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Posted these before but I'm still proud of them. Two blankets that I've been working on and off for years that I finished this fall!
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ICYMI yesterday, New Yorkers spontaneously leapt into action when ICE started abducting people in Manhattan's Chinatown. (The 8 video + news pieces in the thread give a sense of how it all unfolded.)
Anthony DiLorenzo: PIX-11 was tipped about ICE raid. NYers react:

"People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."
ICE agents clash with large crowd in Lower Manhattan: ‘Shame’
YouTube video by PIX11 News
www.youtube.com
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NEW: A Border Patrol spokesperson could not tell @wttw.bsky.social whether these agents' body-worn cameras recorded this interaction.

A federal judge ordered all federal agents to have their cameras on while interacting with members of the public.
FULL STORY: A Border Patrol agent pointed a gun at state Rep. Hoan Huynh while he warned North Side residents that immigration agents were conducting enforcement operations, said Huynh, a Vietnam refugee who is running to represent Illinois' 9th District in Congress. @wttw.bsky.social
Illinois State Rep. Says Border Patrol Agent Pointed a Gun as He Was Warning Residents About Immigration Raids
State Rep. Hoan Huynh, a candidate to represent Illinois’ 9th District in Congress, said he was in Albany Park when he was confronted by six Border Patrol agents.
news.wttw.com
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Yes! "People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors."
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
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"Please use the email so I have something to FOIA," says @peoplesfabric.com

Do that, because we really need to find out what our local government is actually doing when it comes to the feds violating the law here, and if there's anything they're doing that protects people.
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you’re frightened. i understand. i’m frightened, too. you’re frightened & flailing. you’re reckless because you’re frightened & desperate.

but if you demand we grab onto the first thing we see—from nazi tattoo man to amoral anti trans bigot to pro life big tent guy—what world are you fighting for?
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The party of states' rights and small government sure abandoned their core principles awful quick in order to worship a corrupt fragile aging narcissistic gaudy gilded calf, didn't they?
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An Idaho mother was brutally beaten and zip-tied by ICE in front of her three U.S. citizen children.
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all very reminiscent of how Brett Kavanaugh’s life was going to be “ruined” if he didn’t get to be on the Court over a few measly sexual assaults
"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.
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There is a full-on push in NYC right now to use "Mamdani doesn't make Jews 'feel safe'" as a cudgel to get Cuomo into office, and it is utterly disgusting. You know what makes me feel unsafe? People who casually characterize us as a trembling single-issue monolith scared of the big bad Muslim.
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Happy #DisabledAceDay! This day is celebrated on the Wednesday of each #AceWeek, founded by Courtney Lane.

Here is an article she wrote which tells you more about why she founded the day: aceweek.org/stories/why-....
Why I’m Founding Disabled Ace Day
Courtney Lane
aceweek.org
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This is TONIGHT at 6 pm, friends in NYC.
From the People's Forum:

EMERGENCY ACTION! ICE OUT OF NY! 🚨

We will NOT tolerate ICE’s terror against street vendors and immigrant communities.

Join us TOMORROW, October 22nd, at 6:00 PM in Foley Square to demand freedom for those detained and an end to ICE raids.

www.instagram.com/p/DQGG2C8DDxM
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“Don’t believe those notices from your insurance companies informing you of your premiums tripling, that’s just Democratic propaganda.”
Mike Johnson shamelessly lies: "We strengthened Medicaid. We improved healthcare access and we lowered premiums with our legislation."
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Two Democrats seeking to challenge GOP utility commissioners in Georgia are running on ramping up clean energy production. They’ve also called for lowering electricity rates, which have increased six times since 2023.
As Georgia Returns to Electing Its Utility Commission, Worries over Democracy Linger
A pair of races are crystallizing issues with fair representation in Georgia: officials who stay in their seats years past their term, low-turnout runoffs, and the diluted power of Black voters.
boltsmag.org
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So wait — Republicans are insisting Trump is paying for the $250,000,000 ballroom himself (he isn’t)… even as he extorts basically the same amount from the DOJ?

Y’all will really run cover for any amount of corruption and greed huh
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On November 1, Members of Congress will still get paid during the government shutdown, unless they ask House Administration to withhold their pay, as I have.

Their staff won’t see a dime. 

Every Member of Congress should answer whether they will be cashing a paycheck while their team goes unpaid.
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I have comics to write, but I have one more thing to say about Platner:

I think he's a liar.

I am a grown adult with a normal grasp of human nature and reality and I think he's lying when he says he JUST found out it's a fucking NAZI tattoo.

I think he's a liar.
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Trump take egg
Nearly seven million farmed birds have died in the US since September as a result of a bird flu resurgence

That includes 1.3 million turkeys, threatening the turkey supply ahead of Thanksgiving
Bird Flu Is Back
www.nytimes.com
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this is quickly turning into “they railroaded Romney for the 47% line” for a very specific kind of online dumbass — he has the tattoo, its on his body right now, do you think the opposition is not gonna find out and/or not gonna run with that
I mean Platner's "regrettable" tattoo was the insignia of the SS division that guarded the death camps so I don't know that he does oppose genocide.
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I think we also see the effects of staying on Vichy Twitter, I seriously doubt the Pod Jons would have made excuses like this pre-2022
sorry I couldn’t find a version of this meme where both of the arms are white
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Fetterman describes Trump trying to steal $230 million from taxpayers as "small ball, and I think we have much bigger problems than worrying about those things."
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The LEAST intense energy that every masked ICE Gestapo-like secret police agent deserves from every American who values their freedom. 🖕 #AbolishICE