MediumDave65
@mediumdave65.bsky.social
Born in Oklahoma, raised in Kansas, proud Chicagoan. Don’t tariff me, bro!! 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🇨🇦
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MediumDave65
@mediumdave65.bsky.social
· Feb 11
I will be referring to the Great Lake formerly known as Lake Michigan as Lake Illinois* for the duration.
Sparrow are sheltering in the wheel well of a van, waiting for a turn at the feeder. #winterstorm
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Sparrow are sheltering in the wheel well of a van, waiting for a turn at the feeder. #winterstorm
Dear Ratty, my first month in She-kaw-go has been better than expected. I’ve already rented a lovely flat which is mostly underground, and not far from the river bank. Ever yours, Mole.
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Dear Ratty, my first month in She-kaw-go has been better than expected. I’ve already rented a lovely flat which is mostly underground, and not far from the river bank. Ever yours, Mole.
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CDC now spreading anti-vax lies under RFK Jr.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
CDC now spreading anti-vax lies under RFK Jr.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
Happy Halloween 🎃!
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy Halloween 🎃!
I thought about driving to work today, but I’m glad I didn’t 🚂
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I thought about driving to work today, but I’m glad I didn’t 🚂
Happy national black cat day to all of our friends!
October 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Happy national black cat day to all of our friends!
Yes, it’s a cat in a kitchen sink.
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Yes, it’s a cat in a kitchen sink.
Hmm. So Ronald Reagan made a speech against tariffs, and today’s Republicans are having fits about it. 🍿
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hmm. So Ronald Reagan made a speech against tariffs, and today’s Republicans are having fits about it. 🍿
But it isn’t smart, because those are the tactics of an insurgent group or a criminal gang. It undermines their claim of being a legitimate law enforcement agency, and makes them look like a band of lawless goons… which they actually are.
October 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
But it isn’t smart, because those are the tactics of an insurgent group or a criminal gang. It undermines their claim of being a legitimate law enforcement agency, and makes them look like a band of lawless goons… which they actually are.
The actions of DHS and ICE over the past few months clearly illustrate the difference between being clever and being smart. It’s clever of ICE to hide their faces, use inconspicuous vehicles, swap license plates, etc.
October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The actions of DHS and ICE over the past few months clearly illustrate the difference between being clever and being smart. It’s clever of ICE to hide their faces, use inconspicuous vehicles, swap license plates, etc.
Oh, I’m doing fine. For someone who might suddenly crumble into tiny pieces, like a stale cookie.
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Oh, I’m doing fine. For someone who might suddenly crumble into tiny pieces, like a stale cookie.
What the redcoats couldn’t do…
this motherfucker is shitting on americans and knocking out the white house walls
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
October 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
What the redcoats couldn’t do…
Gray boys snuggling
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Gray boys snuggling
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Federal agents deployed tear gas in Albany Park Sunday as residents chased off agents who were trying to detain a neighbor. blockclubchi.co/4h6gHG2
October 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Federal agents deployed tear gas in Albany Park Sunday as residents chased off agents who were trying to detain a neighbor. blockclubchi.co/4h6gHG2
Now I know why my throat started burning suddenly on Sunday. 😡
Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'
A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Now I know why my throat started burning suddenly on Sunday. 😡
I rarely have this reaction to classics, because I’m a history buff. References to things that I don’t understand make me want to know more. OTOH it makes me a slower reader than most other people 😆
Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I rarely have this reaction to classics, because I’m a history buff. References to things that I don’t understand make me want to know more. OTOH it makes me a slower reader than most other people 😆
Is there a legal term (other than “mala fide”) for the kind of bad-faith reasoning that justifies the so-called Kavanaugh stop?
October 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Is there a legal term (other than “mala fide”) for the kind of bad-faith reasoning that justifies the so-called Kavanaugh stop?
Now that’s more like it, AP!
"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
apnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Now that’s more like it, AP!
Hmm the Associated Press did not specifically report the outrageous ICE assault on South Shore in Chicago. But CNN did.
October 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hmm the Associated Press did not specifically report the outrageous ICE assault on South Shore in Chicago. But CNN did.
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We aren't learning.
October 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
We aren't learning.
About to see the Blackhawk Model Railroad Club display in Oregon, Illinois!
October 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
About to see the Blackhawk Model Railroad Club display in Oregon, Illinois!
It’s important to spread this idea: what the Democrats stand for is completely reasonable. This shutdown is happening because the GOP is led by greedy and cruel people.
Donald Trump SHUT DOWN the government last night.
Why? Because he and Republicans in Congress would rather shut down the whole government than lower your health care costs.
It’s shameful.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TvQQ8...
Why? Because he and Republicans in Congress would rather shut down the whole government than lower your health care costs.
It’s shameful.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TvQQ8...
Trump SHUT DOWN the government last night.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s important to spread this idea: what the Democrats stand for is completely reasonable. This shutdown is happening because the GOP is led by greedy and cruel people.