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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino) to the Aurora Police following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests So here it is!
Hello Chief and APD Leadership,

I just wanted to jot a quick thank you note for those who participated in this meeting with the Latino community about ICE in our neighborhoods.

Sadly, this problem is not going away anytime soon. Historically, the police have been on the wrong side of history during the civil rights movement and the labor movement - defending capital. The pivotal points in American history are when police realized that their solidarity should be with labor; not capital.

Labor vs. police: Learning from working-class history Workers World

In this current struggle, I believe that we are 2-3 years away from a moment where we see the shift in solidarity.

I would like to see Aurora lead, and show something different. It will create discomfort during the transformation. I noticed during the march towards Blue Kangaroo, when the police escort disappeared, that activists I didn't know used their vehicles to block the intersections and protect the marchers.All living things have the capacity to evolve and grow. Government is about to go through a huge evolutionary period and shed that which is not necessary, and re-focus on what is important.

As government continues to disintegrate from the top down, we have an opportunity to re-invent the ways we find food, water, shelter and protection.

We would like the Aurora Police Department to play a historic role in defending the United States of America, and our city against fascism. We have a unique opportunity to do something different, leave our mark in the history books, and make a difference. I'm excited about the opportunity and look forward to discussing it further.

Respectfully, John Laesch Mayor, City of Aurora laesch@aurora.il.us
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Will BOO!-rows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I don't think yahoo mail needs streaks
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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I'm not saying that AI isn't making people dumber, but they don't make it easier to believe dumb things. If a human is referencing stats or events without sources, that pundit is as trustworthy as an AI. The people getting fooled by AI also get fooled by Fox News or Russian media
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J.J. McCullough @jj-mccullough.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This @theatlantic.com article about evangelicals and Trump, written by a Christian, is very insightful. It argues that many evangelicals are actually becoming less religious, and using politics to fill the spiritual gap: t.co/Cxpky859pj
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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
sorry for the lack of activity lately, been a little held up by the crushing reality that all the kindness and charity I was raised to believe in was fake and most people are filled with bigotry and hatred
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
You forgot that Pennsylvania's governor had his home firebombed, which happened a few months ago. You don't remember it, and may not have ever heard about it, because he was a Democrat
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
And a 4th reminder that a transition to 100% WindWaterSolar reduces the annual total tonnes of mining in the world by >84% despite the need for precious metals, which are a trivial component of total mining tonnage.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 17/09/2025
coates is genuinely a generational writer
What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to "End Racism," and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk's death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don't know. But the most
telling detail in Klein's column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Let's say it again: 1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off. 2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off. It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
In his remarks, Mr. Van Hollen cited his involvement in fighting for the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in the spring. Some in his party, he said, argued that getting embroiled in a fight over a deportation was a “distraction” and potentially politically unpopular, because Mr. Trump’s hard line on immigration had resonated with voters.

Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson.

“This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style,” he said. “We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.”
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
If the shooter did it for left wing reasons, it's because the right have been calling left wing people Nazis, socialists, and communists, and they radicalized the left. If the shooter did it for right wing reasons, it's because right wing people are inherently violent and menaces to society.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2025
This is pretty fucked up in lots of ways.
Approximately one to two days later, Driscoll received a call from Mr. Paul
Ingrassia, a White House representative who identified himself as the White House-DOJ transition
liaison. Ingrassia, then 29 years old, had no experience working in the White House, DOJ, or FBI.
Nevertheless, he identified to Driscoll that he was on the White House-DOJ transition team and
wanted to conduct a vetting interview with Driscoll who, according to Ingrassia, was being
considered for “a high-level position at the FBI.” Driscoll conferred with the FBI Newark Chief
Division Legal Counsel to confirm it was legally appropriate to call Ingrassia back. After
confirming it was proper to do so, Driscoll then called Ingrassia back and left a voicemail.

The next day, on January 17, 2025, Ingrassia called Driscoll back and conducted a
telephonic interview. Driscoll asked Ingrassia why he was being interviewed, to which Ingrassia
replied that it was for “a high-level position at the FBI.” Driscoll responded that he was already
serving in a high-level position in the FBI. Ingrassia did not elaborate any further. The following
is, in summary and substance, a list of the questions Ingrassia asked Driscoll and Driscoll’s
corresponding responses:
Question 1: How would you define the most significant threats to the United
States?
Response 1: Cyber; terrorist; and counterintelligence threats posed by China;
Russia; Iran; North Korea; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”);
ISIS-Khorasan and their affiliates with external operational
capabilities; porous borders; fentanyl; and transnational organized
crime, e.g., cartels.

