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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

they just had an interview with a scientist on NPR who was inspired by X-Files as a child and said how cool it was to see "a special agent and a physician team up to solve mysteries" so i nearly crashed my car yelling "SCULLY WAS ALSO A SPECIAL AGENT"

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If there's a brewery more in-tune with its market than Off Color, I'm unfamiliar with it

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Melinda G. @melindag.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Finally, a reasonable solution!

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David Nilsen @davidnilsenbeer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

July is International Zine Month, so let's celebrate some zines by beer writers! Lots of fun ones here by @katiematherkm.bsky.social/@pelliclemag.com, @lucyburningham.bsky.social, @dinfontay.com, @melindag.bsky.social, & others.

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Melinda G. @melindag.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It’s almost Shut The Fuck Up Friday again! This whole thread is a great reminder (even for a Thursday)

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Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My therapist asked if the ICE abductions were still happening and I was dismayed to see how much this ongoing terror has fallen out of the public eye

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Melinda G. @melindag.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“I think all that happened in Germany…[without] resources that we have today for rapid response organizing… Social media, for good or ill, still continues to be a prevailing force in fighting fascism so long as it remains independent and out of the clutches of fascist enablers.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/06/2026

Break them

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Melinda G. @melindag.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

By this point, I’m very used to the first half of that sentence. But the second half is something else.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

DINOSAURS ARE COOL TRANSPHOBIA IS NOT

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A ghost told me telepathically that the ballroom is bullshit.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 30/04/2026

Nonstop rapid response alerts to ICE sightings in Chicagoland so far this morning.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

When Midway Blitz ramped down late last year, federal officials asserted that they weren't done with the Trump admin's mass deportation campaign in Chicagoland. Activity has yet to reach the heights of last fall, but true to their word, ICE never left. My latest, for @southsideweekly.bsky.social:

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Months After Midway Blitz, ICE Activity Has Quietly Persisted

As spring begins, immigration enforcement agents are changing how they operate in the Chicago area.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 12/02/2026

Yall still need to cancel that service. If they did it once, they will do it again! Give them the Target treatment. Keep going.

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Matt Margolis @itsmattslaw.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Kid Rock led a half time show for parents who have no-contact kids

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...

In the last days, there has been an unprecedented attack targeting investigative journalists trying to seize their Signal accounts. This has gone largely unreported.

I have been repeatedly targeted by phishing, and I learned that also colleagues from other outlets were targeted, with the attackers unfortunately managing to compromise at least one colleague’s account. What’s worrying: this doesn’t seem like an isolated case. A broader wave is apparently hitting journalists (and some civil society actors) via Signal.

How it works: Attackers message you on Signal pretending to be “Signal Support,” warning about “suspicious activity,” and urging you to “re-verify” your account. Once you accept the chat, you receive a real Signal SMS verification code, because the attacker is actively trying to register your number on a new device. If you share that code, you’re handing them the keys.

Signal’s extra protection is the Signal PIN. If an attacker also tricks you into giving up your PIN (or you don’t have strong protections enabled), they can see your contacts and networks, potentially join chats going forward, and lock you out by changing settings.

Quick protections worth doing today:
- Signal will never contact you via a two-way in-app support chat. Treat those messages as hostile.
- Never share SMS codes, Signal PIN, or anything called “registration lock.”
- Turn on Registration Lock (Settings → Account → Registration Lock).
- If you see a “safety number changed” alert: verify the person via a different channel (call/video), not just Signal text.
- Report + block suspicious requests, and review linked devices.

If you work with sensitive sources: this isn’t just about losing an account, it’s about exposing networks. Please share this with colleagues who rely on Signal day-to-day.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"They are forcing the public, and Supreme Court Justices, to have to rely solely on the Government’s inaccurate version of events. This Court has the power to shed light on the truth of what happened on October 4."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/01/2026

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

Two federal agents in t shirts and vests

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

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Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik

I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Yeah this is EXACTLY what they did after killing Silverio Villegas González here. The ICE agents who killed him walked around the scene, picked up dropped gear and a magazine, holstered their weapons, and then one drove their car away. Cops helped them out and never even asked their names.

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Melinda G. @melindag.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It’s this shit, Fam. People always tell on themselves. You just gotta pay attention.

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

We still do not know the names of the ICE agents who killed Silverio Villegas González on September 12, 2025 outside of Chicago. If you have any information, please reach out on Signal at @tpf.99.

Man with light brown hair with a short beard and mustache in green shirt, blue jeans, wearing a police tactical vest marked with "ERO" indicating he's an agent in ICE Enforcement Removal Operations. This is the agent who shot González in the neck, killing him.

Man in green shirt, blue jeans, wearing a police tactical vest marked with "ERO" indicating he's an agent in ICE Enforcement Removal Operations. This is the agent who shot González in the neck, killing him.

The agent who shot González in the neck on the left. On the right, his partner, a man in a green shirt and black pants wearing a watch on his left arm and tattoos on his right arm.

Man in green shirt, dark hair and mustache, with tactical vest that says "Police federal agent." This is the partner of the agent who killed González.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Happening now: hundreds have gathered in downtown Chicago to rally against both ICE/Border Patrol violence and US intervention in Venezuela. This is one of only multiple anti-ICE demonstrations planned in Chicago this weekend.

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I hope a lot of white women are realizing it's better to be alone than to be living with someone who thinks Good deserved to be murdered.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/01/2026

If you're not willing to arrest the killer, don't arrest the demonstrators.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10/01/2026

Thousands here now. Absolutely enormous crowd. People are chanting, "ICE out! Fuck ICE!" Organizers are taking the street but it's a slow process because there is SO much ice (the water kind). People helping each other up left and right after slipping.

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Melinda G. @melindag.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Pissed about Minneapolis and want to give money or show up to meet needs? This thread has a ton of resources for exactly that.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 18/11/2025

My bus driver just called out the people watching videos on speaker and I think we should make him mayor

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.

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A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families

The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/11/2025

Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center. This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/11/2025

I will also add: I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 06/11/2025

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

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Melinda G. @melindag.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

ARE YOU FUCKING WATCHING? They abducted a daycare teacher today, amid screaming and terrified children. What the fuck is happening and how are people still unaware of the consistency with which this is being replicated across Chicagoland (and other places)?

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sure you laugh now but how many people can say they lost two NYC mayoral elections in the same year?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/11/2025

ATTN: if you’re on the sandwich guy jury, my Signal is in my bio. I’d love to talk after the trial. I’ll keep you anonymous. Please share widely.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 04/11/2025

Northside Chicago peeps, the ICE/CBP convoy has been spotted around the Lincoln Park Costco. Please patrol your neighborhood and alert laborers at worksites, and landscapers who are removing leaves. The ones I've talked to were not aware of the situation

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Shouting this thread from the rooftops. There are so many white Chicagoans whose impressions of the neighborhoods that house the geographic and demographic majority of the city are just an accumulation of assumptions and other people's stories. That has consequences.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

IDK what that means going fwd but it is a Very Big Deal that people with a lot of wealth and political power suddenly feel a personal stake in this issue It's VERY important that it translates into *solidarity* rather than the usual crime/policing "keep this unpleasantness contained to Over There"/

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I have already heard/seen a huge difference. Ppl usually proud of being neutral/apolitical saying THIS is new and bad and different It's not and they're wrong but what IS different (and possibly very good) is their awareness and engagement and willingness to be publicly identified with opposition +

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