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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24m

Marquette Park this morning, ~45 min ago at 70th and Washtenaw per anon FB post. Through a screen, someone films Border Patrol agents taking a man into a red minivan and driving away. Another angle of this shared to social media shows it happened in front of a daycare.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

You love to see it, folks

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 11m

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Ⓐnarchohoodism @161bklyn.bsky.social · 28m

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics

While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

newrepublic.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 39m

JD Vance will say literally anything that he thinks will get him more power. He is the platonic ideal of the soulless politician. No morals, no values, nothing but a yawning void that will never be fulfilled.

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 56m

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 58m

ICYMI: Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1h

University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:

Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2."

I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 57m

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 1h

January 6 and all that...
But
Why don't dems do these pressers every day?
(Or do we just get fed the gop ones because ragebait?)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

We’re already seeing the right spring into action to normalize calling Black people monkeys.

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‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2h

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 3h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3h

good morning to the student journalists and the student journalists only

The front page of a recent print issue of the Chicago Maroon, the student newspaper at the University of Chicago

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Dave Stieber @dstieber.bsky.social · 3h

“Can you imagine telling a 12-year-old that people are out there who might want to take their family?“
Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement near schools is scaring kids and disrupting class

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement near schools is scaring kids and disrupting class

Staff members are reporting ICE activity and patrolling areas around their schools and, in some cases, escorting families to and from school.

www.nbcnews.com

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Then do it.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h

You may have noticed that folks who are from Chicago love this city. There's a reason for that. I walked to the lake with friends yesterday, and when I saw the waves rolling in, I felt something shift back into place inside of me. So many parts of this city are part of me. We will defend this place.

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 12h

Lake Mungo had a lot more twists than I expected, but was enjoyable. The use of liminal spaces is pretty effective.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 14h

so cool how republicans will be lockstep in defense of their pack of baby hitlers while democrats will oust any millennial or zoomer from their ranks for saying that maybe insulin should be free or that we shouldn't send 45 trillion dollars a month to israel's ethnic cleansing budget

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MarkG (World Destruction Mix) @markggarcia.bsky.social · 14h

Because all these kids will grow up to be JD.

onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

jd vance is currently defending this

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 14h

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 14h

And, relatedly, they're not gonna get it. So they'd better focus on getting what we can (a realignment that favors Dems, and the total uprooting of MAGA political elites).

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 15h

Posters don’t want a real political system, they want Woke Lee Kuan Yew

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 14h

100 years.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 16h

We haven't built cities for over 70 years. Instead, we have invested taxpayer dollars in transforming cities into captive markets for the auto, oil, and gas industries.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14h

This is terrorism. Abolition of ICE and DHS is not enough.

(Photos by Anthony Vasquez, Chicago Sun-Times.)

A trio of cowardly, pathetic ICE agents hold a terrified man at gunpoint. The BORTAC patch, by the way, means Border Patrol Technical Unit.

Worthless lumps (ICE agents) pin down an unarmed, young Black man.

A domestic terrorism (ICE agent) lobs a canister of gas directly at an unarmed man trying to film the chaos on his phone

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

the most unsurprising thing in the world is now every rightwinger, all yhe way up to JD vance, have explicitely defended this and the statements made by those in this group. and that’s by design, every single rightwinger is now an extremist nazi

onion person @junlper.beer · 21h

these people know how extreme they are

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