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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 12h

Love to see them dehumanize an autistic child with a phrase that would be better used in Roswell.

Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 13h

This has gone on as long as we’ve had cops. They make up whatever they feel like, just to haul people in and abuse them for awhile. Whether it sticks is less important than just being able to deliver immediate vengeance under color of law.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 3d

We need to rewrite the laws so this kind of nebulous bullshit charge, so essential to enabling police brutality, is struck from the codes.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 19h

If you really intend to celebrate the first white or European person to discover the New World, you still need to yeet Columbus. Because the first white person to see it was Bjarni Herjólfsson, and the first to actually set foot on it was, of course, Leif Eriksson.
www.historyhit.com/the-vikings-...

Who Was the First European to Discover North America?

It is well known that Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ North America in 1492. Except, of course, he didn’t. Indigenous peoples had been making...

www.historyhit.com

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 13h

If the Times wants to pretend ignorance in the name of neutrality, let Roget’s Thesaurus lend a hand:
“censor, ostracize, cast out, blackball, discipline, punish, penalize, criminalize, disallow, expel, forbid, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, arrest.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

What Happened to Campus Activism Against the War in Gaza?

www.nytimes.com

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 16h

You know how people have for years put their salvation-and life savings-in the hands of Prosperity Gospel preachers? It’s like that, only politics.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 16h

He shall be called “Snacke”.
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 1d

“Nosewise” and “Snacke” seem like more than reasonable names for modern dogs and cats.
www.openculture.com/2022/11/a-li...

A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More

The Rovers, Fidos, and Spots of the world have been regarded since time immemorial as man's best friends. But they haven't always been named Rover, Fido, and Spot: early fifteenth-century English dog ...

www.openculture.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 18h

Good thread, but this, in the interview, stood out painfully:

Interview with Episcopal minister Re. Brokenleg:
“ S: Yeah—I think our Church has too often thought of race as basically a Black and white thing. I think the other thing is American Indians make up such a small portion of the entire population as a whole that often our voice gets silenced. Here’s a concrete example: the police officer who murdered George Floyd also murdered an Indigenous person years before and it didn't get the same hearing I think that George Floyd is getting. It’s obviously not a competition of who's oppressed more or anything, but had they taken that death seriously at the time and had then-Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar actually prosecuted the officer, George Floyd might not have ever been killed in the first place.”

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 19h

Handshake like a moray eel.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 19h

If you really intend to celebrate the first white or European person to discover the New World, you still need to yeet Columbus. Because the first white person to see it was Bjarni Herjólfsson, and the first to actually set foot on it was, of course, Leif Eriksson.
www.historyhit.com/the-vikings-...

Who Was the First European to Discover North America?

It is well known that Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ North America in 1492. Except, of course, he didn’t. Indigenous peoples had been making...

www.historyhit.com

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 19h

Back in 1980 we had a choice: to put a leash on the growing power of the rich and squelch the upward suck of money from poor to wealthy, or to let the new Gilded Age begin. This is what that choice wrought, and fascism is what it’s created. The possibility of peaceful change has almost vanished now.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 19h

Love it

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 22h

The whole point of Columbus Day was never about Italian heritage. It was to celebrate when the first white men officially charted a new world untroubled by their political & religious bullshit at home. It was literally to say, “Hurrah! People like us finally arrived to invent NEW European bullshit.”

a person is looking out a window at a beach with boats in the distance .

Alt: a native person on a beach watches balefully as Spanish boats arrive in the distance .

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 23h

This is exactly the kind of group Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò wrote about in 2020’s Identity Politics and Elite Capture: “Elites get outsize control over the ideas in circulation about identities by, more or less, the same methods and for the same reasons that they get control over everything else.”

RNS @rns.org · 23h

“Faith has always been central to my life, and to the lives of millions of New Yorkers across the five boroughs,” Adams, who grew up going to church in Queens, wrote in a statement to RNS.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/d...

Despite scandals, clergy say Eric Adams' faith partnerships revitalized NYC aid services

NEW YORK (RNS) — Adams’ legacy among faith communities is marked by an unprecedented partnership that brought congregations to the front lines of city governance in ways no modern mayor had before.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 23h

They tell us more about themselves on book tours and in speaking gigs than they ever did at their confirmation hearings, but somehow this public logorrhea is ok and refusing to cooperate at the hearing was the soul of discretion.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 23h

Directed by Aronofsky.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 23h

Culture war brewing…

Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social · 1d

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Brandon @bcfox.bsky.social · 2d

watching great British bake off and once again asking if the UK is aware that the war ended

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 23h

Hitler‘s time was a blip in 2000 years. But he signed a concordat with Pius XII’s Church, which later agreed to remain neutral. As news emerged of Hitler’s butchery of Jews, the church advised those reports were unreliable because Jews “easily exaggerate.”
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

Newly Unsealed Vatican Archives Lay Out Evidence of Pope Pius XII's Knowledge of the Holocaust

The Catholic Church's actions during World War II have long been a matter of historical debate

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 1d

Conservative Christianity has been 97% responsible for nearly every war, tyranny, and most of the atrocities committed in Europe & Britain from earliest history. It’s frightening to see a movement building over there that would bring it all back.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 1d

In an environment where so few “champions” seem to appear, it’s natural for people to cling to the few they’ve found. Even mild dissent from moral wafflers seems better than none. Yet we do need leaders with courage & virtue. Unfortunately history teaches that’s a very rare combination.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 1d

“Nosewise” and “Snacke” seem like more than reasonable names for modern dogs and cats.
www.openculture.com/2022/11/a-li...

A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More

The Rovers, Fidos, and Spots of the world have been regarded since time immemorial as man's best friends. But they haven't always been named Rover, Fido, and Spot: early fifteenth-century English dog ...

www.openculture.com

Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 1d

To be honest, I wouldn’t challenge my own deportation to Costa Rica either. I know people who pay hard-earned money just to be there for a week. And I hear there are dinosaurs.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good piece wow.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The faux feminism at work here is exactly the kind of shit that @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social was writing about when he wrote Elite Capture, the essay and book!

www.bostonreview.net/articles/olu...

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 1d

“…elite decision-making determines what options are available to non-elites. This is precisely the role that the press, social media influencers, military top brass, and titans of capital have in our lives. That is, they frame the conditions of work (and play) for the rest of us.”
Power > change.

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