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@drmag00.bsky.social

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Dad of 3, husband, liberal, no - more liberal than that, geek in many ways, writer, former physics teacher, consultant, maker of puns. He/him/his

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drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · Nov 6

As I walk through this wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, "Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?"
And each time I feel like this inside
There's one thing I wanna know
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

In Elk Grove Village, another empty car. Witnesses say two people were taken from it, and are trying to locate family.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Sep 17

If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 1h

Are there any who are not?

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 1h

What, pray tell, is an "antifa type"?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2h

I'm about to post something that will probably get me in trouble and then walk away. Men complain that they don't "feel like men" when a woman makes more than them. But being a man is not about what you get, but what you DO. Do something!

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2h

and i'll do you one better ... men become uncomfortable when their partners make more than they do because they believe that their partners will financially and emotionally manipulate them ....

as they .... manipulate their partners.

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Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 2h

The Cubs have 6 NL Gold Glove award finalists at their respective positions: Matthew Boyd, Carson Kelly, Nico Hoerner, Matt Shaw, Ian Happ and Pete Crow-Armstrong.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Also yesterday—two people were arrested by local police for documenting ICE and protesting at the area detention center. ICE took down their illegal fence. But the time and place restrictions on protest, including a city imposed curfew, have led to a constant churn of citations.

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 3h

The media should be writing like this.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Yesterday, white nationalist paramilitary forces attacked another Chicago neighborhood with chemical weapons. Families and at least one infant were gassed. This morning, they are kidnapping more immigrants both here and in other metros (D.C., L.A. still being terrorized).

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 3h

Thread from last night.

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 13h

One of the things I struggle with the most in this world is that I fundamentally do not understand how people commit acts of violence on each other. I just can’t understand what makes an ICE agent think it’s okay to treat people that way. Or for an Israeli soldier. Or a Russian soldier.

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway, it makes me sad. And confused. And I just want it to stop.

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 13h

Stuff can be recreated. I can sit here instead of there. We can share. But people? There’s no way to remake someone. No recreating their experiences and their DNA and their uniqueness.

So I don’t get it. What allows you to do that to another person? You’re no better or worse than they are.

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 13h

It was a threat. Touch my stuff and I’ll kill you. And I was sad. And confused. It’s just stuff, man. Why would you kill someone over stuff? A person is worth way more than that. The same goes for land. It’s just stuff. All this mine and yours and us and not us? Fuck. We’re just people.

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 13h

Years ago, I saw a car with a bumper sticker reading “Nothing in this car is worth your life.”

When I read it, I felt good for a moment. My first thought was that the owner was saying that nothing they owned was worth taking a life for. That it was a statement of peace.

Then I realized.

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 13h

I just don’t get it. If someone told me to hurt people like that, I couldn’t. Maybe in active self-defense, but maybe not. And certainly not in any other circumstance that I can think of. I’m just not wired that way, to feel like I have the right to do that. And over what? A border, a law, a thing?

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 13h

One of the things I struggle with the most in this world is that I fundamentally do not understand how people commit acts of violence on each other. I just can’t understand what makes an ICE agent think it’s okay to treat people that way. Or for an Israeli soldier. Or a Russian soldier.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 14h

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 15h

He can’t denounce it. He’d lose all his staffers.

drmaB🎃🎃 @drmag00.bsky.social · 17h

We are the strongest people ever! That inflatable frog is the scariest thing, please don’t let it hurt me.

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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 17h

This, btw, is why I oppose the death penalty. Someone (generally many someones, including judge, jury, guards, etc.) have to knowingly and calmly collaborate to take the life of another person. It harms those ppl—who go on to interact with the rest of society & the violence spirals out from there.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

6. There is no such thing as free violence. All violence harms the wielder.

Every time someone tries to sell you on the idea that there is something we can do, without cost, that harms other people, realize that they are lying to you.

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deadshock @debbshock.blue · 19h

dressing for the job I want

two adult sized yip yips, costumes

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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That Guy James (But Spooky) @jroberts.bsky.social · 20h

Every story ever told exists in a grand tapestry that stretches back to the earliest humans telling stories about their hunts and the stars as well as forward into an unknown future, tying all humans together in a work that illustrates who and what we are.

Story is the most human of the arts.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 20h

Spent an hour on and off with Spotify online support just trying to find out where to file feedback re: ICE ads. After asking what the feedback was, all four reps ended the chat immediately when I mentioned ICE. This has to be direction from above. Save your time and just cancel now.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

This is because the feds won't stop gassing our neighborhoods so they can flee and, by extension, are also repeatedly gassing the cops. What a moment to be alive

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 20h

CPD memo to officers today: helmet and gas mask available and accessible at all times, to be read at 7 days of roll calls. (For officers assigned masks.) Supervisors to ensure compliance acc to the memo. #chicago