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This "ICE is gonna try to kidnap the wrong people sometime and they'll get shot" is some Try That In A Small Town shit for liberals No. You're wishcasting. They're kidnapping gardeners and fruit vendors and unhoused people

submitted 10 hours ago • 56 comments

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 20 hours ago • 178 comments

Isn’t it curious how the press doesn’t hound this White House about “bipartisanship?”

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

"...a legal path to transition." Jesus Christ, NYT. This is abhorrent.

submitted 10 hours ago • 34 comments

No American outlet would hesitate to describe them as pro-regime paramilitaries or an irregular militia and similar terms if this was happening anywhere else.

submitted 10 hours ago • 87 comments

Palmisano Park is so lovely

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

This is an entire agency of poorly trained, undisciplined hot heads further emboldened by their anonymity.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Many disabled folks rely on powered devices to keep them alive. The extreme heat of summer often causes power outages, which kills disabled people. This is a downstream devastation of climate change - and why climate justice is so important. It’s the marginalized who will suffer the most.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

You know it's bad when state senators are posting "won't somebody do something"

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

They always lie. No border agency has any credibility left after all the nationalistic and racist narratives they have not only spewed but embodied. They're gaslighters and abusers. Treat them accordingly.

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

ICE spokesman is trying to say these people in the video below are not ICE. Well then: who are they?

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There is no such thing as a tactical nuke. There is no specific yield that earns that designation. It’s basically slang that means “smaller yield than a ‘strategic’ nuke” and the smallest warheads that get called “tactical” are still several times more powerful than the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Reading a story about someone dying of rabies after being bitten by a stray dog Peeps if you get bitten or scratched by a stray animal please go straight to a hospital and get your shots Rabies is absolutely horrible and the only window of opportunity to prevent it is right after exposure

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

This is a jaw-dropping lie. Check my feed for videos of ICE at Dodger Stadium trying to get into the parking lot and being blocked by the LAPD.

submitted 16 hours ago • 82 comments

What were they actually gonna do here? Ask every brown-enough person for their papers to go to the fucking baseball game? This is the most slam-dunk, anti-American thing I can think of. You need a passport to go to a Major League Baseball game now? Malpractice not to make a huge deal out of this.

submitted 16 hours ago • 201 comments

Most federal employees - including Dr. Oz - receive health insurance through an Affordable Care Act exchange, and even though he is worth $300 million, US taxpayers pay 72% of all his medical expenses.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

TWO WEEKS for a traffic stop

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Vice President JD Vance (@jd-vance-1.bsky.social‬) is the most-blocked account on Bluesky, less than a day after joining

submitted 19 hours ago • 151 comments

It’s instructive about where we’re at that the right likes to accuse people of virtue signaling, where people talk about seemingly positive or noble personal virtues, while this guy sends out a tweet saying “no one asked but I feel the need to tell you all that I don’t care about emancipation”

submitted 18 hours ago • 36 comments

People who didn’t grow up using newsgroups and forums and irc channels and independently hosted personal interest & fan sites got their brains broken by engagement metrics and monetization and can’t imagine a social internet that exists for the conversations themselves

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

so chicago faced a choice between an experienced, centrist/conservative candidate with a relatively unpopular track record and a young progressive with no track record. the latter won and he's been a poor manager but there hasn't been a capital strike, murders are way down and population grew a bit*

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

Did you attend a #NoKings event like millions across the nation did? We had feet on the ground in Chicago's march, and captured some great photos. Take a look, ICYMI

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not sure if this is in the current bluesky consciousness, but the Nuclear Block is what makes this place great. a block ends everything between you and the blocked person. it robs them if all engagement. it’s very much why the troll problem here is much more limited than the everything app.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes. A clipart comic called Get Your War On. Click on through: www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 148 comments

Booker spent 25 hours on his feet, waxing poetic about democracy and the moral arc, just to come back and vote for this thing

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

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once again — if you’re one of the fortunate ones in a big blue city you need to start thinking about how your community can handle a big influx of vulnerable, scared newcomers. this is not hypothetical, it is happening now

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If it helps, Michael Moore's work combined with Harlan County, USA convinced me I could make a career out of telling workers stories. Took a decade of living on the margins but now I have a nice van! Great pitch to work in organized labor, Brett Banditelli.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

My hate for the feckless cowards who brought us a world where our children have fewer rights each year is so pure just a picture of it could immobilize a large police department

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They renamed French fries "Freedom fries" in the Congressional cafeteria because France criticized the war.

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The only anti-war voices allowed on television were Janeane Garofalo and Michael Moore (because the media thought the substantial anti-war movement was a joke); and Moore got ran off after he spoke out against the Iraq invasion days after it began while accepting the Oscar for Bowling for Columbine.

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This is the right call and he should be praised for it.

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Going forward, we’re all on the side of the fighters, or we’re not.

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Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 1 day ago • 438 comments

i went through the wrong puberty and got denied hrt when i was OVER 18 and like yes i survived but i don’t want anyone to suffer the way i had to suffer. protect trans kids with full-throated support or shut the fuck up

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we can't curfew and police our way out of having few safe, fun, and social activities or spaces for teenagers in their neighborhoods when they're not in school

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NEW: Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates calls on Mayor Brandon Johnson to veto this measure “in order to tell our children that they belong, that they too are part of what makes this city great.” @wttw.bsky.social

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One thing that's psychologically fascinating about Bluesky is in the absence of an algorithm you're quite sincerely thrown into a wild west marketplace of ideas and have to survive on, uh... merit. A lot of journalists are finding their ideas aren't popular. Rather, they are just well paid.

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I volunteer w/a safe space organization for queer teenagers. It has been an extremely hard day for our trans students. If you could spare a thought, prayer, or good vibe for them tonight, they really need it. The cruelty of this decision is a lot to process. Their supportive families need care, too.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

please don’t put in the newspaper that that i got swamp ass

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments