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Secret Third Thing @gochujung.bsky.social · 1h

I spent time medicking otg yesterday in Broadview, and yes things were absolutely as chaotic and violent as this video depicts, especially stuck in the middle of it as ISP stampeded at protestors with batons raised. At one point, they opened their line just to drag someone away. Terrifying.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Trans Rescue Action 🏳️‍⚧️ @transrescueaction.bsky.social · Mar 30

There is ongoing scam happening posing as a black trans safe house in Texas. The fake org is "Black Trans Texas Connection."

There is an IG page
@blacktransscam

that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 13h

turns out the answer to “are they malicious or just stupid” — a question often asked about big media boss types — is “yes, but sliiiightly more the former”

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 23h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 14h

coil soundtrack would have gone HARD

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

Quick update on what we just saw here—*before curfew*, ISP troopers, Broadview PD and CCSO deputies began menacing demonstrators outside the ICE facility. Several arrests.

Pepper ball guns at the ready, a bit of a standoff going with remaining protesters. All people are doing is playing music.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 15h

Tonight, in Broadview — a suburb outside of Chicago where Illinois state troopers are doing crowd control near the ICE detention center.

Read the thread from @unraveledpress.com

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

more ideas that anyone can take up in their community.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Necro Supernaut XIII @necrobutcher187.bsky.social · 17h

Go West by the Village People and The State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics being identical is one of the few things that have made human kind worthwhile

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 17h

every time we’re out here we see new types of cops.

looks like the illinois department of correction’s tactical team is also here on site.

background: www.chicagoreporter.com/new-uniforms...

two cops in dark blue uniforms stand next to another cop wearing a blue polo

a close-up of one officer’s patch. it reads “tactical dept corrections. illinois sort.”

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 17h

that picture of paul ryan lifting weights is scarred into my memory

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 18h

i get that some staffer is churning these out but a simple “thank you for writing, we take our constituents’ opinions seriously” would have gone many, many miles further

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 18h

btw i both called and wrote pritzker’s office to register my displeasure with state and county cops’ behavior at broadview and the answer i got back was practically nonsensical. i didn’t save it but it did not address any of my concerns directly

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 18h

GET AN ACTUAL POWER ANALYSIS, i am yelling, always

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 18h

guess i’ve passed the “can have feelings online” rubicon

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18h

people really think like this huh

Ed
@ed3d.net
Follow
accounts with tens of thousands of followers do not get to "vent" or make shit up to panic their followers. there is no "but" after this sentence.
I do not have tens of thousands of followers but explicitly refuse to sow panic; these people can do likewise
October 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 18h

I openly had my misgivings about how a cis white man may handle this topic, but it's so unbelievably refreshing to see a politician, and a party leader at that, answer the question "can a woman have a penis?" with a simple "yes". No obfuscation, no trying to answer a different question, just "yes".

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 22h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Zoë, a humorless transsexual @dahlingzoe.bsky.social · 1d

i will not allow trans women in mens prison to be discussed without mentioning v-coding and that they have a NAME FOR IT, and that trans women are little rewards for the wardens to hand out.

THEY KNOW WE ARE WOMEN. AND THEY KNOW TRANS WOMEN DIE THERE.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 18h

fair enough. we’ll see

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 18h

look at what actually moves people, though. it isn’t conceding or being afraid to say what actually matters

‘Just plain old Larry’: A Wisconsin man’s testimony about gender-affirming care went viral. Here’s his story.

Milwaukee retiree Larry Jones, 85, came to a legislative hearing supporting a ban. He changed his mind after hearing from transgender youth.

www.wpr.org

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 18h

you do that by not accepting that right-wing framing in the first place. spanberger has accepted their framing. i have no hope she will actually fight for us when it counts

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 18h

these opinions shifted majorly since 2014 because a coalition of extremely well-funded christian nationalists pushed scaremongering stories through right-wing media, not because people are inherently bigoted. they can be shifted back

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it's me @coolguytim.bsky.social · 19h

our governor @govpritzker.illinois.gov could stop this from happening but chooses not to. he is directly aiding the same people he falsely claimed would have to “go through” him

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

Again today, local police outside Broadview just aggressively arrested more protesters. Tough to tell exactly how many, but looks like 3-4 people were just detained.

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Deaderick M 👻🎃 @mfrederickm.bsky.social · 20h

Happy National Coming Out Day, folks.

... I say that it is time to open the closet door and let in the fresh air and the sunshine; it is time to doff and to discard the secrecy, the disguise, and the camouflage; it is time to hold up your heads and to look the world squarely in the eye as the homosexuals that you are, confident of your equality, confident in the knowledge that as objects of prejudice and victims of discrimination you are right and they are wrong, and confident of the rightness of what you are and of the goodness of what you do; it is time to live your homosexuality fully, joyously, openly, and proudly, assured that morally, socially, physically, psychologically, emotionally, and in every other way:
Gay is good. It is.
The Same Sex:
An Appraisal of Homosexuality by Frank Kameny

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Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social · 20h

Works out to roughly $19,656 USD per enrolled musician at a cost of about $7.43 per Irish citizen. In contrast, the US Govt spends only about 59 cents per citizen on the entire national endowment for the arts (across all artistic disciplines).

DJ Mag @djmag.com · 1d

Ireland’s government is pressing ahead with plans to permanently implement a basic income scheme that will support 2,000+ artists, creative workers and musicians in 2026

djmag.com/news/ireland...

Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists to be made permanent in 2026

The scheme aims to support 2,000 artists and creative workers, paying each successful applicant €325 a week

djmag.com

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 21h

Just as we helped our friends flee Israel’s bombardment of Gaza City, we now must support their return — to reclaim their hometown and rebuild their lives.

Invest in Samaa’s family 🙏

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

Samaa❤❤ @samaa0181.bsky.social · 1d

SOS
The place I was in before the displacement was completely destroyed
Now homeless and insecure.
I need $800 to pay for transporting my furniture to Gaza and to rent a room for my daughters
Winter is coming and my daughters can't live in tents
@mommunism.bsky.social
gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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