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Jim Gruman
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He / him #rstats 🚵‍♀️ RAGBRAI and 5 Boros Chicago burbs Ally 🏳️‍⚧️ https://linktr.ee/jgruman
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Illinois pushed short-term emergency money into food banks.
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After reading Carl Sandburg's "Chicago' poem in full in open court this morning, Federal Judge Sarah Ellis says this about our city:

It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
Oh the humanity!
The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
fishing on the thin ice
Let's hope that this trend continues
My cat looking out the window.

Also, soybean farmers.
When I ask my dog if he could not bark at every noise outside
Willy Porter - “Humans In a Room” release starts soon
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I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
Respect your work over the years Terry.

Absolutely no way I could exist on that other site.
Franklin Park. Yes, a single father of two.
💯 on board with this.
This is why Gavin Newsom is a non-starter for me.

Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader.

A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.
I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.
Sigh... the AG has so many other priorities
Insular small town life. And wealthy subdivisions.
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Most people who actually live next to immigrants are just fine. It’s the people never exposed to anyone different from them who get angriest — and to whom Vance is appealing here.

Also, Vance is a sociopathic ghoul whose nativist bullshit would have prevented his own children from existing.
What an embarrassing thing to say out loud.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
Looking good in the 7th