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Riverboatjack

@riverboatjack.bsky.social

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streamer and political organizer socialist transgender former: game informer, extra life, xbox mag she/her business email: [email protected]

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · Jul 3

You are not wrong to be angry. You are not wrong to grieve. That is what it means to love and to see the people you love hurt.

We must turn that love, that anger, and all of that sorrow into action.

We must rise up as leaders, we must be loud in the streets, we must be bold and not give into fear.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 6h

Getting some things finalized, but tonight's stream is set to be the last in the interim studio!

Can't wait to show you all the new space. Aiming to be live in the next 30-45 minutes!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17h

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 8h

These absolute ratfuck bastards.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 13h

have they have started using a piss filter for these appearances or have they filled the room with that much shitty gold enamel that it is turning them all like that?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

I really just once a reporter would reply “oh are you gonna cry about it”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 13h

so, uh, you are all gonna wanna strap in for this one (and the other one coming tomorrow)

The Rabbit Hole Of Tyler Cowen (surprise at the end)

YouTube video by Riverboat Jack

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 14h

The US continues to use its military to murder foreign civilians from a country the US is not at war with and who pose no imminent threat that could conceivably justify a claim of self-defence, based entirely on allegations of criminal activity for which the penalty, if convicted, is not death.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

i cannot stress enough that kotaku, a video game website run on fumes and dreams, had substantially higher editorial standards in 2012 than CBS does in 2025

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 1d

Noroi: The Curse, Skinamarink (if you can get into the right head space - either super boring or terrifying depending), The Night House, and Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

It's weird that the guy who made the spyware app that Mike Johnson uses to spy on his son's porn-watching, and vice versa, was found to have a stash of CSAM and that just blipped right out of the news.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

bit.ly

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 1d

Head hurts too much and is filled with too much negative self-talk to stream tonight

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Lilliana Young for IN 61 @lillianayoung.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all mind helping a girl out? Head over to my YouTube channel and subscribe, maybe even drop some likes on my videos? It'll go a long way toward helping me spread my social media reach for my campaign.

www.youtube.com/@LillianaKen...

Lilliana Young

Indiana House of Representatives district 61 candidate, LGBTQ activist and city commissioner in Bloomington, Indiana.

www.youtube.com

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 1d

This is directly downstream from Trump destroying the capacity for rapid federal response to natural disasters. He sits on it and doles it out at his leisure sometimes months after the fact. You can see him do it routinely on Truth Social.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 1d

I think my brain is broken today.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

It currently takes 2.5+ years and $32.5bn+ a gigawatt of data center development and OpenAI says 10GW of Broadcom chips will be deployed by 2030.

Blandly repeating this stuff is failing readers. Call it what it is: nonsense

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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