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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 53m

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 56m

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1h

More incredible photography from Anthony Vazquez of the @chicago.suntimes.com. The photo credits are in the alt text.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 3h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 2h

Reporting live from the "hellhole" of Chicago, where I biked along the lake for 10 miles and caught a gorgeous sunset.

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your friendly neighborhood mel @geekmisconduct.bsky.social · 4h

My view leaving work - I’m not sure how I survive living in this hellhole

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 4h

so i guess dog shit is gonna have to do.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 4h

my friend's family lives down on the east side and they saw this in their neighborhood. there isn't a hell strong enough for them. #chicago

it's a box on a sidewalk that says "collecting dog shit to throw at ICE. feel free to leave some or take" and there's a few bags of dog shit in there.

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A tired Veteran @saltyvet1991.bsky.social · 1d

We live in a society (especially in America) where we have decided that if you are not working you don’t deserve food, housing, or medical care. With this in mind, eliminating jobs without talking about UBI or some other kind of safety net you are just saying those people can go die

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

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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kay taylor rea but spooky @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 4h

kudos to Wired for using this photo of RFKJ looking like the goddamn grim reaper because that’s exactly what this anti-science eugenicist piece of shit is

WIRED @wired.com · 5h

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 6h

So we read Rebecca Kinkade's STREAMS AND SCHEMES.
fatedmates.net/episodes/2025/10/6/0804-we-love-you-chicago-dc-and-la

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 6h

Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 10h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 5h

absolutely. and so they could be a photo op for this evil.

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 6h

I never cared for it when the city spent money to change the names on all the signs at the airports for a new mayor.

But it’s more than next level to try to use videos in airports to crap on your political rivals.

Chicago resists - again chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

O'Hare, Midway refuse to play video of Kristi Noem accusing Democrats of government shutdown

They join a growing list of airports refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary due to its partisan messaging.

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Nem @emmatypesstuff.bsky.social · 6h

The reason booktok has a reputation for liking poor books is because it skews to younger readers who are naturally going to have their minds blown by new literary experiences. It's the start of a journey for them.

(Publishing allowing booktok to dictate the industry norms is another issue)

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 8h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 6h

bet the actual number is zero.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 8h

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

thetriibe.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 7h

Hey Scientific American, since you don't care about copyright law, you're going to release all your copyrighted materials to the public and no longer charge people for licenses right? This rights request is about to be deleted from your website, I'm sure. www.scientificamerican.com/contact-us/

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 7h

Setting aside graverobbing woman who died in no small part due to men exploiting her image, copyright violations aren't "growing pains." It's literally the law. They’re breaking the law. Without copyright law, there is no creative industry, and without a creative industry, there is no genAI.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 7h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Final Girlboss @scarletteharris.bsky.social · 8h

I had a really great interview with Eleanor Johnson about her new book. If you're a horror/feminism fan, definitely pick this up! www.jezebel.com/horror-movie... via @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

How Horror Movies and Women’s Rights Have Been ‘in Lockstep’ Since the 1970s

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

www.jezebel.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

It’s funny how that works right? How the concepts most closely associated with Black thinkers regularly become a pejorative shorthand when they gain salience among white people.

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 8h

105/N. Feds rammed a car that crashed into another, then a foot chase. Neighbors protested. Gas deployed by feds earlier today. Here's what they left behind. A thread of photos. #chicago

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 8h

oh wow they are who we knew they were

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 8h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Feds tear-gas crowd after car chase leads to crash on Chicago's East Side

This story is developing so check back later for more details.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds tear-gas crowd after car chase leads to crash on Chicago's East Side

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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