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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 7h

“Even Jesus would never forgive what you do.”

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 9h

Feds deploy tear gas in Albany Park as neighbors respond to them detaining people. One person was taken, though another was freed.

“I was afraid to go over there. I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back."

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

I’m sure. He’s will be with his pal Rush Limbaugh in a different place. Also, for someone who is supposedly in great shape he sure is talking a lot about death lately. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10h

Did someone play him “Masters of War?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10h

Right, they don’t know how to deal with it.

And just in general if you get someone laughing, they want to find a way to agree with you. Humor changes minds.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 11h

I grew up on Muppets, Weird Al, Daniel Pinkwater books, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and Pee-Wee Herman.

Buying an inflatable chicken suit to help fight tyranny in my neighborhood seems about right to me.

It may be a small thing, but humor can be a weapon.

Man donning an inflatable “riding a chicken” suit in his Chicago apartment, with a cat climbing his back. He is wearing a whistle around his neck, as are most of his neighbors today.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 12h

My chicken suit arrived today.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 14h

They should’ve kept calling it “The 100 Foot Road.”

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 15h

“Million to one shot, Doc.”

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 16h

Some of the hate directed at light hearted protest is confusion. The US mind doesn’t know what to do w activity which isn’t for profit-commerce. Can’t compute how someone’s radical act of care in the face evil may be sharing coffee w others fighting the good fight (like church or AA coffee hr)

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 16h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

Person in bunny costume carries donuts outside ICE in Portland

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 18h

“Hey kid… my name is Morris D. Broadway and I’m gonna make you a star!” @actualnames.bsky.social

Grave of Morris D Broadway, a sign poster and aspiring dime museum owner, at a Chicago cemetery.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Wait so just to be clear then the cat's name was Buster Keaton

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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The Amazing Prizzini @amazingprizzini.bsky.social · 1d

Clowns are the natural enemy of the fascist. They understand force, they do not understand absurd resistance.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t think resisting tyranny would involve ordering an inflatable chicken outfit, but I guess I really should have known.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Right before he said AI was based on fact.
Does the AI slop they’re feeding him about this matter, or would he be saying this crap whether he saw a video about it or not?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 2d

Bravo Neko Case.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 2d

Neko Case ends Tennessee show early after venue refuses to remove armed security guard

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

In a year's time we've gone from a dysfunctional but free society to "hide your neighbors from the Secret Police."

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 2d

Sister Jean was born just two months before the White Sox threw the 1919 World Series.

Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 2d

A Chicago sports legend is honored on the Wrigley Field Marquee

The marquee reads Rest in Peace Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt 1919-2025

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

At 5pm I’ll be co-hosting Driving it Home with Patti Vasquez on 820am WCPT. Tune in!

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 2d

"Once Brockman was handcuffed and placed in the van, the agents pulled out, clipping the rear bumper off of a stopped car partially blocking their path and speeding away past an approaching elongated CTA bus and through the busy intersection."

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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