Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com

2 hours ago

Buried 35 paragraphs in:

"Violent crime in Chicago has dropped significantly in the first half of the year, according to official data released by the city. Shootings are down 37% and homicides have dropped by 32% compared to the first half of 2024, while total violent crime dropped by over 22%..."

58 shot over weekend in Chicago as governor rejects Trump's threat to send in National Guard

At least eight people have been killed and 58 others injured in shootings across Chicago over Labor Day weekend, according to police.

Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project @florenceproject.bsky.social

1 day ago

Children did not understand what was happening. The government moved late at night, over a holiday weekend, deliberately making it harder for these children to reach their attorneys or the courts. This is all on purpose.

Full statement ▶️ firrp.org/florence-pro...

More Abstract Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social

4 days ago

The Republicans give us the venomous power-hungry racism but you need to go a Libertarian to get “the government suggesting I shouldn’t eat raw chicken is as tyrannical as the age of consent”

More Abstract Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social

4 days ago

Good news everyone we can all go back to shitting in the drinking water for freedom

Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social

5 days ago

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social

6 days ago

Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social

6 days ago

It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives

Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social

6 days ago

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

David Roberts @volts.wtf

6 days ago

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.

ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras

A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.