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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Tim Walz: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business ... the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Donald Trump is the one with government interference."

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 2h

Torn between these two for my No Kings sign:
1) Behold ye mighty and despair
2) I am fearless, and therefore powerful

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 9h

This is Zebby. He finally managed to catch his tail. Super proud of the accomplishment and would like to pretend no one saw the part right after. 12/10 (IG: zebbythegolden)

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 6h

My book comes with textual evidence to support my shitty takes!

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 6h

SNL clearly needs Jack Black to be Milei

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 6h

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 7h

Putting together my materials for promotion and honestly I think I’ve got a case.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 7h

Two cars just ignoring the giant “roads closed” signs. Then looking completely flabbergasted that someone pointed it out to them.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 8h

Charlie Chaplin is a great example of using humor this way

A picture of Charlie Chaplin dressed up as Hitler in his film, The Great Dictator

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Laura @lleigha.bsky.social · 8h

"Countries that neglect science become dependent on those that don’t. U.S. post-WWII dominance came from basic science investments...Long-term military and economic advantage (nuclear weapons, GPS, AI) trace back to scientific research ecosystems."

Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 8h

No startups, no science: How the Republican Administration switched off America's most important engine of economic success.

steveblank.com/2025/10/13/n...

Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d…

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Della @streettheorist.bsky.social · 8h

It's Hannah Arendt's birthday!

I find hope in how the experience of birth shapes her thinking about politics, freedom and our capacity to begin new things. She says:

"With each new birth, a new beginning is born into the world, and a new world has potentially come into being"

Here's to new worlds

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11h

Trump and Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually. We don’t know when or how it will unfold, or how the public will come to perceive it. But we do know that no matter how it unfolds or is perceived, it is already their fault. All we can do is our best.

It'll Be Trump's Fault

Donald Trump created this unstable equilibrium; no matter how it breaks down, it will be his fault.

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 16h

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 10h

Join us for Robert Thorne's online lecture on Matthew Digby Wyatt.

The polymath Wyatt was an architect, administrator, designer, writer and connoisseur.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 9h

The party wanting to police antisemitism on American campuses.

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬 @badtoss.bsky.social · 9h

or...fabricated?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Powell: "Both supply and demand in the labor market have come down so sharply so quickly. The fact that the unemployment rate has barely moved is kind of remarkable."

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 14h

Of potential interest to #histSTM friends...

Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 17h

SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14h

‘The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’

In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. None of this is being done in secret – the...

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 15h

That Victorianism is some craic

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 16h

The Elmo snorting sugar meme with Degenerate Romanticism (Modernism) represented by some fruit and Elmo ignoring the fruit and burying his head in sugar representing Raw Victorianism

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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