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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · Mar 10

In the interest of getting yall to talk about something other than optimal political communications strategies, itt I will be posting the songs I actually like from each week’s Weekly Discovery playlist:

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✮ ⋆ ˚｡ kaiya ⋆｡°✩ @sloppyghoul.bsky.social · 14h

u got money for dubai chocolate but not for ur rent that was dubai the 1st

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 7h

square miles, I doubt you are going to be talking to many farmers

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 8h

why am I spending my evening reading the website of the Mexican equivalent of Fannie Mae

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 8h

high key problematic, we need to cancel him

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 8h

oh so New Jersey has solved all of life's problems, that's cool

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 8h

But what about a vision for things a ship can do that it’s not doing right now

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 13h

Wanted to like this but when the guy referred to Menem as an “imperfect reformer” I kinda had to give up on it

Why Argentina Needs Bailout After Bailout After Bailout

pca.st

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 16h

And I want the king to fall into the lava too!!

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 17h

This is what RFK Jr is afraid of

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 17h

they are at least less disturbing than the game with the mom and her daughter who are freezing to death

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 17h

something so hilarious to me about the sports gambling ads on Grindr, like are you lost diva

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 17h

Are you going anywhere besides Rome

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 18h

Lol @socialconcarne.bsky.social

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago IG recommended that top Brandon Johnson advisor Jason Lee be fired for failure to cooperate. The mayor’s office disagreed. This stems from investigation into Bill Conway complaint that they improperly leveraged homeless camp removal for political purposes. A mess:

8 | Failure to Cooperate (C2023-000000357)
An OIG investigation established that a senior staff member in the Mayor's Office failed to cooperate with an OIG investigation. OIG was investigating allegations that the subject had conditioned the approval of public safety services in a particular ward upon the affirmative votes of the ward alderperson on particular Mayoral-backed legislation.
During its investigation, OlG attempted to interview two other senior staff members in the Mayor's Office, Witness A and Witness B. Both Witness A and Witness B reported that an attorney from DOL would attend their interviews. OlG declined to conduct those confidential investigative interviews with a DOL attorney present and issued written interrogatories in lieu of those interviews.
Both witnesses answered the interrogatories. In the case of Witness A, OIG agreed at their request to two separate extension requests (totaling over a month of extended time) of its deadline to answer the interrogatories. When OIG denied a third extension request and told Witness A that a failure to respond by the extended deadline would be considered a failure to cooperate, Witness A complied and responded.
As for the subject of the investigation, OIG originally reached out by phone in October 2024 and spoke with the subject about scheduling a subject interview. The subject stated they would call OlG back. OIG did not hear back and sent an email to the subject days later suggesting an interview date later in November 2024. The subject responded, stating that a DOL attorney would attend the interview; the DOL attorney told OIG that the subject might also retain private counsel. Consistent with its position on the witness interviews in this investigation, in which Witness A and Witness B fulfilled their duty to cooperate by responding the written interrogatories, OlG declined to interview the subject with a DOL attorney present and sent them written interrogatories on February 11, 2025. OIG's initial tr…

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 20h

What’s Bulgaria’s problem

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

First out on season 19 of RPDR

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

also they asked if an AIPAC endorsement would make me more or less likely to vote for someone (asked this for Schakowsky, AOC, Bernie, and "organized labor" too)

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

I consider myself pretty aware politically but I had to say don't know/not familiar for about half the listed candidates

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

Just got polled for IL-09 @primaryschool.bsky.social @socialconcarne.bsky.social

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

rip Saab

Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 1d

1306 North Cicero Avenue

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone know which two voted against

Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 1d

The Broadway upzoning passes the land use commission 15-2. Loud cheers break out

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

have you read all the construction physics posts about US shipbuilding? we basically haven't done it at scale since WW2 but people keep trying

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

like if this would be a much bigger revenue source I get why they would want to have a huge fight about it but it's nothing! $30 million against a $1.5 billion deficit and it's going to be the only thing people talk about

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

it's very funny to try and make your ailing commercial vacancy situation even worse to address 2% of the budget gap (probably less than that since this could lower commercial property valuations)

Johnson expected to revive head tax in 2026 budget plan

Mayor Brandon Johnson is expected to ask the City Council to revive a corporate head tax as part of his plan to close a $1.15 billion 2026 shortfall.

www.chicagobusiness.com

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

she's braver than the troops for this one

Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · 1d

Pit bulls are disproportionately responsible for the deaths of many young children--more than other known hazards like button batteries--and many of these attacks are completely random and unprovoked.

www.cartoonshateher.com/p/pit-bulls-...

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

too many books these days are about writers and writing and it's a big reason why literary fiction is basically in hospice care

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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