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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 33m

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 30m

Yeah it makes sense because if you've never had the flu, you get a bad cold and you think "wow this is the worst I've ever felt, this *must* be the flu", but no, no it can get much worse than that

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17h

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely crazy thing to say when that Saturday night gassing was the most egregious, unjustified, and excessive use of gas I have ever experienced in my life. The protesters were doing NOTHING to deserve it.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 16h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

it's like picking a bar fight with a howitzer

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

I also only have a handful of movies that I'll watch more than once, and it is not because they're good per se but because they just hit in a very specific way that I sometimes need.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

I also do not reread books. There's so many books to read! I can't afford to spend time reading ones where I already know what happens!

You’re My Lil Moo Deng @rollergirl.bsky.social · 11h

I got ostracized in the group chat for this one but I stand by it: i never reread books.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

Most people don't actually get the flu so they don't realize how bad the flu is but the flu fucking suuuuuucks

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

The last time I had the flu I almost checked myself into the hospital because I woke up at 2 in the morning and was tearing apart my wardrobe trying to find the secret CIA transmitter that was sending me instructions for playing Metroid

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

bro what are you talking about

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

It's always funny to discover that a stock character aesthetic is actually based on a specific guy

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

file photo of Charles Ponzi; he could not look more like a 1920s swindler, he's got a cane and a straw boater hat just like the Springfield monorail man.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

I do not find it very useful, for the most part.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 12h

Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!

Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 12h

here is the family's gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

genre is meaningless and should be better understood as literary movements. There is basically no such thing as science-fiction! It's like eight different literary movements stuffed into a trench coat!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 15h

WIRED reporter here. If you're a CDC worker and would like to share any information on the RIFs, feel free to message me at emullin.06 on Signal.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12h

I don't know why we decided to do this, or what we're supposed to do about it, but step one I guess is understanding that every person in charge of something in America is a big fucking dumbass.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12h

There are a lot of *smart people* in America, even just normal people! But for whatever reason we decided to have all of the roles of people who are in charge of things or run institutions be filled by a bunch of stupid guys.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12h

Look. At some level we are going to have to accept that American society is stupid.

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 13h

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

www.businessinsider.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 14h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t think you can “abuse” your right to protest

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 16h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah there's actually a bunch of bigger name sci-fi and fantasy writers that paid the bills by writing Aliens vs. Predator tie in novels

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 20h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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