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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 8h

Queen

moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 1d

Woman goes off on ICE agents.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 12h

Please don't stop sharing the ID card petition. The 3 million signatures milestone is within reach.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 19h

ICE blithely swaddles deportees in "burrito" straitjackets for marathon flights, scoffing at DHS alarms over asphyxiation deaths and botched protocols. #ImmigrationAbuse

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Jeff Deroshia @jeffderoshia.bsky.social · 15h

OMG! This may be a perfect episode of South Park. (No spoilers)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Portland has fallen!

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The Relevant Organs @relevantorgans.bsky.social · 18h

We encourage all Americans to study deeply Pete Hegseth Thought, but especially Americans who work in national security

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

UPDATE: Sources tell us that NSA staff are *also* included in being forced to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech (that he already forced top military generals to listen to).

@swin24.bsky.social

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 9h

The former Sydney Place UP Church on Duke Street in Glasgow. Designed in a neo-classical Greek temple style by Peddie and Kinnear and built in 1857.

#glasgow #dukestreet #calton #churches #architecture #neoclassicalarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowarchitecture #architecturephotography

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 9h

This is one of hundreds of TikTok videos used by "Arka Wealth" to market a scheme to avoid all UK and European taxes.

Small detail: it had no chance of succeeding, and in many countries would constitute criminal tax fraud.

What happened after we reported on it?

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Arne Duncan @arneduncan.bsky.social · 1d

We are currently in a state of emergency, and under siege, here in Chicago.
ICE is a lawless, violent gang whose abuses of innocent men, women and children have gone completely unchecked.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 1d

Just glad Splatatouille's family can finally have some closure x

Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad News

The "Chicago rat hole" became so famous it is now housed in the City Hall-County Building. Scientists studying it found a few surprises, and some grim news.

www.iflscience.com

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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 1d

Feeding into the binary fallacy that death is the only bad outcome from COVID-19 does nothing except normalize & forward the agenda of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Poli Alert @polialert.bsky.social · 21h

Johnson says this as he continues to break the law by not allowing a plaque to recognize the officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6 to be displayed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago, get trained THIS MORNING 10:30a CT

ICE watch and community defense

Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 15h

Man I definitely have to wonder if Usha ever sees JD out there defending the Hitler Youth by saying they’re just kids goofing around and thinks hm, this could end kinda bad for me and the kids or if she’s just like slay queen your eyeliner looks great today.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

Solidarity is the only way

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 9h

Here's to him!
To you both.

George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 16h

Also, presenting my lovely partner Tony, the majestic manbeast who finished writing an epic science fiction novel yesterday.

I am SO ridiculously proud.

Big Angry Space Rocks will be out some time in the next year or so once edits happen.❤️

The boring version of this image description is that you're looking at a man sitting across a table, smiling with a glass of wine at his elbow. Okay, now that's out of the way. This man is my lovely partner Tony. Even though he's 46 he looks around 35 or so because he's Dorian Gray and somehow hasn't aged for a decade. He has dark brown soft curly hair, is quite slender with olive skin. He's grinning at the camera in a way that says I caught him just as he was laughing at something, not expecting a picture (I am very quick with my phone). He's wearing dark green framed glasses with fluro yellow highlights at right angles at the tops, bottoms and sides. His T-shirt is white and blue with tentacles all over it. The wine at his elbow is white. You know looking at this picture that this is a person who doesn't mind a tentacle monster. Is willing to baritone belly laugh at ridiculous things and is ridiculously intelligent when it comes to astrophysics to the point where he really should have studied that instead of spending half his career as a high flying engineer doing engineer things. This is a picture of a happy man. You know his book is going to be intelligent and fun and that the photographer adores him and is ridiculously proud. The end.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 16h

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A fluffy black and white cat runs out of the garden of a narrow blue fairy-tale-like cottage, meowing a greeting at his two humans at the end of a work day.
Tail held high, he leads them inside, updating them on all his feline news. (1)

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 6d

Most hopeful scenario for Bari at CBS is she gets excited about her access and resources and wastes it all doing interviews with formerly powerful people that nobody gaf about anymore

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 5d

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 4d

Jon Farina is absolutely everywhere. Sometimes I think there are a dozen of him.

He also captured some of the most important 1/6 footage (which YouTube outrageously deleted, much of it lost to history, because it was violent or something)

Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 4d

Status Coup's videojournalist @JonFarinaPhoto had a leg day on the clock capturing this epic chase between two ICE agents and a nonviolent, middle-age activist who was standing outside the gates of the Broadview processing center on September 27, 2025.

#iceprotest #chicagoprotest #broadview

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois police attack & arrest ICE protesters outside Broadview Detention Center near Chicago. This occurred after a protest curfew imposed by city of Broadview passed. LIVE LINK ⬇️

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