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The pancakes are not a lie

@thecakeisnotalie.bsky.social

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I like cats He/Him If you do not support the universality of human rights, you're a monster. If you support governments that commit genocide, you're a monster. Far too many individuals are unable to rise above those VERY low bars.

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The pancakes are not a lie @thecakeisnotalie.bsky.social · Jul 17

Unpopular opinion: "a nation only for [X] people, where only [X] people can be citizens" is bad, regardless of which group [X] represents.

Supremacy is bad, regardless of the group which expresses it, and it is outright unacceptable when codified into policy or law.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.

I had it exactly backward.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP
AGENTS
STOP
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT
ATENCION AGENTES DE
ICE/CBP
STOP
NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN
JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door with sign reading:

PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO ICE

YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE
WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE

and a second sign:
PLEASE USE DOOR
ON 47TH ST.
BACK OF THE YARDS

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The pancakes are not a lie @thecakeisnotalie.bsky.social · 11m

Hey USians: you know how you keep saying a general strike isn't possible because people couldn't afford it?

GUESS WHERE YOU ARE ANYWAYS

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1h

Furloughed federal workers in Maryland line up for their local food bank.

Federal workers make considerably more money than those on SNAP.

If they can’t afford groceries, what hope do the 40 million Americans about to lose food assistance have?

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 51m

3 panel comic
1 two characters sitting at a table
- let’s not talk about politics any more I can’t bear i
- same
2 the characters sit in silence
3
- THE THING IS THOUGH
- THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS

Yort @yort.bsky.social · 2h

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3h

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

POLLS ARE NOW OPEN.

Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️
findmypollsite.vote.nyc

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Julie @okie1962.bsky.social · 14h

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pammageddon.bsky.social @pammageddon.bsky.social · 3h

It’s the cruelty they love about their jobs.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 3h

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

trib.al

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The pancakes are not a lie @thecakeisnotalie.bsky.social · 42m

FUCK YEAH, IRELAND

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Constantly whelmed @architectgp.bsky.social · 4h

She’s probably more left than the most leftist person who ran for US office in the last 50 years and didn’t get elected because they were too leftist.

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Miriam @miriam.blacksky.app · 4h

For context she’s probably more left than your most leftist elected representative

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Miriam @miriam.blacksky.app · 4h

For the Americans I know you don’t hear much global news but Ireland just elected Catherine Connolly as our president by a laaaaandslide ✊🏽

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3h

Um. Comparing the complaints about the Epstein Ballroom to NIBMYism is obscene.

AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 3h

Can't believe this is real

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The pancakes are not a lie @thecakeisnotalie.bsky.social · 1h

So disappointed in @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. Once, I would have thought he was a leftist and thus supported the universality of human rights, meaning *against Nazis*.

This shows otherwise. Just another shitlib. Gods damn it.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2h

i think i'm actually proud to have the biggest circle on this chart. show this to my grand children.

Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 5h

Sentiment on Bluesky toward Platner shifted abruptly, however, following various revelations including the Nazi tattoo and dismissive comments regarding rape and sexual assault. The majority of viral posts regarding Platner from October 15th onward are critical rather than supportive.

repost network for Bluesky posts containing "Platner" from October 15th to October 25th 2025

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

A different video captured after agents unleashed tear gas showed plumes of smoke billowing down the street as the crowd's piercing shouts and whistles reached a fever pitch.
Onlookers scurried to the sidewalk to get away from the chemicals, with one neighbor, Brian Kolp, seen walking away barefoot and in Chicago Blackhawks pajamas.
Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what's become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside
his window.
Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard.
Meanwhile, Kolp's TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents' use of tear gas.

Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do
throughout the Trump administration's
"Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months.
He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed
"Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents.
"Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution," Kolp said. "And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."

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armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 9h

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

“I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution… And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

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The Ghost of Nihl L'Amas @nih-llamas.bsky.social · 5h

Somebody said of the nazis, "they weren't given orders, they were given permission."

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dj zombie pizza 🧟‍♂️🍕 @djtommypizza.bsky.social · 5h

nuremberg 2.0 had better not show any sympathy towards a single member of their gang

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 6h

it's important to remember the people doing this aren't "just following orders," they signed up to do this, they're excited to do it, it's what they want to be doing, and each one of them is personally culpable for the entirety of ICE's conduct

The Weekend: Primetime @theweekendprime.bsky.social · 6h

In video provided exclusively to MSNBC's The Weekend: Primetime, immigration agents are seen attempting to pull a man out a window of a Chicago home. Agents also jumped a fence into the locked backyard and manhandled people doing work. Hear from the homeowner tonight on The Weekend: Primetime.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5h

This is a breaking news story.

Trump announces additional 10-percent Canada tariff over Reagan ad brouhaha

This is a breaking news story.

bit.ly

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The pancakes are not a lie @thecakeisnotalie.bsky.social · 6h

Gentle reminder: clean the cat hair and crumbs out of your keyboard.