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Sarah Daniel Rasher
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Writer, Star Trek: DS9 Podcaster, film nerd, amateur bartender, cat wrangler, Chicagoan, erstwhile Shakespeare professor. Writing about music a lot lately. Education evaluator trying to save the world using math. (they/them, él/elle/-o).
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I'm transmasc and nonbinary. I have ADHD, heavy on the H. I post about music, fancy sports, and my cats. I have been extremely online for 30 years.

I work in education research. Government funding is good, actually.
HM1: Prewn - System (2025, USA, NK✅)

For my featured honorable mentions, I'm going to share my nearest misses. This cello-driven angry girl ramble is so new to me that I wasn't ready to put it in my top 50, but I hope it'll keep growing on me. #TheTwen2ie5
There's also at least one grassroots effort to distribute food to people who cannot travel to food banks safely because of ICE. Here's their Amazon wishlist. bit.ly/distributefo...
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
My Saturday has pretty much been, ignore all previous instructions and watch Spy X Family with wife.
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Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
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Most ppl know that Chicago (home of modern urban segregation) is a very segregated place but I don't think most outside Chicago (+many Chicagoans!) understand how the *distances* involved and *depth* of segregation mean most white ppl have ZERO visibility into many Black and Latine neighborhoods

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Day 25: The Beaches - Blame Brett (2023, Canada, NK✅)

Wrapping up the first half of the challenge with an *11 POINT BONUS* for this shoutable drunk girl anthem. Impossibly infectious and a little too psychologically real. #TheTwen2ie5
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ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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Gotta say, “put dick out” is a dangerous thing to say to Amelia Bedelia.
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Look. It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it.

In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of +1.4 pts.

This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.
The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion
After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.
open.substack.com
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All I'm saying is that clark the cub has never served this much cunt
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Also I’d like to give a shoutout to his audiobook recording of Moby Dick, a truly fantastic performance for every character but esp Ishmael, whom he 100% correctly plays as if he were three flagons deep in a tavern and subjecting all within earshot to the longest fish tale of all time
RIP William Hootkins. Thanks for all the memories!
Day 24: Curse of Lono - Shoot the Pain (2023, UK, NK✅)

An alt-country meditation on addiction and grief with watery synths washing underneath the gravelly vocal. #TheTwen2ie5
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TTRPG thoughts:

Running a homebrew setting can really be such an intimate thing. You’re saying to your friends, here’s this world filled with my own imagination, I want to share it with you and if you’re feeling up to it, come join me and create it with me.
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A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.
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We are doing this again tomorrow if you can join us.
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BREAKING: Federal agents fired tear gas at a crowd during an aggressive raid in Little Village with no warning, Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez told @wttw.bsky.social.
If agents deployed tear gas without a warning, that would violate an order issued by a federal judge two weeks ago.
Border Patrol Agents Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd with No Warning, Ald. Sigcho-Lopez Says
If agents deployed tear gas without a warning, that would violate an order issued by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis two weeks ago.
news.wttw.com
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"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."

Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
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The Dan Ryan Expressway, by Wesley Willis
American, 1963-2003
1986

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/204579
My rainbow unicorn onesie finally arrived, so I will have something dashing to wear to my friends' Halloween party this weekend.
Sounds a bit like The Amazing Race, especially the airport one. Which means there are people who would be very into it.