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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22m

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19m

Oof, relatable disclosure in Illinois's/Chicago's National Guard case: One of Judge Perry's law clerks tried to text a fellow clerk to complain about DOJ, accidentally texted a friend who worked for the opposing party (IL AG's office)

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 15m
U.S. District Judge April Perry just took the bench for this morning's status hearing in Illinois v. Trump, over deployment of the National Guard.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 10m
Perry called everyone in to make a disclosure. After listening to 9th Circuit oral arguments on Nat Guard over the weekend, Perry says one of her clerks realized the government had taken a position there
"inconsistent" with what had been said in Perry's courtroom.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 8m
That frustrated law clerk texted someone they "believed" to be another law clerk, but who turned out to be a "friend of theirs who works at the Illinois attorney general's office."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 7m
That clerk realized what they'd done within about 90 seconds, deleted/edited the message and asked the friend if they'd read it. The friend said they'd "seen enough to know it was not meant for them."

Jon Seidel
@jonseidel.bsky.social
Bottom line: Perry says that clerk will no longer be working on this case, going forward.
Neither side made a motion based on this disclosure, but I didn't hear anyone rule it out, either.
Either way, hearing adjourned.
October 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 17m

Yellow fever, dengue, and malaria used to be endemic to river valleys and the southeastern US. That was back in the day before we had decorative man made ponds in gated subdivisions and stagnant puddles from lawn irrigation everywhere. They'd be much more widespread now.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 18m

the “what’s the worst game you’ve ever finished” thread revealed to me that a lot of people haven’t even begun to understand the depths of how bad video games can be

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 33m

Happy to block anyone whose contribution in this moment is to immediately police the language people are using to describe fed invasions of their cities. People are going to be imprecise. They are experiencing immense trauma. If you haven't had a gun pointed at you recently, maybe sit this one out

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 22m

what if I simply do not get out of bed

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queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 19m

i have a “no visiting florida” rule cuz i end up relapsing. sometimes we just can’t stomach going back.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 9h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 16h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 10h

I'm so angry at Fenway Health for capitulating to Trump's threats. I sent them a harsh email yesterday.

I know individuals with far more to lose who are braver than so many privileged people are and will STILL speak out- willing to risk it all by merely doing that.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 9h

Like this “poem” was almost added to the Congressional Record nearly 30 years after it was first circulated because the First Lady hosted a Black woman at a tea party for Congressional wives. This poem was written and circulated in the first place because Booker T Washington visited the WH!

Niggers in the White House - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 10h

one thing white people love is pretending we're going to be The Generation That Ends Racism

clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 14d

every generation treats the social progress of the previous one as the baseline and so every generation thinks they're more progressive than their parents, but we're not, it's always, always been about fifty fifty on whether *more* progress would be either good or the beginning of the end of society

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.

Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Article excerpt: Emily said she made clear the family didn’t have Venezuelan passports but was told that wouldn’t be a problem; the U.S. government would procure any necessary documents for them. They said the operator gave them an Aug. 1 departure date and told them to expect their plane tickets by email.

Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved with their children to Columbus, Ohio, where Deybis’ nephew let them stay in his unfinished basement apartment until their departure. The plane tickets never came.

Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported. Panicked, Emily and Deybis said they called the toll-free number again and again, leaving messages that went unanswered. Emily submitted a new application and sent more emails.

Article excerpt: ...They found travel agencies that offer to procure travel documents at a cost but said they were told the Venezuelan government requires an arrival date and proof that plane tickets have been purchased. Emily and Deybis can’t afford them.

“Thank you so much for your patience and we understand your frustration,” they heard back in another email. “Wait for new instructions from DHS.”

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

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queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 10h

there’s these queers that assembled a little land project in the mountains a few hours away that’s all fragrance free and covid realist. maybe i need to move there.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 12h

Shit, you don't domesticate boars because they're good eating necessarily, you do it because putting them in a pen is basically the only thing that stops them from killing everyone in the tri-barony area.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 12h

Feds have got until midnight tonight to take down the fence in front of the Broadview ICE facility, per a recent ruling from district judge LaShonda Hunt.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 12h

Not sure what’s up but this flatbed with what appears like more fence materials has pulled up outside Broadview.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 12h

“The best man is just an average woman” gets proven to me every damn day on these here internets

𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒚 grace @acab4cutie.top · 12h

an angel loses its wings every time a man gets praised for doing something the average woman does every day

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13h

Remember the Trump administration's unsuccessful Labor Day effort to expel children to Guatemala?

The lawyers filed an amended complaint today, expanding the scope of the litigation — reflecting the long-term goals of the administration to do the same thing with kids from many countries.

INTRODUCTION
1. This is a complaint on behalf of hundreds of children at risk of unlawful removal
from the United States.
2. Plaintiffs are unaccompanied minors in Office of Refugee Resettlement (“ORR”)
custody whom Defendants have sought or are seeking to remove from the United States in clear
violation of the unambiguous protections that Congress has provided them as vulnerable
children. Defendants have unlawfully claimed the power to expel these children, in violation of
the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (“TVPRA”), the Immigration
and Nationality Act (“INA”), and the Constitution. Plaintiffs seek to represent a class of
unaccompanied children who are or will be placed in ORR custody and who do not have a final
order of removal or grant of voluntary departure by an immigration judge

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 15h

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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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Margaret Manto @margaretmanto.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: Mental health workers supporting CDC employees after the August shooting at the agency's headquarters were among those laid off last week.

Read the story here:

www.notus.org/health-scien...

‘A Kick in the Mouth’: Trump Administration Makes Staffing Cuts to CDC’s Safety Office Months After Shooting

The cuts were made to an office whose role includes providing mental health support for employees affected by the August shooting at CDC headquarters.

www.notus.org

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13h

I checked, and Mercury is not in retrograde. This is just how things are now apparently.

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