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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021."

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12h

Entire Precinct Made Up Of Loose Cannons https://theonion.com/entire-precinct-made-up-of-loose-cannons-1819569414/

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 12h

OMG there goes my fancy scarlet ikat lamp from Pooky Lighting. Exported from Britain and sent to an American friend to ship to Toronto because in this great country of Canada you can only buy white lampshades, cone, drum or scalloped. I have had it with Trump. We are the Etsy ladies. Fear us.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

I am in love with this story because as it turns out, some people would indeed take in Anne Frank as the Gestapo went from door to door. Wondered if that spirit was gone.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

“Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.”

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

Substack. Bluesky.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

Hah!

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

Aren't they fascinating. The Truce was Levi's best, I think, have re-read it many times.

Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

Thank YOU, fine reader.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

God no. That's very nice of you but I just type. I have a bent finger from years of typing. (I won a typing trophy in high school and that's where it all began.)

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

I post this child-rearing column by Seamas O'Reilly because it's a bit eerie at this time. Even American adults don't want to cross the street now without their own blankie, their stuffy and their emotional support pancake. I wouldn't. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

‘My daughter gets homesick when she goes to nursery – opp...

More surprising still are the random objects she clings to for emotional support

observer.co.uk

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Scott! I’ll start Substacking, I think, as soon as I recover my sang-froid, though it’s probably out of reach now for me and absolutely everyone else.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, but no thanks. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli

Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 3d

Uh, I don't mean to alarm anyone but hoolllyyy sheeet. 👇
H/T @steve1970peng.bsky.social

"To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to negotiate an agreement with the Government of Canada for integrated cross-border aerial, land, and maritime law enforcement operations, and for other purposes."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds like they're gearing up for a violent crackdown. The talking points obviously went out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

Incidentally, I'm racing out to buy an iphone before my work phone officially dies at midnight. I can't imagine being phoneless even briefly, even for a day, and that says nothing good about what working as a columnist, especially in the last two years, did to my cut-price brain.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

I quit slowly, then fast. Today's my last day at my very dear newspaper, the Toronto Star. My last column is about the birth of the legal concept of "duty of care," how that extends in daily life, and what the Gorsuch "frozen trucker" ruling said about modern law. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Heather Mallick: I’m saying farewell — and leaving you with this lesson about care and power from a dead snail in a bottle of ginger beer

The minutely beautiful Paisley Snail concept has been huge in consumer law. But the concept hasn’t really caught on in the self-proclaimedly individualist U.S. where Donoghue would likely be accused

www.thestar.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

If People Magazine wants to restore their credibility, they'll recognize me as Sexiest Man Alive. I've earned it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Scalise: "If Nobel wants to restore what used to be a once dignified prize, they can restore their credibility by awarding President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize. He's earned it."

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

How will Trump punish Venezuela for snatching away his Nobel Peace Prize? Missile strikes on Venezuelan beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets and hills? We wait agog.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

The great journalist Helen Lewis on going without a cellphone for a few days. It's good apparently. | The Bluestocking 386: Sun miracles and showgirls open.substack.com/pub/helenlew...

The Bluestocking 386: Sun miracles and showgirls

a layered lasagne of toilet paper

open.substack.com

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Eric Robert Reguly @ereguly.bsky.social · 2d

Terribly sad story

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them

www.theguardian.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, that must be why.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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