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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 29m

I am begging people outside the book industry to understand that what we’re experiencing is not merely a surge in book banning but a coordinated effort to end libraries and librarianship in America. 4/4

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 1h

No one is slut shaming her. She’s receiving valid criticism for violating journalistic standards.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 17h

I’m going to have to log off until that damn Time cover isn’t circulating anymore.

It’s a jump scare every time.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 1d

Do we ever just pause and ask ourselves what is happening?

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 1d

It is impossible to read a book while the dust jacket is still on it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Book recommendations for Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Read today & all year! Alt text for text

Blood Sisters
• A Council of Dolls
• Never Whistle at Night
• Winter Counts (TBR)
• There, There
• Night of the Living Rez
Bad Cree
• The Bone Picker (tbr)
• Ghost Girls and Rabbits
• White Horse
• Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Mask of the Deer Woman
• India Burial Ground
• Shutter
• Man Made Monsters (I need to finish!)
• On the Savage Side

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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/\__/\__/\__/ @cardiograms.bsky.social · 2d

This is why they hate it.

Chicago is officially one of the top 10 happiest cities in the world

The Windy City is all smiles in 2025

www.timeout.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 2d

I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!

If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.

drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

Hand holding a black and white illustrated zine of two people holding signs that say “we marched! Now what?”

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

A zine for those interested.

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ICE nearby - whistle zine - english

KYR/Whistle Packet Making via portageparkaction IG: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gvO3N8Uv_vbRTs07Yl92SiTTu3fc4qa6-ZMjf44mrTI/edit?usp=sharing PDF versions of this zine; resources for whistle w...

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

The whistles work!

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 3d

Bridge over Chicago Waters. This morning during the Chicago Marathon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 4d

There’s going to be an angry EO prohibiting inflatable frog costumes, isn’t there?

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 4d

This weekend’s read is THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL by Philip Fracassi. Time travel. What could possibly go wrong? #BookSky

THE
THIRD RULE
OF TIME TRAVEL
PHILIP FRACASSI

Audiobook cover with a white paper butterfly on a white background

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting how they won’t say the name of the protest. 🤔

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 4d

The GOP is getting quite comfortable describing people who use their first amendment rights as terrorists.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

"OK but what is your PLAN?" Bish I am sitting at the back of this plane. I'm just willing to point out that the driver is gargling everclear and flying directly at the ground while reading a book titled HOW TO FLY AIRPLANES INTO THE GROUND.

What is MY plan? What is OUR plan? You're here too.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 5d

Thrilled to share a clip from our funny new children's audiobook about the Stone Age. I had such fun writing and narrating this with the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social

In this clip, join Homo Erectus on a scavenging hunt... but they're in for a nasty, LOUD surprise! (Sound on!)

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 4d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 4d

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed by Friday www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/j...

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed by Friday

A federal judge ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the ICE detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its remo…

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

I just really fucking love Chicago.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats! I loved it.

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