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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

"Look, I'm one of a handful of people that don't take corporate PAC money."

"What about AIPAC money? You take AIPAC money, don't you?"

"A minuscule percentage of my resources come from..."

"I read it's like $800,000...."

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 18h

Right after Prince died, D'Angelo went on THE TONIGHT SHOW and performed "Sometimes It Snows In April" with Princess. It remains one of the most beautiful, emotionally raw things I've ever heard. RIP.

(Audio-only at this link, but it's still worth hearing.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeV7...

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Patrick @thuartpeatrick.bsky.social · 20h

Things ICE is afraid of:

Street vendors
Delivery guys
Women in bathrobes
Ambulances
Whistles
People on bikes

It’s like they put your neighbor’s yippy dog in charge of the gestapo

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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Patrick @thuartpeatrick.bsky.social · 1d

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Patrick @thuartpeatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Pop stars should get a grip, but agents who point guns at unarmed people on bikes are totally rational. Got it.

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 1d

These people are so thin skinned. It’s pathetic that they feel like they have to respond to everything. Fucking embarrassing government

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Frankendarling @futurehasbeen.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power to a true American hero.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 1d

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Patrick @thuartpeatrick.bsky.social · 1d

I hate the word pretentious, but people should be more pretentious. There’s nothing wrong with reading easy stuff, but it shouldn’t be all you read. It should be a little embarrassing to only read books that don’t challenge you.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Patrick @thuartpeatrick.bsky.social · 1d

This is very hinged, actually. It’s the rest of the world that’s unhinged

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Cemetery Rozier 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 2d

That new Nike/Ken Griffey Jr. ad features a snippet of Bo Jackson running up the wall in 1990 and I think you could go all in if you wanted that this was the single coolest play in baseball history

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Patrick @thuartpeatrick.bsky.social · 2d

If ain’t broke, don’t fix it

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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juridical.bsky.social @juridical.bsky.social · 2d

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

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Patrick @thuartpeatrick.bsky.social · 2d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what are you going to do about these dangerous thugs threatening peaceful Illinois citizens trying to protect their neighborhood?

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2d

The ultimate “three tickets for Challengers please” photo

Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty in REDS

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Eric @wordandvoid.bsky.social · 2d

Every single ice person is the bully in school who was only tough around their friends and would get the shit kicked out of them when it counted. Just an astounding amount of bitch with these people

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 2d

Also can we talk about how insane it is to act like consumers have some social obligation to “find a use” for a new product, rather than the onus being on products designers to make useful shit?

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 2d

How it started: How it’s going:

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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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Patrick @thuartpeatrick.bsky.social · 2d

They’re so fucking scared. a bunch of little boys jumping out of their big twucks with all their tactical gear to throw a tantrum at some guy on a bike.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 2d

Just about everyone vulnerable has been told to stay inside. There are literally hundreds of trained emergency response people on the streets of the 1.8 sq mile neighborhood. ICE is driving through alleys looking for anyone who’s brown

This is Fugitive Slave Act stuff + foreign occupation

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 3d

Rogers Park

Northernmost lakefront n’hood in Chicago

Home of Loyola U (RIP Sister Jean)

One of few n’hoods w no racial majority. One of the most densely populated places in America, & one of the most racially/ethnicly/religiously/linguistically diverse

An amazing community

And under attack

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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