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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7h

There's a reasons all our stories of horrible raids and abductions come mostly from Chicago and, now, Portland.

Bc, due to Federalism, the Feds simply lack man-power to deploy police-state tactics widely.

The article has ~10,000 new Fed LEOs being deployed for "immigration." US has ~650,000 cops.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 7h

Cinematography is my passion

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 9h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Yehlin Cho @yehlincho.bsky.social · 18h

Thrilled to announce our new preprint, “Protein Hunter: Exploiting Structure Hallucination within Diffusion for Protein Design,” in collaboration with @Griffin, @GBhardwaj8 and @sokrypton.org

🧬Code and notebooks will be released by the end of this week.
🎧Golden- Kpop Demon Hunters

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 9h

definitely holds the record for the most times a show has made me cry in a single season

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine watching an episode of Seinfeld or 30 rock 300 years from now

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Sep 9

This diet could fix me

**STRESS DIET**

**BREAKFAST:**
1/2 Grapefruit
1 slice Whole Wheat Toast
8 oz. Milk

**LUNCH:**
4 oz. Lean Broiled Chicken Breast
1 cup Steamed Zucchini
1 Oreo Cookie
Herb Tea

**MID-AFTERNOON SNACK:**
Rest of the package of Oreos
1 quart Rocky Road Ice Cream
1 jar Hot Fudge

**DINNER:**
2 loaves Garlic Bread
Large Pepperoni and Mushroom Pizza
Large Pitcher of Pepsi
2 Milky Way Candy Bars
Entire Frozen Cheesecake eaten directly from the freezer

Violet M. Taylor

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12h

Woke is back

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

👇🎯 Joe Biden, who was president during ceasefires in which 100 hostages were released, quite famously never received the same Leni Riefenstahl moment & grading-on-a-curve treatment from major media outlets in 2024. Whatever one thinks of him or Trump on this issue, this is massive goalpost shifting.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14h

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

We’re seeing a lot of pop-up protests against ICE in the Chicago area, such as this one outside a Home Depot in Evanston, IL, where 2 of our neighbors were taken yesterday.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 14h

Even his opponents do this and it’s the weirdest thing.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 14h

Basically all manufacturers and retailers should be obligated to either collect their waste and broken products, or pay for others to deal with them.

You’d see an amazing display of innovation in efficient, repairable and recyclable products and packaging.

Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 15h

I still wish we could set up a system where package delivery came with up “pickup empties” option, like milk deliveries use to have.

You bring me a new box, I give you some empty boxes!

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 16h

Dick Institute
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_In...

Dick Institute - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump on Orban: "We love Viktor. You are fantastic, alright? I know a lot of people don't agree with me, but I'm the only one that matters. He's a great leader. I endorsed him the last election he had and he won by 28 points. You're gonna do even better this time when you have another election."

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 1d

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 18h

ICE is an aggressively anti-American agency

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 20h

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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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 18h

Why is the whitehouse spending so much energy drawing attention to the no kings protest. Its a terrible strategy for them

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18h

bsky.app/profile/seaw...

its particularly satisfying to do it to people who play on this older view.

seaworrier.bsky.social @seaworrier.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, letting go of the old (forum-originating) view that 'blocking [or muting] is for wimps' is very freeing.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 19h

Also “who’s running the senate?” And then ranting about chuck schumer and aoc without mentioning thune

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19h

I really can’t imagine a more ideal scenario for anti-Trump politicians than MAGA spending a week explicitly turning the size of the 10/18 protests into a referendum on MAGA and Trump, while simultaneously making the protests the center of media attention. They are setting themselves up for disaster

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 19h

This is the kind of thing you muse about a lot when you’re incredibly healthy and really 15 years younger in health years than your calendar age

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 22h

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

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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