Neil Mackenzie
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🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2
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With the utmost greed [Walter] turned all public monies to his private purposes alone, and to this end increased the gabelles, concocted new kinds of rents and imposed direct taxes with greater frequency. The appropriations the people made from these monies he treated as null and void
- L. Bruni
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
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For a pestilence followed not just in the city but throughout the region, which carried off a great many men with its foul slaughter, not just the young but even those of more advanced years, including several distinguished statesmen.

Leonardo Bruni, History of the Florentine People
Tr: Hankins
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The year 1340 followed. This was notable for the number of revolutionary changes it saw. First a comet was seen in the sky, which terrified men the more as they were already fearful from the auguries of the year before. And it was no vain portent.

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Just returned from SF where I went with my cousins & their kids to explain the history of Angel Island immigrant landing depot. It's an island off of SF, look how close it is to SF, yet for detained immigrants who were there, it was a world away to getting to the US. Was in operation 1910-1941. 1/
Angel Island in the distance in the water, photo taken from a San Francisco scenic point with a few other tourists.
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timothypmurphy.bsky.social
the buildup to this Jeffries bit in the piece is really well done, and manages to impart real depth to a standard no-comment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...
"I never did get to talk with Jeffries about Mamdani. Several phone calls to his team soon turned to voice mail messages that went unanswered. In October I told Jeffries’s staff that I would have to write that he avoided talking about Mamdani for months. There was still no response. Schumer and Gillibrand each declined an interview request."
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mattsteinglass.bsky.social
The rapidity with which Trump forced Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire and prisoner exchange suggests that the US has had unused capacity to force Israel into concessions for a 2-state solution over the past 2 decades.
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The description of a ruse used in 1337 by Pietro Rossi to get his troops past those of Mastino II Della Scala, which had been blocking their passage.
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There grew in that place a herb with an exceedingly bitter juice. By Pietro’s order the troops collected the herb, carried it to the river bank, crushed it and threw it in the water. The juice was carried downstream to the enemy camp, where it infected the water with a foul and horrible taste
The I Tatti Renaissance Library edition of the History of the Florentine People Volume 2, written by Leonardo Bruni and translated by James Hankins.

The cover is in the light blue color used for I Tatti Renaissance Library books. It is adorned simply with the name of the book, author, translator l, and publisher.
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mtsw.bsky.social
You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI
janrosenow.bsky.social
Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
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thebulwark.com
Doocy: "So the Democratic position is that illegal immigrants should not have any access to taxpayer-funded health insurance?"

Sen. Mark Kelly: "Federal law is that undocumented individuals do not have access to medicare, medicaid, food stamps, or the ACA. That's the law."
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More pics of that gorgeous golden hour lighting in S.F. tonight. This was right before the rainbow came out, when the sky was eerily orange. #bernalheights #sanfrancisco
A photo of a rainy street and a cathedral in the distance. The sky is a reddish orange with clouds. Another photo of the red colored dawn in S.F.  this photo shows Mitchell’s ice cream and some cars in the foreground.
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.
Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.
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erikahall.bsky.social
The wildest thing about the rainbow is that it got brighter and brighter, and then just blinked off like someone flipped a switch.
A rainbow over trees in San Francisco with some puffy clouds
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
NEW: Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings.

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.

Tonight, at Law Dork:
Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings
Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com