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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
recommendation for people looking to cover up their Deathly Hallows tattoos: some interpretation of the horticultural Disease Triangle
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Friends don't let friends follow Alt National Park Service. This is so weird and inappropriate!!!
AltNPS's post is full of the same lurid details and breathless dramatization as their previous attempt at ICE raid erotica from a few weeks ago.

Things that AltNPS could not possibly have witnessed, and which aren't reported anywhere else.
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Did the New York Times ruin journalism?
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy

you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today is as good a day as ever to permanently deactivate your AirBnB account.

Add the facts that their founder is working for DOGE, the company is on BDS Movement’s pressure list, and how it drives up housing costs by turning prime units into investment properties and its a no brainer.
Joe Gebbia, a billionaire, is the co-founder of AirBnB, a presidential appointee and a Tesla board member claiming ISIS waited until the last minute to endorse Mamdani.

This is sick.
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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This is a nice story about the civic/social infrastructure that came out of Mamdani's campaign

Now I want to see the @resnikoff.bsky.social take on it
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Illinois now is the time to try for a progressive tax again
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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This is a joke about dumb poor Kentuckians.

A close read however, shows how many people in Kentucky want to vote for a %#!? socialist, they’ve reached out to their local electoral officials to make sure that they can.

Tell me again how we need to be a little racist to attract rural red voters.
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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This article is really great bc it's about an org everyone knows but seems so boring we forget about it (Common Crawl) and turns out they're doing something extremely shady, AND the guy in charge keeps saying the most damning things to a reporter www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
The web archive Common Crawl has been quietly funneling paywalled articles to AI companies—and lying to publishers about it.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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"/
October 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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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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October 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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For most white people, the ICE surge existed only on social media - IF that

Not in their social networks, not within miles of many

It's different now. Lincoln Park is densely-populated and a many (most?) white people in Chicago know someone who lives near where fed agents gassed the neighborhood +
October 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Most ppl know that Chicago (home of modern urban segregation) is a very segregated place but I don't think most outside Chicago (+many Chicagoans!) understand how the *distances* involved and *depth* of segregation mean most white ppl have ZERO visibility into many Black and Latine neighborhoods

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October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Feds are also on the ground in Avondale/northwest side: instagram.com/p/DQPEgcSEWDl/
October 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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If this pisses you off:
1. Figure out how you can actively support a rapid response network
2. Get 5 of your privileged friends to actively support a rapid response network
3. Donate to @unraveledpress.com
unraveledpress.com/support-unra...
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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One list to block all the Reich ministries.
October 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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sherman, for the love of god!
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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it’s challenging being a Black-owned newsroom during this time of anti-DEI and political attacks, but we persevere. that’s what our ancestors did.

if you can, consider making a contribution — big or small — to fuel our reporting on Chicago.

if you know a $$$ person in your life, spread the word.
We’re so thankful to everyone who is spreading the word about our work at The TRiiBE.

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October 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Pritzker’s office phone line is open if anyone wants to register their opinion about this: (312) 814-2121
State troopers just grabbed another protester.
October 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Some real Gilded Age stuff going on: Trump says Union Pacific's president urged him to send troops into Memphis, St. Louis, and Chicago, which are all important interchange points between UP and Norfolk Southern, the railroad UP is attempting to buy out
September 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Chicago - please complete this EV / electric mobility survey.

CDOT is using this to determine where they will site public chargers. I don't want them on the curb, because it makes a future excuse for CDOT to not implement bus and bike lanes.

www.surveymonkey.com/r/EVPhase2Su...
CDOT: EV Framework Public Survey
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
www.surveymonkey.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM