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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h

I am so weary of that class of extremely online leftists who think being a Serious Person™️ who only posts and does nothing else is superior to being a Fun Person™️ who physically shows up

Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 7h

I deleted a post of me in a frog suit with my 7-yr old daughter because a big account reposted, admonishing us for not being serious enough protestors (or something). I shouldn’t have included my daughter in the image, which was why I deleted it. But I was stunned by the condescension.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 5h

Shout out to the Naked Bikeride who today ran hundreds of naked people directly through the line of federal officers and effectively blocked them from assaulting demonstrators. Being naked on a bike goes on the list of effective tactics if you get at least 500 of them and the city loves you.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20h

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11h

Vance spent years being fellated and fawned over as this intellectual titan of the New Right with piercing insights into the American psyche that you just HAD to pay attention to, and he really is just the most vilely demagogic bottom-feeder we've seen in national politics in a long, long time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 6h

The Mariners have won their first ALCS game since 2001.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5h

Thinking about viscachas again

The viscacha, an absurd, rabbit-like creature. They are fat, furry, and have hilariously long whiskers that extend far past their bodies. This one is plopped on his butt.

A viscacha with his whiskers pointed down and his paws in a dainty position

A viscacha holding his hand up as if to say no pictures please

Another sitting viscacha but he looks SO soft and SO fat

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 6h

Hey friends, it's not queerbaiting if Chris, aka Peacemaker, a bisexual, has feelings for a woman. It's not schroedinger's queerness. He's still queer even if he's in a het relationship. Of all the complaints I've seen about S2, this one makes me the angriest.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 14h

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

Art is going to be so bad when only privileged wealthy people can afford to make it.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 14h

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 17h

It's illegal to take bribes because of woke 😔

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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LAaah! A Ghost! Guettler @laguettler.bsky.social · 7h

Thank glob we're melting the planet so a dude named Rich can strike out with women.

Also imagine not being able to come up with "Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you" on your own.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 1d

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

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Adella Colvin @lolabeanyarnco.com · 6h

Just added 400+ skeins to the shop across a bunch of bases. So if you’ve been hunting for a skein or two to round out a project (or start a new one 👀), I’ve got you covered.

lolabeanyarnco.com 🧶🫶🏾

#LolaBeanYarnCo

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 6h

Trying out a new filament and he kinda looks like an oil slick ☺️

A white hand holding up a 3D printed dragon printed in blue, pink, and yellow filament that has made a lot of tiny stripes

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 7h

The Mariners came to their school last year to do a day long intensive thing for outreach so both of my children keep referring to whichever player is batting as “my friend” regardless of whether or not they actually met them and it is so funny and cute 😂

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 7h

“If I was wearing a shirt I would RIP IT IN HALF, I AM A HOME RUN HULK” - 8 year old on the occasion of a 6th inning home run

Really enjoying his dip into being a sports fan lol

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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tacolawd.bsky.social @tacolawd.bsky.social · 9h

“Spirited out of state”. Editors are really going through the thesaurus to find wild new ways to describe “kidnapping and transporting across state lines”.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so glad Portland is doing this, it’s genius, and also I desperately want it to stop being just a Portland thing, this needs to be a national tactic

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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