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Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · Aug 20

1/ Happiest of birthdays to Tom Hamilton, Cleveland Guardians play-by-play announcer --and 2025 Ford C. Frick honoree for his contributions to the game. (There's also a small shoutout to Jim "The Old Rosebud" Rosenhaus, his partner in the radio booth.) #GuardsBall ⚾🎂🎉

A hand-drawn baseball card depicting Cleveland Guardians' radio play-by-play announcer Tom "Hammy" Hamilton as an cheerful anthropomorphic pig in a radio booth at a stadium. (He is, of course, part of the "All-Farm Team.") On his right is a vase with a single rosebud.

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Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · 1h

Weatherbird! ❤️ Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

A St. Louis Bird That Crosses Divides Gets His Own Show

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

“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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Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · 2h

Confession: I bought pink Himalayan salt 5 years ago to make these cookies and haven't used it since (so I'm glad to have an excuse to make the pumpkin spice latte cake) 😄 www.makeitgrateful.com/living/celeb...

These candy corn stuffed cookies will knock your socks off

Give Halloween guests a delightful trick when they try these scumptious sugar cookies stuffed with gooey, melty candy corn.

www.makeitgrateful.com

Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · 2h

But if you're irked at the notion of acquiring an esoteric ingredient for one (1) recipe which will then sit in your cabinet unused for the next 10 years, I *completely* get it. 🙂

Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · 2h

If your qualm is about availability, I'll note that, at least in the US, pink Himalayan salt has become available at a surprisingly wide array of 'everyday' retail outlets -- Target, Walmart, even a few CVS stores! (cont'd)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

The more people turn out this weekend, the more obvious the lie here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 1d

The president (or maybe not president) of Madagascar—a radio DJ who overthrew the island’s yogurt kingpin in a coup d’état—just fled the country in a French helicopter after Gen Z protests. I wrote about the most interesting island you know nothing about, with bonus pictures of me with lemurs:

The yogurt kingpin, the radio DJ coup, and the most interesting island on Earth

Madagascar is a fascinating island home to 30+ million people. It's also home to bizarre, volatile politics that virtually nobody knows about. And the president just escaped on a helicopter.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · 10h

"If an officer were to harass a peaceful protester in a wiener-dog costume or a unicorn suit... 'It just makes the violence really kind of clear, who’s doing it,' Brown says. 'Like, you’re trying to call the Insurrection Act on Barney the Dinosaur and SpongeBob?'"

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10h

Portland-based streamer Brooks Brown and a few of his friends created Operation Inflation, an organization providing puff-up costumes to those protesting the crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

How inflatable frog suits became the protest fashion statement of the year

Costumes have been worn as political symbols for decades, but animal outfits have become especially popular at anti-ICE demonstrations in Portland, Oregon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote on @boingboing.net about a beautiful new book package celebrating the GOAT comic strip, "Peanuts." I think fans of the strip will absolutely love it.
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boingboing.net/2025/10/13/b... @abramscomicarts.bsky.social @evanier.bsky.social

Breathtaking new book package celebrates the GOAT comic strip: Peanuts

Abrams ComicArts has just released a huge new prestige book celebrating the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. The Essential Peanuts is 336 pages, and filled with comics, but…

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brodner.bsky.social @brodner.bsky.social · 14h

We all have been blessed for years by the friendship and camaraderie of Clay Jones, one our most gifted and madly hilarious artists . . . and favorite people.
A stroke this week has set him back. Please consider chipping in to help in his recovery. Thanx.

Gofundme:

www.gofundme.com/f/clayjones

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 13h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 14h

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Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · 14h

Good for them.

Time for other organizations and elected officials -- on local, state and national levels -- to do the same.

Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 17h

Kansas Young Republicans shut down after Politico report on racist, violent encrypted chat | #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/10/14/k...

Kansas Young Republicans shut down after Politico report on racist, violent encrypted chat • Kansas Reflector

Politico reports the chairman and vice chairman of Kansas Young Republicans participated in racist, antisemitic encrypted chats with GOP political peers.

kansasreflector.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 15h

Is she talking about the young children missing because her goon squad dragged them naked & crying from their apartment complex or the 15-yr old girl they tackled & threw into an unmarked van the other day?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pam Bondi repeatedly claims that finding one missing child "makes it all worthwhile" when it comes to military occupations of American cities and adds that "Pritzker should be begging Donald Trump to come in."

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 16h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

You can get that PROTECT TRANS YOUTH t-shirt, designed by @tombofnull.bsky.social, from @greenpeapress.bsky.social! Proceeds benefit Huntsville's Free LGBTQ+ Closet!
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Protect Trans Youth — Green Pea Press

Due to the very sudden influx of orders of this product, we are currently working to restock low quantities. We must have gone viral, y’all! Please sign up to receive a restock notifications. Thank yo...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I tried to write a PSA that people can send to their elderly relatives.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

If You Can Read This, You're About to Get Scammed

Scammers are pretending to be Elon Musk. They're stealing millions from hard-working people.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 23h

News | British Museum in bid to raise £3.5m for rare gold Tudor pendant – heart-shaped piece is a rare surviving artefact from marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon

British Museum in bid to raise £3.5m for rare gold Tudor pendant - Museums Association

Heart-shaped piece is a rare surviving artefact from marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon

www.museumsassociation.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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.

www.politico.com

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Kellowe'en @kellykomics.bsky.social · 21h

-- and in fact seems pretty dedicated to making them *more* prevalent -- the bar for any hope I had there is way lower.)