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Dennis Goris @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 2d

Take back the flag!

No ideology has a lock on “American” imagery. Take it back! (send me your email for a printable file) #NoKings #NoKingsDay

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 19h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

First they came for the woodwind section, and I said nothing ...

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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brodner.bsky.social @brodner.bsky.social · 13h

We all have been blessed for years by the friendship and camaraderie of Clay Jones, one our most gifted and madly hilarious artists . . . and favorite people.
A stroke this week has set him back. Please consider chipping in to help in his recovery. Thanx.

Gofundme:

www.gofundme.com/f/clayjones

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 19h

my mother and her friends are preparing posters

they are all in their 90s

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 21h

I think this is what frustrates me the most about mask discourse: There's an acceptable middle ground of "wear one when you're sick" that both sides have decided is unacceptable despite being a reasonable position. I did it going to Walgreens yesterday, it's really not a big deal.

ceej @ceej.online · 1d

we were absolutely militant about masking. I love masks as a tool to prevent spreading illness and will happily put one on when I’m under the weather and need to be in public. the idea that we should all mask forever or until covid is “solved” (it’s endemic) is unserious. the vaccines are a miracle

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is at once Trumpism in its purest form and the endpoint of its progenitor, G*mergate: unqualified 22-year-old couch potatoes, failsons, and self-styled madmen given weapons and complete impunity to play IRL video games with people's lives, to ruin personal enemies or anyone who disdains them.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

"We've saving God."

I'm no theologian but I'm pretty sure in Christianity it works the other way around.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

It's interesting to me that when I and other authors suggest starting people new to SF/F on contemporary titles as an easier step-in to the genre, there are people who seem to think this means we think no one should read anything in SF/F that's more than 20 years old, EVER. This is, uh, very silly.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Unsure how many times I have to repeat it, but health care shouldn’t be for-profit.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 2d

Drug Rehabs Lure In Patients for Insurance Money—Then Leave Them on the Street

Operators promise high-end treatment, help addicts sign up for insurance then pile on charges for little in return, say former patients and insurers.

www.wsj.com

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 1d

Over and over again I think if people in power showed a fraction of the courage of random people trying to protect their neighbors this fight would already be over

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

Federal agents deployed tear gas in Albany Park as neighbors blocked an immigration arrest.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/13/f...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

There are hard questions we need to ask ourselves right now. But no matter what this administration is planning, we know who we are—we love democracy & plan to fight (peacefully) for it. In a moment where knowledge is power, here is what you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Are We the Nazis Now?

How do we meet this moment?

open.substack.com

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

If they were looking for criminals they wouldn’t be at schools or immigration hearings

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Fox Propaganda is desperately spinning the "No Kings" events in fearful anticipation of their success.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Ian @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 1d

Holidazzle won't be funded because the entire budget is going to R&D to create an even glossier flyer scaremongering about DSA-aligned commercial tax rates.

Andy @alleysofmpls.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown is back, baby!

Minneapolis Downtown Council pulls plug on Holidazzle and Aquatennial, seeks new organizer

After years of inconsistent funding, the business group is hoping others will continue or reimagine the city’s signature events as the area keeps working on its post-pandemic rebound.

www.startribune.com

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, we may be in agreement but I don’t like the way in which you agreed with me and you are now my sworn enemy.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 2d

We need work requirements for Congress.

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