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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 4h

This is exactly who Joe Biden always was.

He was a bad guy. He had dual loyalties and his loyalty to Israel & Likud vastly exceeded his loyalty to America.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11h

Saying nothing would’ve been a better option

Joe Biden I am deeply grateful and relieved that this day has come – for the last living 20 hostages who have been through unimaginable hell and are finally reunited with their families and loved ones, and for the civilians in Gaza who have experienced immeasurable loss and will finally get the chance to rebuild their lives.

The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war. I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line.

Now, with the backing of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on a path to peace that I hope endures and a future for Israelis and Palestinians alike with equal measures of peace, dignity, and safety.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11h

Saying nothing would’ve been a better option

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Sasquatch McGillicuddy @antilinguist.bsky.social · 21h

These quotes are not new. Israeli leaders and Israeli citizens have openly said this shit to journalists and documentary filmmakers for decades, but mainstream media refused to publish it. The press has intentionally withheld these opinions from the general public. And they will continue.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

gene kelly is antifa

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

"You're not resisting correctly unless you are willing to destroy your entire life and risk your family's safety" isn't good faith. You don't get to volunteer other people for jeopardy.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17h

City and state leaders have an obligation to force city and state law enforcement to protect residents and they're not meeting the moment

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 21h

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: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 10h

Collaborators.

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 10h

America, Fuck Yeah!

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 10h

The Spanish Inquisition literally looked at Columbus and thought “oh my god what a monster.”

Nobody expected it.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 21h

Columbus was an asshole even his contemporaries hated, which is hard given how shitty they themselves were

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11h

"We rode bikes without helmets, and our cranial injuries made us stronger. We weren’t delicate little brainiacs, and we didn’t get trophies just for participating in spelling bees—especially those of us whose bike-accident-related brain damage left us unable to spell our own names."

We Never Wore Seat Belts When We Were Kids and We Survived—Except for Those of Us Who Can’t Contradict This Post Because They’re Dead

Kids today! They’re always toting their Hydro Flasks and bottles of Vitamin Water around like they’re going to die of dehydration. Give me a break....

buff.ly

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 15h

There is this bizarre tendency among people who I assume should be smarter or flatly antagonistic to the regime to accept the regimes statements on their power and abilities at face value.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 11h

They’re going to poach our guys like we poached Germany’s.

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 11h

Seriously as someone who did read the Annotated Alice, almost no one is going to read an annotated novel when there are perfectly good novels written for them & this time period right bloody here.

Fetishizing the “Classics” isn’t it. Assign The Parable of the Sower instead of A Tale of Two Cities.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 11h

THIS x1000

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13h

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13h

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 16h

Naperville is swarmed. The hospital, hardware stores, restaurants, traffic stops all over.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 16h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 12h

As always, if you aren’t here? STFU about Chicago. Focus on your own fucking state and leave us out of it.

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Harebrained is a Chicago artist dedicated to making anything and everything awesome. They started with Period Panties and will end with the World.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 12h

Moderate Democrats are now trying to make Chicago look like a violent hellhole to say that ICE aren’t reducing crime like they said and folks that’s the stupidest, most counterproductive thing you could possibly do.

ICE is terrorizing people. And yet centrists are feeding ICE’s storyline for them.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 13h

Keep our name out of your mouth if you aren’t here. What are you doing, daring them to escalate?

“STFU about Chicago. You don’t live here.” — www.harebraineddesign.com

Harebrained- A Chicago Design Company

Harebrained is a Chicago artist dedicated to making anything and everything awesome. They started with Period Panties and will end with the World.

www.harebraineddesign.com

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