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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18h

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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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 15h

if an author commits the same crime as a character in their book it cancels out

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 15h

there are only two fiction genres: historical and fantasy

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 15h

these literary opinions are too hinged. the prompt asked for unhinged opinions. here’s one: every book should be required to have an even number of words in it

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 16h

sometimes someone takes such a bad swing you can’t even be mad you just feel sorry for them

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 19h

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 20h

everybody is saying we should get rid of halloween and celebrate frankenstein friday instead. idk much about that though it’s just something i’ve been hearing a lot while i’m out and about

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Boneshaker Books @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social · 20h

We're within $500 of hitting our goal! Who's going to put us over the top?

Help Boneshaker Move to Our New Home!

After fourteen years in our current space, we have made the decision that it’s time for Boneshaker Books to move. While we treasure the time we've spent in Seward, and will miss existing as a communit...

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 20h

Jacob Frey's gaggle of liars and knaves 😆 We all know how it is when we get our unpaid paid stuff and our under the table stuff and the off the books stuff and the kickback stuff and the patronage stuff all confused

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 21h

The plan to send in unaccountable agents to kidnap your neighbors *might* have overplayed its hand when they've lost the people on the "I Saw A Person I Didn't Recognize In My Neighborhood And I Want The Cops To Come Take Them Away" social media app.

Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 21h

It’s happening on Nextdoor too

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

Turns out most people don't really like being invaded

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 21h

agreee but a lot of libraries won’t buy paperback because they don’t hold up as long. in my perfect world they would release simultaneously

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 21h

still has no policies on his website

Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 1d

During my town hall events, I get to hear from a lot of Iowans, on a lot of topics. Being able to spend time writing on Substack allows me to keep running notes of the issues that matter to you & helps me know what you want me to focus on, if elected. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

A photo of Rob Sand addressing a crowd with text overlaid that reads, "Reflections on the Road: Hope, Hardship, and Homemade Peach Cobbler"

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 23h

im asking too much from these comforting soups and stews. they were never intended to have to do this much comforting

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 23h

i don’t think trump believes in heaven or hell, i think he grapples with death like most rich people: pretends money will protect him from it until he’s face-to-face with it and panics, then goes back to denial

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 1d

can’t stand angie craig but this sure makes it hard to get excited about peggy’s campaign 😞

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 1d

the lt governor running for us senate in minnesota is sending fundraising emails from al franken rn. and she’s the progressive in the race

cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 1d

its so cool that stuff that would have been called obviously bigoted in like 2010 is just basically the standard behavior of any "political dynasty family/old money/deeply entrenched" elected dems in 2025. today theyd give al franken the presidential medal of freedom or whatever

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that's a fun one to save for when OpenAI goes under

Futurism @futurism.com · 1d

So that's where we're at.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe MPLS knows this by now but it’s very easy to say you’ve banned no knock warrants and impossible to actually ban them without reducing police power. Frey has never been willing to consider anything but increasing that power, regardless of whether he genuinely thought he could ban that tactic.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Devin @fishdick.bsky.social · 1d

I am working in a restaurant and everyone is scared. We've lost 4 or 5 to ICE. People are afraid to come to work during daylight hours, so they get to work 5 or 6 hours early and sleep in the dry storage until their shift starts. People are sleeping here at night.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2d

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 2d

i would like to take accountability for this but unfortunately things have never been more jinxable

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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