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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org · 21h

In partnership w/ Pilsen Defense we're hosting a bike patrol training.

Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📍 Pilsen= (exact location shared day of to RSVPs)
⏰ Thursday October 16th 6-7:30

ICE WATCH BIKE PATROL TRAINING

LED BY PILSEN DEFENSE & ACCESS & BIKE GRID NOW!

THURSDAY, OCT 16TH, 6:00-7:30 PM

PILSEN LOCATION

Address will be shared to RSVPs day of

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 20h

105/N. Feds rammed a car that crashed into another, then a foot chase. Neighbors protested. Gas deployed by feds earlier today. Here's what they left behind. A thread of photos. #chicago

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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 21h

Gamer folks, Moose With Cup's kickstarter for Eclipse Phase SCUM is very nearly at the 48-hour mark!

Late last night we dropped the Alpha version of the rulebook: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Check it out!

Update 5: VERY Alpha Rulebook is up! · SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game

Just a quick update... My colleague Adam from Posthuman Studios has been cranking away on the rulebook layout, and I think you will agree, it is looking great! Excited to move into the next phase, whe...

www.kickstarter.com

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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 5d

Upcoming DJ things (Chicago and South Bend)

Flyer for a dark techno industrial night called Nexus 6 on Friday October 17 at Subterranean (Chicago) with DJs Sprite, Licious, and Flesh_Bot

Devil's Night Halloween Party in South Bend at Langlab on Thursday Oct 30

Nexus 6 DJ nights the 3rd Friday each month at Subterranean

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Sweet Science, Savage Art @sweetscisavart.bsky.social · 1d

The ones listed in this thread below are a great starting point for most people. Just remember, this isn't an anarchist zine fair. Focus on the basics, pick 5 - 10 total, and print off as many as you can so everyone can take one of each. This way, we can agitate, educate, and organize our cities!

Sweet Science, Savage Art @sweetscisavart.bsky.social · 2d

I came across some comrades tabling these at a liberal event and you'd be surprised to see how many normies were legitimately interested in them. Only a year ago these very same people would have told us to go vote Harris.

Brochures on mutual aid, 100 things more useful than just voting, into to anarcho-communism, why "class" is so important, and anarchist organization.

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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 1d

Depends on what you're into really, but Subterranean (downstairs), Livewire, Bourbon on Division, Liar's Club

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 3d

Every bit of this mess that we’re currently enduring is because rich people need more money & they dgaf if you’re hungry or homeless or dead in order for them to get more money

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent thread on how the right projects political violence onto the left. They consistently reframe violence perpetrated by right-wing affiliated people as leftist. This isn’t new and is a common tactic of their projection and distraction.

David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 3d

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Error Crater - Undead So Far 🧛🏻 @errorcrater.bsky.social · 3d

a lot of what seem to be fresh horrors is simply that you are now seeing in full view how the sausage was made, and perhaps now instead of going along to get along you might go with the people asking inconvenient & uncomfortable questions about it

it wasn't safety you felt, it was numbness

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 5d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 5d

The bailout is going through because it's for Rob Citrone, a hedge fund manager who's friends of the US Treasure Secretary. This is nuts.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

www.motherjones.com

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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 5d

Beetle people! Kalioctera are one of the species you can choose from when making a character in The Snarl (our upcoming weird fantasy RPG).

(Art by @crimreaper.bsky.social )

2 kalioctera beetlefolk. A large female and a small colorful male perched on her shoulder.

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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 5d

Upcoming DJ things (Chicago and South Bend)

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 6d

Right now, Donald Trump, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and other officials are participating in a panel about "Antifa," threatening to "destroy the entire organization [sic] from top to bottom."

This is a good time to revisit our guide to preparing for repression:

crimethinc.com/Safeguarding

President Trump Participates in a Roundtable on Antifa

President Trump holds a roundtable meeting on Antifa.

www.c-span.org

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 6d

Over on The Snarl's Dev blog, we talk about a key aspect of the setting: the gargantuan trees called pillars that make up the entirety of the world.

snarlrpg.com/the-pillars/

The Pillars

The pillars are ancient if not immortal, having existed since the dawn of recorded history.

snarlrpg.com

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 29d

Let's. Fucking. Go.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game

Sci-fi board game where players defend their habitat from a mysterious threat bent on its destruction, based on the Eclipse Phase RPG.

www.kickstarter.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

*Many more neighbors were affected, but you won't get tallies on those numbers from the media because they don't get free ambulance rides and a PR team to issue statements on their behalf

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 8d

27 police officers were among those injured by tear gas during a weekend protest, Chicago’s top cop says. blockclubchi.co/4nGOb0m

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 8d

Educate yourself about informants!

Years ago, a group of people who were directly harmed by informant provocateurs put together this checklist, drawing on their own experiences and those of other activists as well as information from informants who have gone public.

crimethinc.com/checklist

Is S/He an Informant?

A group of people who have been directly harmed by informant provocateurs have put together this checklist, drawing on personal experiences as well as those of other activists and information from ...

crimethinc.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 8d

“Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over & shooting the woman five times.”

DHS has lied, a lot, about every act of violence.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 8d

"You cannot protest, specifically because you will be at risk of violence by government agents"

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 8d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9d

the thing no one tells you about preparing to launch A Thing in 2025 is that on top of working on The Thing you will also have to write one hundred million different bits of copy of varying lengths for all the different bits of the internet you're meant to have a presence in

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