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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h

This was once the kind of shit we cited to differentiate ourselves from authoritarian countries. It’s just who we are now.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 9h

nancy no!!!!

(recipe: Hamburger Steak with Onions and Gravy)

recipe review

Nancy Wood
1 star

Do NOT use vanilla in place of sherry! I just made this exactly as written and used vanilla since I didn't have sherry. It is now down the disposal. The smell alone was a huge indicator of what it would taste like. Whoever thought of vanilla with meat? Nasty.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

It's the "MLB catcher who sucks at hitting so people assume he must be good at defense" of movies

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

I'm watching Triumph of the Will (1935) because I haven't seen it in a long time and people are insisting to me that you have to admit it's a good movie.

It's not a good movie. The idea that it has any value, even technically, is literally Nazi propaganda that's just endured.

Here's a real clip:

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 8h

Ebert: 'It is one of the most historically important documentaries ever made, yes, but one of the best? It is a terrible film, paralyzingly dull, simpleminded, overlong and not even "manipulative," because it is too clumsy to manipulate anyone but a true believer.' web.archive.org/web/20110406...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h

Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

ACLU @aclu.org · 10h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, I suppose that makes sense, but it seems like a sloppy way to do moderation

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9h

“It’s Raining Men” – The Weather Girls
“Male Precipitation Fantasy in C Major for Female Duo of Solitary Chart Triumph”

If Pop Songs Had Classical Music Titles

“Friday” – Rebecca Black “Temporal Awareness Cantata in G Major for Adolescent Voice and Auto-Tuned Choir (‘Hebdomadal Celebration’)” “Mambo No. 5...

buff.ly

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

Airports in the US are generally owned by state/local governments who have their own laws against doing overt partisan politics with public resources even if the feds refuse to follow their equivalent.

The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 11h

Airports across the country are grappling with whether to play a video featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, who is shown blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown of the federal government and travel delays.

Some airports refuse to play a Homeland Security video blaming Democrats for government shutdown. Here’s what the SLC airport decided.

Airports across the country are grappling with whether to play a video featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, who is shown blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown of the federal government and travel delays.

www.sltrib.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

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

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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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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 9h

I would LOVE to know why this incredibly innocuous comment got flagged by @moderation.bsky.app as “rude”

whippet enjoyer @fiftyburger.bsky.social · 9h

Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan gave us the court that is allowing this to happen.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

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

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

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WIRED @wired.com · 10h

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

www.wired.com

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DStroooooooogie 👻 @dstroogie.bsky.social · 10h

It's almost go time.

Close view of a print-out showing my tattoo designs, one with Kermit and a rainbow, one with the Starfleet Delta and a rainbow.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 10h

While it's obvious that some Heinlein won't hold up at all (looking at you Farnham's Freehold), I'm curious if there any standouts for what of his work you feel still resonates well today and which are less accessible?

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 10h

At fourteen I sobbed like a baby when I got to the end of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I was heartbroken by how things ended for one of the main characters (avoiding spoilers for a 59yr old book). I've reread it many times, but not for at least fifteen years.

I wonder what I'd think today

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 11h

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 11h

I was wondering this too.

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 11h

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 15h

Time magazine is owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who just came out as a Trump supporter and said it would be great if he sent the National Guard to invade San Francisco

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 12h

I *really* enjoy Agent to the Stars, but I also get why it is showing its age. Not that it's a bad story, but it does feel of its time in some ways.

I was still absolutely delighted that it got an audiobook version, and @wilwheaton.net rocked his performance of it

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 12h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 12h

The greatest modern heir to the ancient poetic traditions of allusion, shared reference, and reimagining archetypal characters and situational stakes — what we see in Aeschylus, Euripides, Catullus, Ovid, etc. — is the collected literature on AO3.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12h

since we're letting podcasters run the FBI now, I'd like to make it known to any future presidents that if you appoint me i will pronounce the "human" in "human trafficking" like Quark from DS9.

there will be no other substantial changes

thank you for your attention to this matter

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all hallows’ e @bennygesserit.bsky.social · 14h

dying

screenshot of a reverse Google image search showing the background of the image is from Indiamart, specifically for saree material

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