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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 4h

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 4h

lukewarm take: Karaites are effectively just rabbinic Jews who rejected the Geonim as binding authority

Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 8h

Oh lol someone else had the same thought

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 8h

Acher?

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Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 8h

Same way I feel about gas prices. If you want people to keep oil in the ground you need to make it hurt to drive a gas-powered car. And if you do keep it in the ground, you will make it hurt to do that inevitably

👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 12h

honestly the beef industry should crash because it is extremely environmentally destructive

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

US beef prices have now reached a record high.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 9h

People who say "you can't possibly read everything you cite" are saying a lot about themselves, IMO.

It doesn't have to be a heavy lift. I spend about half an hour a day processing new-to-me papers by organizing them in my reference managers & adding topical tags so I can create bibliographies.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 10h

Said this before, but at a church mtg my BFF was at (topic: protect trans kids) they were deciding on public actions. Two white dudes (25-35) were worried about violent reactions by cops. Oldest white woman there asked "Who here has been tear gassed?" and every woman over 50 raised her hand.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10h

Fellas, this upzoning thing ... doesn't it strike you all as a little Jewy, if you catch my drift?

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10h

hhngngngngngngn

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think you can “abuse” your right to protest

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 12h

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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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 21h

🚨ATTN: PA🚨

‼️VOTER REG ENDS 10/20

VOTE YES TO RETAIN 💥DEM MAJORITY 💥 PA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
Christine Donohue
Kevin Dougherty
David Wecht

‼️If using mail in ballots, the Supreme Court Justices are
located on the flip side.

‼️In the voting booth, they will be located at the bottom of the screen.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9h

they're freaking the fuck out, they have no plan, and the entire ship is manned by a doddering pedophile conman who only knows how to live tweet through his anger and fears as he watches fox news give live reactions to the stock market.

onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

oh, worm?

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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 22h

Choose humanity.
Choose peaceful resistance.

“Let’s be antifascists, by which I mean let's be humans. Let's be wise and normal and silly and joyous and brave and hopeful.”

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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LBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 12h

The most notable aspect of the second half of bidens term was how frail he was *politically.* just constantly getting steamrolled by the press, Trump, and Netanyahu and laying down to die in the lame duck. Didn't even force the release of both Smith volumes, which he had the power to do.

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 9h

Fundamentally they did not want to admit that they’d boxed themselves out of alternatives rather than admit that the shitposters were onto something

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12h

The other fun one is where people retcon the joe biden being forced out by leftist posters rather than like a bunch of dem insiders leaking to the times axios and other rags starting early spring 2024. like pelosi was leaking this shit by march and most of the ones pushing it early didnt want harris

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12h

fact it didn’t fucking work. It didn’t work electorally, it didnt work geopolitically, it didn’t work for tens of thousands of dead palestinians

how did joe biden spend the lame duck? great question, calling on world leaders to continue supporting israel after the likud coalition helped elect trump

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12h

biden gave 14,000 mk84’s (the 2000lb bombs). almost all to possibly all of those were given in 2023. this is more than we dropped between 1999-2009 and slightly less than three times what we dropped against saddam in the first 6 weeks of OIF

By the time they were cut off (may, 2024) there was no

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 9h

excessive hgh has negative cognitive effects, including upregulation in fear memory formation

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 11h

Holy shit the AG ordered an arrest of a mayor independent of his actions

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

"She wants to grab him," Ricky Patel said before he had had any exchange w/Ras Baraka. Even after Baraka left the facility, Patel said, "I’m going to place the Mayor in handcuffs. We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

www.emptywheel.net

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hrlatinam.bsky.social @hrlatinam.bsky.social · 9h

If people are peacefully protesting, leave them alone. Stop doing this admin's horrible bidding by helping them limit free speech.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 12h

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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marxuckerberg @marxuckerberg.bsky.social · 9h

People are calling this a Mickey Mouse peace deal and I agree. Too bad Joe Biden was too stupid and evil to engineer one of his own

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 10h

Ngl this is really alarming stuff, like what does he know about defense acquisition?

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 10h

The Shawn Ryan — AUSA nexus is worse than I thought. He was on a panel with SECARMY + others to hear pitches from industry. Completely unserious.

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Pumpkinloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social · 15h

The Federal government has attacked Chicago but Chicagoans are doing a great job documenting what is happening. However, I do not feel that there is a solid timeline of key events forming, and so I put one together

Here is a 🧵with details on each, including sourcing and videos. AMA

A timeline I have put together to document key monents in the attack on Chicago:

6/16/2025 : Limited but heavily militarized and anonymized ICE activity
9/19/2025 : Broadview Escalation: 9/22/2025: Broadview: More chemical irritant use:
9/23/2025: Silverio Villegas González Murdered
9/26/2025: Broadview Scrum 1: Vehicular Violence and indiscriminate chemical irritants
9/30/2025: South Shore Raid
10/3/2025: Logan Square Tear Gassed
10/3/2025: Broadview Scrum 2: ISP+ crowd control; Deliberate attack on protesters by ICE while filming for content, Dan Bovino
10/3/2025: Arrested Alderman
10/4/2025: Brighton Park Stand Off
10/10/2025: WGN Producer Aggressively Arrested under suspicious reasons, no charge
10/12/2025: Albany Park Standoff

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 10h

This is very hinged

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