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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 2h

Coyotes on the lakefront, flying squirrels in the trees. 7 people in the woods after sunset. Entities called wavy-lined emeralds, pale beauties, tufted apple buds. The Mothman? Wolves in Pilsen?? For @chicagoreader.com, my story on the city's nocturnal wildlife. chicagoreader.com/city-life/fe...

Chicago’s creatures of the night - Chicago Reader

Coyotes, bats, moths, raccoons, deer, and more: an exploration of the city’s dusk-till-dawn wildlife and the humans who study it

chicagoreader.com

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R.L. BurnStein @prairiepatriot.bsky.social · 6m

100%. I Just hope the dem primary doesn’t develop to center the red baiting.

R.L. BurnStein @prairiepatriot.bsky.social · 57m

We all know the democrats in the primary will make the biggest deal of the “communist” accusations.

Dems always destroy their own coalition.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

i do think those posts do show he's not going to be a fetterman 2.0, primarily because it's ideology and not like, contrarianism

that being said, i think red-baiting is gonna be bad

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 2h

for the record and before you ask: if he can survive this, then he will show himself to be a talented politician indeed, in which case i’d say more power to him. that’s my position.

R.L. BurnStein @prairiepatriot.bsky.social · 1h

The number one concern for transit riders I know with regards to safety is Frequency.

Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social · 2h

Paul Valles: “Without a significant federal or state bailout — unlikely in today’s political climate — the only sustainable solution is to restore ridership. And that will not happen without restoring public safety.” www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-how-t...

Vallas: How to improve Chicago’s billion-dollar transit crisis

Chicago Transit Authority ridership is still below pre-pandemic levels. Crime and a budget shortfall make matters worse, but there are cost-effective ways to make it safer.

www.illinoispolicy.org

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry to harp on this, but another almost-unbelievably terrible unsigned editorial from WaPo. This one has a crucial "tell" that Murdoch's Fleet Street team is in full control.

The tell: Would any US writer refer to Trump as "the American," the way the WaPo does in passage below?

A Washington Post editorial which refers to Trump as "the American."

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

I think Ed Markey needs to retire and Ayanna Presley should run and block Seth Moulton from that seat. We need younger folks in office but it can't be Moulton. He would be a disaster for Massachusetts.

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Artwomble @artwomble.bsky.social · 7h

Quick rant

If you think a person can be illegal you're being manipulated

If you think the imaginary lines around the land you were born on make you better than anyone outside them, you're being manipulated

If you don't think every human deserves the life you want you're being manipulated

Grow up

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 7h

You can do as many fire drills as you like, in the end they are barely going to make any difference when actual survival and self-preservation instincts kick in during a real emergency. Nobody is going to queue quietly and calmly walk to the exits with a fire on their arse.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

Do not love that Stuartism has come to America

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 21h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 19h

Note which children are deemed adults and must face the consequences of their actions (Black boys holding flashlights; teen girls who get pregnant)

And which adults are always smol beans who aw shucks have oopsies, fail upwards, and are constantly excused (40 year old white male politicians)

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 12h

I think it would raise a LOT of questions if 35 year old men or older were texting memes with kids, now to do some open source research into Jimothy Dimothy Vance.

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 16h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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spooky•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 1d

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn't "Look Like" Her Last Name 🤬

Maria Greeley, 44, was on her way home from her job at Beach Bar earlier this month when she was surrounded, seized, and zip-tied by three ICE masked agents without cause or warning

apple.news/AGcAMupaYRsy...

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn't

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

apple.news

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in Portland.

The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face.

newrepublic.com/post/201774/...

ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.

newrepublic.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13h

🚨The war on Antifa has begun, with the FBI canvassing informants for insights on the group, scrutinizing financial records and gathering intelligence on left-wing affinity groups, sources tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/inside-the...

Inside the War on Antifa

Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 8h

Frankly its pretty funny that it turns out the US's endlessly venerated constitution is as fake, if not more so, than the UK's famously not-real one

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13h

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 16h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 21h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11h

are we in hell www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 20h

-sigh-

In white supremacist culture there is a doctrine called the 14 words by David Lane:

“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”

This has manifested in modern context to be relayed as “protect the family,” as seen in Taylor Swift’s merch hat:

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10h

If the chief executive can fund the military without the consent of the governed, we no longer have a republic but a monarchy.

My point isn't that I oppose military pay - I think Congress should readily agree to it - but that Congress MUST NOT BE LEFT OUT OF THE EQUATION.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

😡😡😡😡

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 9h

New followers should know my predictions have a stunning accuracy rate of “sometimes”

Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social
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Return of the Cmonma... @cmonm... • 9mо
You may not like this, you may not want me to say it, but you cannot deny the truth that laura loomer is trumps' Rasputin.
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The Daily Beast • @thedailybeast.bsk... • 1h
Laura Loomer is now touting her new title as
"Trump's Rasputin" for her growing political influence, à la the Russian Svengali who advised the Romanov family.
Laura Loomer Reveals White House Clout
Has Earned Her a New Nickname
The alt-right influencer has skyrocketed to notoriety for her White House purges.

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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 14h

A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility....
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.the-independent.com

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R.L. BurnStein @prairiepatriot.bsky.social · 12h

I keep reporting AI slop on instagram as spam/fraud just because it feels correct

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