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Josh V

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Chicagoan, liberal, LGBT, tech, gaming, etc. #AbolishICE

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
The important thing to know about the Starship launch today is that Elon Musk is directly responsible for an unfathomable number of people dying preventable deaths and has never faced a single consequence for it.
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One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
“First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gave me a high degree of confidence, because I know what I look like.” — Kash Patel
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Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel
WASHINGTON—Despite carefully checking and double-checking the credentials of the man who reached out to him via email, FBI director Kash Patel was reportedly phished Friday by a scammer posing as FBI ...
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Axios @axios.com · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: White House defies court order, doesn't reinstate access for banned reporters
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White House defies court order, doesn't reinstate access for banned reporters
CNN is set to be the television pool for President Xi Jinping's visit to the White House on Thursday evening.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wilber Garces Perez was shot in the back by an ICE agent in Austin. Now he's in detention with the bullet still in his body. Today, 100+ Members of Congress are demanding that ICE get him medical care, stop trying to deport a key witness, and immediately release the video footage.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
here's Sunday's post: "what kind of shithole piss-baby president gets mad at reporters for reporting?" I’ll give you one guess. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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what kind of shithole piss-baby president gets mad at reporters for reporting?
I’ll give you one guess
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ah, Chicago. Where it can be 70 and gross because the humidity is at 95% 😓. I already sweat through one shirt today.
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I played as an investor in 'Thin Air,' Real Money. Rank: SAD!. 🎮 My $2,000 → $296.70 (−85%). 💸 His reported 2025 take: $1.4B. His investors: down an estimated $4.7B (@publiccitizen.bsky.social). I tried to win. I couldn't. See for yourself: thinairrealmoney.com
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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game
An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We’re encouraged to keep the thermostat to a slightly less comfortable temperature, to use flickery LED lightbulbs, to shift our electricity consumption to off-peak times. Meanwhile…
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magicalstardust.bsky.social @magicalstardust.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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We Regret to Inform You Chipotle Is Now Working With Palantir
Guacamole is extra, but a side of Palantir is free.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Republicans can’t govern. They campaign on government being bad, then get elected and prove it. Campaign slogans and fear- and hate-mongering don’t produce good results after the election. It doesn’t help that Trump is uniquely heinous and the party is now synonymous with him.
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not all heroes wear capes. Or maybe they did, who knows? #deflock
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Went to the grocery store yesterday thinking I’d buy ground turkey for dinner since beef is so expensive, but ground turkey prices have clearly been raised opportunistically as well. The cheapest option, ironically, ended up being 93/7 beef that was on sale. #groceries #gouging
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Robert Kraft — who's given millions to pro-Israel orgs like AIPAC — once got a $1M award from Netanyahu for helping stop people from boycotting Israel. "Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft," Netanyahu said. Now, Kraft helps kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran's tour:
Robert Kraft to Establish a Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism, BDS, Delegitimization of Israel
Jun 20, 2019 at 03:25 PM
June 20, 2019, Jerusalem - Tonight, the Laureate of the 2019 Genesis Prize Robert Kraft was honored at a gala ceremony in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Genesis Prize Foundation Chairman Stan Polovets bestowed the award on Kraft in front of an audience of 600 Israeli and international dignitaries.
The $1 million Genesis Prize, dubbed "the Jewish Nobel" by Time Magazine, honors extraordinary individuals for outstanding professional achievement, contribution to humanity, and commitment to Jewish values. Previous honorees include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; actor, producer and peace activist Michael Douglas; and "Fiddler to the world" maestro Itzhak Perlman.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said: "I am delighted to welcome Robert Kraft to the august family of Genesis Prize Laureates. This prestigious award honors Robert's generous lifelong philanthropy, his commitment to the Jewish people, and his love for Israel. It also recognizes his principled stand against anti-Semitism and efforts by our enemies to undermine the State of Israel through BDS and other similar campaigns. Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft."
Kraft previously announced he would forgo the $1 million monetary award so that the funds could be granted to initiatives combating anti-Semitism, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), and other efforts to delegitimize Israel. This is in line with the tradition established by previous Genesis Prize Laureates, who have "re-gifted" their awards to philanthropic causes they support.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Russian oligarch and close personal friend of Putin Umar Kremlev secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr’s May wedding in the Bahamas, ProPublica reports. Kremlev and several other Russians were among the 50 guests.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/09/2026
Here is AOC and Mamdani laughing at the solemn 9/11 commemoration. Oh wait…
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 11/09/2026
Five C-17s delivered King Donald the Mad’s Secret Service motorcade to Ireland: Cadillac SUVs, anti-drone systems, assault vehicles and emergency equipment – all for a 2-day trip including the Irish Open at his own Doonbeg golf resort. And US taxpayers pick up the bill for his private event.
