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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 13m

i wish i was a tree right now

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 2h

If someone wrote a novel, it would be panned as too silly for words.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2h

Incredible scenes.

Thompson, 43, said federal agents had just exited the fortified facility and appeared to be chasing a protester when the protester and officer collided with band members, most of whom were wearing banana costumes.

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 1h

Currently a small group of protesters including a green alien, and an pink axolotl, are on Lexington and 25th to see if the fence will be removed tonight.

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bee @sylviaprattle.bsky.social · 1h

biblically accurate rey reaction to The Kiss

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 1h

it was so fun to see this with @porgs.bsky.social last week. Very charming cast #TwihardAMusicalParody
youtu.be/cN_kn0rAkG0?...

A Performance from "TWIHARD! A Twilight Musical Parody"

YouTube video by WGN News

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 3h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 14h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

So can we call it occupation yet

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 3h

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 4h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 2h

teach the controversy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Chicago ‘Splatatouille’ was probably a squirrel, say researchers

Scientists from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, look at 37 species to identify cause of ‘rat hole’ in pavement

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Waits @ironweed.bsky.social · 2h

A lovely mother and daughter we have known for years are gone now. They left on their own plane tickets, and I think they did the right thing because signing up for "self deportation" on the promise of a free ticket just seemed sketchy as hell to all of us, and lo and behold, so it is.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.

Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Article excerpt: Emily said she made clear the family didn’t have Venezuelan passports but was told that wouldn’t be a problem; the U.S. government would procure any necessary documents for them. They said the operator gave them an Aug. 1 departure date and told them to expect their plane tickets by email.

Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved with their children to Columbus, Ohio, where Deybis’ nephew let them stay in his unfinished basement apartment until their departure. The plane tickets never came.

Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported. Panicked, Emily and Deybis said they called the toll-free number again and again, leaving messages that went unanswered. Emily submitted a new application and sent more emails.

Article excerpt: ...They found travel agencies that offer to procure travel documents at a cost but said they were told the Venezuelan government requires an arrival date and proof that plane tickets have been purchased. Emily and Deybis can’t afford them.

“Thank you so much for your patience and we understand your frustration,” they heard back in another email. “Wait for new instructions from DHS.”

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 3h

every ruling out of chicago is like, "federal judge rules ICE agents cannot desecrate graves; must not deploy nuclear weapons against journalists and faith leaders."

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3h

folks, don't sleep on those unclaimed property sites that states run. Somehow connecticut had a $325 check from a paper I haven't run in since the 1990s, and I'm getting the money!

(google 'unclaimed property' for whatever states you used to live in, you can figure it out from there)

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 3h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 3h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 7h

It’s not irrational to look at the scientific evidence on Long Covid and say “fuck no“ - especially if you’re already chronically ill, disabled

* eg pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36639608/

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - PubMed

Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. More than 200 symptoms have been identified with imp...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 7h

the alternative is actively advocating for systemic clean indoor air interventions (12 ACH, etc) - or being cool with excluding immunocompromised, disabled folks from public life

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Paul Franz @paulfranz.bsky.social · 7h

The problem with this is, as many others have pointed out in the replies, the current COVID vaccine does not prevent infection or transmission. It is still good to reduce severity, and people should get it, but until there is an actual sterilizing vaccine people should be really be masking.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social · 8h

If we had a proper *group* response (much better air quality indoors), masking wouldn't be as necessary.

Try to apply this to water: "if I don't filter my water, sometimes I'll get cholera" -- in the short-term, personal filtering makes sense; the real long-term solution is water treatment plants.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 7h

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

Found a new artist to investigate, today.

James Tissot, "Jesus Ministered to by Angels." 1886-1894.

James Tissot, "Jesus Ministered to by Angels." 1886-1894. A painting of Jesus prone on the ground, surrounded by gray shades reaching towards him.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

Looks like dude primarily specialized in paintings of fashionable ladies at leisure, but a small percentage of his religious work is pretty uniquely compelling.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11h

You can declare yourself against “universal public masking”, but that means I can declare you a dick.

Long COVID absolutely wrecked my shit because people just couldn’t see themselves considering the health of others. Knowing you’re comfortable with that tells me everything I need to know.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11h

Because we know! We know the ableds will never do the right thing everywhere. We are trying to get them to budge about the tiniest thing and they throw up their hands and claim we want to lock down everything forever.

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