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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 3h

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3h

Lol oh boy, John Oliver's main story tonight is Bari Weiss

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3h

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 3h

Uptown (for now). Logan Square is majority white.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 4h

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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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 4h

There are only three plurality neighborhoods in Chicago and AP and RP are two.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

That’s a key to the determined resistance to ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago; it’s a racial plurality neighborhood (about a third white, about a third Latino, remaining third Black & Asian), & the non-Latinos have banded together to protect their neighbors from Kavanaugh sweeps.

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 5h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 4h

Community is the way out of this mess. This kind of solidarity will defeat authoritarianism every time.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

That’s a key to the determined resistance to ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago; it’s a racial plurality neighborhood (about a third white, about a third Latino, remaining third Black & Asian), & the non-Latinos have banded together to protect their neighbors from Kavanaugh sweeps.

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 5h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 4h

Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...

The life, death, and rebirth of moderate-density apartment buildings in Chicago

The pantheon of Chicago architecture tends to cluster at either end of the density spectrum. In one corner you have the trophy commercial skyscrapers; in the other you have icons of domesticity, the b...

daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io

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a Benjamin @abenjamin.bsky.social · 4h

The dream of Portlandia is alive in Portland 🫡

The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 13h

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not what it looks like (the pox), I promise my mosquito magnet genes aren’t contagious

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Sleeplessone @sleeplessone.com · 4h

Just catching up on the latest trends.

With thanks to @faineg.bsky.social for introducing me to Tom "Bazongabil"

Side by side image of Tom Bombadil from The Lord of the Rings, a happy man in a blue robe dancing while carrying a leaf. The left half is labeled "Designed with Gamers In Mind" where Tom is shown to have large breasts in a bra with clevage. On the right is labeled "Designed With Activists In Mind" where he appears normal.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

A key reason why it’s been so awful to see fascists destroying the FAA is that aviation safety regulators have historically been *extremely good* at avoiding the dangerous human fallacy of “this bad thing hasn’t happened yet, it’s just nearly happened, so it’s totally safe to keep doing it”

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

“an airplane hasn’t crashed YET as a result of a laser pointer blinding the pilot, just NEARLY crashed, so it’s actually not dangerous to shine lasers at airplanes and all global aviation authorities are overreacting cowards” is real logic I’ve seen from alleged adults on here

Pilot blindly lands plane after eyes are damaged by laser aimed into cockpit, feds say

“You almost killed this man,” a Washington judge told the man accused of pointing the laser.

www.thenewstribune.com

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Scissors @rningscissors.bsky.social · 6h

Devour Your Nice Things
Burn the fancy candle.
Wear the special-occasion dress.
Pop the good bottle.
Scribble hurry slowly on the first page
of your leather-bound notebook.
Gorge on your pearls,
your cashmere, your silks.
Use the high-end eyeshadow
until the silver pan winks back.
Baptize your wrists in Baccarat Rouge,
a little extra for the collar.
Devour your nice things—
don't let the best go cold on your plate.
The anticipation of living is empty calories
and you were meant to be full.
Elise M Powers

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 6h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 5h

Learning on bsky

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 5h

i'm sorry WHAT

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Ted Olsen @tedolsen.bsky.social · 1d

Both the article AND thread are worth a read.

Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 1d

Went to church and a bunch of other places with Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson as she navigates an intense chapter in the life of the village and the country as a whole.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/r...

Refusing ‘a position of fear,’ Broadview’s mayor deals with ICE and a national spotlight

Broadview, the 2.2 square-mile, majority-Black village, where Katrina Thompson is in her third term as mayor, has become the locus of what she sees as both a spiritual fight and a political battle.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 5h

I think I wished that if I had to be a traumatized teenager at least I should've been an east coast rich one with a cool hat. He made being a traumatized teenager almost aspirational and since I already was one, that was an improvement.

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 5h

I didn’t! 🤣🤣😅😅🙁😳😬😬

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 5h

“Emergency Naked Bike Ride” - I love you Portland. Xoxo Chicago

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 12h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 12h

At his kids’ school, a woman (here legally) was ripped out of her car by ICE in the *school drop off line* last week for the crime of being brown. The school had to have a town hall about it. His wife teared up just talking about it. People are being traumatized and they are also fucking pissed.

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 5h

They cancelled AYSO soccer in Evanston today due to reported ICE activity.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 5h

I have been at cross country meets and softball games where Catholic school parents from the northside are wearing anti-ICE tee shirts.

I totally agree with you: This is a radicalizing event.

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