awe of this woman’s bravery:
As Watson questioned agents about warrants and the legality of their raid, neighbors pleaded with her to be quiet for her own safety. She refused to back down. "You claim you have warrants, but do you have a warrant to seize the entire building?" she asked the agents. "Do you have warrants to detain the entire building?" According to Watson, two federal agents told her that they were taking all detainees' photos to check them against databases for visas or warrants. When Watson walked around the block to capture footage of the ongoing raid, she noticed federal agents were using the parking lots of Excel South Shore Academy—a CPS contractor school— to load residents into vans. In them, Watson saw Black U.S. citizens, women, and children. Grabbed from their beds, they hadn't been allowed to dress themselves before they were zip-tied and brought down to the waiting vans.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 6h
There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;
SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY Donate "The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said. According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents. ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 10h
Helpful!
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 10h
I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 11h
Wait until he learns about Pizza Puffs
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 11h
The road to anti fascism lies in big boy solidarity and if it takes fucked up Chicago food to make it happen then we roll
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Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 21h
“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25

9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times
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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 1d
I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so gl
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d
we’re gonna need a cbs news pitchbot pretty soon
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d
Black users have pointed out time and time again that this platform has not had their best interests at heart, ever.

This is more of the same.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d
@unraveledpress.com & other press have been threatened, shot with less-lethals and arrested while reporting on federal immigration activities in Chicagoland and on the resulting protests at Broadview.

I'm now at a hearing asking the federal court to rein ICE & co in. I'll let you know how it goes.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d
Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.
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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 1d
The hypocrisy of the left when it comes to the idea of “following the science” is truly staggering.
What's odd about the political climate surrounding forever COVID is that I really don't see what the counterargument is against the idea that we should stop infecting children with a brain damaging virus. Reactions online seem to be simple disbelief that COVID damages brains- but this is anti-science. The science is clear. However, today we still have a hegemonic refusal to acknowledge COVID as a threat- from the far-right to the far-left, it is a largely united front to treat COVID as the cold it is so clearly not.
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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 2d
Heading off this site tonight for 💤 with five words:

PROTECT AND CHERISH THE DOLLS
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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 2d
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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · Oct 20
I’ll never forgot when a friend - a very left-leaning, loving, caring friend - sent me the Great Barrington Declaration for my “consideration.” I just sat there, stunned, trying to not unleash on her in fury at how it was just eugenics that was advocating for my death.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Oct 20
The Great Barrington Declaration folks—and subsequently, the Brownstone Institute—made a point of trying to win over people from the left. They got a favorable write-up in Jacobin, framing their “let it rip for the economy” argument as a defense of the poor. They cozied up to Grayzone and Dore…
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 2d
The Great Barrington Dec. aka the “let covid rip” policy, legitimated the death of over a million Americans, is disabling of tens of millions more, & failed to achieve its own instrumental goal, ending the pandemic. It did succeed hwvr in gutting public health & eroding public trust in science
Five years ago today, we authored the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for focused protection instead of lockdowns. A wholehearted thank you to the almost one million co-signers. We were proven right.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d
I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.
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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 2d
It's very telling that — of all the things they could have created — they jumped straight to reducing famous, powerful women flirtation tools without their consent.
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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d
Like… it's kind of right there, no?
"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading "AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d
The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d
Like… it's kind of right there, no?
"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading "AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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