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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Aug 13

The Odd One In: On Comedy, Alenka Zupančič

Tony Soprano, in therapy:

I know too much about the subconscious now

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16h

The game here being they’re counting on these fines not getting paid, court dates getting missed, to give a pretense for deportation. While inflicting maximum inconvenience and petty harm.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17h

Freedom papers and financial undermining ….

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

"Most Americans probably don’t have a detailed grasp of what’s happening with ACA subsidies right now, but once people start getting letters notifying them of how much their premiums are going up, it will become a much bigger issue."

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 16h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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persephone @sirensplight.bsky.social · 16h

Columbus Day is fascinating bc it was an attempt to lend whiteness to Italians in response to massive demonstrations after the lynching, & I find it quite symbolic that they did this by implicating all of us in Columbus’s crimes. It’s the gift that keeps on giving (derogatory)

enots406.bsky.social @enots406.bsky.social · 18h

I didn’t know that Columbus Day became a thing because of a large lynching of Italian immigrants, so I now agree with that guy on subway interviews, just change it to a different Italian.

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uoɯolɐS uɐƃɹoW uɥoſ @fuzzybunny.org · 18h

Weirdly, this applies to a ton of colonialist figures - Leopold II, Lothar von Trotha, Valeriano Weyler, James Forsyth, Reginald Dyer, and I'm surely missing many from non-Western countries - whose misdeeds horrified people at "home" whom we wouldn't consider very enlightened by today's standards.

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 21h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 3d

OPINION: On the heels of Banned Books Week, the Joint Judiciary Committee will consider legislation that threatens libraries' financial stability and Wyomingites' personal liberty.

Opinion | Wyoming libraries are in trouble

On the heels of Banned Books Week, the Joint Judiciary Committee will consider legislation that threatens libraries' financial stability and Wyomingites' personal liberty, writes Teton County Library ...

wyofile.com

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enots406.bsky.social @enots406.bsky.social · 18h

Which begs the question, why aren’t energy companies responsible for paying for this themselves. Especially when they will be making a profit at the end. We are paying them with taxes to eventually pay them through bills.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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enots406.bsky.social @enots406.bsky.social · 18h

I didn’t know that Columbus Day became a thing because of a large lynching of Italian immigrants, so I now agree with that guy on subway interviews, just change it to a different Italian.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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enots406.bsky.social @enots406.bsky.social · 1d

They want things made in America but to also be cheap. Which requires environmental degradation, slavery, child labor, indentured servitude, or all other manner of not having to pay for labor or materials.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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enots406.bsky.social @enots406.bsky.social · 1d

My aunt, a retired math teacher and the wife of a farmer/rancher liked a photo on instagram of a protester that had a sign taped to a baseball bat. Like she is *rural* rural America. People are enraged.

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 1d

If WNBA players were to get 50% of of revenue it is estimated that would be about $250,000,000 in 2026, so that could mean (for example): 14 players per team, team salary cap set around $16.7 mil, max salary of $2 mil, vet min of $700,000 and rookie scale starting at $500,000 for 3rd round picks.

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LawnChairMedia @lawnchairmedia.bsky.social · 1d

No exaggeration JD Vance has like never answered a direct question in an interview.
Reporter: the sky is blue, correct?
JD: Look, we can play this games all day but let's talk about the real issues...Democrats are forcing tampons on boys locker rooms.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus fucking christ the sadism of these people is insatiable

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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enots406.bsky.social @enots406.bsky.social · 1d

A hill I will die on is that white nationalist evangelicals and white atheists are the two most religiously illiterate groups in the country, and equally so.

enots406.bsky.social @enots406.bsky.social · 1d

Some more educational information for you.

youtu.be/c5KHDR8jdbA?...

What Is Religion?

YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast

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