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DeFlock @deflock.org · 11/09/2026
"The Braselton Police Department announced it has fired an employee for misusing the department's Flock camera system." 🤦‍♂️ www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/brasel... #Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff #fyp #trending
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Braselton fires police officer for misusing Flock cameras
Another metro Atlanta police officer has been fired for misusing Flock cameras that have increasingly become controversial over privacy concerns and reports of misuse by law enforcement.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/09/2026
Anyone who has issues with Mamdani attending the commemoration is a bigot, Islamophobe, and/or racist. That's it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ridiculous. And also the goose ended up winning that fight, the eagle gave up and flew away. 🇨🇦
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Renaming an international body of water out of spite is truly some petty, juvenile man-toddler shit but the most egregious thing is destroying the mnemonic that millions of Americans grew up using to remember the Great Lakes: HOMES. The new one? S H A M E
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The garbage truck going through before 7am on a Friday should be prosecuted at The Hague
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 27/08/2026
enforcing antitrust law is only partisan in the sense that both parties suck at it but yeah I suppose a right wing oligarch (who openly doesn't believe in democracy and supports genocidal autocrats) trying to dominate what's left of corporate media does get a skosh political
AVClub headline: "The Paramount merger is officially a red vs. blue issue"
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“You won’t get killed if you just obey” isn’t something you say to people in a free country. PAXIS.app helps immigrants, citizens, workers, families, and witnesses understand what government agents can legally demand and how to document abuse safely. Keep PAXIS free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS
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PAXIS
A comprehensive guide and assistant for immigration-related queries and actions.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Even in her final moments on this earth, Dolly Parton was worried about our heartbreak in her passing. I will always love you, Dolly. ❤️
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you support our troops you can’t support Donald Trump. He’s treated people who served honorably like garbage, the VA is hemorrhaging mental health clinicians to treat vets, he started a senseless war and is now just gaslighting us on families being concerned about deployed sailors and marines
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
these guys are just out of control animals
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Oh look, a Dems in disarray story. How original.
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Today's primaries in Wisconsin and Minnesota showcase Democratic divide
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Emma @altimeter3835.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)
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Josh V @bruiserchgo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This just gives me more reason to not venture into the suburbs. If the current state of the Federal Government doesn’t convince you that establishing a surveillance state is a bad idea, I don’t know what else to say. #Deflock www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...
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What are Flock cameras and where are they in the Chicago area? What to know
If you've heard about Flock cameras lately, you're not alone.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/08/2026
“This second-rate charlatan doesn’t know the first goddamn thing about my plans to bring widespread doom,” said the Beast
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Antichrist Rolls Eyes Throughout  Peter Thiel Lecture
ROME—In addition to crossing his arms and shaking his head as he listened to the tech billionaire spread blatant misinformation about the End Times, the Antichrist reportedly rolled his eyes Monday th...
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hey Seattle! City Council is considering a measure to ban surveillance pricing for groceries and essentials. No surprise, to industry shills are going all out to stop it. Send a letter and let them know you want to get this done! actionnetwork.org/letters/seat...
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Seattle City Council: Stop Surveillance Pricing
Corporations want to use AI to charge you a different price for the same item. It’s called surveillance pricing or algorithmic pricing, and it’s just one more way for corporations to rip you off. Wri...
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.independent.ie/world-news/t... In case this isn’t in the US news - Your tax dollars just went to a German firm to help Trump ensure your grandchildren will not inherit a liveable planet. Thanks, MAGA.
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Trump administration pays German firm $1.2bn to kill US wind energy project
An offshore wind company said on Thursday that it reached a $1.2 billion deal with the Trump administration to walk away from projects under development off New York, California and Louisiana.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Truly absurd headline. And most importantly, grossly factually inaccurate. Beyond any reasonable doubt, Trump is a sociopath; he does not grieve, nor is he capable of grief. Even if journalists are too timid to report that truth, they should not report the contrary as truth.
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