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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 49m

He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

—Declaration of Independence, 1776

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

No. No. No.

(Nothing against Steven, I used to do this too until I learned that it was a bad idea.)

Swim goggles hit by a projectile (like a tear gas canister or pepper ball) can direct force to the area around your eyeball and pop it out of your skull.

NOT desirable.

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 11h

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 10h

Thiel's reading: “Nothing lasts forever.”

Actual line: “‘In the end’? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

@tadethompson.bsky.social “Literally THE OPPOSITE of what Dr Manhattan said. Also, Moore didn't see this as an ideal solution. Moore literally negates the plan in the last panel
…”

Partial screenshot from screenshot in the original post:

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

“The antihero Ozymandias, the anticrhist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution - eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes is represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world…”

Panel from Watchmen. Foreground, Ozymandias' hand reaches toward Dr Manhattan as the Doctor starts to fade away.

Dr Manhattan: "In the end"?

Dr Manhattan: Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

The full page from Watchmen. I'm not typing the whole thing. Watch the cartoon or movie or read the GN.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 1d

“…AI investments accounted for nearly 92% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025…”

The sooner the bubble bursts, the less damage it'll do to the US economy. But even now the damage will be HUGE. finance.yahoo.com/news/most-us...

Screenshot of the beginning of linked news article:

Yahoo! Finance
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Most US Growth Now Rides on AI—And Economists Suspect a Bubble
Jose Antonio Lanz
Wed, October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM CDT 5 min read

What happens when artificial intelligence becomes both the economy's primary engine and its potential Achilles' heel? We may be about to find out.

Harvard economist Jason Furman recently said that AI investments accounted for nearly 92% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025. Basically, the entire American economy put its eggs in one algorithmic basket.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 1d

Dolly is a true gift.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 1d

The most frustrating part of this is that a federal judge literally made a finding of fact of the evidence presented by the administration, a judge appointed by Trump, and that judge called the narrative untethered to facts, and the narrator, unreliable.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

If Jared Leto cannot sell Tron and Marvel to white people, someone please explain to me why he keeps getting hired.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 1d

One of my fave menus to make for friends is med rare steak, with a side of Korean spinach salad with fresh strawberries on top. The doenjang (ie miso) makes the salad umami and the strawberries add a little sweet & sour.

It's insane how much raw spinach it takes to make 4 side servings...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 1d

I casually scrolled past this thread and didn’t fully read it. Thought you were Team Brian re: The Life of Brian. Confused why you said Ricki went to space when it was Brian who did that… Read your posts properly now!

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 2d

WGN is owned by Nexstar, but it’s the Chicago CW affiliate. Not the Chicago ABC affiliate, WLS, which is directly owned by ABC national and never suspended Kimmel broadcasts.

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 2d

The WGN video producer who was shoved to the ground and arrested by ICE this morning was released, without charges, at 3pm. I'm hoping she and WGN sue ICE and win. And betting the federal judge who issued a restraining order last night blocking EXACTLY THIS is furious.

wgntv.com/news/operati...

Screenshot of the beginning of the WGN News article. You can just hit the link and read it?

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 2d

I want this to be the inspiration for the live action MCU new costumes for Captain Marvel, Wonder Man, and Photon/ Monica Rambeau. Or maybe a 70s retro alternate Earth?

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 2d

Specifically, ICE is prohibited from 1.a. arresting journalists for doing their jobs and observing officers, 1.h. pulling or shoving people to the ground unless necessary.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 2d

Thursday's court order prohibiting this:

[Federal Agents]… are temporarily ENJOINED… from: a. Dispersing, arresting… or using physical force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless [Federal Agents] have probable cause…https://is.gd/SXG01T/CtOrder

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

I will never release the superhero and the vigilante to bigots and fascists. To those who oppress. Not when they stole those symbols from the persecuted in the first place. If I have to give up corporate figureheads? Fine. But the subgenre itself? Never.

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 2d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

(Scene from Matthew Bourne’s “Swan Lake” first staged in 1995)

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Terry Midnight tried to tell you! @docmidnight.bsky.social · 3d

You can't be a leftist hero politician fighting fascism, if you're selling out our trans brothers and sisters. You're just an opportunistic politician and you can eat a dick alongside the fascists.

You just want to be seen, and we see you just fine.

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 3d

Why is Chicago a GREAT town for comics creators? Concordia University (IL) student reporter Eric Perry asked me and (separately) Jazz musician Joe Clark, who’s done some comics writing on the side. A great tribute to our community in this time of travail.

spectator.cuchicago.edu/7046/showcas...

What Pulls Comics Writers and Artists to Chicago?

Chicago’s best-known nickname is The Second City. The moniker was coined by A.J. Liebling, a writer for The New Yorker magazine, who used the nickname to put down Chicago. However, if there is one are...

spectator.cuchicago.edu

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 3d

Thank goodness he lost this. The precedent would have basically been that rap battles are now illegal.

Imo the worst part of this lawsuit was not that he did something so embarrassing as file it, but that he was willing to imperil an entire genre of rap music’s legality to soothe his own ego.

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Gene Ha @geneha.com · 3d

ICE claimed Marimar Martinez rammed them and brandished a gun. According to her lawyer, ICE's own bodycam shows that ICE rammed her car. After stopping her car they shot the unarmed woman through her windshield. Martinez kept her licensed concealed weapon in her purse. is.gd/TO2lUG/reuters

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