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outsider17.bsky.social
Fatty Mackerel 2.0
@outsider17.bsky.social
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I can never think of anything clever for my bio.
Political takes, reviews, and other special interests (mostly reality tv)
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outsider17.bsky.social
Literally just gambling. Everything is gambling now.

Same company that just partnered with CNN to include "prediction markets" in their global newsroom btw
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
outsider17.bsky.social
Explained to my cat what Thanksgiving is and some of the history behind it because it's his first one
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
outsider17.bsky.social
This whole situation with the 2 national guardsmen being shot in DC is extremely fishy to me. It's too perfect of a story for the administration: Afghan national who WORKED WITH THE CIA during the war and came to America under a Biden program in 2021 only to shoot 2 national guardsmen 4 years later
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
outsider17.bsky.social
Do you thinks he's admitting a fascist because he thinks Mamdani is cute? Trump might offer to give Zohran the Bubba treatment based off everything I'm seeing from their meeting
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 12d
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.

Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 14d
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.

It's 233 pages.

Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
outsider17.bsky.social
Ooooh, I get it now. Nate is dressing horribly to make MC look even more incredible.

She was absolutely glowing tonight! I mean talk about every jaw on the floor at tribal seeing her! #Survivor49
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."

Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
(RNS) — In video recorded on Friday (Nov. 4) outside the embattled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, the Rev. Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, fiddling awkwardly with his backpack as faith leaders and other protesters chant slogans at a line of police officers. A moment later, one officer can be seen walking forward, grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking. Demonstrators attempted to hold on to Woolf, who was a clerical collar, but four officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground. After turning him onto his stomach, officers proceeded to arrest Woolf, and removed him to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Maywood, Illinois. “I’ve got bruises all over my body,” Woolf, an American Baptist minister who is pastor of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, told Religion News Service. He was speaking in his first interview since being released Friday afternoon after about seven hours in custody. Woolf said when he asked the arresting officers to loosen the plastic handcuffs that were causing his hands to go numb, an officer replied: “Nobody wants to talk to you — shut the f–k up.” “It’s part of the dehumanizing nature of it, and it’s it gives me a lot of clarity around what’s happening here,” said Woolf, who has been active in protests against ICE. “It’s really a spiritual emergency.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
outsider17.bsky.social
Matt Striker calling Joey Ryan "Lucha Underground's transmittable disease" absolutely destroyed me
#LuchaUnderground
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
My NSPM-7 coverage has for weeks been met with smug assurances that there's no law for domestic terrorism. Well, the Trump admin just designated Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Orgs - for which there is a law:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label
Move cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused "anti-Christianity," "anti-capitalism," and "anti-Americanism"
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20d
My NSPM-7 coverage has for weeks been met with smug assurances that there's no law for domestic terrorism. Well, the Trump admin just designated Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Orgs - for which there is a law:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label
Move cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused "anti-Christianity," "anti-capitalism," and "anti-Americanism"
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
outsider17.bsky.social
What does this accomplish? Creating a class of people to fill the void left by immigrant workers on the economy. Cheap labor is needed now that millions of exploited immigrants are being deported, so what better way to replace them than by enslaving homeless people through prison labor?
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21d
The Trump admin is about to cut housing grants for the formerly homeless.

HUD plans to cut aid for permanent housing by 66%, slashing over $2 billion and leaving 170,000 people at risk of homelessness again.

Everyone who would be affected is disabled, and many are 50 or older.
Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
outsider17.bsky.social
Nate is definitely contending for the worst jury outfit ever. Like wtf is up with that fedora #Survivor49
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
outsider17.bsky.social
Perfect example of Republicans living in a completely different reality than everyone else. This lady believes the lapse in SNAP benefits is a more major issue than the government shutdown, but why are SNAP benefits lapsing in the first place?
And many of his supporters are still behind him. Susan McDuffie, 74, a Republican who lives in Carson City, Nevada, and retired several years ago, said she has “great confidence in Trump” and thinks the country is on the right track. She blames Democrats for the shutdown and the suffering it’s caused. “I just don’t understand how the Democrats can care so little about the people,” she said, scoffing at the idea that Democrats were trying to use the shutdown to force Republicans to address soon-to-skyrocket health care costs. “I don’t have any patience for the Democrats and their lame excuses,” she said, arguing that people who are scared about SNAP benefits expiring and struggling to put food on the table are a more pressing issue.
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
outsider17.bsky.social
"We're winning too much right now. We need to prove yet again how bad at politics we are and squander all momentum we got from Tuesday's elections."

-Senate Democrats, probably
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24d
The Senate voted to advance a GOP bill to reopen the government after a bloc of moderate Dems dropped their party’s health care demands
Senate Advances Bill To End Government Shutdown After 8 Democrats Fold
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
outsider17.bsky.social
Please read this entire thread about the inhumane conditions in ICE facilities (concentration camps)
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 27d
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.
Lawsuit Alleges Inhumane Conditions at Broadview ICE Facility
Federal authorities moved two plaintiffs in the suit out of state; a judge has ordered they be returned Monday.
southsideweekly.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
outsider17.bsky.social
I know the Trump Administration is probably going to stall as long as possible only to ignore this court order, but their claim that this is judicial overreach is insane. The judge is ordering them to spend money already allocated by Congress, not creating some sort of new program.
In its court filing Friday, Trump’s administration contended that Thursday’s directive to fund full SNAP benefits runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution. “This unprecedented injunction makes a mockery of the separation of powers. Courts hold neither the power to appropriate nor the power to spend,” the U.S. Department of Justice wrote in its request to the court.
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 29d
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
He wants to kill Obamacare, but has no other plan. He is not satisfied with his deportation operation because his ICE agents are not abusive enough. He plans to continue murdering people in the Caribbean Sea because the law and these humans are of no concern to him. All this thanks to John Roberts.
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020

NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month
CBS News Cuts ‘Evening News,’ ‘Mornings’ Streaming Shows in Newsroom-Wide Layoffs
The newsroom downsizing comes as Paramount Skydance lays off 1,000 employees throughout the newly merged company
www.thewrap.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
outsider17.bsky.social
Great article explaining the through line from Charlie Kirk's murder to NSPM-7

open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
MAGA’s 9/11 Is an Assassination
"Charlie’s death is like a domestic 9/11," says Treasury Secretary
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM