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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 1d

More efficient, but I also think the visibility was the point at first. Now it’s just supposed to be normal to have all these feds around and soldiers, and for people to just very quietly disappear.

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 1d

They are quite purposefully less visible. Stops and arrests are happening in under 10 minutes mostly. They have been targeting construction crews and work vans, and are overwhelmingly focused in Wards 1 and 4. Here’s a video I took of FBI, CBP, HSI, and others with MPD in Petworth about 2 weeks ago.

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 1d

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 4h

Despite everything we’re going through, we still believe that goodness in this world hasn’t ended.🧡

By standing with my family, we rebuild what was destroyed — not with stones, but with compassion.🫂
Please share or donate whatever you can.🔃

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3h

Had a really good time with Peter talking about the AI bubble, and said the following, which i stand by:

"I don't do this because I'm like "I'm going to be nasty." No, I do it because I'm pissed off at the way they fucked up the computer."

Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social · 4h

Enjoyed talking to @edzitron.com, who has been spending a lot of time banging the drum about the AI bubble (and about the problems with tech in general.

Also discussed here: How Ed runs a PR company while he also savages some of the biggest companies in tech.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust

Podcast Episode · Channels with Peter Kafka · 10/15/2025 · 55m

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Nelson says that her opponents have not done the *labor* of showing that we need to overturn precedent. They're saying they just want to "tweak" it but there's no record to support that.

"Tweak" of course, was ACB's word, not the lawyers. :)

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Nelson back for final rebuttal. She's going back to Milligan. I mean, Roberts and Kav are fully prepared to ignore that but, what else can she say other than "we JUST decided this guys!"

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

They're still talking but Kavanaugh just articulated the holding and ACB said that she's not overruling precedent, she's "tweaking" it, so we are beyond done here.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Kavanaugh is trying to articulate his concurrence. He's going to say that Section 2 isn't unconstitutional, just everything that Section 2 DOES is unconstitutional.

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knifeBOOts aka Jen (they/them) 👻 @knifeboots.xyz · 1h

I mean, who needs a violent coup when SCOTUS can accomplish the same objective with semantics?

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

The case is submitted.

My prediction is that Section 2 is overturned, 6-3 Kav majority, saying that the Section 2 still *exists* but isn't allowed to do anything.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h

why are we pretending that race shouldn't be predominant when remedying racism?

it's the same problem I've always had with affirmative action being about "diversity" rather than quotas.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SHOULD BE ABOUT QUOTAS.

REMEDYING RACISM IN VOTING SHOULD CONSIDER RACE PREDOMINANTLY.

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knifeBOOts aka Jen (they/them) 👻 @knifeboots.xyz · 3h

My 21yo explained this to me the other day and it's so ridiculous that it gave me a headache.

Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 3h

Parents! Finally an answer for the utterly nonsensical kid favorite... SIX-SEVEN!

youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA?...

Is 67 just brain rot?

YouTube video by languagejones

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

"You may not be into politics but politics is into you and it is your stalker. "

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

"If you don't show up, the people who want you silent are going to take your silence as consent"

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knifeBOOts aka Jen (they/them) 👻 @knifeboots.xyz · 3h

something something the purpose of a system is what it does

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LAL @lindli.bsky.social · 4h

No one is saying *individual Republicans* can't change! We are saying the party has LOOOONG been structurally racist and has LOOOONG refused to stigmatize outright racism and misogyny in their ranks. THIS IS SIMPLY TRUE.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Oh look, Neil Gorsuch pointing out a *legitimate* problem with the court's VRA jurisprudence. The Court says race cannot be the "predominate" factor, but Gorsuch asks "what does predominance mean?"

But, by his own admission, Gorsuch is teeing up the next case, he's made up his mind on this one.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

Moopppan: "There's no reason to think that the Louisiana legislature would have done anything different if every black democrat was a white democrat."

ACTUALLY THAT DOESN'T MATTER. Because the VRA (section 2) isn't asking about INTENT it's asking about RESULTS.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4h

15-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Taken By Feds For 5 Hours After East Side Protest, Attorney Says

"This is not law enforcement; this is the playbook of authoritarian regimes," an attorney for the boy, arrested as crowds formed around a car crash Tuesday caused by federal agents, said in a statemen...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Marquette Park this morning, ~45 min ago at 70th and Washtenaw per anon FB post. Through a screen, someone films Border Patrol agents taking a man into a red minivan and driving away. Another angle of this shared to social media shows it happened in front of a daycare.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 4h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

THE WHOLE REASON we're arguing the case this year, after it was ALREADY argued last year, is that Roberts couldn't figure out how to get away from the court's own ruling in Milligan. Now, he's figured it out.

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