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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 4h

CIA coups in Latin America, growing civic unrest, and an increasingly likely economic crisis? Hey, babe, wake up, the 1970s are on!

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 10h

I need my own Nadezhda von Meck

Quite Interesting @qi.com · 10h

Tchaikovsky was able to quit his day job with the support of a wealthy patron.

Her only condition for her support was that they never meet in person.

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 10h

My retired neighbor, Gail, is a spitfire who hates Trump but whose back problems mean she can’t protest this Saturday, so instead she invited me over this morning to make signs with her (and use her very impressive and extensive craft collection).

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 22h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

"The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people...It’s the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean"

again, merely political consequences for wanton murder aren't enough.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US kills 6 people in strike on boat accused of carrying drugs near Venezuela, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 1d

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WISCONSIN PRIDE, BABY

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 2d

The crisis I had when I moved from Upstate New York—where grocery stores are basically legally required to have 20 varieties of apples at all times—to Florida, where there were two options: red and green 😑

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 2d

Brett Kavanaugh learning about this:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of Wisconsin fans online are upset about the football coach’s performance this season, but just think, it could be worse! You could technically be his “coworker” who makes 1/100th what he makes while also somehow most likely being a better football coach, too.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6d

Invading Norway because he didn't get the peace prize would be so on brand.

Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 6d

another day in very normal times

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 6d

Who was antifa protesting in the early 1930s in Germany?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 6d

I watched the award-winning, Tom Hanks-produced HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers” (2001) starring a breakout ensemble cast including Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston alongside future superstars Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, and James McAvoy and now I’m Antifa :(

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 6d

in the last eleven months, men have elected a president and pushed Paul Thomas Anderson past the $100 million mark for the first time in his career. Now, they finally have their Nobel Literature Laureate. They have accomplished all of this by podcasting

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 7d

Changing my Hinge profile to say “I just wanna be the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 7d

Fingers crossed RFK hasn’t changed CDC guidelines for treatment to like, three drops of raw milk in the ear canal, six sets of burpees, and prayer.