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Dave Buerstetta

@davebuer.bsky.social
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Striving to be an ally for justice in Chicago suburbs and everywhere//Pastor at Minooka UMC //White Sox fan //he/him

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why Can’t the Mainstream Media Say “Psychopathic Narcissist”? www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/25/w...
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Why Can’t the Mainstream Media Say “Psychopathic Narcissist”?
Narcissism: Marked by grandiosity, pride, arrogance, and a constant need for attention and admiration. Psychopathy: Characterized by high impulsivity,
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.
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James Fegan @jrfegan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“It was a whole wave.”
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look at the community notes on this one. 👇
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in the peace of wild things, Wendell. Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything, every word. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Micah @deadserious.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let me recap: the MPD is 30 million over budget, helped Lang plan his riot, set up barricades for him, let him drive multiple vehicles into a crowded area, one of the cop had their foot run over, and now we can’t press charges because the cops are in on it in the first place.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This idiot seems to believe they can change people's lives at their discretion.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It actually and obviously has never been harder. This is the exact opposite of the truth. The grift has reached its terminus point.
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Dr. Meredith Wills ⚾️⚾️👀 @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You wanna grow the game, MLB? Then take a stand, call out ICE’s heinous behavior, and protect your goddamn people. Fans will flock to a league with a moral compass and the courage to do the right thing. www.chron.com/news/article...
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DHS taunts detained Padres coach in fiery social media post
"NOBODY is above the law, and he will remain in ICE custody pending removal."
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Dave Buerstetta @davebuer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
…and there’s the delay. Welcome to your first day, James!
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
People will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. "We won't mind if you look around," you'll say. "It's only $20 per person. Plus you can get $50 in free bets when you sign up for an account."
An outfielder tries to make a catch in the Field of Dreams game up against a fence advertising for FanDuel
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
New in PN: Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids "Miller is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids. This is a scene taking place out of public view across the country, impacting 24,000 children."
publicnotice.co
Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Curious if we're going to see any significant blowback in congressional districts with large military bases. The stories their families have been getting about the Hegseth Era can't be good.
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Julia Poe @juliapoe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
When I think about trans people in sports, I don’t think about lobbies or legislation. I think about my friends. Wrote about pick-up hoops, queer community and love:
chicagotribune.com
Column: When I think about transgender people in sports, I think about my friends
Despite the rabid fixation upon the concept of trans women in sports, those who beat the drum the loudest for exclusive policies rarely seem to care about trans people themselves.
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Kris S @mplsme.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Well, everyone…here’s your president. Aren't you proud? He has absolutely no empathy, and is mean spirited to the core. I hope when he dies, no former presidents and no representatives from foreign countries attend his funeral. He is vile.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In Ps.14:6 today: 'You evildoers may humiliate the plans of those who suffer, but the Lord is their refuge.' The arc of the universe does not bend toward racial profiling and a detention center economy, but the common good. God's eye is on the sparrow. Refuge is my work today.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Lemme rephrase this in historyspeak “In the waning years of the American Empire, its levers of power seized by fringe religious fanatics, would-be Emperor Trump began starving cities that refused to comply with his mad whims.”
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SNAP has an outstanding ROI: every dollar we invest in SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. With SNAP cuts, people can’t continue to support these local grocers, so local businesses suffer. Everyone loses.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In Ps. 20:8 today: 'The nations that trust in the ways of war will stumble and fall, but those who trust the Great Spirit will rise and stand tall,' (FNV). The ways of violence increase injury & vengeance. Resist injustice. Trust repair. Trust ubuntu. Trust is my work today.
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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am begging you not to believe gazillionaire baseball owners when they tell you Skubal going to the Dodgers means we need a salary cap. Competitive balance is not the reason they want a salary cap. They just want to spend less, and with more predictability, on total payroll. That is all.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/08/2026
every single day I am baffled by the fact that this man - this incredibly, astoundingly embarrassing man - is the one half the damn country built a cult of personality around
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Dave Buerstetta @davebuer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
100% correct
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
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Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will Bunch
Police killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.
