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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

This is because the feds won't stop gassing our neighborhoods so they can flee and, by extension, are also repeatedly gassing the cops. What a moment to be alive

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 2h

CPD memo to officers today: helmet and gas mask available and accessible at all times, to be read at 7 days of roll calls. (For officers assigned masks.) Supervisors to ensure compliance acc to the memo. #chicago

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 2h

Someone get grandpa a hearing aid.

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 2h

Show of hands: How many of you also think Bari Weiss argued FOR signing the Pentagon press demands?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

The Military powered by AWS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone telling me we must pay the king his taxes and it's silly to suggest that we need to come up with a way to not have our employers pay our fed taxes on our behalf and make Trump come sue us each personally for the money with the IRS he just stripped to the bone

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 2h

I can't imagine being a parent of a baby, infant or child in these neighborhoods and having to witness them choking from the tear gas that comes in from outside.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3h

IMO that this is in Politico is very important. Politico is the home of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom. So now it's conventional wisdom that the GOP has gone full Nazi, I think that's a development that brings more clarity to our terrifying moment, no?

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

This could seriously be one of the 2 or 3 biggest Presidential scandals in US history

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 3h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Free Range Person (satirical) @freeegs.bsky.social · 4h

Update.

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 3h

At least Fat Bastard's neck looked like that because he lost all that weight.

BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 3h

Mah nake lukes lek a vhajynah!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

> @governor.ca.gov

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.

Militarized federal agents in street at 105th and N

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 3h

His Back to the Future 1, 2 and 3 movie posters are my favorite. A close second are his Star Wars Special Edition ones.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

RIP Drew Struzan 💔

“.. Spielberg once called him ‘my favorite movie artist’ and later added, ‘I had to almost live up to the art that we later were going to ask Drew to create for the poster.’”

@thr.com
www.Hollywood reporter.com/movies/movie-news/drew-struzan-dies-movie-posters-1236400361/

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HBadger @hbadger.bsky.social · 5h

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78

Struzan created some of the most memorable movie posters of all time in his own signature style.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 3h

I had Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and many other Drew Struzan posters on my childhood, teen and college walls.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

RIP Drew Struzan 💔

“.. Spielberg once called him ‘my favorite movie artist’ and later added, ‘I had to almost live up to the art that we later were going to ask Drew to create for the poster.’”

@thr.com
www.Hollywood reporter.com/movies/movie-news/drew-struzan-dies-movie-posters-1236400361/

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

Dem staffers tell the people you work for that if they use the words 'across the aisle' or 'bipartisan', we're all gonna remember this shit come election time

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

the Republican party of the future may not find a figurehead that can replace Trump but it's getting worse by the day, the next generation thinks Stephen Miller is a squish

these are very, very bad people

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 5h

Make sure this gets circulated widely:

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 5h

Cicero, IL. One hour ago

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 4h

He has single handedly ruined 'Thank you for your attention to this matter'. It makes my skin crawl.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10h

This is a really important point.

They’re performing power for an audience.

For us.

To convince us that they have more power than they do.

They’re fear-harvesting.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 13h

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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BLTSoftTaco 🏳️‍⚧️ @bltsofttaco.bsky.social · 6h

Emmer said words, but they didn't form a coherent sentence. So now No Kings is so powerful that it controls the US Budget? But at the same time it is a very small group? Sounds like that fascist 'Our enemy is both strong and weak' bullshit.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 9h

And they say the perfect cartoon doesn’t exist.

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