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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 9h

Your tax dollars paid for that kind of unvarnished sociopathy. You okay with that?

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Rev. Woolf, who below describes federal agents grabbing his neck and twisting his nipple as he protested (in a clerical collar) outside the Broadview ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, is ordained in both the American Baptist Churches USA denomination and the Alliance of Baptists.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

I'm sorry what www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

As @rns.org documented in August, apparent ICE/federal immigration agents have conducted operations near or even *on the grounds* of churches at least 10 times this year so far.

One LA pastor personally confronted agents on her church property, demanding they leave. religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 9h

Schoolyard bullies, but with generous hiring bonuses

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Rev. Woolf, who below describes federal agents grabbing his neck and twisting his nipple as he protested (in a clerical collar) outside the Broadview ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, is ordained in both the American Baptist Churches USA denomination and the Alliance of Baptists.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

I'm sorry what www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Many of the protesters described excessive use of force by federal agents. The Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, said he was demonstrating outside Broadview when U.S. Customs and Border Protection official Gregory Bovino, who is leading his agency’s enforcement operation in Chicago, showed up. Illinois State Police began to push people back from the curb. He said that at one point a federal agent grabbed his neck and twisted his nipple “as hard as they could.”

“This is while I’m in a clergy collar,” Woolf added.

McLaughlin responded that “officers do not twist people’s nipples or use undue force” and are “well trained in crowd control tactics.”

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11h

To be frank, this kind of research—straightforward with profound global privacy and surveillance implications—is rare. There is usually some caveat that makes it niche or insubstantial. This one is not that.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 9h

Seems bad

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 9h

a man with a mustache is saying `` i 'm really proud of you '' in front of a window .

Alt: a man with a mustache is saying `` i 'm really proud of you '' in front of a window .

media.tenor.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 14h

How many more people will this administration harm?

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 21h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 21h

Yup

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 21h

What’s so frustrating here is that this deal could have happened years ago if Biden had applied any real leverage.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22h

Live Visual of 50501’s funding:

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 22h

The new AI answering service for Fairview clinics is unbearably terrible. Just completely nonfunctional.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 22h

Today is the feast day of St Chelidonia, a Benedictine hermitress, who left her home in Abruzzo, Italy at age 20 to retreat from the world in favor of a life of solitude, prayer and contemplation for the next 52 years, living in a cave with no news, no noise, no insufferable politics. Sounds nice.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 23h

Get it, loser, I'm writing about Pam Bondi.

Rachel McAdams should sue Pam for that godawful theft of her iconic character, Regina George.

But it does answer the question: Why does Trump keep Bondi around? Read to see why.

www.salon.com/2025/10/13/p...

Pam Bondi is Trump's mean girl

Imagine if Regina George grew up to cover up for a fascist

www.salon.com

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William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social · 23h

Here's a theatrical short story about killing the malevolent ghost of Columbus for all who celebrate.

@uncannymagazine.bsky.social

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

The Golden Tooth: A Solo Show by Orion Cabrera - Uncanny Magazine

Scene 1: The Wedding [ORION stands alone on an otherwise bare stage. He is dressed for a wedding, but the clothes are in a state of disarray. Tie loose, shirt unbuttoned. The overall effect misleading...

www.uncannymagazine.com

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 23h

Aww. Lookit our wee Sean pretending he knows what words mean.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 23h

Delightful choice.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Mostly listening to one of the best pop records of 2025 as I write today:

KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) by KPop Demon Hunters Cast, HUNTR/X & Saja Boys on Apple Music

Album · 2025 · 12 Songs

music.apple.com

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that's been my experience as well

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

it’s Indigenous peoples day, so if you need to purchase an indulgence for your settler sins, you can venmo me at @ziibiing and I will redistribute your wealth to Indigenous people 🫡

also, I will be accepting land or cabin donations anywhere in anishinaabe akiing (MN, WI, MI, Ontario/Manitoba)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 1d

I think we can safely say that years of psychedelic "microdosing" and a current addiction to chatgpt have fully fried what's left of his brains

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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 antichrist-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 it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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DeWayne Davis @dewayneforminneapolis.com · 4d

"As a resident of north Minneapolis and pastor in south Minneapolis, he experiences how the present administration ignores too many people. When he talks about bringing dignity, justice and liberation for everyone, he means all."

www.startribune.com/dewayne-davi...

Opinion | Why DeWayne Davis is the best choice for Minneapolis mayor

"His campaign’s theme, 'We Deserve Better,' emphasizes the 'We' that Jacob Frey and Omar Fateh miss," Peter Eichten writes.

www.startribune.com

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 1d

An illuminating story

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

I hope @dewayneforminneapolis.com doesn't mind me retelling a story he told me when we first met last winter. I kept it to myself because he wasn’t telling it publicly but he mentioned it yesterday. It’s one of the things that’s leading me to rank him first. A hope-its-ok-and-I-get-right 🧵:

Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, I hosted an incredible event, "Ward 8 for a New Mayor." We talked about why we need a new mayor and then @jazzformayor.bsky.social , @omarfatehmn.com , and @dewayneforminneapolis.com laid out why they should be our next mayor. I came away excited about all of them and will rank all three!

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 2d

❤️❤️❤️

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