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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 2h

the point of understanding racism against European immigrants isn’t to argue “white people had it rough too,” it’s to understand that whiteness isn’t about skin color, it’s about proximity to power.

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 2h

One of the most infamous man-made disasters in American history happened in an Italian neighborhood in Boston because of rampant racism and anti-immigrant xenophobia

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 15h

Number 2: Yes, we were considered white people in every way that mattered.

Italian people, Irish people and all other groups of immigrants experienced discrimination and prejudice. Sometimes people still hold such prejudices, but I'm not that mad if people think I can have them killed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10h

Look, I get that we all want to like that frog pretending to be Obama “Hop” poster, but you all understand it’s obviously AI, right?

It has that pissbrown sheen suffusing the entire thing that’s even more obvious when you compare it to the original.

I’m not alone in seeing this, right?

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 12h

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Immigration Hotline.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 11h

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14h

It's always so shocking to me how many MA Democrats treat the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation as a good-faith nonpartisan actor and not a right-wing corporate front group. Same for the Chamber of Commerce.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 1d

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 10h

the zohran rally tonight was really fascinating to witness. it wasn’t mindless cultishness as gets characterized by rwers. people were keenly present, engaged. not reflexive call & response, but like the stage continued on to them, part of it. it was both familiar and new. optimistic with gravitas.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 16h

Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.

If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 16h

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Lynnae Terrill @lynnae.bsky.social · 15h

My only consolation is know that he probably absolutely hates this unflattering photo.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 17h

… today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries is announcing that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point: the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs.

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

the funniest thing about this is that those of us who grew up in the divide all have a bunch of pre-cell phone numbers memorized and almost none afterwards

I know the home phone numbers of two of my childhood best friends from thirty years ago and none of the cell numbers of my college friends

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 18h

there's no such thing as "abusing a right" either you have rights or you don't

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 19h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Katy M @writebikerepeat.bsky.social · 19h

I think this is enough to push me over the edge into despair. Of all the riders at that race who desperately want to be there, and to win, and the person who is winning doesn't even like the race. Just plain depressing.

Pamina Rainbowtufts Lover (x2) 🌈🌈🌈 @pamina85.bsky.social · 22h

Pogi calling the TDF "a necessary evil", he always says the nicest things about his favourite race ❤️

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Lynnae Terrill @lynnae.bsky.social · 20h

oh hell yeah 🔥🔥🔥

Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 20h

Brookline Transportation Board chair Brian Kane on whether to allow Prairie Fire in CC to use 5 parking spots for outdoor seating:

"I think it's a lot better to have a beer garden than to store private automobiles.

You want to put your steel box somewhere? Okay. I'd rather have a beer garden."

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 23h

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog!
So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

cop, lying: Me and my friends, who are troops, will delete Candy Crush if Zohrani 'Hussein' Mamdani is mayor of New York City. We are the most active users on the platform and this could affect the stock market

Bari Weiss: Chilling. And not the cool weed kind of chilling. This week on 60 Minutes

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 1d

Simple way to avoid car companies bricking your vehicle by installing a forced software update: make sure your vehicle is a bicycle.

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The future is great, huh?

"A software update to Jeep 4xE models caused major malfunctions over the weekend – leaving many owners stranded and some in danger after their power failed."

www.thestack.technology/jeep-softwar...

Jeep software update bricks vehicles

“Please exercise extreme caution”

www.thestack.technology

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

This really highlights how negotiations between Israel and Palestine are negotiations between an occupier and an occupied people.

Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5d

As usual, Tennessee Holler lifts video without crediting creator. No location or date. No ID of person shot in the head w/less lethals. All findable!

By removing context, Tennessee Holler damages activism and makes misinfo more likely.

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WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

vertical video of a minister looking up and talking to ICE agents on the roof of the Broadview, IL ICE facility.

October 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM

Everybody can reply
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

A miracle they’re still alive. Elated for their families. Can’t help but think of all the hostages who would have also come home two years ago had Netanyahu chosen his own people over his thirst for war.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Hamas has released all 20 remaining living hostages.

The Israeli military says it has taken custody of them and will transport them onward to Israel. Follow AP's live updates.

Live updates: Israel says Hamas hands over first 7 hostages to Red Cross as part of Gaza ceasefire

The key exchange follows a breakthrough ceasefire after two years of war. U.S. President Donald Trump was also arriving in the region along with other leaders to discuss the U.S.-proposed deal and postwar plans.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

I hope that for the rest of Shapiro's life his rabbi, his bubbe, his mother & everyone else in his life point & say, "You did this. You."

And yes, the gates of tshuvah/repentance + repair are always open, but he's got a looot of work to do to grasp to the extent of the harm he's caused. A lot.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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