Question 3: Who did you vote for?Response 3: Driscoll refused to answer this question and stated that it was an
inappropriate question with Hatch Act implications.
Question 4: Do you agree that the FBI agents who “stormed” Mar-a-Lago, to
include the rank-and-file, should be held accountable?
Response 4: No; FBI personnel were doing their job in furtherance of court
orders, legal warrants, and a properly predicated investigation.
Question 5: What are your thoughts on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
Response 5: [trimmed since running out of room but he gave a reasonable answer about the importance of diversity but not it being sole reason for hiring]
Question 6: When did you start supporting President Trump?
Response 6: Driscoll refused to answer this question.
Question 7: Have you voted for a Democrat in the last five elections?
Response 7: Driscoll refused to answer this question.
63. After this final question, Ingrassia ended the interview.
64. Later that evening, Driscoll received a call from Bove. Driscoll understood that
Bove was expected to be named Acting Deputy Attorney General (“A/DAG”) of the United States
following the inauguration. At the time of the call, Bove was a private lawyer who had been part
of President Trump’s criminal defense team. Bove asked Driscoll what happened on the vetting
call, to which Driscoll responded that he found Ingrassia’s questions to be highly inappropriate
and political in nature and that he (Driscoll) was not supportive of serving in any leadership role
in the FBI if it required him to pass a vetting assessment based on political views. Driscoll noted
that he had never shared his political views, or even whether he had any, in his entire professional
career.
65. Bove told Driscoll that he “failed” the vetting interview and that Ingrassia reported
that Driscoll was combative and not “based out” enough. Driscoll interpreted Ingrassia’s report to
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed
wxxinews.org
ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest
The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.
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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
mobile rendering of a post for a recipe for chocolate chip cookie dough cake where the author leads with "I want to start off this post with saying how saddening I was to learn of the bombing at the Boston Marathon."
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 07/09/2025
The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The highest ranking official in the legislative branch is saying that the president of the United States was a secret FBI informant on his friend who was the world’s most notorious sex trafficker The New York Times will simply pretend this never happened and will cover budget negotiations
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The United States is rapidly going fascist and is the most materially prosperous large nation in human history by a huge margin. If that’s not rich enough to prevent a fascist resurgence, there simply is no amount of wealth that will stave it off and the problem is social and political.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
fox13now.com
Loved ones shocked, worried after beloved Utah violinist detained by ICE
Friends and family are reacting after Utah violinist John Shin was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
looking through some old posts and stumbled on this. the other day chris murphy said the military occupation of dc was a distraction from epstein. a month ago, they were calling epstein a distraction.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The Cracker Barrel controversy is bewildering because: 1. No one actually goes there 2. It’s a punchline 3. Everyone just seems to be mad at the idea of change - any change - occurring 4. The right seems to identify the very existence of change as “wokeness” in some way
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
You do not have give them your ID. Just say “No” and walk away if you can manage it at all.
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
being bad at risk assessment combined with normalcy bias is how you get people freaking out about battery fires but never second-guessing that whole "endless supply of explosive gas" thing. bsky.app/profile/wapp...
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Cloud's Strife @jmgreene28.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
U.S GDP grew at a at a 4.9 percent annual rate over the summer of 2024, and the Times reported this as 'unsustainable,' bad news for Joe Biden.
New York Times screenshot
U.S. Economic Growth
Accelerated in the Third Quarter
Gross domestic product expanded at a 4.9 percent annual rate over the summer, powered by prodigious consumer spending. But the pace is not expected to be sustained.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I spent some time with an angry baby recently and it's over for you libs
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Today, the weapon was a sandwich. It may be something worse tomorrow.

If you must: Noah Rothman from NRO https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-search-for-meaning-in-throwing-sandwiches-at-law-enforcement/
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Thoughts on bf6 beta: - The maps are great. Thankfully no massive open, flat maps - Vehicles are very balanced and feel very good - Where's the music? Why is everything so quiet? Where did the end-of-round themes go? - The guns are fine. Very boring, they have no real character. Reloads are lame
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Mr. Beat @iammrbeat.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
They're coming after the Constitution itself. Article 1, Sections 9 and 10 gone on the official Congress website. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
web.archive.org
Wayback Machine
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
four years ago a million Americans died of infectious disease and we talk about it far less than how groceries went up 9% the next year. people don’t notice things; they are reminded of them, or not
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The Russian government got caught funding right wing media in the United States less than a year ago and no one remembers it and no one cares
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socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
- capital HH - post is 14 words long - odd capital letters: ADHH, or 1488 - post itself is white nationalist propaganda You need to hate young Republican interns MORE.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Americans claim to not want old people in Congress but keep voting them in and keep voting to keep them there. I don't think there should be legal limits on their age. If our Congress is all old as fuck, then clearly people don't mind old people in congress
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Great stuff

Cuomo said he would make affordability a cornerstone of his general-election campaign but would run on the notion that he will actually be able to make the city more affordable while Mamdani will only talk about it. “It’s about not just connecting with the perception of the problem. It’s finding the real solution and then having the ability to do it. You don’t want someone who just connects. That’s step one. What you really want is the problem-solver, and I can actually do that.”

So what would he do on housing affordability? “There is no real answer,”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
No exaggeration, this is Declaration of Independence-level tyranny. It's indistinguishable from other "injuries and usurpations" listed by Jefferson in the document. Many don't come close to this level of arrogant hostility.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Most people’s politics are the result of those people attempting to locate the consensus “correct” position in their social environment. If anything this dynamic is STRONGER among elites, who are hyperaware of their own standing and desperate to maintain it. The internet made this process insane.
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Tristan Johnson @stepback.nebula.tv · 29/06/2025
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It’s incomprehensible. Trump is inventing fake diplomacy from thin air, congratulating Iran like they just played in the Super Bowl, and in the middle of this ACTUALLY STARTED A WAR WITH IRAN, and our journalistic class thinks Biden getting tongue-tied in an answer is worse than Watergate
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 20/06/2025
Someone has gone through and actually run the numbers on molestation crimes against children. The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican. 67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans. www.whoismakingnews.com
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Try that in a small gayborhood
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
grateful to once again be having a conversation about the bullying tactics of trans activists
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“How slaves bet on Roger Taney and lost”
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The consequences of JCPOA withdrawal in graph form www.ft.com/content/193f...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I shit you not, people
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TheFlamecatcher 🐧✊ #SAVETHEPENGUINS @theflamecatcher.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What exactly do we get out of our relationship with Israel? Like how do we benefit?
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