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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 7h

PROBABLY NOT!!!

Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 9h

Yesterday, I saw someone post a meme that read “I never thought being a Nazi would be this much FUN!”

I’d have screenshot it, but I was too busy puking.

Everyone be safe out there Saturday, OK?

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 9h

Merde.

Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 10h

DORK TOWER was actually named after Jenelle Jaquays’ old Judges Guild module, DUCK TOWER.

My tribute to Jenelle, last year: the January Dork Tower Patreon collector card.

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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 11h

For those who have asked about supporting Rob Wieland’s family after his passing, there’s a GoFundMe established. 💜

www.gofundme.com/f/family-of-...

Donate to Family of Robert Wieland, organized by Vickie ONeill

Friends of Robert Wieland have requested that we set up goFundMe page for the benefit of his f… Vickie ONeill needs your support for Family of Robert Wieland

www.gofundme.com

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss would never run this.
But it's the most accurate journalism i've seen since John Oliver yesterday.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 14h

Before Alaska flooding, Trump & Vance’s EPA had cancelled a $20 million flood protection grant.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 15h

my mother and her friends are preparing posters

they are all in their 90s

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 19h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 19h

Lalo is doing such powerful, important work.

@laloalcaraz.bsky.social has always been great, but has risen to the times and has become consistently outstanding, day-in and day-out.

The Daily Cartoonist @dailycartoonist.bsky.social · 21h

Southern California cartoonist laloalcaraz.bsky.social has been at the forefront fighting ICE jackbooted tactics.
www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

ICE Boosts Lalo Alcaraz’s Presence

Southern California cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz has been at the forefront fighting ICE jackbooted tactics. From The Los Angeles Daily News (or here): Pen in hand, editorial cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, 61, ha...

www.dailycartoonist.com

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 1d

It's a Great British Baked DORK TOWER MONDAY! Paul Hollywood Handshake of a strip up now, at the Mothership!

www.dorktower.com/2025/10/13/h...

Reblog/Repost but don't reheat, please and thank you!

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

"Elon Musk, X owner and advocate of civil war" would be a useful shorthand to adopt, until he retracts his call for pre-emptive political violence in our country as an existential necessity

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ᴊᴏᴅᴢɪʟʟᴀ @vegetibalpotatee.bsky.social · 1d

toasted with socks strikes again

Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 2d

Spider-Cat, Spider-Cat
Friendly family Spider-Cat
Can she climb
Up a screen?
Yes she can,
As you’ve seen.
LOOK OUT, there goes your Spider-Caaaaaaaat…

Spice the cat climbing a large screen porch.

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I WANT MY SCOUTSHIP!!!

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🟥 edel⁷ ~ғᴜᴛᴜʀᴇ's ɢᴏɴɴᴀ ʙᴇ ᴏᴋᴀʏ౿~🥢 ⩇⩇:⩇⩇ ⏱︎ @edelrh7.bsky.social · 1d

In the cat vs watch wars, cat always wins

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 1d

APPLE WATCH: “It is time to stand.”

NEIGHBORHOOD CAT: “Think again.”

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Marvelous!

Thank you.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Stalin once asked how many divisions the Pope had

An army of humanity is no small thing

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Aug 27

NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa.

This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%.

This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Gutless wonders.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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