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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In Ps.33:22 today: 'Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.' Love is our vocation and our way. Love in the face of overwhelming cruelty is a practice of hope. Your well-being is my well-being & my well-being is your well-being. Hope is my work today.
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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In Ps.35:10 today: 'you deliver the weak from those too strong for them, the weak and needy from those who despoil them.' God is in relentless solidarity with the weak & harassed. Resist a detention center society. Protect speech & assembly rights. Deliver is my work today.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Get a load of this.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
competence is woke
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There’s something so wrong with everyone in this administration. www.theverge.com/policy/96144...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is what fighting fascism looks like.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Worst of the worst” turns out to have been ICE’s employment recruiting objective.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
He actively made the world worse for personal gain. He lied constantly. He screamed at a woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. He bragged about killing people in foreign countries. He betrayed his friends. He said and did a thousand awful things in the last 10 years. WHO IS THIS FOR?
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Democratic senators taking the high road for people who actively tried to overthrow elections -- who are literally *on tape* saying "Please subvert American democracy" -- shows that we are still playing completely different sports, here.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Look, I know it’s frustrating to not know if a US Senator has died, but Mitch McConnell wrote it into his will that if he were ever incapacitated, his last wish was that “Republicans engage in one last bit of indefensible fuckery” to honor his life and career. And I think that’s beautiful.
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Dave Buerstetta @davebuer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I’ve been teaching that Eckhart quote for decades. So good and right and important.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's all so fucking embarrassing
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The majority on this Court has left Americans undefended. The President is now a king, and our only hope is to elect a more benevolent king. In their zeal to end the so-called “administrative state,” they broke what was left of protections for the American people.
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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Trump came after my city's reparations program, but what he doesn't understand is that the work of reparations is not an attack on America’s ideals; it is an attempt to take those ideals seriously. Thanks to @sojo.net for publishing my thoughts.
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My Church Supported Our City’s Reparations Program. Trump Wants to End It
The DOJ is attacking the religious freedom of faith communities like mine who are proud supporters of Evanston’s reparations program.
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Dan Schwerin @danschwerin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In Ps.56:11 today: 'I trust in God; I won't be afraid.' King's 4th principle of nonviolence: 'accept suffering without retaliation for the sake of the cause to achieve the goal.' Despite the suffering, we must not succumb to fear. Love wins. Trust is my work today.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Democratic Party has a difficult choice: A) Listen to the voters and fight back against the oligarchs who monetize ignorance and keep the poor poor. or B) Stick with the same old GOP Lite routine that has handed the government to fascists. Yep, it's a very, very difficult choice.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. See my latest essay: "Capitulation Day: The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery." snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...
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"This war was a parade of Trump’s incompetence at every possible level from the beginning. To win a war requires understanding the politics of the other side and how it might be changed. Trump, Hegseth and the others treated the Iranian leadership as cartoon characters who would immediately do what Americans wanted as soon as the bombs fell. The Americans had no strategy -- no sense of how violence could change politics -- and it did not occur to them that the Iranians would have one. Once the Iranians did the obvious, which was to respond to American long-range strikes with their own, and close the Straits of Hormuz, the war was over, and they had won. The Americans had no second move, except to claim that they had won when they had lost (which they are, laughably, still doing)."
From "Thinking about..."
Full essay via link in profile
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water
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Dave Buerstetta @davebuer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It’s great! You should subscribe
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Trump is attempting to undo the republic to retain personal power. No one in DOJ or FBI should be assisting him in this essentially criminal and anti-American undertaking. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Experts alarmed as Trump launches broad-front attack on US voting rights
With election denialists installed in key positions, officials using series of measures to change voting rules
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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 16/06/2026
Yep, the idea of a ‘carbon footprint‘ was developed by Ogilvy & Mather, a New York City-based British advertising and public relations firm working for BP: www.clf.org/blog/the-tru...
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The Truth About Carbon Footprints
Carbon footprints & carbon footprint calculators are a marketing tool to make individuals feel guilty for Big Oil's pollution. See how the oil industry is blaming you and me.
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