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tlpete

@absurdbeats.bsky.social

Like this motherfcker has ever given his kids any medication.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."

November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM

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Philip Bump

@pbump.com

Here's the full Summers email, btw.

November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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Bill Grueskin

@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

“Likable person who isn’t 1000 years old and generally does things you like” isn’t unicorn fantasy land bullshit it’s the bare minimum you deserve as a human being

November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

basic problem is none of these folks is capable of saying “i was wrong”

November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM

tlpete

@absurdbeats.bsky.social

Mamdani is going to implement schmear law. Everyone will have to learn how to spread cream cheese correctly.

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 5d

Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5d

Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.

Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a

Excuse me, there's someone at the door.

November 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM

tlpete

@absurdbeats.bsky.social

Oh, do I have kittens? How can you tell?

An incredibly dirty, smudgy window, with a prayer plant hanging in the top left, and the top of a china doll plant peeking over a gray cushion. Outside the window is a brick background, and bars from the fire escape.

November 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM

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Gillian Brockell

@gbrockell.bsky.social

Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.

No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.

Jeanne (she/they) @fangirljeanne.bsky.social · 7d

A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.

[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]

Islamic Center of Charlotte in Charlotte NC. Would help feed a starving baby no hesitation 🥰🥰🥰 #fyp #fypシ #fypシ゚viral #testingyourchurch #church #faith #religion #baby #hungrybabytest #viral #viralvid...

TikTok video by Nikalie 🌈

www.tiktok.com

November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM

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kate wagner

@katewagner.wehwalt.net

i have a long essay in my drafts that i did over the last week or so about having covid and proceeding to, in a state of mental impairment, believe that i had 50 rare diseases and put like 10 million supplements in my body because of stuff i read online but i think it would get me skinned alive

November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM

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George Pearkes

@peark.es

What a queen

November 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM

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Mezentine

@mezentine.bsky.social

Okay yeah lets do it, because it is an interview with two conservative women, which I think is getting missed in some of the drive by dunks. This isn't just Ross's normal crankery, its a window into a specific conservative project aimed at getting women to buy in.

But you’re both here, I’m sorry to say, as theorists. We’re going to try to debate your theories.

Helen, you recently wrote an essay entitled “The Great Feminization” that attracted some commentary on the internet and argued, at least in my gloss, that feminism has failed us because it’s made our institutions too feminized, driving men and masculine virtues out.

And Leah, you have a new book called “The Dignity of Dependence,” where you suggest that liberal feminism has failed us by forcing women to suppress their nature and fit into workplaces and social systems made for men.

November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸

@whiskeynachos.bsky.social

I'm waiting for Fox News to start airing the MANY Nasheeds and other shitposts Muslim New Yorkers have been posting on TikTok since he won, but taking them seriously.

November 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM

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Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM

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Musicology Duck

@musicologyduck.bsky.social

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

Andrew Coumo kissing a woman who does not particularly look involved in the situation herself

Woman covering her face with her hand at Cuomo party

Man with his face in his hand at cuomo party

Woman holding NY hearts Cuomo branded campaign sign but it’s upside down

November 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM

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Taniel

@taniel.bsky.social

What we know, 3pm on Wednesday:

[In 4 parts]

—CA's Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems gain leg seats in VA & NJ
—Dems win NJ & VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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Kate Burns

@katerqburns.bsky.social

Who’s tracking the best crash out’s? I know one of you are making a thread

Sickos meme- guy looking out a window laughing

November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM

tlpete

@absurdbeats.bsky.social

A slightly beat up Zohran button, pinned to a royal blue backpack. The center of the button is "ZOHRAN" in yellow letters with a red contrast. Just below his name is "For New York City". Curved around the top is "Vote Nov 4 * Vote early Oct 25-Nov 2" and curved on the bottom is "zohranfornyc.com"

November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM

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Nick Field

@nickfield.bsky.social

“Well, so why don’t you retire?” someone asked. “The member literally looked at us and goes, ‘Well, what would I do?’” nymag.com/intelligence...

November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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James Fallows

@jfallows.bsky.social

1/n
Radical hypothesis:

If you're a reporter or even a columnist (umbrella 'journalist' camp), generally *least* useful thing you can do with your time and platform is tell political parties what their "messaging" should be.

-Reporters have the privilege of seeing things other people can't ...

November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

Friends, Tuesday is Election Day in NYC, and it's time to VOTE FOR @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Here's a thread of why I'm voting for him, along with photos I've taken over the past few months.

FIRST, the dude cares. He loves this city and he loves us. And care > punishment, baby.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · May 27

Got my color film from this rally developed! Here's @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social doing that rally thing.

Nikon FE2, Nikon Nikkor 105mm f2.5 (I think), Kodak Gold 200.

#BelieveInFilm #RankTheSlate