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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Chicago

Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 3h

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-14 02:06:16 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 64.95 F | 18.31 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NE at 5.749 mph | 9.25 kph // Humidity: 77%

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celticjade13.bsky.social @celticjade13.bsky.social · 3h

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 6h

“You’d run, too, if you were being chased by Antifa.”

Trump Claims Thousands of Chicagoans Were Seen Running for Their Lives Over Weekend

“You’d run, too, if you were being chased by Antifa.”

www.borowitzreport.com

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 16h

Some Chicago aldermen are adding new duties: getting tear-gassed and handcuffed, organizing legions of volunteers, and standing guard near elementary schools.

Fighting Trump’s immigration blitz in Chicago, ward by ward

Some Chicago aldermen are adding new duties: getting tear-gassed and handcuffed, organizing legions of volunteers, and standing guard near elementary schools.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 8h

A few messages seen today in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood

A poster on a pole next to a street says:
“ICE YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
NAZI RATS LEAVE OUR CITY”

A stack of posters featuring a hammer-wielding figure with the stars of the Chicago wrapped around his torso. It says:
“I PREFER MY ICE CRUSHED. END IMMIGRATION ARRESTS, DEFEND OUR SANCTUARY”

A sign in a store window says: “WE DON’T [SERVE is crossed out] FEED ICE OR PIGS! even if you steal this sign”

The words “ICE OUT” are written in chalk on a sidewalk.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 5h

This is what I was getting at in today’s column. Republicans won’t do anything without Trump’s permission. Period.

“GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 4h

Someone asked for this, I can't find the request but I hope you see it. Sal Frelick asking the question on everyone's minds in the moment.

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 4h

With apologies to Dodgers fans, I have not experienced this level of delight watching a baseball game in a WHILE.

A bases-loaded 8-6-3 double play, no runs scored??????????

WHAT??????

I am howling at the moon; this rules. This is Halloweenball. This is haunted chaos. Maybe my favorite play ever

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 4h

"what the fuck just happened"

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celticjade13.bsky.social @celticjade13.bsky.social · 6h

Really loved this from @decentfilms.bsky.social today, and it has the perfect graphic at the end.
open.substack.com/pub/greydanu...

That famous drawing, almost a meme, of Jesus preaching "Love your neighbor as yourself," and the crowd asks, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus responds, "It's whoever you were hoping I wouldn't say."

celticjade13.bsky.social @celticjade13.bsky.social · 6h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Pitting Us Against One Another in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13h

The story he wants (and is getting!) at the moment is that he Ended the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Brought World Peace. Any reminder that he did no such thing is annoying to him. That’s it. That’s all of it. He has not learned anything.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13h

Oh my God stop this. Trump has one goal always: getting shiny things he wants. The shiny thing he currently wants is a Nobel Peace Prize, and he thinks Bibi mouthing off could keep him from getting that. He will forget about it in a month.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 17h

I have strong doubts that the 'ceasefire' will hold and lead to an actual peace deal, but it seems like, maybe, somehow, Trump kinda learned a lesson here...?

Screenshot from CBS news:

Trump tells Netanyahu to be "nicer … you're not at war anymore"
President Trump jokingly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in remarks at the Knesset to be "nicer," as "you're not at war anymore."

"Only by embracing the opportunities of this moment can we achieve our goal of ensuring that the horrors of recent years will never happen again. You don't want to have to go through this again," Mr. Trump said, turning to address Israeli lawmakers.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13h

“Yeah but there was no final status negotiated under those”

There’s no final status agreement now either

“Yeah but those were temporary”

This one hasn’t even been in force for a week

“But this time Bibi promises it’s for real!”

[stares]

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 13h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 13h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Gosh, if only there was a group of people out there trained in directing traffic who could help protesters cross the road. Perhaps they could even wear matching uniforms and be paid by the city to ensure public safety.

“It has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street,” Thompson said in a statement on Monday. “This new measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.”

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 14h

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social · 12h

I would love to live in a world where people didn't have to make a thing on social media of telling people that potentially blinding helicopter pilots flying over protests in urban areas is a bad idea, but here we are.

multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 12h

If you're just trying to blind a cop bc you wanna, there's a lot more of them at eye level where they can't crash a helicopter on top of you and all your neighbors.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Jan 20

Well, America, we had a good run. I mean, mostly. Okay, not entirely. *flips through a history book* You know what, forget I said anything.

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 17h

++ people in DC. Still. It’s still happening here I had feds in the alley behind my house 3 days ago. 7 people (that I know of) have been taken from my block alone.

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 11h

The plan to send in unaccountable agents to kidnap your neighbors *might* have overplayed its hand when they've lost the people on the "I Saw A Person I Didn't Recognize In My Neighborhood And I Want The Cops To Come Take Them Away" social media app.

Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 11h

It’s happening on Nextdoor too

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 15h

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 11h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10h

This is true, and…

It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job.

Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10h

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 10h

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 10h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

me after attending a protest

Jeff Goldblum running out of a store with a bunch of shopping bags in his hand. He's dressed fashionably in a tan jacket, black shirt, gray trousers, and black loafers.

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