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South ---> Chicago ---> South.

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Fun fact: They banned chemtrails in Florida and weeks afterward, DeSantis was still getting angry tweets from his constituents online because they were "still seeing chemtrails." Genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen, straight-up appealing to the dumbest possible people
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The more popular demand is to make it edible again...
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Somewhat related, but the reason the Netflix show The Audacity doesn't work is you can't even laugh at these losers because they are ruining the country.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This isn't even as "free market libertarian" as it sounds because a private board approves which drugs here instead of the government and the first to be approved is by a company trying to repurpose an otc drug (more in comments).
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A survival series that's the opposite of Alone, "Jam Packed" where you have to survive being in a small apartment with 12 people.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As much as I hated the name change from DoD to the Department of War, in retrospect it's more honest.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Proud to have always thought Dawkins was a moron
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Source: Melania Trump planning second press conference to announce she did not personally rape E. Jean Carroll.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
If it's any comfort, crypto is getting kicked in the balls.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
They are being short sighted and dumb, your fame protects resistance because the last thing they want is for you to get arrested and become a symbol.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
You wanna know why the Browns never win? This is a post about Chuck Schumer and ICE “reform”
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Remember when people claimed it was a hoax and everyone just had a hangover? www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p...
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Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome | CNN Politics
The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting sp...
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Would love to see US Winter Olympics athletes wearing Minnesota flags in February. Would show the world many of us are still sane.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Are the people on Twitter knocking Bluesky failing to see it's all bots and men posting pics of empty egg cartons now?
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Fear of death as the great equalizer
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This explains so much of modern conservativism. This plus looking to place blame.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Unironically, I have quoted this probably more than any other literally reference.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
It is a cute photo (fat cats are cute which is maybe part of the problem). I'm worried about GLP-1 drugs being a short cut for undisciplined owners and the muscle loss (that older cats already struggle with) that will likely accompany its use.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Guys who think of themselves as "intellectuals" are some of the biggest creeps in the world.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Clinton should come out and say "yeah he blew me" (true or not). He could save the country. It's literally the one thing they would never forgive Trump for.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The 50 year mortgage idea kind of proves Maga are capable of having critical thought but only if it personally affects them. They can tell when the leopards are eating their own face which is more credit than I've previously given them.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Mar-a-lago parties look expensive but boring as fuck
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I hate that progressism isn't willing to take baby steps when the alternative is literally Trump. The Harris resistance libs at least understood how much worse Trump is.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
You don't get to be the state last in education without constantly working to maintain that standard.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If there are no long-term consequences for Disney and ABC, companies will keep bending the knee.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Disagree. They lost the non Maga when they caved. Now they'll also lose Maga when they try to get the sane people back. Would be better if this served as a cautionary tale you couldn't undo.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
If handwashing just came out these m'fers would all be dirty.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I dread that this will be used to claim left wing ideas are dangerous on their own
NBC blurb about there being no evidence that Kirk's shooter belonged to a left wing group
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I guess the rumors are true and the royal family does hate her now.
Kate Middleton forced to sit next to Trump
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Imagine if celebrities just left Twitter, as well. It'd be as much of a ghost town as Truth Social. Entertainers are where the power lies in this.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Any Maga grifter who grew up in cultural centers are going to be so bored with the idocracy monoculture.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Very well deserved
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This happened in Utah, would be crazy if Charlie Kirk's killer turned out to be Mormon, since Kirk criticized the LDS Church as being not a real Christian Church. How would the right spin it, if so.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Imagine seeing this and then buying a Trump branded Bible, but Maga will
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Tylennol may very well have some effect on autism rates, but it's interesting that the age of the father isn't being brought up by Maha. The effect is magnified apparently if the father is 10 years older than the mother: news.ki.se/large-age-ga...
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Large age-gaps between parents increase risk of autism in children
A new multinational study of parental age and autism risk, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, found increased autism rates among children whose parents have relatively large gaps between t...
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Stay strong Chi <3
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Temple Grandin wrote a book about animal minds that suggests animals do think more like autistic people. But also, yeah, protect your dog and yourself from Rabies.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This is so sneakily worded imo: "One sample of breaded shrimp tested positive for the substance, but this positive sample "did not enter US commerce", the FDA said."
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
NC is more like Virginia than SC but the system is rigged
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I can't articulate this well at the moment, but it feels like a lot of our problems stem from the concept of organization becoming female coded and therefore considered kinda gay by society at large.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Is there a good forum or subreddit for finding non private equity company owned businesses?
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FrodoLove @frodolove.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We don't actually NEED the Epstein files. Most of his victims are still alive today. The truth is not dead. All we need to do is LISTEN to them.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Susie Wiles gotta be losing her shit rn
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Like I’ve said, Trump is vaguely surreal because he feels like a caricature of every anti-American stereotype in one package. It’s like if France elected a guy who went around saying “I am Le Pedophile Surrender Man! I like le riots and le baguettes! I smoke le cigarettes!”
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Going down the rabbit hole of bunny agility training...
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The trick is for the cool people to grab the imagination, especially in a quick sound bite world, but make sure they are open to advisors willing to deal with the minutia of good governance.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
And they have zero idea because they call it "Soonercare" there.
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Salt @1smallerthing.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Paris, Texas is a beautifully shot absolute slog of a film. I love slow burns, I also love many "characters over plot" movies, but this was just painful.
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