Yooperann
@yooperann.bsky.social
Retired public interest attorney, loves Chicago, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, waterfalls and all burbles, folk music, local history. Proud Democrat.
The Death of Direct File
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The Death of Direct File
Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration
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November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Death of Direct File
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They were already living in one of Chicago's worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/i...
They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.
In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
They were already living in one of Chicago's worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/i...
"We needed to do SOMETHING"
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"We needed to do SOMETHING"
in memoriam, Lori Cannon
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October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"We needed to do SOMETHING"
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Northern lights are out! #906 #upperpeninsula
September 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Northern lights are out! #906 #upperpeninsula
An important distinction between lying and bullshit. On Trump's Bullshit open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...
On Trump's Bullshit
The danger isn’t Trump’s lies — it’s his indifference to truth itself
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September 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An important distinction between lying and bullshit. On Trump's Bullshit open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...
Perfect. youtu.be/2XoHVYbZocI?...
Keep Our Name Out Your Mouth #Chicago #Gospel #
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September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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He wanted to die. His wife fought for him. A psychiatrist was their last hope.
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“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
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September 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
He wanted to die. His wife fought for him. A psychiatrist was their last hope.
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May the soul of each and every
child shot in school follow
those with AR-15 pins on their lapels
through the halls of Congress, poking them
and demanding with the dreary repetition
of a bored child on a long car trip to know
Where are we going? What are we doing?
What is the plan? Lynn Ungar
child shot in school follow
those with AR-15 pins on their lapels
through the halls of Congress, poking them
and demanding with the dreary repetition
of a bored child on a long car trip to know
Where are we going? What are we doing?
What is the plan? Lynn Ungar
August 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
May the soul of each and every
child shot in school follow
those with AR-15 pins on their lapels
through the halls of Congress, poking them
and demanding with the dreary repetition
of a bored child on a long car trip to know
Where are we going? What are we doing?
What is the plan? Lynn Ungar
child shot in school follow
those with AR-15 pins on their lapels
through the halls of Congress, poking them
and demanding with the dreary repetition
of a bored child on a long car trip to know
Where are we going? What are we doing?
What is the plan? Lynn Ungar
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A data analysis by ProPublica shows the administration has cut federal health agencies deeper than it has acknowledged. Sec. Kennedy said he would add scientists. Yet agencies have lost thousands of them. @propublica.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
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August 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A data analysis by ProPublica shows the administration has cut federal health agencies deeper than it has acknowledged. Sec. Kennedy said he would add scientists. Yet agencies have lost thousands of them. @propublica.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social
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An Invitation to Think Differently About Addiction Treatment
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An Invitation to Think Differently About Addiction Treatment
"Harm reduction is both a practice and a philosophy."
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August 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
An Invitation to Think Differently About Addiction Treatment
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Bullets in the windows
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Bullets in the windows
Until now, it was only a metaphor.
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August 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Bullets in the windows
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New Law Firm Made Up of Former Federal Lawyers, Judges, and Others Formed Specifically to Take on the Trump Administration and Protect the Rule of Law!
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New Law Firm Made Up of Former Federal Lawyers, Judges, and Others Formed Specifically to Take on the Trump Administration and Protect the Rule of Law!
And I love them already!
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August 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
New Law Firm Made Up of Former Federal Lawyers, Judges, and Others Formed Specifically to Take on the Trump Administration and Protect the Rule of Law!
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I've been on this bandwagon for a while. I gather it's the realtors who are the big opposition. Michigan hotel taxes fund tourism promotion. Should they also fund services? www.bridgemi.com/business-wat... via @bridgemi.com
Michigan hotel taxes fund tourism promotion. Should they also fund services? | Bridge Michigan
Tourists use local government services but don’t directly fund them. Some people want to change that by redirecting some hotel tax revenue from tourism promotion to local governments.
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July 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I've been on this bandwagon for a while. I gather it's the realtors who are the big opposition. Michigan hotel taxes fund tourism promotion. Should they also fund services? www.bridgemi.com/business-wat... via @bridgemi.com
Oops. Lawyers for Chicago Housing Authority used ChatGPT to cite nonexistent court case www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/c...
Lawyers for Chicago Housing Authority used ChatGPT to cite nonexistent court case
In the latest headache for CHA, law firm Goldberg Segalla used artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT, in a post-trial motion and neglected to check their work, court records show.
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July 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Oops. Lawyers for Chicago Housing Authority used ChatGPT to cite nonexistent court case www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/c...
July 10, 2025
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July 10, 2025
Just a week ago, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed the nearly 1,000-page budget reconciliation bill President Donald Trump demanded, and at the signing ceremony for the bill the next ...
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July 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
July 10, 2025
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Good discussion of this part of the bill. Trump’s ‘big’ bill gives millions of taxpayers a new charitable tax break, but whether it will help nonprofits is unclear theconversation.com/trumps-big-b...
Trump’s ‘big’ bill gives millions of taxpayers a new charitable tax break, but whether it will help nonprofits is unclear
A new broadly available tax break of up to $1,000 will become available for those giving to a charity if they file on their own. Couples filing jointly may deduct $2,000 from their taxable income.
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July 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Good discussion of this part of the bill. Trump’s ‘big’ bill gives millions of taxpayers a new charitable tax break, but whether it will help nonprofits is unclear theconversation.com/trumps-big-b...
Medicaid cuts: The how and why
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Medicaid cuts: The how and why
Plain language translation of what the heck happened and where this will go
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July 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Medicaid cuts: The how and why
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July 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
To Err Is Human, To Defy Bove-ine . Erez Reuveni is a true American hero.
To Err Is Human, To Defy Bove-ine
A bombshell whistleblower complaint sheds light on who in the Justice Department is allegedly driving open defiance of the courts
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June 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
To Err Is Human, To Defy Bove-ine . Erez Reuveni is a true American hero.
Their Iran Narrative Is Unraveling
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Their Iran Narrative Is Unraveling
We can’t trust anything the administration is saying or doing on Iran.
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June 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Their Iran Narrative Is Unraveling
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Fun.
Pete Crow-Armstrong snagged a sliced Brice Turang liner in the left-center field gap in the top of the 8th. The ball in play had a 5% catch probability.
June 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Fun.
Laura Washington: An iconic LGBTQ+ bar at Chicago's O'Hare Airport? Fabulous. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/18/c...
Laura Washington: An iconic LGBTQ+ bar at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport? Fabulous.
If Sidetrack’s owners can get a location at O’Hare airport, it would be the first gay-owned, gay-themed bar at any airport in the nation.
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June 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Laura Washington: An iconic LGBTQ+ bar at Chicago's O'Hare Airport? Fabulous. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/18/c...
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Two civic leaders, one a judge and one a U.S. senator, stepped outside the normal bounds of discourse to condemn the utter lack of humanity now rampant in Trump’s GOP. It underscores the deep need not only to win the political fights ahead but to win the battle for America’s moral soul.
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Two civic leaders, one a judge and one a U.S. senator, stepped outside the normal bounds of discourse to condemn the utter lack of humanity now rampant in Trump’s GOP. It underscores the deep need not only to win the political fights ahead but to win the battle for America’s moral soul.