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Rev. Magdalen @revmagdalen.bsky.social · 7d

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 5h

This is basically the same column as Ross Douthat’s in the NYT! 😬

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 6h

Huh.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 12h

I was 16-17 in 1983 and The Day After was ROUGH. Some years earlier, the Holocaust miniseries was also rough. As was Roots in 1977. Network TV was brave back then.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 14h

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 15h

Note to non-Chicagoans: There are raids like this *every day, multiple times a day*, hitting various neighborhoods, mainly (but not exclusively) targeting Latinos. Operation Midway Blitz has led to thousands of people being detained by ICE.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 15h

Such a contrast with the usual news story quoting law enforcement's side of the story. Richly detailed report of neighbors' and witnesses' experiences with the latest Chicago raids today. Thanks, reporter @royalpratt.bsky.social.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas in Chicago’s Irving Park and Avondale neighborhoods

Federal immigration agents again deployed tear gas on Chicago streets Saturday morning, despite mounting scrutiny from a federal judge over their use of the chemical weapons.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

No one:

My brain: youtu.be/ZPjSV-lnqvg?...

Roxanne but its just Rocks

YouTube video by ironicallyscreaming

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 16h

Due up next (library wait list for ebook): @rbreich.bsky.social's memoir, "Coming Up Short." My Saturday morning viewing each week is his "Koffee Klatch" with Heather Lofthouse--talking about the week that was, the way forward, some encouragement not to lose hope in the fight to preserve democracy.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 16h

I'm reading @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's book, "Everything Is Tuberculosis." I like the interweaving of sexism, issues for people with chronic disease, and so on. And some poetry! I've always enjoyed nonfiction books relating to infectious disease epidemiology.

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An🎃🎃sh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 1d

‘Under the terms of the cease-fire, which has already been sorely tested, 600 trucks of aid were supposed to enter Gaza daily. But since the fighting stopped, according to the United Nations, fewer than 100 trucks have arrived on average every day. Gazans are destitute.

Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 2d

The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

www.nytimes.com

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 22h

* Gauteng

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 22h

Is “roly-poly” specifically American?

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.

A map of all the different names for woodlice in the United Kingdom

AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 22h

I’d like to see a roundup of all the things Trump says “Can you believe it?” about. Is every single one a fraud?

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 22h

Suspect the utility wires are spiderweb

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 1d

Mayor Johnson is cooking

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 22h

pair this with that thing he said a month or two ago about how he can blame anything he doesn't like on a.i.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 22h

“Collagen Scientist,” ha

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An🎃🎃sh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 1d

Been thinking about this @roxanegay.bsky.social quote all day.

Text: “Adjacency to power is often more important to people than freedom.”
—Roxane Gay

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 1d

🙏🏻 please let it be so

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, if people can get awards posthumously, they can go to the movies too

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 1d

This is the Catholic church in my neighborhood.

Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in or around Chicago, I have been informed that the "C" has fallen off the sign on the Canal Street Bridge.

Enjoy.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 1d

Small error in article: Henderson & Lakewood is a mile west of Laugh Factory, not a mile north of

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Mary Dixon @maryldixon.bsky.social · 1d

True.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

If the stuff happening in Chicago were happening in New York City it would be on every television on earth right now

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