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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 12h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Kyle Pinion @kylepinion.bsky.social · 8h

Pound for pound, fantasy still hasn’t improved on The Lord of the Rings.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 18h

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

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7h

lol

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14d

what if they just forget how to turn the government back on, like a compulsive defiance disorder but for passing a budget

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7h

the dems cannot give these guys a funded government without guarantees of cities free of ethnic pogroms and actual article 2 powers. the republicans cannot yield this to the dems because it runs opposite of everything their senile rapist leader demands. I am desperate to believe dems see this now.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 8h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 15h

It is, quite literally, *his job* to know whether the executive branch is implementing the programs and spending Congress authorized. This isn't pretending he doesn't know what awful thing Trump said. This is his Constitutional obligation that he is now derelict from fulfilling.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15h

Historic scenes outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, as 1700+ captives return home after the resistance secured their freedom from Israeli prison and torture camps.

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 11h

there's no such thing as "abusing a right" either you have rights or you don't

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 11h

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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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 10h

He should read In Pacem Terris

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 10h

The funny thing is that the Vatican did weigh in on segregation at that time.

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 14h

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 11h

It was so surreal following the canadian elections. Even their mini-trump was left of the dems.

Religiously though it',s different for me since South Louisiana is still so Catholic that the UK feels spiritually dead every time I'm there.

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 11h

OCA main room is very very cramped though so that might be influencing my estimates

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 11h

I'm at a latin mass parish and we do vespers once a month and every sunday during lent/advent. It's english vespers though, and we usually get about 15-25 people. I'm glad the turnout is high enough to keep doing it. Local OCA parish does vespers every Saturday and they get maybe double that.

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 11h

The emperor will stop at nothing to ensure that every american suffers equally www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

www.nytimes.com

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12h

The funniest take on here today is probably "sure Netanyahu is a bad actor, but it's unclear how the US could have possibly put pressure on him". Imagine admitting you're less curious and creative than the Trump administration and framing it as nuance

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

It seems that Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has fled the country on a French military aircraft just hours before a planned address after the Gen Z revolt and rumours of a coup. He’s believed to be heading to Dubai.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12h

Probably unrelated. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 12h

This is unbelievably dangerous - @fairfightaction.bsky.social and @blackvotersmatterfund.org estimate that as many as 30% of the Congressional Black Caucus and 11% of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus could lose their seats if the Roberts court strikes down these provisions

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

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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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 12h

I think the Dems should make removing these powers part of the deal to reopen the government. They won't do it though.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

Immigration officers may question any person they "believe" is a noncitizen, and can arrest without a warrant anyone who they have "reason to believe" (probable cause) is present in violation of law and who is "likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained."

8 U.S. Code § 1357 - Powers of immigration officers and employees

(a)Powers without warrant
Any officer or employee of the Service authorized under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General shall have power without warrant—
(1)to interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States;
(2)to arrest any alien who in his presence or view is entering or attempting to enter the United States in violation of any law or regulation made in pursuance of law regulating the admission, exclusion, expulsion, or removal of aliens, or to arrest any alien in the United States, if he has reason to believe that the alien so arrested is in the United States in violation of any such law or regulation and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest, but the alien arrested shall be taken without unnecessary delay for examination before an officer of the Service having authority to examine aliens as to their right to enter or remain in the United States;

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

Immigration officers may question any person they "believe" is a noncitizen, and can arrest without a warrant anyone who they have "reason to believe" (probable cause) is present in violation of law and who is "likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained."

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16h

From Al Jazeera:

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Joy as Palestinians freed after Israeli captives released; Trump in Egypt

Palestinian detainees and Israeli captives released under Gaza ceasefire deal.

www.aljazeera.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 13h

"And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific
boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss." - Aimé Césaire

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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 15h

Last week, my colleagues @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @mariamelba.bsky.social had this stunning story about people trying to follow President Trump's directive to self-deport... but finding that the program to help immigrants do so is mired in chaos www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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