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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 6h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

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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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 5h

William Calley's sentence was commuted, the National Guardsmen that shot the Kent State protesters were acquitted, both with popular support. It was still the right thing to do to prosecute both and I for one am ready for political leaders with more moral clarity and less political triangulation.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

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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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Natures’s Labubu…why are Gen Z unboxing Conkers?

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 5h

Is this anything?

The "I don't think about you at all" elevator Mad Men meme but it's Captain Ahab and Moby Dick

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 6h

Sure, this is horrible and incredibly ominous for the future of the planet, but the headline made me imagine little bird leaders in suits meeting at a little Bird UN, so that was nice at least.

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 15h

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 8h

Caillou's dad: (texting) caillou is freaking the fuck out

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 11h

Even by their own accounting a far greater percentage of their arrests involved people with criminal convictions in the opening months - notable that their tactics have become more violent even as their targets have become more likely to just be law-abiding people going to work.

NPR @npr.org · 20h

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

moe throwing barney out of the bar where moe is american society and barney is lead poisoning

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 12h

Charlie Kirk's legacy right here.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 13h

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🦇 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 1d

This motherfucker absolutely deserved it

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

King Salmon, *chef's kiss*

Blake Brown @antiquequaalude.bsky.social · 1d

anddddd the follow-up

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 1d

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Pope of Spooky Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 1d

You do not, under any circumstances, want the newspaper to refer to you as an “adult stepson.”

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

churchleaders.com/news/2206049...

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

The 9/11 era "free speech zone" as portrayed on Arrested Development

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Bibi: i am in a partisan alliance with republicans and gonna play to the clock to fuck you over

Biden: sounds good

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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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 1d

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

The controversy over Columbus Day used to be kind of Tony Soprano type guys who were taught that Columbus was a great explorer in grade school and just didn't want to think hard about it. Trump by contrast explicitly likes and endorses the genocidal stuff

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

"President Trump issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13 'Columbus Day.' The proclamation goes on to present a white Christian nationalist version of American history with much more emphasis on Christianity than Trump’s previous proclamations." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 1d

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Shapiro: "You guys won't believe what this fucking scorpion just did to me."

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 4d

Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media

Ben Shapiro is warning that the Jewish people are being regarded as a "conspiratorial force" by a certain faction of right-wing conservatives. The post Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media first appeared on Mediaite.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

We live in a world where pop stars can make more money performing private shows at a billionaire's birthday party than doing a world tour. Everything is top-heavy.