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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 5h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 11h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 3h

Wait, lmao, Riley Gaines Aka it's trans women's fault if i finish in 5th place behind cis women

Is married to an immigrant who can't get his paperwork right??

These maga people are WILD

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 3h

random fact, and idk if you're religious

But one the people al capone "talked to" in the height of his dementia was Dean O'Banion

He had obanion killed, but obanion was denied a burial on sacred (consecrated) ground bc he was a mobster

So I mean

Ghosts

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 3h

Yes.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 4h

Unclench your jaw.

Relax your brow.

Go get a drink of water.

See if you've taken your meds

Eat something.

Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.

Because you do.

You're a wonderful person.

And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4h

Read my words. Ty.

Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility

The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

www.turtlediaries.net

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5h

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5h

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com · 7h

Chicago is not giving these assholes any rest and I'm just so very proud of my city.

Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 9h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 9h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely!

It wasn't uncommon for alcohol to come in via the great lakes

And also Chicago gangsters were known to get 'out of town' in Minnesota

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4h

The stories I bet they had

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4h

Tell me more holy shit

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4h

Your whomst 👀😳😂

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4h

Omg if you're ever back in Illinois i can show you one of his spots in the suburbs

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 5h

Trumps head of operations for the war being waged in Chicago is openly trying to channel the supposedly masculine imagery of the Nazis

Make no mistake these domestic enemies waging war against the states are Nazis.

Bovino is really trying to sell its aesthetic now.

Bovino standing in a Trenchcoat in a hallway lit red. It’s giving Temu fascism.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

They low key did

They plexiglassed right around them bitches 😂😂😂

The restaurant in question BTW

www.littlebohemialodge.com

Home

Known for great food and drink since the 1920's! Step back in history at Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, WI.

www.littlebohemialodge.com

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

Fam did you its a whole ass restaurant in Wisconsin that serves German/Czech food but their real claim to fame is the spot was once a shootout? Feds tried to kill John dillinger in there

Hand to god they kept the bullet holes on the walls

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

I do not want to be a downer, but it was like 6 years from

He has a problem to he died

However, I feel this is not the first year of 6 years, you know?

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

Lmaooo im not autistic 👀

But oh my god, Prohibition era chicago is crack er I mean trains for me

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

So.

Al capone had dementia caused by syphilis

In his last days, he was obsessed with having conversations with rivals he had already murdered or people who had otherwise already died

He had hallucinations and was focused on death, dying, and dying in peace

Just an FYI

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

And for clarity-

back then means he probably got syphilis in the 1910s-1920s and penicillin wasn't really a well-known cure until about 1940

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

Or live accordingly

Both of these things actually

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

You can't cheat death, and you can't cheat the mirror

So love accordingly

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

Anyways TLDR he never had it properly treated in the early stages
And by the time the dementia hit, it was way too late

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5h

This is also speculation about why he only had 1 child. That his syphilis made him infertile. He was Italian catholic, his wife was Irish catholic so everyone assumed theyd have a lot of kids, but they only had one.

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