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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 4h

How do you winterize it? I built mine in the spring so this will be my first winter (near Chicago, we might get a week of 0°F). I’m thinking take the pump out and put a trough warmer in to keep a hole in the ice, but do I need something else? I have two small koi and 15 goldfish.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 4h

Late morning in my pond garden 🌱

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Damon Holtz @hrderbyswing.bsky.social · 23h

Looks so serene and post-apocalyptic at the same time.

Chicago, IL

Taken from Indiana Dunes State Park

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 16h

Four people were killed in a shooting in a small town in the Mississippi Delta region after a high school football homecoming game there, a state senator said Saturday.

4 dead in shooting that injured others after homecoming football game in Mississippi, official says

Four people were killed in a shooting in a town in the Mississippi Delta region after a high school football homecoming game there, a lawmaker said Saturday.

trib.al

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Joseph Cain @nightmarefixer.bsky.social · 16h

Baron Trump looks like something the Onion made up as a bit.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 18h

You can do well at predicting the atrocities that will come to pass simply by stating “Republicans will do what they have publicly pledged to do”

Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 19h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 18h

I got my BA at Northwestern and my PhD at Wisconsin. They are my teams. Through the three years I lived in Madison, they battled each other for the Big Ten West championship. I would never have imagined the Chryst-Fickell transition turning out worse than the Fitz-Braun debacle. And yet -

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 19h

Damnnnnnnnnn Iowa

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 19h

The scene early in Forrest Gump where the mom goes to bed with the Principal to secure a free and appropriate public education for her child did not make any sense to me when I saw that movie as a kid, but it makes a lot of sense now as the GOP vision for future access to special education services

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 19h

Why does French TV have a more informative and interesting discussion - in English - about the importance of reading (and the scientific basis for this fact) than anything ever broadcast in the US? youtu.be/D9hde90uJfs?...

How books shape minds and societies, building cognitive resilience and civic mindedness

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 20h

At 11am today I went to a local distillery for a birthday party for a 4 year old. The day has been rolling along quite nicely ever since.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 21h

This is good stuff. Unfortunately my local Catholic Church, a few miles from the Broadview ICE Facility, is publicly silent on dehumanizing immigration policy but did just erect their annual ghoulish Halloween decoration of gravemarkers for aborted embryos.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22h

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 22h

When they get rid of divisions so you don't have Ohio State vs. Northwestern as the Big Ten Championship game and you can have real powers go head to head instead and then the Big Ten Championship game is Ohio State vs. Northwestern

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katie dzwierzynski @kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · 22h

🎵FIGHT FOR VICTORYYYYYYYYYY🎵

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 22h

Go ‘Cats!

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 22h

Shocked Penn State fan. They are losing to Northwestern.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

When your work in ‘The Godfather’ gets fifth-billing in your obituary…

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoying the perfect fall weather in Chicago today. 🐝 🌱

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

Please get your flu shot and Covid booster. I work in fourteen different K-12 school buildings every week with about 8000 children and I can use all the help I can get to stay well every year. Follow President Trump and me in this action.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven’t learned by now, please learn from this that Ross Douthat is not a person whose thoughts, interviews, or reporting are worthy of anyone’s attention. Please don’t continue to distribute his work.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Children’s Hospital, one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, is now named for Benioff. San Francisco’s general hospital is named for Zuckerberg. Now they wonder why people ever thought they cared about children and public health

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

Folks can say protest is ineffective. You can claim it's not achieving anything. But there's no way Dick Durbin is doing this if courageous protestors aren't out there daily for the last few weeks forcing people in positions of power to take action.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 1d

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 1d

Our government lies constantly about their violent abuse of power and their destruction of our most cherished freedoms.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

There’s actually a mountain range dividing the eastern and western parts of San Francisco, they don’t need a line and some bullshit about Pop music, they just need a topographical map.

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Jake Wertz @jakewertz.bsky.social · 2d

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/is-a...

Is a River Alive?

Check out Is a River Alive? - <p><b>From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding <i>yes</i> to the question of its title.</...

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