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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 3d

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 5h

Learn it, live it, especially ahead of the No Kings protests.

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 2d

Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater is on tour with a mission to make ‘the revolution irresistible.’ A group of 15 artists is traveling to 33 U.S. cities to stage this year’s show, ‘Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress.’ This is one of their acts.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

we are in an unprecedented untenable situation: wanton destruction of federal public health apparati (already reduced by biden), on top of a precarious, ever consolidating for-profit “care” system that’s been inching toward collapse for yrs as insurance rates soar—& you won’t help prevent illness? 🤨

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · Aug 15

make a choice to resist fascism every day.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHsoNSLbH...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 1d

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@mollyjongfast.bsky.social reskeeted NY Times graphic on federal judges
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Diagrams showing federal judges' opinions.
Header: "The judges were nominated by both Democratic and Republican presidents"
37 by Democrats (above cluster of 37 blue dots)
28 by Republicans (above cluster of 28 red dots, 10 of which have black rings -- "10 nominated by Trump")
Header: "They were asked whether or not they agreed with the following: "The Supreme Court has made appropriate use of the emergency docket since President Trump returned to office""
47 disagreed (cluster of 47 dots, mostly blue but 11 red ones grouped on the right side)
6 were neutral (cluster of 6 dots, 1 blue and 5 red)
12 agreed (cluster of 12 dots, all red)
*the black-ringed dots identified in the first diagram are not features here*

By Joey Sendaydiego

Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/judicial-crisis-supreme-court-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE8.VJIw.4k1ekuC3lZ0o&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 14h

It also shows solidarity to everyone disabled or chronically ill for any reason. Mostly what we are seeing is you don’t care if we are left out of society.

Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 2d

Dear liberals,

If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 15h

It feels unreasonable that so many who preach inclusion and collective liberation are fine excluding the disabled from public life or endangering us daily because masks make you uncomfortable. People across the political spectrum sadly agree on eugenics.

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 15h

Terrific post. The current administration is comfortable killing us, especially the poor, brown, and/or disabled. If you want to resist that and show solidarity to those groups (and maybe save an insurance copay), wear a high quality mask in indoor public spaces.

bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 15h

made the quoted thread, a response to a few of @jamellebouie.net’s recent posts, into a video, because sometimes it’s nice to see people’s faces, hear people’s voices, on an ever colder internet. this is part one.

full video at normal speed:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMfy98PR/

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 15h

Terrific response!

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Marc Deschamps @marcdachamp.bsky.social · 16h

Before singing a song to Stephen Colbert tonight, Bette Midler brought up how she sang to Krusty on The Simpsons. Both surreal and awesome to hear her reference an episode from over three decades ago. Now I kinda want to put it on.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 20h

These issues are YET MORE reasons that masking in public during an ongoing pandemic, during collapse of healthcare systems, during an attack on public health, while fascism grows stronger, in a world where healthcare isn’t a universal right… is, in fact, the reasonable, scientific, & moral choice.

Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 20h

Medical racism, like medical misogyny, is a real and under-reported issue that has been stealing years and shortening lives for generations.

We have statistics and studies showing that doctors are less likely to take claims seriously when they come from black folks, from women.

It costs lives.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 22h

He’s always been political.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 22h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 1d

It’s sad that we need an economic analysis to convince some people that feeding hungry children is good, and even sadder that that it won’t convince everyone.

Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 1d

We shouldn’t need a financial analysis to decide that feeding kids is good, actually, but for those who do-

The only downside to giving kids free meals at school Is it offends those who only want to help poor people they determine are “deserving” (which somehow doesn’t include all children).

David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 1d

Making free meals available to all public students wouldn't only produce benefits equal to the costs, it would produce social benefits with a net worth of about $520 million a year, according to an economic analysis released last Monday. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...

Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some • Ohio Capital Journal

Most Ohio school kids already get free meals. Making them free for all students would produce big social benefits, new study says.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 1d

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

2/ "Vance tried to dodge the question by saying that Pritzker “has certainly failed to keep the people of Illinois safe.” (Meanwhile, violent crime in Chicago in recent months hit its lowest point in four decades.)"

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists' Questions. It Did Not Go Well

Vice President J.D. Vance tried to dodge questions about Border Czar Tom Homan's alleged accepting of a bribe and whether J.B. Pritzker is a criminal.

www.rollingstone.com

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 3d

It’s already killing people who were helped by USAID.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7d

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

joycevance.substack.com

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Feb 9

wow ok the king's horses actually figured out how to put humpty dumpty together again an— oh come on, he's climbing right back up that wall. god damn it, what an asshole. you can tell the horses are furious with him

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 3d

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Ellearee @ellearee.bsky.social · 3d

There is not going to be a candidate I agree with 100%, but I sure find the one who doesn’t think trans rights are optional the superior choice. Go Pritzker!

a man standing next to a trash can with the words ding dong you 're wrong written on it

Alt: Oscar the Grouch pops out of hos trash can saying “ding dong you 're wrong.”

media.tenor.com

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