Ben 🏳️‍🌈
@bvigeant.bsky.social
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Goofy video game streamer: https://www.twitch.tv/ps_garak Goofy adventure game podcaster: https://zencastr.com/Quest-Quest Goofy comic writer: https://www.instagram.com/philcomic/ Plus Chicago gay.
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bvigeant.bsky.social
at last, my years of being a social media real estate speculator paid off and I have a bunch of new follows. Here's an introduction of all the stuff I do, apologies to everyone who already knows me.
me in a banana shirt
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royalpratt.bsky.social
ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago
bvigeant.bsky.social
It is rally cap time
bvigeant.bsky.social
In a neighborhood bar with an Old Style neon sign with a dozen people cheering the Cubs, as God decreed as the Correct Way
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veryimportant.lawyer
There is a huge cohort of people who just don’t see other people as people. Way bigger than you’d think. It’s crazy
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navmecheng.bsky.social
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.
bvigeant.bsky.social
In a neighborhood bar with an Old Style neon sign with a dozen people cheering the Cubs, as God decreed as the Correct Way
bvigeant.bsky.social
Need this clip with cartoon sound effects
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rincewind.run
boy the tiktok ban has really turned out to be one of the most singularly stupid things ever passed, huh? as if these people needed more help controlling the entire information environment

what a shitshow
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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utopia-defer.red
anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide
larrrrrry.bsky.social
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
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jimdaleywrites.bsky.social
When I talked to bystanders they said agents accused Brockman of “obstruction,” which sure sounds a lot different than this DHS claim
cjciaramella.bsky.social
UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."
Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

 

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer. 

 

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”
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slackermom.bsky.social
Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
bvigeant.bsky.social
we must secure the bass pro shop pyramid
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Guard members in Memphis are operating under the governor's command — unlike other cities facing troop deployments, including Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago. n.pr/4q3iQX5
National Guard troops begin patrols in Memphis
Guard members in Memphis are operating under the governor's command — unlike other cities facing troop deployments, including Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago.
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bvigeant.bsky.social
(sweaty billionaire who has smashed journalism, funded fascism, etc)
"the existiential enemy of humanity is a young woman who is standing up against a genocide and to stop global warming."
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slkollmann.bsky.social
Not sure why Tom Dart is enforcing Broadview's arguably unconstitutional executive order but he and the State's Attorney are making some interesting choices these days regarding both immigration and protest of federal abuse
mulchy.bsky.social
earlier this morning, cook county sheriff’s deputies kicked me and a couple other reporters who were standing by ourselves off a public sidewalk because it wasn’t “free speech” hours yet or something idk.
bvigeant.bsky.social
when i finally watched a bunch of skibidi toilet i was like "oh, right, i watched yatta.swf a million times when I was 13."
bvigeant.bsky.social
I'm starting out by giving myself a massive make work assignment that will unnecessarily stress out everyone who works here.
bvigeant.bsky.social
"CBS news is a big place" and then later "I'll read all of them carefully"

Come on give me a break that's not true
bvigeant.bsky.social
george lucas winkingly putting THX-1138 as a license plate in American Graffiti as a cute little thing would have made 3 hour youtube videos in the seventies
bvigeant.bsky.social
since I don't work there, I'm doing the reverse: emailing and just making shit up, and hopefully I also get paid
bvigeant.bsky.social
somewhere along the line mass transit was bad faithed into luxury rides for the privileged versus the way anyone - generally middle and working class - gets around a city by neccessity, and it sucks!
2avesag.as
You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).
bvigeant.bsky.social
from what they say its a high pressure difficult job which is already short staffed, so cool plan dude
paleofuture.bsky.social
Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know
Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown
gizmodo.com
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:
María Corina Machado ©
@MariaCorinaYA
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views