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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 11h

wait, naked people rode bikes and no one got hurt. that's free speech. its not criminal in any way.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

The Pentagon wants @huffpost.com to sign an absurd document. We refuse

The Pentagon Wants HuffPost To Sign An Absurd Document. We Refuse.

Sign Pete Hegseth’s ridiculous press restrictions? No way in hell!

www.huffpost.com

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bicycle @bicycle.bsky.social · 1d

this sanitation worker rules

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 22h

Someone make a body horror movie about climate change supercharged allergies

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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 2d

some heroes wear just hi viz

Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 2d

i appreciate all of this. the inflatables, the nice church ladies i know going twice a week in christlike fashion, the unipiping, go ahead and do it. do the fun, loving thing in the face of pure evil.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 2d

do the thing you love! if its knitting for justice, go ahead. postcards, marching,singing, whatever. keep your heart, mind and soul set on freedom, peace and love. liberation is ours. believe in it.

Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d

Also relevant. The biggest crowd reaction she got:

“I’m not one that thinks everyone has to do the most radical thing.”

She pauses.

“I used to think that.”

Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 2d

i am not paying for it. i do appreciate people disseminating it for free.

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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 2d

if you're not on the streets, there are lots of ways to take action. and if you can't take action, take care of yourself and yours. stay safe.

Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 2d

i got my covid and flu vaccines and i mask up at protests, on public transit and also if i'm feeling sniffly. if you're going to be out on the streets, take care of yourself and the people around you. you know best what you need.

AddleBONES @addleben.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a doctor and recommend everyone get immunized against COVID and influence unless they know they're allergic to some vaccine component. If anyone needs a recommendation (standard caveat, I'm not *your* doctor).

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 2d

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 2d

protesting her in this way shifts attention from the still alive people in gaza right now. in theory, the current president is working on some kind of concepts of a peace plan. being visibly antizionist is good, though, but her event had low numbers so, not the highest impact. solid C+ for effort.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

ICE is up. Feds have been spotted in Rogers Park. Video is also circulating of Border Patrol grabbing someone near their usual hunting ground at the Home Depot in Cicero.

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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 2d

say her name, you pale suppository

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 2d

thiel has never read Watchmen or One Piece. he had AI summarize the plots and is expounding on that nonsense.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 3d

its nearly time for us to ingest plumpynut and nutrient wafers day after day, meal after meal. its not malnutrition, but its not going to feel good.

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 3d

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 3d

Remember that if DHS is this willing to lie about stuff with this level of scrutiny, your local cop will lie about the kid up for shoplifting who doesn't have a lawyer. Remember that when you're on a jury.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4d

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
@TriciaOhio
X.com
She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 3d

kidnappers are out here manhandling nice, white church ladies. federal agents are traitors.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 3d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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