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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 51m

a lot of Democrats including my own wife are invested deeply in the idea Biden was a good man who didn't do enough but the truth is a lot uglier than that

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1h

One time I tried to report to the police at my university that two guys had been talking about assaulting a woman in front of me and when I went to write a statement the cops put me in a room with an autographed picture of Donald Trump

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 8h

If you make it easier to build housing in a high demand metro, rents can not just 'freeze' but even 'fall'. And the knock on effects are bigger than even I could have imagined.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 9h

Don’t know how anyone stands for the national anthem

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 21h

Keen to see international readers' guesses for how 'almost extinct' before they click through

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026

ya'll have helped pay for radio ads and now an electric billboard that cuts through the biggest city in the district for a national DSA endorsed candidate with a real chance of flipping a rural house seat in Kansas secure.actblue.com/donate/isaia...

guy pointing at a big electronic billboard

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are multiple state and local laws in place meant to limit collaboration between federal immigration agents and local IL cops, CPD included. But as has now been reported on by multiple outlets, local law enforcement in IL has repeatedly assisted ICE anyway.

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Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.

In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 30/09/2026

The biggest victory here isnt even the bus lane itself. Its a victory over The Process: - make a committee - meet with The Groups - make a report - start a non-binding referendum - make a pilot - make a report - make a plan - deploy a few years later People are SICK of this.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lately the position of the sun has been making for long shadows along the boardwalk, even for the marsh birds like this Virginia Rail.

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Blake Smith @basmitharts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm a single issue voter and that issue is disappearing every GOP justice to the Congo.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026

New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:

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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations

Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Jews who do this are significantly less pathetic to me than the goyim who do. Like, look, we're broken for specific reasons relating to communal indoctrination and inculcated historic trauma. You don't have any of that, you have no reason for an emotional-support ethnostate!

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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fascist gestapo filth who murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston 3 months ago has been identified by the Texas Tribune as Gregory Feathers.

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Ciggy Smoke Bringer aka Riotous Blottoness @ciggysmokebringer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I gotta say, losing an entire decade of potential bleed stopping to *all this* really is gonna feel like worse shit in 10 years.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/09/2026

You can demolish a rapid transit branch with just a day’s notice, but it takes 20 years to build a new one, if you’re lucky

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should raise taxes

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I noticed last year that sweetgreen pivoted to MAHA when it started advertising seed oil-free french fries. Going MAHA is what a failing restaurant chain does now to get free advertising.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

no other Democrat can do this, not without planning. the emotional appeal and the core backing of the facts. she's the one. she speaks the language of the base. she gives them a voice.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean, sure. She is gonna win this one walking away but I am always a fan of going for it on 4th. America has never been angrier at the center and we got seniors getting arrested at No Kings rallys, she should be President. I worry a feckless Dem in the WH 2028 gets us right back here in 2032

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Andy Beshear forever, man

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 27/09/2026

Ran into 5 urbanist friends

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026

It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

the reason the water thing annoys me so much is that there are real water issues that need to be solved and water issues at scale are "it's the agriculture, stupid" and the data center water freakouts convince people that those issues can be solved by data center moratoriums that is simply wrong

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Republicans never actually believe that Republicans are in charge of anything, it’s one of their more baffling pathologies.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For those not following, there’s a city in Russia occupied Ukraine near the frontline cut off from everywhere by mines and torn up roads, the people who haven’t been able to evacuate have only food they can grow themselves or have been rationing for a year, and Russia does not care.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The plan: Build a 200-room, 300-bathroom data center, 70% subsidized by federal and local governments. Make it accessible to the train. Build a supermarket for the 800 people doing 24/7 on-site maintenance. Call it the future of technology. Make OpenAI pay for the rest. Then let people move in.

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Sysfin @sysfin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I literally believe it should be the case that bold face lying to the public by cabinet level officials should be treated as criminal perjury.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the 8th major profile of Emanuel since December 2024 that failed to mention Laquan McDonald. Here’s what he told the Senate, about the teen’s murder, during his Senate confirmation hearing in 2021. “That tragedy sits with me, as it has, every day and every week for the last seven years.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026

Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.

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Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today we installed a ghost bike for Juan Martin Márquez at Archer and Laramie. The driver who killed Juan is still at large and we aren’t sure why.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Genuinely disappointed to see my socialist in office comrades falling for this RFK Jr nonsense. There are reasons to prioritize wind, solar, and better grid capacity, but nuclear can’t be off the table if we’re serious.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think we all expected this and it's yet another reason tribunals and special investigatory bodies will be required to get justice for Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and ever other person murdered by Trump's brownshirts.

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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

swear him in posthaste!!!

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even now, there are people doubling down in the comments and telling her she understands nothing about her own life.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Florida Highway Patrol mixed up Lindsay Isaacs’ car with another, and arrested her on vehicular homicide charges, among eight felonies she hadn't committed.

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Woman Spends 86 Hours In Solitary Confinement Due To Flock Cameras Despite Driving Car Of Different Color - Jalopnik

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