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@brentlythomas.bsky.social
jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none, as my dear sainted mother used to say
somewhere between slappy the squirrel and dorothy zbornak
“Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?”
Ursula K. Le Guin
they/them
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somewhere between slappy the squirrel and dorothy zbornak
“Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?”
Ursula K. Le Guin
they/them
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Pinned
coming out story: ex-mormon, my 1st thanksgiving home was spent w/ a sister missionary from my mission; everyone thought we would get married. we went to watch the remake of “miracle on 34th street”, and as i looked deeply into dylan mcdermott’s crystal blue eyes, i knew it would never work.
grinch the vampire slayer
Grinch of Arabia
Hedwig and the Angry Grinch
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
grinch the vampire slayer
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A tow truck driver who towed an ICE SUV that was blocking a driveway while the agents kidnapped Angelanos back in September was just found NOT GUILTY on the only charge against him (theft of government property).
THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"
THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"
Man accused of towing ICE SUV during LA immigration operation found not guilty
A Los Angeles tow truck driver accused of towing a federal SUV during an immigration enforcement operation was found not guilty by a federal jury Friday. Bobby Nuñez, 33, was arrested and charged with...
www.nbclosangeles.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
A tow truck driver who towed an ICE SUV that was blocking a driveway while the agents kidnapped Angelanos back in September was just found NOT GUILTY on the only charge against him (theft of government property).
THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"
THAT'S ANOTHER WIN FOR "FUCK YOU; MAKE ME"
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Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
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This might be the definitive piece on grassroots activism in Chicago this fall. Melissa captures so many pieces of the experience and ties them together into a clear impression of what it feels like to try to help in a city under occupation.
ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This might be the definitive piece on grassroots activism in Chicago this fall. Melissa captures so many pieces of the experience and ties them together into a clear impression of what it feels like to try to help in a city under occupation.
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Brilliant. From @michaelharriot.bsky.social
An Official Statement On The Upcoming Mass Shooting
America is so numb to gun violence that we've created a preemptive statement to serve all your mass casualty needs.
www.contrabandcamp.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Brilliant. From @michaelharriot.bsky.social
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ADF’s undisguised aim is to impose conversion therapy, ban abortion dismantle marriage equality. Its hate knows no bounds, geographic or philosophical.
It is literally a hate group, per the splc
It is literally a hate group, per the splc
19 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Alliance Defending Freedom, the white Christian nationalist legal group which is the main non-governmental actor behind anti-trans laws is trying to replicate its US success by importing its blueprint for ending LGBTQ+ and abortion rights to Europe.
Conservative legal group aims to export its rightwing Christian mission beyond US borders
Alliance Defending Freedom has ramped up its global spending on litigation and other campaigns to push its ultra conservative Christian values
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
ADF’s undisguised aim is to impose conversion therapy, ban abortion dismantle marriage equality. Its hate knows no bounds, geographic or philosophical.
It is literally a hate group, per the splc
It is literally a hate group, per the splc
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SNAP benefits should be universal, with zero means testing, and generous.
Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively.
The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.
Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively.
The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.
December 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
SNAP benefits should be universal, with zero means testing, and generous.
Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively.
The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.
Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively.
The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Become ungovernable
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Y’all this is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Y’all this is extremely important
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This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
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Walid and his daughters are suffering terribly in Gaza as another winter storm approaches. Like many Gazans they face the winter in sandals, living in tents near their destroyed homes. Please help if you can. chuffed.org/project/1253...
December 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Walid and his daughters are suffering terribly in Gaza as another winter storm approaches. Like many Gazans they face the winter in sandals, living in tents near their destroyed homes. Please help if you can. chuffed.org/project/1253...
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It is amazing that the ruling administration has managed to set up not one but multiple opaque schemes that essentially allow for mass money laundering/payouts/corruption, some of which have already resulted in favors such as pardons, and the rest of the government isn't even trying to stop them.
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It is amazing that the ruling administration has managed to set up not one but multiple opaque schemes that essentially allow for mass money laundering/payouts/corruption, some of which have already resulted in favors such as pardons, and the rest of the government isn't even trying to stop them.
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i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
December 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
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it’s been almost a month now and y’all need to recognize that #JinkxMonsoon is a Genius (again).
October 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
it’s been almost a month now and y’all need to recognize that #JinkxMonsoon is a Genius (again).
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in honor of our centennial man, my favorite dick van dyke show fact:
it exists in the same fictional universe as friends, frasier, the wire, and the x-files. 100 year old dick van dyke could (and 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥) appear in an episode of 'chicago fire' next week as rob petrie.
allow me to elaborate--
it exists in the same fictional universe as friends, frasier, the wire, and the x-files. 100 year old dick van dyke could (and 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥) appear in an episode of 'chicago fire' next week as rob petrie.
allow me to elaborate--
December 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
in honor of our centennial man, my favorite dick van dyke show fact:
it exists in the same fictional universe as friends, frasier, the wire, and the x-files. 100 year old dick van dyke could (and 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥) appear in an episode of 'chicago fire' next week as rob petrie.
allow me to elaborate--
it exists in the same fictional universe as friends, frasier, the wire, and the x-files. 100 year old dick van dyke could (and 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥) appear in an episode of 'chicago fire' next week as rob petrie.
allow me to elaborate--
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ice has a near daily updated list of every american's air travel. the american gestapo knows every time you set foot on a plane to visit your parents. i don't know what to say but that this should be a scandal that consumes every day of the next three years of this presidency
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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
ice has a near daily updated list of every american's air travel. the american gestapo knows every time you set foot on a plane to visit your parents. i don't know what to say but that this should be a scandal that consumes every day of the next three years of this presidency
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It is so forced too.
Sinners wasn't some a small indie hit, it broke box office records for original stories, it was hugely popular AND critically acclaimed and rightfully so. The idea of a major mainstream outlet putting out their Best of lists and just happening to leave it out is clown shit.
Sinners wasn't some a small indie hit, it broke box office records for original stories, it was hugely popular AND critically acclaimed and rightfully so. The idea of a major mainstream outlet putting out their Best of lists and just happening to leave it out is clown shit.
The way Penske Media publications are locking Sinners out of their Best of 2025 lists is white supremacist bullshit
Oh you didn’t know Variety and Rolling Stone answer to the same master? Now you do
Oh you didn’t know Variety and Rolling Stone answer to the same master? Now you do
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It is so forced too.
Sinners wasn't some a small indie hit, it broke box office records for original stories, it was hugely popular AND critically acclaimed and rightfully so. The idea of a major mainstream outlet putting out their Best of lists and just happening to leave it out is clown shit.
Sinners wasn't some a small indie hit, it broke box office records for original stories, it was hugely popular AND critically acclaimed and rightfully so. The idea of a major mainstream outlet putting out their Best of lists and just happening to leave it out is clown shit.
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just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
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11 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Arlington TX becomes first US city to repeal its LGBTQ+ non-discrimination law, after Trump admin threatened to withhold $65m in fed funding. Vote was 5-4. Iowa was first state to do so in Feb 2025.
Texas city votes to overturn LGBTQ+ antidiscrimination protections
Arlington, Texas has removed “gender identity and expression” and “sexual orientation” from its antidiscrimination protections.
www.advocate.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.