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Nick Ulivieri

@nuphoto.com

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I'm an architecture photographer and Chicago is my backdrop. I post about weather, science, and urbanism issues, too. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ 📩: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/nick_ulivieri

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · Nov 15

When I'm not shooting projects for clients, there are few things I enjoy more than catching Mother Nature interacting with #Chicago. Lightning, snow, waves, ice, fog, shelf clouds — you name it, Chicago almost has all the weather // #WX #ILwx

The Chicgago skyline at the bottom of the frame is dwarfed by a massive, roiling shelf cloud

A massive lightning bolt drops into the heart of Chicago. The city sits in darkness in the foreground, while rain in the background obscuring the city in the distance

Massive waves crash along Chicago's lakefront. The Chicago skyline is in the distance on an overcast day as seen from 31st St. Beach. This photo was taken on September 27th when a storm system from hurricane Helen remnants made its way northwards

Snow flakes, illuminated by a camera's flash appear s orbs floating across the scene. Behind them id the view of the Chicago River lined with bridges that reach to Wacker Drive. The warm tones were a creative choice to contrast other wintry images I shot that evening.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1h

The city of Chicago hosted a Marathon today with 50,000 runners from all over the world, and countless spectators lining 26 miles worth of city streets. Meanwhile, these wannabe-soldiers, guns drawn, are acting like they're in the middle of Fallujah.

juridical.bsky.social @juridical.bsky.social · 5h

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1h

This is fucking insane.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 2h

This whole thing is a farce, to put it mildly.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 3h

Runners - and their shadows - cross a sunlit stretch of the #ChicagoMarathon course in Pilsen.

Upside-down photo of runners crossing a street during the Chicago Marathon, showing their legs and shoes above and their shadows cast sharply on the sunlit pavement below, creating an abstract, dynamic composition.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 9h

It’s a beautiful day in the #Chicago to watch 10s of thousands of people run the Marathon.

#ShowMeYourHellhole

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 21h

This is the way

horse massacre @torqpenderloin.bsky.social · 21h

well listen another series would be a lot of anxiety and I don't need that so this is fine honestly

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1d

It sucks. Every damn day, nay hours, there's a new shitty headline. It's exhausting.

Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1d

Good point. Maybe it's "defend illegal actions after-the-fact".

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1d

Wow, must not have been "obstructing justice" that bad if she was released with no charges. Brutally detain first, ask question later.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

The WGN producer was released with no charges, per the outlet wgntv.com/news/operati...

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Megan Corcoran @megancorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

Neutral baseball fans watching this game: Wow, this game is incredible! Some great baseball!

Invested fans: I wanna die

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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 2d

Very cool we’re now doing “hide people from the nazis”

Gotta be coming up on Underground Railroad very soon

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 2d

YASSSSS

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

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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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Great time to be an actual criminal of any kind because federal agents are busy hog tying children and grandmas bsky.app/profile/wash...

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 2d

Simpsons “don’t make me tap the sign” meme where the sign says “first inning only”

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 2d

Why is second base on the score bug brighter than first or third? I can’t unsee it

Screeecap of a score if of an MLB game focusing on the bases

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 2d

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Jordan Bastian @bastianmlb.bsky.social · 2d

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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