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Audrey Henderson
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Journalist, writer, and researcher. Chicagoland by way of Upper East Tennessee (i.e. a genuine hillbilly). Pronouns: She/her/hers
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Audrey Henderson @audreyhenderson.bsky.social · Jul 28
“Ask JD Vance to put your dope in a poke and watch his eyeliner run. He ain’t no hillbilly. IJS.”
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According to #BlueskyHarvest my most used word for posts this year was “ouch”, which somehow seems fitting.
Word cloud generated by Bluesky Harvest which shows “ouch” as my most used word in posts. “Chicago” is a fairly distant second.
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Neither #snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall deter #bicycle riders in downtown Evanston, Illinois.
Man riding bicycle through the snow in downtown Evanston, Illinois. Man riding a bicycle on a snowy sidewalk in downtown Evanston, Illinois.
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Not too shabby for a nearly 50 year old poster, eh?
Poster from 1977 concert by the late activist and musician Gil Scott-Heron at Northwestern University. The poster includes a line drawing of his face along with the announcement.
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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You simply cannot make this stuff up.

Texas men plotted coup to kill men, enslave women and children, prosecutors say
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Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children
Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I managed to snag a 2025 #penny in near mint condition. It will never leave my possession.
Front of 2025 penny. Back of 2025 penny.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Deep blue Evanston, Illinois made it clear yesterday that ICE was not welcome.
A crowd gathered for an anti-ICE protest in downtown Evanston, Illinois on September 15, 2025.
September 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Chicago went ahead with its Mexican Independence Day parade despite heightened ICE presence.
WGN TV float for Mexican Independence Day parade SEIU Union float for Mexican Independence Day parade
September 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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He was a decent man and actually not so bad as a governor as i recall.
kerryreid.bsky.social Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · Sep 14
RIP to Jim Edgar, the last (and maybe only) Republican I ever voted for. He endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024, FWIW.
September 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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On my way back to Chicago after a weekend trip for Opening Weekend at Exhibit Columbus. My latest story for @wallpapermag.bsky.social

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This year's coolest architecture pavilion can be found on the roof of a parking garage in Indiana
Germane Barnes is turning up the bass at Exhibit Columbus
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August 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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You absolutely cannot make this stuff up. Also: #Leopards and faces, y’all.
Trump Burger owner responds after immigration fraud arrest www.chron.com/food/article...
Trump Burger owner responds after immigration fraud arrest
The heat is back on at Texas' monument to the president.
www.chron.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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The article states that a permanent exhibit is planned for the future but with no announced timeline. Which begs the question: why not just leave the “temporary” label in place?
#TrumpImpeachments

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/01/s...
Smithsonian museum removes label referencing Trump impeachments
The label had been added to a display at the National Museum of American History about checks on presidential powers in 2021 following Trump's second impeachment
www.theartnewspaper.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Where do you even begin?
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Aug 1
i'm crying laughing. she's literally never seen the word before.
August 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I foresee a *very* scary horror movie coming soon to a theater near you. #radioactivewasps
August 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Erasing history at our national parks.

National park gift shops move to ban "corrosive" history books

www.salon.com/2025/07/31/n...
National park gift shops move to ban "corrosive" history books - Salon.com
The National Park Service is flagging history books in an effort to purge negative representations of the U.S.
www.salon.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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You simply cannot make this stuff up.

Dealer Repossesses Car, Customer Responds by Legally Taking Its Name www.thedrive.com/news/dealer-...
Dealer Repossesses Car, Customer Responds by Legally Taking Its Name
A customer was able to legally claim a dealer’s name after it went back on financing and repoed her car.
www.thedrive.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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And yet another one gone. RIP #RyneSandberg

Hall of Famer, Chicago Cubs great Ryne Sandberg dies at age 65

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Hall of Famer, Chicago Cubs great Ryne Sandberg dies at age 65 | CNN
Longtime Chicago Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg died Monday at age 65, his family announced on Sandberg’s verified Instagram page.
www.cnn.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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“National Brotherhood Week” always cracks me up. RIP #TomLehrer. Godspeed.
Album cover for “That Was The Year That Was” by Tom Lehrer.
July 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Climate change? What #climatechange?

How a risky sunlight-dimming experiment in California collapsed - POLITICO
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.
Hundreds of documents show how researchers failed to notify officials in California about a test of technology to block the sun’s rays — while they planned a much huger sequel.
www.politico.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Emmett Till was my father’s age. My father. Who was born and raised in Mississippi. Who treasured a mounted poster I had made from a snapshot of a street sign near his childhood home in the far backwoods. A home he longed to visit again but was fearful to do so. I cannot say he was wrong.
drnickiw.bsky.social Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · Jul 24
Emmett Till would be 84 today.

Not 114. Not 104.

84.

He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.
Black and white image of Emmett Till in hat, white shirt, and tie.
July 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Bronzeville Community Development Partnership showed up and showed out at the EV Charging Infrastructure Summit yesterday.
Table display for Bronzeville Community Development Partnership with knowledgeable personnel. Panel discussion on EV charging infrastructure and equity at the EV Charging Infrastructure Summit on July 15 2025.
July 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Thanks Trump.

9 Products That Could Get More Expensive In IL Due To European Tariffs | Across Illinois, IL Patch patch.com/illinois/acr...
9 Products That Could Get More Expensive In IL Due To European Tariffs
President Donald Trump announced surprise 30 percent tariffs on European Union imports, from wine and cheese to shoes and pharmaceuticals.
patch.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Just One Nation Produces Enough Food For Itself, Scientists Reveal : ScienceAlert

Spoiler alert: it’s not the USA.

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Just One Nation Produces Enough Food For Itself, Scientists Reveal
Global politics don't feel particularly cooperative at the moment, but which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down? Just one, according to a ...
www.sciencealert.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I went to Jewel to pick up a copy of the Reader. (Evanston and Chicago have done away with honor boxes for some unknown reason.) The place was a zoo. I snatched my paper and ran home, not to emerge again. Not even for fireworks. Actually not especially for fireworks.
July 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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You know who first floated the ideas of defunding public broadcasting and self deportation? Mitt Romney. IJS
July 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Doggone onions…
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 1
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM