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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 5h

Just a warning for the rich from Bob and Larry to end this tuesday night. ⚓️

Bob and Larry from Veggietales are smiling on the left side.

James 5:1-3 is quoted: "come now you rich, weep & wail over your impending miseries. Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold & silver have corroded & that corrosion will testify against you; it will devour your flesh like fire."

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Elvie 🍂🎃 @elviereads.bsky.social · 10h

"no kings" is actually a good motto for the whole entire world because monarchy is bad and there should be no kings but Christ. join us

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 10h

Since the SunTimes has this article behind a 30 second ad and what looks like a paywall with a link to the actual article in fine print underneath the paid subscription options, here is the info:

cookcountypublichealth.org/communicable...

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 11h

Starting Saturday Cook County residents can receive free flu and COVID-19 shots from the Cook County Department of Public Health.

Cook County residents can get free COVID, flu shots at county clinics starting this weekend

The health department will provide the free shots every Saturday at its vaccination clinics beginning this weekend and until March 28.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 13h

Goodhart's Law undefeated

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 14h

The "revelation" that explicit Nazism is part of the mental framework of so much of the mainstream Republican apparatus really does strain the capacity to keep trying, as a Christian leader, to distinguish partisanship and politics.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 16h

I could lose my whole day to Drew-posting but Spielberg pegged him as the Rockwell of Hollywood and he wasn't wrong

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade poster, 1989

Alice Cooper's WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE, 1975

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 16h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 16h

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 1d

If soldiers did indeed get paid then yeah, Congress has basically ceded all of it’s meaningful authority to the Executive and the Constitution is a dead letter.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

FYI: If you know of intersections of religion and pushback to ICE/DHS in general, but especially Chicago, feel free to drop me a line.

You can reach me via Signal at: jackmjenkins.60

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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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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 2d

Abolish, prosecute, imprison forever

Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 2d

It is absolutely essential that Democratic decision-makers be made to understand that "Abolish ICE" is the one and only acceptable position for them to take on the matter.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 2d

It is absolutely essential that Democratic decision-makers be made to understand that "Abolish ICE" is the one and only acceptable position for them to take on the matter.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 2d

I love Computer on a neurological deep level and still I know this to be true as fully as I know Jesus Christ is raised. I can't "know" any harder than that.

I don't know how we get out of this.

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 2d

one of the world-bending and epoch-changing elements that came from photography and moving film was the surprising and total capture of “life” in a camera, compared to art or theater— even the background tree leaves quiver!— and it changed how we all think. Computer may have broken the trust.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 2d

one of the world-bending and epoch-changing elements that came from photography and moving film was the surprising and total capture of “life” in a camera, compared to art or theater— even the background tree leaves quiver!— and it changed how we all think. Computer may have broken the trust.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Pfooti, but spooky. 👻 @pfooti.social · 2d

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 2d

(please don’t scold me, I think I know what I’m saying, and it’s relative effectiveness in the current moment) I still think the median move for all of us is to teach people in our lives to be suspicious of what we see on a screen

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2d

yeah i just think its very not poggers someone unfamiliar with llms can download sora and generate realistic(ish) pro ice agitpop within 10 minutes

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

"we must restore labor discipline with the lash and the deportation order."

*touches earpiece*

"all my workers gone? all of them? oh"

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

i would not be surprised if business types, particular family business tyrants, are starting to sweat things as their cravings for ~labor discipline ~ have given way to fears of labor shortage

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Based and Superstructured @greeshmcqueen.bsky.social · 2d

30 minutes or less or it's free/discounted hasn't been true since 1989

8-ʙɪᴛ™ @the8bitidiot.bsky.social · 2d

Free her!!!

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