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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 5h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 6h

beetle bailey arc where we learn who in camp swampy will obey orders to fire on american citizens once the insurrection act is invoked. my picks are rocky, zero, and, surprisingly, plato. killer surprises everyone by making a big show of not doing it. beetle simply goes AWOL

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 9h

I'm speaking tomorrow in Cambridge. Come if you want to hear of Smotrich's Palestinian family

www.ames.cam.ac.uk/settlers-mig...

Settlers, Migrants, Natives: the long Ashkenazi history in the Middle East and its contradictions | Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

www.ames.cam.ac.uk

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 10h

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Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social · 13h

أحمد حمودة، ضابط برتبة لواء من جهاز الحرس الرئاسي الفلسطيني والمقرّب من الرئيس أبو مازن، تم تعيينه قائدًا لمعبر رفح. وسينضم إليه ما بين 150 إلى 200 من ضباط شرطة السلطة الفلسطينية، من بينهم من خضعوا لتدريبات في مصر.

@i24NEWS_HE

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 16h

Two days ago, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality painted over the faces we put up of Palestinian children killed in Gaza by the Israeli government.

So yesterday, we went back and put their faces up again.
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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 17h

Some day the original DC Universe Unlimited will return.

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 17h

The new Crunchyroll Manga app lets you switch seamlessly from anime to manga. Imagine if Marvel had that deal with Disney Plus, or DC with HBO Max?

Marvel And DC Should Take Tips From The Crunchyroll Manga App

The new app allows you to switch seamlessly between Crunchyroll's anime and manga.

comicbookclublive.com

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, the 2000 election & the 2016 election

Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 20h

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

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Anxious Pickle @pdnell.bsky.social · 19h

They were calling for a unilateral ceasefire and for dismantling Israel altogether, days after October 7th. They tore down posters of hostages.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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OneFein...Bat? Like, for Halloween or whatever? @onefeincat.bsky.social · 6d

One God, No Masters.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6d

No kings except Hashem.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 1d

Wikipedia and TV Tropes have been bad for literature.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 1d

There was one time in 3rd grade when my teacher asked me for my home phone number and I could only remember by best female friend's home number.
Shout out to Misha.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 1d

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 1d

We’re just normal men

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Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 1d

Wanting more housing is apparently a thing you can blame on the Jews now.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

The Israeli government prefers a weakened Hamas in a besieged Gaza, to any alternative administration (including a neo-colonial one run by Blair).
A besieged, impoverished, ruined and unstable Gaza leaves open the prospect of ethnic cleansing and occupation.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

👇🎯 Joe Biden, who was president during ceasefires in which 100 hostages were released, quite famously never received the same Leni Riefenstahl moment & grading-on-a-curve treatment from major media outlets in 2024. Whatever one thinks of him or Trump on this issue, this is massive goalpost shifting.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 1d

It does make me wonder how much of Asian! Betsy was Jim Lee vs Claremont. Claremont was (being forced to) give his artists more of a say in his plots around that time.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 1d

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 1d

"Columbus Day:" No one wants it. No one wants to celebrate it. Perfectly decent Monday in October saddled with the name of a rapist.

"Titus Pullo Day:" 100% participation. Wine flows freely. Someone says "THIRTEEN!" and everyone responds. Boring old October Monday turned great fun.

A picture of Ray Stevenson as Titus Pullo from ROME

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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a beard and a bandana on his neck is sitting in a car and making a funny face .

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