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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 6h

Why won’t they let anyone inside that building?

Keep asking the question: why won’t they let anyone inside that building?

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

Old Man McCormick rides again lol

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Bread and Rosenstock @raucousdukakis.bsky.social · 2h

Hmm, yes, what do we know about the Trib's politics that would lead them to do this?

Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 5h

It’s weird that the Chicago Tribune never ran a feature story on the South Shore apartment building raid…right? It’s mentioned in an article about warrantless arrests and that awful editorial about how we’re all overreacting. But no stories. Every other Chicago news outlet covered it. Why is this?

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

lol recalling how in the world of The Wire, mortgage fraud is considered a prosecutorial "head shot" towards criminal conviction

Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 3h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 3h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

they can do this maneuver to f'ing anyone or anything now: public record, your birth certificate, what your lying eyes saw in the arrest video, whatever -- it's Appeal to Authority + Moving Goalpoasts

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

"ProPublica's press cred is not 🇺🇸 REAL ID™"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 2h

Arguing with a brick wall about how personal responsibility is not a replacement for controlling design.

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 5h

terms like "authoritarian" & "fascist," while correct, don't hit squarely enough on the facet of how a nominally liberal, outwardly cooperative state can be nonetheless internally bigoted & repressive: i.e. how USians live under a *police state* constructed w Democratic cooperation & connivance

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2h

“keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2h

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3h

In a huge coincidence, a Bitcoin billionaire just-so-happened to put up massive leveraged bets against Bitcoin and Ethereum right before Trump posted about new tariffs on China, prompting a market crash.

$200m in profits instantly. $200m we know about, because they likely used many accounts.

Early Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs, Now Up $27M - How Did He Know?

Satoshi-era whale shorted $1.1B in BTC and ETH 30 minutes before Trump tariffs, banking $190M-$200M as liquidations hit $19.33B.

cryptonews.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h

I think the last few months have shown how describing a particular far right ethos as "anti-government" has kind of fallen apart

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

people slobber about the bsky atomic block but istg "mute thread" is the mods' greatest gift to any platform 🙌

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

not faving any takes in my replies that try to devils-advocate or out-cynical my own, i only have spoons for so much doomerism

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

i just love it when the internet smart screens, which i am supposed to rely upon constantly to remember things & think for me because i am a dumb slow fleshy ape-thing, lag behind my stupid little UI pushes all the time bc bitch got crufted with "upgrades" in the time a human baby learns to walk

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

amen 💯

Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 3h

Others argue that members of the House of Reps doing their Constitutional duty is futile/just symbolic/a protest. Setting aside the fact that these people are constantly engaging in symbolic claptrap, the oath of office is not a group project, in which you do your duty only if other people do theirs

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 4h

that's 💯

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4h

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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