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vulgarweed.bsky.social @vulgarweed.bsky.social · 15h

October 9:
"Snuff," Jack said. "Remember that man."
Somewhere on the long, long walk home an owl passed us, riding the chill breezes on motionless wings. I could not tell whether it was Nightwind. There were rats about the bridge, and I did not know whether Bubo was one of them.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 20h

And not just some random white criminal, it’s Al Ca-fucking-pone three months after the St Valentine’s Day Massacre

Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social · 20h

This is a great read from @chicagocovenants.bsky.social The parallels to today--a white criminal preferable to a black homeowner . . .
www.chicagocovenants.com/research/al-...

Al Capone’s Covenant — Chicago Covenants

By Ben Miller In the late 1920s, covenant fever swept the South Side of Chicago. As the city’s Black population boomed, white residents mobilized to prevent their neighborhoods from becoming integra...

www.chicagocovenants.com

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vulgarweed.bsky.social @vulgarweed.bsky.social · 20h

Pop Worship sounds kinda kinky

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 22h

I can’t get over how beyond despicable it is to detain street vendors, people that keep our streets vibrant and safer because of their presence. Street vendors are some of the most vulnerable and visible yet we are being told their detainment is to keep us safe. Ridiculous.

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Stephanie Lulay @slulay2.bsky.social · 23h

NEWS: Today, a judge banned federal agents from using riot control weapons against reporters in Chicago.

It comes after 4 of our journalists were tear-gassed and shot w/ pepper-spray bullets and our nonprofit newsroom @blockclubchi.bsky.social and others sued.

This judgement protects us all:

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

blockclubchicago.org

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vulgarweed.bsky.social @vulgarweed.bsky.social · 1d

apropos of everything
youtu.be/lWF8iRCan7I?...

Spike Jones - Der Fuehrer's Face

YouTube video by MasterChristian82

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 1d

"Since September, at least six unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents. That number is likely higher, but the social invisibility and isolation already faced by people experiencing homelessness make their disappearances harder to track" by @katieprout.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

chicagoreader.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

it really feels like you should need to be smarter than these guys to do the amount of damage they do

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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vulgarweed.bsky.social @vulgarweed.bsky.social · 1d

October 8:
I watched them - two big men, the air of the predator about each -sipping their tea now and discussing the exotic flowers Talbot cultivated and how they might fare, even indoors, in this climate.

Then came a terrible crash from the attic.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 2d

This is a good article covering what's been done in my neighborhood to protect our schools, since a spate of ICE activity took place last Wednesday, some of which took place near the schools.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/c...

Chicago Neighbors Are Forming Watches Near Schools To Protect Students, Guardians From ICE

Increased federal immigration activity has prompted whistle-carrying neighbors in Irving Park and Albany Park to organize walking school buses and keep watch over students and guardians during school ...

blockclubchicago.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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vulgarweed.bsky.social @vulgarweed.bsky.social · 2d

October 7:
"Why didn't you trade directly with Nightwind?"
"I've never met Nightwind. Owls scare me. Besides, I've heard he's pretty closebeaked. Keeps everything close to his feathers, and keeps his pinions to himself."
He chuckled at that. I did not.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

Mom For Liberty is morphing again, ditching adding "anti-American" content to their on-going campaign against "pornography" in schools.

"We are now seeing evidence that the results are harmful, not only to children, but to their families and society as a whole"

Tug of war over what books NC schoolchildren can read

Parent groups concerned by books in NC school libraries that may not fit their idea of US values. Academic experts seek more nuanced approach.

carolinapublicpress.org

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vulgarweed.bsky.social @vulgarweed.bsky.social · 2d

Reliable and consistent. Never fails.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 3d

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 4d

"Trump is normalizing attacks on blue cities because he intends to overpower hubs of ... resistance. He plans to hold onto power — and expand it — by any means necessary, legal constraints and elections be damned."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 4d

Trump "is waging war on our city for welcoming those he wishes to expel."

"DHS is terrorizing our communities and staging violent spectacles to produce fascist propaganda."

"To ignore what's happening in Chicagoland would be a damning mistake."
#Illinois #Oregon #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Trump Is Releasing the Full Force of Federal Police on Chicago

Trump is normalizing attacks on blue cities because he intends to overpower hubs of democratic resistance.

truthout.org

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vulgarweed.bsky.social @vulgarweed.bsky.social · 3d

and he looks like a toe.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 3d

Surprise, surprise 🫤

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

trib.al

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vulgarweed.bsky.social @vulgarweed.bsky.social · 3d

October 6:
Excitement. I heard the mirror crack this morning, and I ran and raised holy hell before it, keeping the Slitherers inside. Jack heard the fuss and fetched his mundane wand and transferred them all to another mirror, just like the Yellow Emperor.

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vulgarweed.bsky.social @vulgarweed.bsky.social · 4d

October 5:
"Follow me."
We did, and after a long trek we came to the farmhouse. There were lights in the basement but the windows were curtained and we could not see what the Good Doctor was about. There were many odors of death in the air, however.
"Thank you, Nightwind," I said.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 4d

Fed agents sent TWO ppl to the hospital, one woman for a gunshot wound, one man for head trauma, during this incident

Smashed vehicles, casings/ballistics, surveillance video, witnesses...none independently investigated by CPD, per spox, even after fed agents unleashed tear gas on ~20 CPD officers

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

So this video and the one of the ICE goon bodyslamming the guy that circulated yesterday are in the same location. At the end of this video you see a unique-looking building on the left. The bodyslamming happens right in front of it. These two videos are essentially one near-continuous scene.

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