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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18h

Everything is Bad Calvinism and Also Gender, somehow the story of both the Left and the Right in the 2020s

Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 19h

It's basically just leftist eschatology, and it has been one of the main issues plaguing the American radical left for the last decade, especially since they haven't updated their interpretation of it since Bernie Would Have Won.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 1d

I cannot emphasize enough that TIkTok has an incredibly active white nationalist scene that it refuses to clamp down on (even before Ellison takes over) and I don't know how to get people to care because everyone thinks it's the dumbass dancing kids app

Tzar Green @mesopholese.bsky.social · 1d

Why does Tiktok keep showing me adds for Nazi merch?!?! Like, this is the fourth or fifth time now… I might just have to leave that stupid fucking app if this keeps happening.

A shirt with the words “Paper beats rock” with a stylized image of a Nazi salute over and pressing down on a clenched fist. The clenched fist is in the style of common black lives matter iconography.

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Tzar Green @mesopholese.bsky.social · 1d

You got that one, too? That’s… not great. I was hoping it I was a test audience or something and no one else would have seen it.

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Tzar Green @mesopholese.bsky.social · 1d

Why does Tiktok keep showing me adds for Nazi merch?!?! Like, this is the fourth or fifth time now… I might just have to leave that stupid fucking app if this keeps happening.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Tzar Green @mesopholese.bsky.social · 1d

Why does Tiktok keep showing me adds for Nazi merch?!?! Like, this is the fourth or fifth time now… I might just have to leave that stupid fucking app if this keeps happening.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2d

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

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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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 2d

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 2d

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Tzar Green @mesopholese.bsky.social · 2d

I have an alt for that stuff and never use the discover feed (where, apparently, it pops up) and I basically only ever have the most mild and vanilla nudes pop up like once or twice a week. Understand if that's too much for some people, but it seems about the same as twitter was, imo.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3d

It is incredibly clear that Stephen Miller has decided this guy must be tortured, and nothing else will suffice, otherwise the Trump administration looks weak.

Dude is a literal war criminal.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 5d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Tzar Green @mesopholese.bsky.social · 5d

Acting cool, but gratuitous.

A guy in a movie walking away from an explosion without flinching is aura-farming.

People wearing tacti-cool outfits are aura-farming but failing.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5d

A 15-year-old autistic, intellectually disabled, and often non-verbal boy in Houston has been held in ICE custody for the past week without his family knowing where he was.

I confirmed this video is real with local news reports:

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 5d

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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Tzar Green @mesopholese.bsky.social · 5d

This is insane, lmao. 50mg?!?!?! In a drink?!?!?! where you can’t as accurately moderate your consumption?!?!?!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5d

look i'm just gonna say: everyone involved in this shit needs to go to jail

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 5d

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 5d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Tzar Green @mesopholese.bsky.social · 5d

I thought you said "*in the* river" and j was about to emphatically agree that falling into the river in CP2077 DOES indeed suck and us very annoying to deal with, lmao.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5d

Amid the shutdown, which IMO Dems are handling well, even the most moderate ones are keeping eyes on the illegal actions on the ground in Chicago and Portland, etc.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 5d

We were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois.

WHAT is the Trump Administration hiding?

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6d

the double-event is upon us already

A meme showing a man at a chalkboard from "Pacific Rim". He says "in the beginning the [new French PMs] were spaced apart 24 weeks. Then 12. Then 6. Then every 2 weeks. In four days we could be seeing a PM every 8 hours until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double event within seven days

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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