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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve told you how regularly rolling out sanctions packages clogs up the system and slows everything down, even the stuff that ISN’T sanctioned.

Here’s a good example, and proof that cross border transactions are still a problem, even if they don’t talk about it much publicly.

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Alaska House District 20 Democrats @alaskahd20dems.bsky.social · 10h

Circled is a teargas canister thrown by Donald Trump’s thugs flying towards a family as they flee with their baby from ICE’s violent escalation in Chicago.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 15h

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 14,1953

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- NANCY IS AT THE FOOTBALL GAME WITH HER MEGAPHONE, WHEN SHE SEES ONE OF HER FORMER TEACHERS
NANCY: HELLO, MISS JONES--REMEMBER ME?

P2- NANCY: YOU USED TO BE MY
TEACHER

MISS JONES: HM-- I JUST CAN'T SEEM TO PLACE YOU

P3-NANCY: MAYBE I CAN
REFRESH YOUR MEMORY

P4- NANCY PLACES HER MEGAPHONE ON HER HEAD

MISS JONES :NANCY

THE MEGAPHONE HAS A CONICAL SHAPE REMINISCENT OF THE DUNCE CAP , WHICH SCHOOLS USED TO PUNISH CHILDREN WHO WERE DISRUPTIVE OR SLOW LEARNERS IN THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 10h

One of the greatest vocal performances of all time imo
youtube.com/shorts/x4zp9...

Jarboe being absolutely incredible (from the "Where Does A Body End?" blu-ray) #swans #jarboe

YouTube video by david

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 13h

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 13h

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a thermal image of two people shaking hands with the words " psssss " on the bottom

Alt: a thermal image of two people shaking hands with the words " psssss " on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 15h

^ Professional Dipshit

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szrpnzfffdrrzzz @szarypanz.bsky.social · 17h

i mean it is an universal mechanism of reactionaries regatdless of details of their individual ideology, they never idealise working classes of the past - just rulers and elites; gop & 50s white suburb nostalgia, panslavists praising tsars and ruthenian dukes, tankies posting about stalin etc

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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 18h

E.g.

enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2023/11/15/t...

We had never had the opportunity to govern ourselves. We were always governed. Even before the Spanish, the Aztec empire, which the current government loves very much –I think because they like bossy people— oppressed many languages and cultures. Not only in what is now Mexico, also in what is now Central America.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 18h

the transformation of the Aztec religion over 90 years or so is really fascinating stuff

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

we talk about the Aztec Empire as though it was an institution of great antiquity, but its worst abuses started in the time of living people's grandparents or great-grandparents. it had been growing more and more extractive and murderous as long as the current generation had been alive.

hypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social · 19h

this is cursed, there's a reason the peoples under the aztecs were willing to help Spain out and it wasn't naivete

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Ville Kellokumpu @spatialpolitiq.bsky.social · 23h

The Finns in their infinite wisdom of economic frugality have chosen to shoot themselves in the foot with a parliamentary agreement on a debt brake even stricter than the EU's Stability and Growth Pact. Institutionalization of permanent austerity in full swing.

yle.fi/a/74-2018827...

Yle sources: MPs set to reach historic 'debt brake' deal

The agreement would see political parties set joint targets for reducing state debt at the beginning of each parliamentary term — regardless of who is in government.

yle.fi

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

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Vandy, C.A. @cavandy.bsky.social · 23h

ofc we knew this

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Steve and Dave's @steveanddaves1.bsky.social · 23h

Directed by Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets premiered today in 1973. Starring Robert De Niro & Harvey Keitel, life in New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood is examined from the perspective of two young men trying to navigate a chaotic world of mob violence & familial honor.

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Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day from an Italian heritage street festival in Chicago's Viagra triangle where, yes, Bob Fioretti, dressed in a "Dignitary" sash, is collecting signatures for yet another run for elected office

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h

signing a bunch of LGBTQ+ protections into law but then vetoing two other ones bc they would cost health insurance companies 0.00001% in yearly profits is just so Newsom

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 1d

Harvesting Infinite Energy from sunlight is, uh, bad actually. Its woke...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 1d

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 1d

My Dad is excellent at giving compliments

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 1d

does this mean that their plan to illegally pay the army isn't happening

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

say what you will about Trump, but he absolutely knows what he wants out of his foreign policy: corrupt autocrats ruling humanity with an iron fist. it's hard to even come up with a single statement about what Biden wanted other than "a sentimental recreation of the foreign policy of his youth."

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

biden gave 14,000 mk84’s (the 2000lb bombs). almost all to possibly all of those were given in 2023. this is more than we dropped between 1999-2009 and slightly less than three times what we dropped against saddam in the first 6 weeks of OIF

By the time they were cut off (may, 2024) there was no

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed some troubling inconsistencies in the Ms Rachel lore

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