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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 10h

Saw Annie Hall most recently in 2009, and kept thinking that Diane Keaton’s character deserved better than that awful man.

Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 10h

The first time I saw Annie Hall. It was 1977, in a movie theater in downtown Olympia, Washington. I was with a guy with whom I shouldn’t have been involved, but was. Afterward, we went over to a cafe called the Brown Derby for strawberry pie and spoke worshipfully of Woody Allen’s genius.

Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 23h

One night in the ‘80s, I was waiting in line for a movie — maybe in front of the Waverly — with my boyfriend. This woman walked by who we both instantly recognized. She wasn’t fabulously dressed, but she seemed to glow, to radiate light like a star. Seeing Diane Keaton walk by was somehow magical.

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 10h

The first time I saw Annie Hall. It was 1977, in a movie theater in downtown Olympia, Washington. I was with a guy with whom I shouldn’t have been involved, but was. Afterward, we went over to a cafe called the Brown Derby for strawberry pie and spoke worshipfully of Woody Allen’s genius.

Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 23h

One night in the ‘80s, I was waiting in line for a movie — maybe in front of the Waverly — with my boyfriend. This woman walked by who we both instantly recognized. She wasn’t fabulously dressed, but she seemed to glow, to radiate light like a star. Seeing Diane Keaton walk by was somehow magical.

Diane Keaton, a Star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘First Wives Club,’ Dies at 79

www.nytimes.com

Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 10h

A lot of shootings at historically black universities in Mississippi in which “no arrests were made.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

At Least 1 Dead and 3 Injured After Shootings at Mississippi Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t know that there has ever been an administration as humorless as Trump II. So countering its rampant abuses with over-the-top goofiness is a genius strategy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

www.nytimes.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 10h

Not an economist, but I don’t understand how systematically sabotaging opportunity for one group of Americans doesn’t sabotage the economy as a whole.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 20h

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places.

But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 11h

Planet of the Oligarchs:

If you’re rich enough, reality is whatever you say it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 22h

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Shot in the head with pepper spray

This is Trump's America

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 23h

Can’t have everything.

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 23h

One night in the ‘80s, I was waiting in line for a movie — maybe in front of the Waverly — with my boyfriend. This woman walked by who we both instantly recognized. She wasn’t fabulously dressed, but she seemed to glow, to radiate light like a star. Seeing Diane Keaton walk by was somehow magical.

Diane Keaton, a Star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘First Wives Club,’ Dies at 79

www.nytimes.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

Word.

Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social · 5d

“There is so much about this moment that is trying to make people feel like they’ve lost their minds, when, in fact, these muthafuckas are crazy.” -- @kamalaharris.com

*Originally posted by @madampolitick.bsky.social at X.

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

“Wander around the area today and you’ll find a neighborhood reduced to ashes as Lululemon still stands.”

Carolina Miranda on Carusoland.

nyra.nyc/articles/mal...

MallFresco

Rick Caruso’s Cheesecake Factory of the mind

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

Arguably, it’s a good strategy to leave the insoluble problems out of a cease-fire deal. Still, the fact that there’s been no agreement about who governs Gaza, whether Hamas disarms, or whether Israel withdraws suggests that peace is still a long way off.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire: What's Next for Gaza Aid, Hostages and More

A step-by-step look at what’s next in Gaza for the hostages, Israel’s military and the delivery of aid.

www.nytimes.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

Sanity break: Clouds by Gerhard Richter

www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...

Exceptional Works: Gerhard Richter | Wolken (Clouds), 2025 | David Zwirner

Featured on the occasion of an exhibition by Gerhard Richter at David Zwirner in Paris, Wolken (blau) (Clouds [Blue]) (2025) and Wolken (rosa) (Clouds [Pink]) (2025) are two of monumental three-panel ...

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

Carolina Miranda was asked by the Washington Post to write a series of columns on the aesthetic culture of Trumpism. Great gig…until they pulled the plug on her. I guess they didn’t think she was writing “in support and defense of…personal liberties and free markets.”

Here’s her final column:

The column WaPo didn't run

In this edition: thoughts about Charlie Kirk and the nature of Confederate monuments

buttondown.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

Australia is moving forward, while we are being dragged backward.

www.wired.com/story/as-coa...

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

www.wired.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

The Chicago minister who was targeted and attacked multiple times by ICE agents points out how undisciplined and poorly supervised they are. Makes sense. They are there to foment chaos.

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

are shooters of priests ever the good guys throughout history

Pastor shot by ICE with pepper balls speaks out in first TV interview | CNN

Pastor hit by ICE pepper balls granted restraining order against government.

www.cnn.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

“Those with tickets were required to attend the full series of four talks in addition to respecting the off-the-record policy, the event listing said.”

How does he enforce the attendance policy? A Silicon Valley blacklist? Does he add dropouts to his “might be the Antichrist” list?

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

The NJ Turnpike in Secaucus or Kearny, looking like a Roman aqueduct. As seen from Amtrak, 2017.

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

“An enormous solar power project in the Nevada desert that would have been one of the world’s largest has been canceled, according to the Interior Department.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/c...

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

Handy chart.

You’ll be shocked (shocked!) to discover that 89% of the EPA’s workers have been furloughed whereas only 5% of the Homeland Security team has been sent home. (Although it appears that the ICE thugs are currently working without pay.)

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How the Shutdown Is Affecting Federal Services and Workers

The shutdown could lead to more layoffs and suspend the work of at least 600,000 employees, disrupting a wide range of federal programs. Here’s what we know so far.

www.nytimes.com

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

Not convinced these guys have ever done much reading.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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