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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀
@bebopott.bsky.social
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✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling ||
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Punished "Venom" Burke just dropped
screenshot of a tweet from @FrankCalabrese showing Former Alderman Ed Burke in downtown Chicago sporting a new beard
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Turns out, that YES they do
random youtube thumbnail which reads "[Do] Rats really jump out of a Sinking Ship?" while an Officer shines a flashlight on an oddly buff Rat making it's way down a rope
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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so serious rn when I say all i've ever want for christmas is Steve Albini's former Lenin poster

www.stevealbiniscloset.com/stuff/p/a-vo...
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Sean Morrison
>Elected to Cook County Board in 2014
>Assumes Chair of Cook County Republican Party in 2016
>only ever lose
>continue only losing
>oh god oh fuck it's just him now ?
>even he knows its over
>too cowardly to go down swinging
a chart of Partisan seat share won in Cook County Board of Commissioners elections from 1986 to 2022 showing Republicans going from a high of 8 seats in 1986 down to only a single remaining seat held by Sean Morrison in 2022
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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lowkey it almost crosses into "so bad it's good" to me. (keyword: *almost*) i can ID a silhouette of travis touchdown, but don't recognize anything else not previously mentioned.
image of travis touchdown
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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screenshot of a book’s table of contents which reads “[Chapter] 6 Human Pain - page 86 7 Human Pain, continued - page 110 8 Hell - page 119”
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I love how Chicagoans just DO NOT FUCK with these boondoggles
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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meanwhile, real human artists have already shown us what "Minnie with huge cans" looks like 🙄
minnie mouse with HUGE cans (approximately 3/4 of her body HUGE)
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Ta-Nehisi Coates saying “but I guess was silence not an option?”
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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good morning Chicago! you’re looking lovely on this frigid morning
the chicago river as seen from the brown line upon entering the Loop
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Genuinely laughed at the revelation that they paid for polling in late 2022 (although presumably this was for a living Republican)
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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as foretold by prophecy: a cool Million 😎
Totals by Candidate 11 Zohran Kwame Mamdani 1006242 50.32% 12 Curtis A. Sliwa 143420 7.17% 13 Irene Estrada 2555 0.13% 14 Eric L. Adams 6123 0.31% 15 Joseph Hernandez 1219 0.06% 16 Andrew M. Cuomo 831803 41.60% 17 Jim Walden 2113 0.11% 18 WRITE-IN 6125 0.31% 1999600
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Zohran less than 700 votes away from clearing a cool Million 😎
Totals by Candidate 11 Zohran Kwame Mamdani 999313 50.38% 12 Curtis A. Sliwa 142632 7.19% 13 Irene Estrada 2540 0.13% 14 Eric L. Adams 6020 0.30% 15 Joseph Hernandez 1211 0.06% 16 Andrew M. Cuomo 823490 41.52% 17 Jim Walden 2100 0.11% 18 WRITE-IN 6058 0.31% 1983364
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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GOOD THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
a view of the Cuomo Election Party an empty lectern stands before a screen that reads "Cuomo: ready on day one". On either side of the Cuomo screen are additional screens revealing Zohran Mamdani as the projected winner of the election.
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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It's going to be very, very funny when Fox News & co attempt to do the usual "Sharia Law" fear-mongering over these two cutie patooties
Ghazala and her husband, Azhar
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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glad he followed up with the second tweet because I really thought he was GOING TO DO IT after the first one
the last two tweets from Raymond Lopez: first is a photo accompanied by the text "is it too late for Swallow Cliff" second is his direct reaction: "old tricks are the best tricks"
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Home Run
Screenshot from the Chicago Sun-Times website: "U.S. Rep Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia won't seek reelection, leaves seat for chief of staff Garcia, 69, has been a fixture in Chicago politics for four decades as an alderperson, Cook County commissioner, state senator and two-time mayoral candidate. By Tina Sfondeles Nov 3, 2025, 5:26pm CST"
November 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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our boy @cola.baby just DOES NOT MISS
image of a @cola.baby tee shirt which features a prominent Chicago based Bos Taurus declaring “Fuck ICE” as the masked face of a fallen agent adorns his left horn
October 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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you almost have to respect the sheer levels of hubris on display here
tweet from ChicagoRED PAC Chair P Rae Easley that reads, "I turned those in last week. I thought that my treasurer was taking care of it and she wasn’t. So everybody will see how little money we had to accomplish our goal. What else?"
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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get their asses!!
Harmon had ignored warnings from elections board staff alerting him to potential violations and continued to take in donations above what they said was the legal limit. He then made a failed attempt to change the language of the elections code in his favor in this spring’s state legislative session. Democratic members’ failure to hold Harmon accountable in this case is a shameful abdication of their responsibility to enforce state campaign finance rules and keep our elections fair and honest. It shows Illinoisans – once again – that party insiders will close ranks to shield each other from accountability, and that power and partisanship are more important to our leaders than the public interest and the rule of law.
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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learning a lot about this dude and it turns out that he rules
screenshot from the wikipedia page of John Laesch, incumbent mayor of Aurora, which reads: "Politics: Laesch is a political progressive. He has held various leadership roles in Democratic campaigns in his state. In 2004, Laesch served as the campaign manager for David Gill in Illinois' 15th congressional district. In 2006, Laesch ran for Illinois's 14th congressional district against Republican Dennis Hastert. During this campaign, Hastert was linked to the 2006 Mark Foley scandal, which Laesch expected to help his campaign. Laesch was considered a member of the Fighting Dems, former members of the U.S. Armed Forces who ran for election to the Congress in 2006. On November 7, Laesch lost in his bid to unseat Hastert, with Hastert winning 59.79% to Laesch's 40.21%. Laesch ran in the 2008 Illinois's 14th congressional district special election, following Hastert's resignation in 2007. However, he lost the Democratic primary to Bill Foster (who later went on to flip the seat). Laesch ran again in the November 2008 election for the seat, and again lost to Foster in the primary. Laesch successfully ran for the East Aurora School District 131 board in 2015, winning a four-year term. Laesch did not run for reelection in 2019, leaving office on April 30 of that year. Laesch ran for mayor of Aurora in 2021, but lost to Richard Irvin. He successfully ran for an at-large seat on Aurora's city council in 2023, defeating incumbent Sherman Jenkins. In 2025, Laesch again ran for mayor against Irvin. He won the election by about 5 percentage points. In September 2025, Laesch defied presidential and state government orders to lower flags at all public buildings and grounds, military posts, naval stations, and throughout the United States through September 14th in honor of all victims of political violence. This was after Charlie Kirk had just been assassinated on September 10th."
October 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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State Senator Graciela Guzman and Alderperson Jessie Fuentes registered a new D-1 for a PAC called "Pa' lante Forward" earlier today 👀👀👀
screenshot from elections.il.gov text reads: "Pa' lante Forward Purpose: To elect progressive candidates in the 3rd Congressional District and Illinois. Status: Active Type of Committee: Political Action Creation Date: 10/21/2025" Jessie Fuentes is listed as Treasurer and Graciela Guzman is listed as Chair of the committee screenshot of the D-1 form showing they intend to spend in "3rd Congressional District of Illinois, State of Illinois"
October 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Chicago Flips Red folks calling out Alderman Bill Conway III by name with their time during Public Comment today
image of an alarm clock with the following text overlayed on top of it: “Even a broken clock is right twice a day: Be optimistic!”
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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genuinely believe this could only be made by one man:
photo of Tobias Fünke (Arrested Development)
October 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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these colors don't run 💪💪
chicago flag
October 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM