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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 7h

New DoD rules provide that those renting the U.S. military must return it by 5 p.m. or they will be charged an extra day.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h

Idaho prosecuted the FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge for manslaughter.

A different DA then got elected and dropped it, but that was after the Ninth Circuit said he didn't have sovereign immunity and could be tried on state charges. It's a high bar to clear but it's not impossible.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

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Scare-Ric the .5b @semiapies.bsky.social · 2h

Looking at the White House, I wish that were true, or at least in any way that mattered or stuck...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

The White House just posted this image and I must say that I’m concerned if ICE has developed Videodrome hand-gun technology

AI image of fake people standing around trying to look intimidating. The man in front has a vest that reads Police ICE and his hand is glitching though his gun

AI image of a hand glitching awkwardly though a gun

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Scare-Ric the .5b @semiapies.bsky.social · 9h

...So what? Even beyond the whataboutism, if everyone who underestimated Trump last year or in 2016 gave us a nice, handwritten apology, WTF would that get us?

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Scare-Ric the .5b @semiapies.bsky.social · 9h

Some fraction of the ones who show up to go on about how We Have To Do Other Things Than Vote, We're Totally Beyond That are probably feds looking to recruit idiots for domestic terror stings.

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Stoned Feminist @ladylinds.bsky.social · 23h

When we defeat fascism and we are rebuilding this country into something better, we are going to have to have the police and prison reform conversation. The reason we have ICE and concentration camps is because it's the natural evolution of the police and prison systems in this country.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Update: The Chicago clergy letter decrying ICE's actions and voicing a willingness on the part of clergy to put their "bodies on the line" to protest ICE has reached 250 signatures — and now includes multiple evangelical pastors/leaders of evangelical institutions in the area.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 1d

pls accept 20% off to celebrate the spooky season! 🎃👻🌿✨

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · Sep 23

shoppe is back open for the spooky season! ✨🌿🎃

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Photo of my mourning jewellery sticker pack.

Photo of my Dr. Jekyll's potion wooden pin.

Photo of my Enoch from Over the Garden Wall print.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 14h

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 13h

The take on Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo from the publication run by CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss is that the "the left has now painted itself into a corner with Nazi iconography." Their supposed logic for this is histrionic insane garbage that the left does not oppose "killing Jews."

The best part is that the left has now painted itself into a corner with Nazi iconography, because they can no longer quite articulate why it's bad, since killing Jews is neutral to admirable. Here's a popular leftist commentator trying to explain why Platner's Nazi symbol is bad:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"FAFO!" - the U.S. Department of the Interior, for some reason

The National Park Service continues to protect our parks & visitors! 3 individuals who illegally BASE jumped in Yosemite National Park this year have been detained, pleaded guilty & were CONVICTED! Thank you to all law enforcement officers who keep us safe! FAFO!

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Pulp Covers @pulpcovers.com · 13h

The Courtin’ of Ellie Adams

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Covers, Hostage, Magazine, Rangeland Romances, Romance, Western

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Scare-Ric the .5b @semiapies.bsky.social · 10h

A serious issue will be how much money goes into the construction vs being skimmed off, and how plausibly aware of the skimming the donors are..

KP @kevinpowers.bsky.social · 13h

And what happens when the next President - yes, there will be a next President, despite this being a very clear symbol that Trump thinks the country is his and only his now - decides to tear this monstrosity down (if it ever really gets built)?

What of the private donors then?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

"Tearing down the White House and replacing it with a facsimile of Mar-a-Lago isn’t any less appalling because Trump cajoled companies into paying for it. Indeed, it might be worse. Funding a pet project via the coercion of private donors creates a closed loop and complete lack of accountability."

Scare-Ric the .5b @semiapies.bsky.social · 10h

I pretty much assume sincerity whenever someone does a piece on some weird bit of media and says that they like it without framing it as a joke. I like plenty of goofy things.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Amazing thread in which Grok confidently, repeatedly insists that a photo of the U.S. Capitol is actually a photo of Tren de Aragua members.

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Eelis Kyttanen @eeliskyttanen.bsky.social · 13h

My print store is open again! You can check it out here: www.artofeelis.com/prints/

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 14h

Trump's re-election campaign is going to be running favorable quotes from ... [checks notes] ... Senator Bernie Sanders.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 16h

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 14h

I think it's good that Biden followed the law and norms that traditionally holds a President to account because we are seeing what happens when those norms and laws aren't adhered to and it's a disaster. Does this fucking Brit ever have anything useful to say at all?

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 13h

The metaphor of starting with the "just the facade" and methodically crunching away at the entire building until there's nothing left shouldn't be lost on anyone.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

"Unmask," you say?

404 Media @404media.co · 13h

NEW: DHS is trying to unmask an anonymous Instagram/Facebook account that tracks ICE activity by claiming the accounts are importing merchandise. We saw zero evidence for that, lawyers say demand is wildly out of scope. It's a tactic to unmask critics, they say

www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise

There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wild outside the scope" of DHS' authority.

www.404media.co

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

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Reality Snapped 📸 | Print Shop Open! @realitysnapped.bsky.social · 14h

👋 😊 ✨

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Charlie Stickney @charliestickney.bsky.social · 11h

Daily reminder you're not TOO OLD.

When I was in high school I was FOR sure going to work in comics. When I was in college, I interned at Marvel.
And then I moved to LA... and worked in other industries for 20 years.

I was in my 40's when I finally made my 1st comic. Since then...

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