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trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · Aug 8

Turning on the fantasy author camera filter to say,

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New stories coming soon! | The Dream of the White Stag and Other Stories by Kristofer Nivens

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

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

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trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · 3h

He needs to break down his base to prepare them for the brain chip

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 8h

Out at Broadview to see if the fence will be taken down today. The Iron Workers at local 63 which is near by the facility are wearing “Fuck Trump” buttons and heckled Ben Bergquam and Terry Newsome as they tried to antagonize protesters on Beach Street.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 10h

OpenAI pivoting to sex bots for adults (notably they have to specify "for adults" because the industry do be like that) is good evidence for my thesis that AI and other synthetic/virtual world technologies are ultimately part of a class of somnambulant social control technologies

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 10h

I’m glad this was published but christ it is difficult not to feel pissy that almost nobody listened to the folks who were warning of this a decade ago

Politico @politico.com · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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.

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trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · 10h

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The Jock/Creep Theory of Fascism

It's Real and It Works

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 15h

the third bullet seems like it could prevent travel to a ton of conferences

Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 17h

Found the publicly-available version on the FSU website: provost.fsu.edu/sites/g/file...

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trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · 15h

Creating change, preventing change, or talking about change, or not talking about change...

trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · 15h

We are saving God

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 15h

Sapiens is mostly a Hayekian/neoliberal just-so story dressed up as history

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · 15h

There it is, this is why we lost public weather monitoring

trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · 15h

The Vices of Others

trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone here have "Knowledge of decorative arts, arms and armor and/or material culture, from the 12th to 18th centuries"?

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

We've heard them saying this more lately. Gotta be a group chat throwing these ideas around.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · 1d

It's grimly hilarious to me that the US brass takes itself so fucking seriously and yet is unwilling to do a single thing for our Constitutional rights, which they will always boast of having sworn an oath to.

I don't think they even know how to get off their knees.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2d

Bigger news is that an appeals court has blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois, leaving federalized IL and TX troops just sort of hanging around. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 3d

I suspect one reason they hide their identities is to conceal past restraining orders and DV arrests.

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 3d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Deroldsen @deroldsen.bsky.social · 3d

LE: "this is a fascist takeover, so of course we are going to assist"

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

While this is going on here, ICE has been spotted on foot + in vehicles across SW + NW sides of Chicago. Can't verify reports rn, but also presuming suburbs. Yesterday was brutal. It's not lost on us they have more agents free for weekend kidnappings now with their facility secured by state police.

trench collapse saboteur (ringleader) @solidaritygoth.bsky.social · 3d

ACAB

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

People here have been periodically begging local police to stop them, to "do something." One protester is crying.

Another caravan (including the ICE SUV) departs. Seeing more Border Patrol inside.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

radical proposition but has anyone reconsidered the necessity of publicly arguing with a yuri artist on the historicism of electoral politics with respect to ending jim crow

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Ennui Oakley @spacecaseydet.bsky.social · 3d

gaslighting the ghost in my house by pretending I can’t see it

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 3d

The amount of grief, information overload and unease we are all experiencing in cycle after cycle is affecting us all in different ways.

Fascism is incredibly cognitively invasive and manifests in waves through our lives.

We must learn to treat ourselves with grace as the noise increases.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3d

This year, I've had so many productivity issues. Whole days lost, deadlines completely blown I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with me

Yeah, so for the last 48 hours I decided to tune out the news and concentrate on an article and surprise surprise: it was the fascism this whole time

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3d

while people protest, ice has been all over the chicago area today abducting people.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3d

masked federal agents have been on a tear through chicago neighborhoods today—enabled in no small part by the state + local cops now running security for ice in broadview.

at least 2 people abducted in cicero, 2 in humboldt park/hermosa, 3 in garfield ridge. sightings in schaumburg + hanover park.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

More vehicles with masked Border Patrol agents inside departing. It's a busy, busy morning for the secret police.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3d

hello from outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois.

i’m at the corner of 25th and harvard, where a small (for now) crowd is gathering to protest the masked federal agents abducting people throughout chicagoland.

state and local police have already made a handful of arrests today.

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