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If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.
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If you're a young person, find your people are try stuff. You don't know how it will turn out AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. Failure is a natural part of living. Not something to be scared of. Try shit. Don't sit back and throw stones at others who are trying shit.
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If you're a young person, find your people are try stuff. You don't know how it will turn out AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. Failure is a natural part of living. Not something to be scared of. Try shit. Don't sit back and throw stones at others who are trying shit.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
BREAKING: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of raids across Chicago, Evanston and Skokie on Friday, does not have to report every weekday at 6 p.m. in person to the federal judge who has tried to rein in federal agents’ use of force, an appeals court ruled. @wttw.bsky.social
Appeals Court Rules Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Does Not Have to Check In Every Day With Federal Judge
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of raids across Chicago, Evanston and Skokie on Friday, does not have to report every weekday at 6 p.m. in person to the federal judge who has tried t...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.
ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.
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I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.
October 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.
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Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt https://theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-down-street-with-cup-of-coffee-1819574012/
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I think one of the ways that we can all help to make journalism better is to stop dunking on obvious opinion column rage bait. Stop giving people the oxygen of publicity that you don’t even really want to have the oxygen of oxygen
September 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I think one of the ways that we can all help to make journalism better is to stop dunking on obvious opinion column rage bait. Stop giving people the oxygen of publicity that you don’t even really want to have the oxygen of oxygen
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Many pundit arguments amount to 'you racial minorities simply have to deal with the fact that a lot of white people are racist. Suck it up and shut up.'
September 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Many pundit arguments amount to 'you racial minorities simply have to deal with the fact that a lot of white people are racist. Suck it up and shut up.'
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ICE has been sidestepping some of the city's most organized resistance. They're learning, and they are also wearing people out. Meanwhile, conservatives will cover their attacks on Chicagoland as successful operations in Chicago, while a lot of liberals (who don't live here) insist the city is fine.
September 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
ICE has been sidestepping some of the city's most organized resistance. They're learning, and they are also wearing people out. Meanwhile, conservatives will cover their attacks on Chicagoland as successful operations in Chicago, while a lot of liberals (who don't live here) insist the city is fine.
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Mecha Hitler said a few unsavory things about Jews, women, minorities, and called for the subjugation of anyone who wasn’t a straight white Christian man, but it’s important to remember he argued with civility.
September 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mecha Hitler said a few unsavory things about Jews, women, minorities, and called for the subjugation of anyone who wasn’t a straight white Christian man, but it’s important to remember he argued with civility.
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a lot of legacy news outlets are used to leaning on government sources. but now those sources are all radicalized freaks, and there's been no adjustment for that.
September 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
a lot of legacy news outlets are used to leaning on government sources. but now those sources are all radicalized freaks, and there's been no adjustment for that.
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I think that people in this country really need to push themselves to be more social and to combat this avoidance culture that has arisen over the past 2 decades and has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Should I go to this dinner with friends?
Nah, I should just stay home to play video games.
Should I go to this dinner with friends?
Nah, I should just stay home to play video games.
August 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I think that people in this country really need to push themselves to be more social and to combat this avoidance culture that has arisen over the past 2 decades and has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Should I go to this dinner with friends?
Nah, I should just stay home to play video games.
Should I go to this dinner with friends?
Nah, I should just stay home to play video games.
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A lot of media has normalised to a level of "oh so we're doing [thing] now," a willingness to publish whatever someone says and to let the reader decide its validity, as if the journalist is simply there to convey statements rather than any analysis of any kind
One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.
August 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
A lot of media has normalised to a level of "oh so we're doing [thing] now," a willingness to publish whatever someone says and to let the reader decide its validity, as if the journalist is simply there to convey statements rather than any analysis of any kind
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The idea of representation has really fried some people's understanding of the world around them when they're describing powerful politicians like disempowered family members who deserve unwavering support because of identity traits.
August 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The idea of representation has really fried some people's understanding of the world around them when they're describing powerful politicians like disempowered family members who deserve unwavering support because of identity traits.
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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Some of you have already succumbed to fascism. You've lost your sense of humanity. I hope you find it again.
July 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Some of you have already succumbed to fascism. You've lost your sense of humanity. I hope you find it again.
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They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
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I think that the failures of the millennial generation's attempts to change this system were necessary in some ways because we're often roundly mocked for losing over and over, but we played by the rules and did everything we were told. Every time we looked like we were winning, the rules changed.
June 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I think that the failures of the millennial generation's attempts to change this system were necessary in some ways because we're often roundly mocked for losing over and over, but we played by the rules and did everything we were told. Every time we looked like we were winning, the rules changed.
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