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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 1d

This month's project updates are up for my monthly supporters. ♥️

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 1d

Can you respond without being an asshole, or is conversation no longer on the table for individuals you disagree with?

JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 1d

Again, using the words "joking about" would imply these men are joking. Which they are not.

We are living in a literacy crisis in the US where over 50% of adults cannot read above a 6th grade level; words need to be explicit even if they aren't beautiful on the page.

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 1d

These aren't "jokes".

Stop framing this festering rot as "boys being boys".

I expect better from Politico.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

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.

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 1d

These aren't jokes. Stop framing this festering rot as "boys being boys". I expect better from Politico.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 1d

Doing the things.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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The Shatterpoint: Simple US Civics @theshatterpoint.substack.com · 3d

Most Americans think they vote directly for president. But that’s not exactly true.

The system that really decides who wins is called the Electoral College, and it was built into our democracy long before television, telephones, or even trains. 👇🏻

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 9d

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 8d

Anyone who thinks what is happening with "immigrant" communities isn't the exact same blueprint they will use with every other group they seek to subjugate, exploit, consume, and destroy, is living in a fucking delusion that will absolutely NOT keep them safe.

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Kenny Akers @keneakers.bsky.social · 8d

Who said ICE isn’t detaining and arresting Black folks? Some of y’all must’ve forgotten that to “them,” we all look the same. You must’ve overlooked decades of police brutality, wrongful arrests, detentions 👇🏾

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 8d

Partially naked Black children & elders, ziptied like animals in the streets, for hours as Nazi goons tore apart their homes, all under the eye of the scum property management company that was already being sued for unsafe living conditions, etc.

This will not fucking stand on our Chicago streets.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 8d

The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, announced city property and participating private property will become “ICE-free zones,” as President Donald Trump tries to deploy National Guard troops throughout Illinois.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 8d

ICYMI: Senate Republicans just blocked Democrats' bill that would reopen the government AND save health care for millions of Americans.

This is now the FIFTH time we've voted on this bill.

The Republican shutdown continues.

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 8d

Fox News and Robert O'Neill apparently think we are all fucking stupid and can't recognize each time they bring on an "anonymous guest from the Other Side", it is just this fucking dweeb in a different costume.

JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 9d

Because From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free.

Because Black Lives WILL ALWAYS Matter.

Because "fearfully and wonderfully made" will ALWAYS include the lives of my Trans brothers and sisters.

And because La Raza unida, jamás será vencida!

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Notes from the Wreckage: Reborn

This morning I started a new household policy; every morning, I will walk my roommates to the bus stop and watch them get on the bus, and then walk down to meet them at the bus stop everyday when they...

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 9d

Notes from the Wreckage: Reborn

This morning I started a new household policy; every morning, I will walk my roommates to the bus stop and watch them get on the bus, and then walk down to meet them at the bus stop everyday when they get off work. Why? Because for all of the years I have lived…

Notes from the Wreckage: Reborn

This morning I started a new household policy; every morning, I will walk my roommates to the bus stop and watch them get on the bus, and then walk down to meet them at the bus stop everyday when they get off work. Why? Because for all of the years I have lived between MLK Drive and Cottage Grove on Chicago's beautiful, historic, and proudly Black South Side, I have never felt a moment of fear out on our streets until the US government decided to turn our neighborhoods into a wannabe war zone.

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 9d

This morning the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago filed against Trump specifically, DOD, Homeland Security, the US Army, Hegseth, Kristi Noem, and the secretary of the Army, Daniel Driscoll.

Full court filing is here:
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HANGMAN PAGE @hangmanpage.bsky.social · 13d

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:

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JJ Hastings @jjhastings.com · 11d

ABSOLUTELY fuck ICE, and fuck HBO Max for airing these disgusting propaganda ICE commercials during @allelitewrestling.com show on Wednesday night.