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AmyRey
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Crossword editor, feminist, liberal. She/her
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Remember those national guard troops sent to Chicago by Texas Gov Greg Abbott? They went home after sitting at a suburban training facility doing nothing for a month. Abbott's little stunt cost taxpayers at least $12M. What an abuse of power.

wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...
The military says 200 National Guard soldiers from Texas and 300 from Illinois have been federalized for the Chicago operation for 60 days. The left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies pegs the deployment cost at a minimum of $647 per day, per soldier. The estimated total cost: $12.8 million.
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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ianmhartshorn.com
People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
amyrey3.bsky.social
I wish @merriam-webster.com included a definition and etymology for “groyper”. It’s such an alien term.
November 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
I got a tip a few months ago that ICE was planning to use tribal airports for ICE flights. I spent a few hours scouring flight data, found no evidence of this, and let it go.

But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!
lauraannegilman.bsky.social Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 2d
The definition of audacity: ICE asking WA tribes to host detention centers.

They got a very polite “fuck off.”

“The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the tribal council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities.” - Tribal Chair E.K. Choke
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.
www.seattletimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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karidru.bsky.social
For the fifty billionth time: I don't want society to shut down. I want you to mask at the fucking hospital, bus, airport, school, and grocery store, if you can.

If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
I’m training sword every week now! ⚔️⚔️
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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ihavethatonvinyl.com
dystopian ass weather report
chicago.suntimes.com Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d
Chicago may experience less tear gas use as Operation Midway Blitz winds down. Cold and wet weather reduce effectiveness, while wind adds unpredictability.
Wind, cold temps can change the impact of tear gas and pepper balls, experts say
chicago.suntimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
she better run
Letters on the face of a building spell out “WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER” but “together” is spaced unfortunately as “TO GET HER.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
amyrey3.bsky.social
If you see this, post a bird
Duck with a brown head and a white body with light brown patches. A hybrid of two different duck species.
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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"White House of Dynamite" (2025): Director Kathryn Bigelow takes you inside a tense White House Situation Room as top aides have only 20 minutes to stop an incoming Epstein email from annihilating Donald Trump's presidency
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
My thing is that 15 is not “barely legal.” It is, quite comfortably “Statutorily ILLEGAL”
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Notice how nobody in the Trump regime ever asks, “But how will we pay for it?” when it comes to priorities that benefit them?
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."

Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
You know us. For years, you watched and listened to our coverage of the Chicago area. As journalists, we did our best to bring you accurate, objective information about the people, events and issues that mattered. We hope we gained your trust. So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done and what they may do in other cities. We are retired, but our colleagues who are still on the job have shown you a brutal and illegal campaign against fellow Chicagoans, mainly Latinos: violent abductions, gutting families, using tear gas around children, roughing up witnesses, ramming cars and even taking a day care teacher from her school.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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garpo3000.bsky.social
8:45ish, Belmont Harbor
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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kbneal.bsky.social
Sr sosige is deeply committed to wild strawberry season.
An elderly black and tan dachshund standing shoulder deep in a patch of wild strawberries covered in tiny red fruits and white flowers. He is taking a breather before continuing his harvest.
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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sesmith.lol
This is a VERY interesting read, now that I've had time to sit down with it, and it has me thinking about the interactions of learning abilities, especially dyslexia, with how we teach reading.
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
there are whole generations of men whose idea of How Men Are Cool was formed by, like, rock stars casually sleeping with 16 year olds and writing hit songs about it. confronting the inherent predation of those powerful men feels like such a personal attack on their own construction of masculinity
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.
snmrrw.bsky.social Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 4d
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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You love to see it: “Seven years ago, left-leaning politicians opposed a plan that would have given incentives to Amazon to build a headquarters in the same neighborhood.”
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
Breaking News: The New York City Council overwhelmingly approved a rezoning on Wednesday that could transform an industrial stretch of Queens into thousands of apartments — private development aimed at addressing the city’s affordable housing crisis. nyti.ms/4p71Cqv
A view of the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, Queens. A headline reads: "City Council Approves Plan That Could Bring 14,700 Homes to Queens." Photo by Karsten Moran for The New York Times
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
amyrey3.bsky.social
I have no words for editorial jokes.
cwwilkie.org Christian @cwwilkie.org · 4d
I just don't have the time for chronology jokes.
sesquiotic.bsky.social James [November] Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 4d
I can’t see my way to making ophthalmology jokes.
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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jmetr22b.bsky.social
Cummings describes a sampling of Midway Blitz arrests:
54 were arrested while at work.
20 landscapers, 4 Uber or taxi drivers
2 street vendors
20 were commuting to or from work
9 arrested at Home Depot or Menards
11 in public places, including a Dunkin Donuts drive thru
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM