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🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 8h

Potato chips do not need to have protein added to them, for christ's sake

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StayReadyStuffisPoppingoff @stuffispopping.bsky.social · 10h

Oh hi Baltimore 👋🏾🤭

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 11h

D'Angelo is dead at age 51 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer

D’Angelo Dead At 51

Terrible, shocking news: The great soul artist D’Angelo, one of the most gifted and mythic musicians of his generation, has reportedly passed away. TMZ reports that pancreatic cancer was his cause of ...

www.stereogum.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11h

one of the realest tributes to Prince anybody did after he died. Somebody major needs to get on TV and do for “The Charade” what D’Angelo did here

youtu.be/FeV7A6VWjL8?...

D'Angelo ft. Princess Sometimes It Snows in April

YouTube video by samuel

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13h

At least 19 Palestinian doctors are still being held in Israeli detention without charge.

Free Dr. Abu Safiya: Calls Grow for Israel to Release Imprisoned Gaza Healthcare Workers

Pressure is mounting for Israel to release many more detainees as part of the U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been he...

www.democracynow.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Gov. Bill Lee says Trump’s military-police occupation of Memphis “may never end.”

“We have just begun. We do know this is going to last for months… In fact, I will tell you that it will last forever.”

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: 45,000 health care workers just launched the biggest strike of the year.

Workers at Kaiser Permanente on the West Coast and in Hawaii have walked out to secure a contract.

These essential workers are fighting for patient care, good wages, and decent staffing.

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 12h

Famously, no war has ever been started because of taxes on any of those “functional substitutes”

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 12h

Haters are so back

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

bit.ly

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 12h

Actually I just look like I’m wrapped in blankets but in a nice way

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 13h

In prison, we wait in line for everything. But we wait most desperately for the end of our incarceration.

Living and Dying in Prison

Behind bars we wait in line for everything. The thing we await most desperately is the end of our incarceration.

prisonjournalismproject.org

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 14h

Turned a fit today out of spite

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 14h

I got a copper IUD so it’d kinda carry me to there lol

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 15h

Does this mean I’m about to hit menopause bc pls god I’m ready

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 15h

Dude who dumped me for a Pilates instructor some years back hit me up last night asking me to remind him of this book title, which is some kinda Nora Ephron ass c-plot

caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, can’t re-up on Dada and Surrealist Film when Gnomes to Crochet is singing its siren’s song

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 1d

If you own a bunch of books you’ve never read, it’s actually totally fine to pretend you have, no one cares

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 1d

Resisting arrest has long been used as a “cover charge” by police (in Chicago and elsewhere) after they use force against someone, as I reported back in 2018: www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-poli...

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

thirty-four people have been arrested outside the broadview ice detention center since illinois state police + the cook county sheriff's office set up "unified command" on oct. 3.

charges range from misdemeanors, like resisting/obstruction, to felonies, like criminal damage to government property.

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, can’t re-up on Dada and Surrealist Film when Gnomes to Crochet is singing its siren’s song

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning ☁️

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

This is why the work of community watch groups is so important. It's not just capturing the faces of ICE agents, but also their vehicles. In Massachusetts we are already seeing them adapt and change their tactics in response to the work of community groups.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 2d

She dries

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