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Franki Butler
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h
I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h
I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h
Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 7h
DAILY MEMO: Elderly Man Hospitalized After ICE Hit and Run in Pacoima, One of 17 Incidents Reported Today 🧵2 Parts

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15h
So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h
This is because the feds won't stop gassing our neighborhoods so they can flee and, by extension, are also repeatedly gassing the cops. What a moment to be alive
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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 16h
CPD memo to officers today: helmet and gas mask available and accessible at all times, to be read at 7 days of roll calls. (For officers assigned masks.) Supervisors to ensure compliance acc to the memo. #chicago
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h
Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says
Willamette Week reported federal agents allegedly blocked an ambulance from quickly leaving with an injured protester on Oct. 5.
www.oregonlive.com
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
www.nytimes.com
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Franki Butler @frankitheb.bsky.social · 15h
In which Huntington continues to Huntington.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18h
NEW: Huntington Beach, California passed an anti-voting resolution using false data from an election conspiracy group to stoke baseless fears about election integrity, underscoring how anti-voting groups' efforts are tightening voting rules even at the state and local level.
California City Passes Anti-Voting Measure Based on Election Conspiracy Group’s False Data
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 17h
FYM i can talk sexy to the computer????? bro fix the meat prices
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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 17h
Samuel Please
In December chat gpt will allow erotica
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 17h
When Brown Sugar dropped, I was a freshman @ FAMU... this sounded like nothing else that was out at the time.

Still know every word 30 years later. (30 years? No, no... feels like it was only yesterday...)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3y2...
D'Angelo - Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine (Official Video)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 20h
Heartbreaking: Neo-soul legends Angie Stone and D’Angelo both passed away in 2025, just 7 months apart. Stone died in March at 63. D’Angelo died today at 51. They shared a son together. An entire generation’s soundtrack, gone. Rest in power to both 🕊️💔
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h
D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51
D'Angelo Dead at 51
Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.
www.tmz.com
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“𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳…” @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 20h
RIP D'Angelo (1974-2025) 🕊️😔
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18h
It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 20h
My favorite Struzan story is that he was doing the poster for Indy at Disneyland, but they didn't have the rights to Ford's likeness. Fed up with working around the problem, Struzan just called Ford and was like, "hey, can I use your face for this," and Ford said, "if it's for you, absolutely."
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 18h
These are the people they want you to compromise with, these are the people they say you "have to live together" with.
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Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic ❤️ PG 🤣 AK AK I’m ready to watch people burn now JM We gotta pretend that we like them. “Hey, come on in. Take a nice shower and relax”. Boom - they’re dead
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d
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.
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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d
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. " 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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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d
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.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d
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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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3d
Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.
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Franki Butler @frankitheb.bsky.social · 3d
There's at least one study out there on how Black children aren't really children in many people's minds. I assume that with the immigration gestapo the adultification/dehumanization combo applies to all non-white kids.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3d
Im still wondering what goes through the mind of someone who joined ICE just for the benefits when they're told to rip a mother away from her screaming children or to kidnap a child from school...
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 3d
No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)
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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d
Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d
Art is going to be so bad when only privileged wealthy people can afford to make it.
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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 4d
You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 3d
Photogs at Broadview doing a fine job in tough situation. Ashlee Rezin of @suntimes.bsky.social took this now viral image of Rev David Black 9/19. Part of new story abt judge banning chemical irritants/projectiles (which I saw cops still carrying at Broadvw btw) chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
Judge rules federal agents can't deploy chemical irritants at journalists, protesters who don't pose threats
The temporary ruling stems from a lawsuit filed this week by news organizations, unions, independent journalists and protesters against the Department of Homeland Security following tense interactions...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3d
Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d
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.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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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