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Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · Sep 5

Federal appellate courts have upheld a right to record the police...In 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit held in Irizarry v. Yehia that filming the police...as they perform their official duties acts as ‘a watchdog of government activity’ and is a constitutional right.

Recording Police: First Amendment Right or Arrestable Offense?

Is recording police protected by the First Amendment or an arrestable offense? Here's everything to know about filming law enforcement.

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Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 3h

OK FINE I'LL LISTEN TO GOLDEN

Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 1d

The death penalty is bad; the State should never have the power to kill citizens

#svengoolie
#youngfrankenstein

Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately (?) decomposition starts immediately after death. True resurrection is not possible.

#svengoolie
#youngfrankenstein

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Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 1d

Petition to change Pennsylvania to Transylvania
#svengoolie
#youngfrankenstein

Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 1d

They were called Resurrectionists and they were key to advancing science! #svengoolie
#youngfrankenstein

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Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 1d

There's a bit of lightning in the Chicago sky so tonight is perfect for this movie

#svengoolie
#youngfrankenstein

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Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 1d

Clocking in for #YoungFrankenstein on #Svengoolie

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 1d

Here is Abraham Lincoln looking on approvingly as a whole bunch of us towards the Van Buren Street pedestrian bridge over to Michigan Avenue.

Photo looking out over a crowd of people. Marching, many of them carrying protest signs, towards a large seated statue on a stone base with trees behind it.

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 2d

I, and many thousands of others, did not start the match by walking down Jackson. This is huge and it is definitely not the entire crowd!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.

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Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 2d

LIVE: Mayor Johnson of Chicago addresses the #NoKings crowd www.youtube.com/live/54qDhQH...

"No Kings" Protests LIVE: Nationwide Demonstrations Against Trump Across US Cities

YouTube video by DRM News

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 3d

I'm almost totally ignorant about public opinion polls and am not finding what I'm looking for via Google. Are there recent polls regarding the city's opinion of Mayor Johnson?

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 3d

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.

Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.

Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

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Peter Elkind @peterelkind.bsky.social · 4d

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

'Startled' judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes

A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.

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Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 4d

No giardineria? 😮

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Going Over Our Freds @goofpodcast.bsky.social · 4d

We've got a special series cooking up for Christmastime, Goofballs, you better get ready.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to everyone for always keeping those cameras rolling and sharing the videos online. Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will now be required to wear body cameras, following a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis.

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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 7d

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

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

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Chicago News @chicago.thesocial.news · 8d

2025 Chicago Marathon runner tracking: See where your runner is on the course

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2025 Chicago Marathon runner tracking: How to see where your favorite runner is on the course

Know someone running the 2025 Bank of America Chicago Marathon and want to see how they're doing?

www.nbcchicago.com

Merry Death (7/9 lives left to live) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @meridith.bsky.social · 8d

The Chicago Marathon crowds are sparse today