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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 18h

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 18h

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 6h

Nice try

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 6h

Nothing changed since then except that Trump came back to power and Netanyahu ran out his patience when he bombed the Hamas negotiators in Doha. This forced Bibi to take door number two: get the hostages back and declare victory without having achieved his actual goals.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 6h

I wrote about the centrality of and contradictions surrounding the Israeli hostages last year. In short, Netanyahu and the war cabinet saw them as a useful initial pretext, but many Israelis believed that freeing then was the actual goal of the war.

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The uses of hostages

For Israelis, the hostages aren't just a graphic detail of the Oct 7 war. They ARE the war: casus belli, justification and primary war aim, all rolled into one.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 4h

Magnificent Monday Morning. Today's sunrise in Chicago.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

The controversy over Columbus Day used to be kind of Tony Soprano type guys who were taught that Columbus was a great explorer in grade school and just didn't want to think hard about it. Trump by contrast explicitly likes and endorses the genocidal stuff

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4h

"President Trump issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13 'Columbus Day.' The proclamation goes on to present a white Christian nationalist version of American history with much more emphasis on Christianity than Trump’s previous proclamations." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 3h

[narrator's voice]

It does not in fact beg the question.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2h

I am not one to play the patriotism card, but this is a fundamentally unAmerican statement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Alex Mack 10 🇯🇲 @chillarybanks.com · 4h

Happy Indigenous People’s Day.

A beautiful Indigenous woman holding her middle finger up with a caption that says, “Fuck Christopher Columbus.”

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12d

Found the gate that leads to winter.

A photograph of a bleak and ominous gate on Dartmoor, which I took in autumn 2020, just before I originally used this caption on Twitter, 2.7 years prior to deleting my account there.

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celticjade13.bsky.social @celticjade13.bsky.social · 1h

This is beautiful, I wish I would've known it was happening. I totally would have gone. (The audience should be standing during the song. It's long tradition that you stand during the Hallelujah Chorus.)

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 2d

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

celticjade13.bsky.social @celticjade13.bsky.social · 1h

#Chicago, when ICE shows up near you or in your neighborhood, is your cell phone network being throttled? I don't know whether it's ICE doing it on purpose or if the network is being overloaded, but now that they're roaming the north side neighborhoods, texts are delayed like 12 hours for me.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 13h

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 12h

We are going to Win

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 20h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4h

Good Place:

Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

Physics glitch that’s been in there since madden 2013, Electronic Arts sucks

Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · 18h

anything can happen on a George Pickens play

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 23h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Kenny Mayne @kennymayne.bsky.social · 17h

If confused about which team to like in the NLCS…remember the Dodgers disrespected Jackie Robinson last spring.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

I’m sure. He’s will be with his pal Rush Limbaugh in a different place. Also, for someone who is supposedly in great shape he sure is talking a lot about death lately. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18h

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 19h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18h

For people getting the advice “It’s dumb to do it alone, you need to do it en masse”, the counterpoint is that it is also dumb to make it hard to navigate a large flying heavy thing when you under it. This is also why it is a felony.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22h

Videos from Chicago over the past month captured protests, raids, arrests on city streets and residents’ confrontational responses to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. The New York Times reviewed more than 100 videos. Together, they show how the crackdown has escalated week by week.

How Trump’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos

Week by week, the federal campaign to ramp up immigration enforcement in the Chicago area has created fear and inflamed tensions.

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