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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 3h

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 14m

ICE is not chasing hardened criminals who are trying to evade law enforcement.

They are grabbing innocent, harmless people, who are just living normal lives, because that's the easiest way to meet ICE quotas.

Also - cruelty is the point.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

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. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

My contribution to the WW2 discourse is that pissing on the memory of the war as a fight against fascism is undermining the antibodies of the body politic against Trump. You are literally the RFK Jr. of ideology.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 21m

Asshole is trying to aura farm, gets owned by shiposters.

@sarahjeong.bsky.social is on to something here:
bsky.app/profile/sara...

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 47m

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 1h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 33m

The bullying works, keep it up!

Fascists are terrified of being mocked.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 4h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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David Wright @davidwright6.bsky.social · 3d

New:

Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer announced Thursday that he would spend $12 million backing California Democrats’ redistricting push this fall, becoming the latest megadonor to enter the high-stakes contest.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Tom Steyer enters California redistricting fight with a $12 million | CNN Politics

Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer announced Thursday that he would spend $12 million backing California Democrats’ redistricting push this fall, becoming the latest megadonor to enter the high-stakes con...

www.cnn.com

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 37m

It also doesn't seem very wise of American tech broligarchs to be destroying global trust in their products just when they are going all-in on developing a product that will require complete trust and reliance on the clients' side.

Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 47m

an older man in a suit and pink shirt is sitting at a table with a notebook and water bottles .

ALT: an older man in a suit and pink shirt is sitting at a table with a notebook and water bottles .

media.tenor.com

Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 48m

what missing their last chance to win a Nobel Peace Prize does to a mfer

Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 50m

Non-AI recession you say?

Thank fuck the non-AI economy is not producing anything important.

"Let them eat data centers!"

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1h

"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me

Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 53m

Hope this pathetic piece of shit dies knowing he never got a Nobel Peace Prize like Obama, and that his father despises him, thinks he's the biggest loser to have ever lived, and is waiting for him in hell to keep haranguing him for all eternity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2h

God you gotta love Ulysses Grant

As for provisions, Grant remembered what he had learned after Van Dorn’s destruction of his supply base the previous December. This time he intended to cut loose from his base, travel light, and live off the country. Although civilians were going hungry in Mississippi, Grant was confident that his soldiers would not. A powerful army on the move could seize supplies that penniless women and children could not afford to buy. For the next two weeks the Yankee soldiers lived well on hams, poultry, vegetables, milk, and honey as they stripped bare the plantations in their path. Some of these midwestern farm boys proved to be expert foragers. When an irate planter rode up on a mile and complained to a division commander that plundering troops had robbed him of everything he owned, the general looked him in the eye and said “Well those men didn’t belong to my division at all, because if they were my men they wouldn’t have left you that mule”

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 3h

There’s not a tradition of masked police in America,

Ds saying “this is not right; we will hold those responsible & those participating accountable” is the message.

It is a kitchen table issue.

It is inflation.

It is schools.

It is the price of gas.

It is Support The Troops.

It’s the shot.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

Writing a series about a detective with a loving relationship with his unmurdered family. He solves cases by not drinking, taking time away from work, and getting a good night’s sleep.

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Aunt Eefah @lardog.bsky.social · 5h

It's not fraud while you're committing it. Only later when you're caught. Got it.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 3h

Pharma Douche

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 3h

MAGA sycophants and Russians know this is all that Trump cares about - getting undeservedly the highest international awards while shredding the international order that created them and made them meaningful.

Now that 2025 Nobel Peace has been awarded he'll probably lose interest in "peacemaking".

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 4h

My fellow Americans
what are we even doing here bruh

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 5h

Zelenskyy said Putin tested Europe's air defenses with drones and aircraft, calling the response insufficient. He compared it to Crimea, adding Putin is preparing Russian society for the next stage.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5h

They're shooting the dogs. They're shooting the cats.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5h

Kristi Noem’s America, folks. That poor dog. That poor family.

Tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “Border Patrol reportedly shot a dog and then the agent fled rather than deal with any kind of accountability whatsoever.”
Below is Keith Edwards’ tweet: “BREAKING: A family in El Paso says ICE shot and killed their dog, Chop. The agent who fired reportedly ran as the family screamed for help. No one came.”

Photo of a large black and brown Rottweiler sitting calmly on a tiled floor next to a white chair and a window with blinds.

A black-background screenshot of text describing an incident: the sender says no Border Patrol agents rendered aid after their dog was shot, and that the responsible agent fled the scene with help from others. They emphasize that the agent’s name was never released and that their family lost a member “for no lawful reason.”

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 5h

Wait, wait, wait! This is worth examining further.

What is "tariff revenue"? Is it a tax paid by foreigners, as Trump insists? If so, then the US military will be living on foreign dole.

Or is it US consumer tax, which the president is spending without Congressional approval?

Both look pretty bad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Vance claims "tariff revenue" will be used to pay the troops

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 5h

AI can fix this.

Investors DM me for details.
bsky.app/profile/chro...

Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 5h

My new startup Boobify will create its proprietary Melons AI model that will be able to add huge boobs on all the female characters in any computer game.

So that all the pathetic gamecels can start complaining about something else again.

Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 6h

This, but unironically

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