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Patrick Walls

@patrickw.bsky.social
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I do tech support but post about politics | US Senate, Sojourners alum | Opinions are my own

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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 20h
Smol Boy Trump apparently has to be allowed to keep deporting people to places they've never been where they could be tortured or killed, according to John Roberts.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22h
theyre just all so fucking stupid and lazy
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22h
tell me you flunked geometry without telling me you flunked geometry
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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You see how this looks, right?
Alt: You see how this looks, right?
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Tracy Greer @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seems like a lot of folks are hearing the national anthem performed by mariachis for the first time! • It is Hispanic Heritage Month • Chicago has a very large Mexican population • Yes, it’s really cool • Where I’m from, large high schools often have a mariachi group as a subgroup to marching band
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am advising you to keep saying this in public
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mikerevolution.bsky.social @mikerevolution.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
me to the Chicago Bears anthem booker
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Jeff Zimmerman @jeffwzimmerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/09/2026
The big thing on the horizon
Ja'mal green campaign bus stuck in the mud
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that this was *previously used as a campaign ad during the presidential campaign* removes any real defense as to its purpose. Its not a public service announcement. Its a campaign ad that has become state propaganda.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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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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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
“To the extent that the court has put the brakes on the president’s assertions of executive power, it is arguably cleaning up its own mess,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.
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Opinion | Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King?
The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I saw a pig in Ravenswood. His name is Snoopy.
A large black pig in the front yard of a house
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 26/09/2026
In case you missed it: I sat down with Rev. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor running for U.S. Senate in Kansas — as a Democrat. He’s been an outlier throughout his career, and he’s running a campaign that could end up making Kansas — no joke — closer than Texas. religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...
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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas
LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some really good reporting in this very bleak story www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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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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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>
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Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.
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Chicago White Sox @notwhitesox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The Tamale Guy" delivered tonight's game ball in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Night!
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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you ever wanted to have a real-life spontaneous experience akin to the whole bar at Cheers shouting "Norm!", all you have to do is be in a bar in Chicago when this gentleman walks in with his Igloo cooler
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I could not more strongly agree with this take from @jamellebouie.net. youtu.be/NmYspr5wakI?...
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What should Democrats do if they win?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: In non-Missouri emergency docket news, #SCOTUS *grants* the Trump administration's request for a stay in the SAVE case, allowing DHS to have access to certain Social Security information. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
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Libby Hill @libbyhill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
had to be done
An image featuring Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” with Venus superimposed over Saturn’s face. The eyes remain.
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The guy who made Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, and those dead-eyed cgi movies like Beowulf got his start with a comedy about this in 1978
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026
Imagine Jon Taffer rolling up to the Western Mass lesbian bar
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nikole Hannah Jones will be interviewed by her daughter for an episode of “This American Life” airing on September 27 at 7pm CT
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The Argument - This American Life
Ten years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote an essay about her decision to send her daughter to a segregated, low-income school. The essay was influential on parents and policymakers, and Nikole spent a ...
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2023: White Sox lose 101 games 2024: White Sox lose 121 games 2025: White Sox lose 102 games 2026:
Pope Leo in a White Sox hat.
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Patrick Walls @patrickw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Todd Rokita probably wants to return to when the Klan ran the state. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/09/24/r...
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Rokita lawsuit against IHSAA alleges racial discrimination • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a lawsuit against the IHSAA in a bid to eliminate a race-based quota for the association's board of directors, which reserves two of its 19 seats for minorit...
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If I were running for president I would announce everything of Trump’s doing that I planned to undo by executive order on Day 1. And add to it for the next 2 years. This is on the list.👇👇👇
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/09/2026
NEW: Last month, I flew to Kansas to speak with Rev. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor running for Senate — as a Democrat. He talked to me about "progressive evangelicalism," and I talked to his congregants. And here's the thing: he has a real chance of winning. religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...
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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas
LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Elon Musk, unlike Louis Farrakhan, actually does have billions of dollars and was actually running large parts of the government where he generally cut government spending that in his view was associated with Black people as much as he possibly could. We get nothing on this from media or opposition.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
he's responsible for over a million dead in Africa already and experts believe USAID cuts will eventually kill 14 million people. he is a Nazi who committed one of the most horrific genocides in history. and even the opposition party just shrugs.
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 23/09/2026
Our senators are worthless, but I'll just note that @ramirez.house.gov is walking the walk, including a new bill introduced this morning that would dismantle and refund DHS.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Once again, the man is an open white supremacist who is promoting a global movement in support of the ideology and he’s already denied resources to millions of people in service of it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/09/2026
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026
yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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