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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 1h

Four heartbreaking excerpts from this piece about the people whose lives have been made a living nightmare by heartless tyrants.

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

Pérez said her daughter was the family’s main motivation to come; the girl had been born with a heart defect and needed surgery they could not find in Venezuela, where hospitals operate through power outages and have limited capacity for advanced surgeries, not to mention supplies.

“We didn’t come for the American dream, or for a house, or for some life of luxury,” said Pérez. “What we wanted is for our daughter to live.”

But as the months pass without an answer from the CBP Home program, Chicago doesn’t feel safe, either. This fall, the Trump administration zeroed in on the city for immigration enforcement, sending in the U.S. Border Patrol. Pérez recently downloaded another app that tells her whether there’ve been sightings of federal immigration agents nearby, and she watches videos of other immigrants getting arrested. One day in September, a federal agent shot and killed an immigrant in a nearby suburb. Pérez wonders if she might die, too.

They share their mother’s anxiety. On their walk home, Pérez’s daughter leaned over her brother and chided him for speaking Spanish in public. The girl said her teacher had warned her that federal agents might be listening.

It reminded Perez that she now needs to leave the U.S. for the same reason she came: her children. She plans to register yet again on the CBP Home app.

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 17h

Nor’easter bunny. #art

A rabbit person walks against the wind as leaves blow past. His long scarf trails behind. Graphite and white pencil on toned paper.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

One Saturday night pizza inspired by @mostlybree.kitrocha.com pizza making.

A pepperoni and cream cheese pizza fresh out the oven. Some of the cheese and pepperoni on top are crisped up and the crust is golden brown. One small section of the cheese has flowed over the crust and down onto the pan as it melted while cooking in the oven.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

when i was being examined for my senior coxing licence in Oxford, she asked if I'd ever been in a boat crash, I said yes, she asked what I happened, I said "a manatee tried to mate with the shell and it capsized then broke in half" and she did not know how to respond to that

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

I love students so much

On this day
7 years ago
Kerry
Oct 11, 2018
*student giving presentation on her work on a wildlife rescue team*
Student: manatees are really dangerous because they weigh 1000 pounds and lose all awareness of their surroundings when mating

Other student: *under breath* oh wow same

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

the huntress

fanart of Artemis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit - dark jeans, bra with some sort of laces around the belly -, moon and arrows tattoos on the arms and chest, dark green hair, and a tiny owl standing on her head
she's adjusting her outfit, head slightly tilted down, eyes closed, smiling
she also wears an arrow earring and a moon necklace

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 1d

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ID: Photo taken looking over a tent city in Palestine. A few people are in the foreground staging, sitting, or walking past.

Khaled Ayman @eligeuno.bsky.social · 1d

It’s time to start planning our journey to continue chasing our dreams and finally see life beyond survival. My family and I deserve a chance to live, not just endure. ✊🏻

We’ve lost a lot, but hope keeps us going. Every step forward is part of our healing.

Support: gofund.me/591c2ff8

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

That is correct.

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Tami @chronictami.bsky.social · 2d

Mutual Aid Needed for rent, bills, groceries, medical, and necessary household items. Paynames in image. QR codes and alt text added for accessibility. Any amount helps. Thanks in advance for any and all support.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Noooooo oh no

RIP an absolute icon. May her memory be a blessing.

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' ...

people.com

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 2d

Video description in the image #AltText

Impressionist style artwork of the Portland Frog standing up alone against a long row of nightstick wielding men all clad in uniform black riot gear, a green island of whimsical defiance in front of a black wave of state repression. The image of the Portland Frog flickers with the forms of others before in the blink of an eye it is no longer the Portland Frog but a Black man in suit. It then shifts through various characters at a breakneck pace. A Black woman with her hair tied back, a man in a wide-brimmed hat, a man in a yellow chicken outfit with a USA flag cape. At first it's a blur as it cycles through many more including a little boy holding up a history book for the line of armed men to read, a priest, and a woman in a wheelchair. It slows as it cycles through these many characters once giving a better look at them all before speeding back up to a blur again. Then it stops with the exact same image it started with of the Portland Frog alone save for the words Stand Tall that appear in the top left corner. The flickering happens again as the characters shown before blur with the Portland Frog then in a flash the Portland Frog is standing together with them. Three more words now appear in the top left written beneath Stand Tall, We Will Win.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

okay so if Pepe is chaotic evil and Portland frog is chaotic good, where are our other frogs

Kermit is lawful good obviously

I think Frog and Toad are true neutral. they do them and that’s it

Michigan J. Frog is chaotic neutral

Tiana, Naveen and Keroppi I’m uncertain

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

Pepe is Portland Frog’s Wario

Spooky Witch Kat (hag/witch/banshee) 🖤💜👻🎃💀🐈‍⬛💜🖤 @switchkat13.bsky.social · 2d

Pepe walked on the wrong side of history, so his fellow frog persons are making up for that in spades.

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Judith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social · 2d

this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 2d

So a load of municipal, county, and state security forces of Illinois gathered to help the Feds hurt their own people.

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👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 2d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

youtu.be

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 2d

A new portrait of Monolophosaurus. The crest here is more voluminous than most reconstructions, exploring the idea that the underlying bone might have been anchoring a larger pneumatised casque.
#SciArt

A digital portrait of a large carnivorous dinosaur in a forest setting. The dinosaur has a large boney crest above its snout and eyes, and large folds of skin hanging around its neck and jaws. The dinosaur is mostly earthy brown, but with brighter blues and pinks around the eyes and throat.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 2d

White supremacists see a minority succeed and they go batshit b/c they think those things only belong to white people like them as the POC cannot have legitimately earned it. They would steal the prize from Obama for their racial resentment if they could.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 2d

A law professor is probably writing an article right now explaining how Trump has the authority to fire the Nobel Committee.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner Maria Corina Machado is

Woman ✅️
Non-white ✅️
Venezuelan ✅️

Three things Trump despises, and the icing on the cake here is the statement put out with it which makes clear why the tyrant Trump is as unworthy for this prize as the tyrant Maduro is.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 3d

Remember that scene from V For Vendetta where everyone shows up in a Guy Fawkes mask? Is the US version of that where everyone shows up dressed like the Portland Frog?

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 5d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 4d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a viral video reposted by a lot of news people nationally about an abduction at West Loop Elementary School, but there is no school with that name. The video seems to be of ICE detaining people near UIC yesterday. Details matter. We need to try to get them right before sharing.

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