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Jean Baptiste Point du Gay

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Jean Baptiste Point du Gay @akimbon.bsky.social · 9h
I'd bet that tolled roads are safer than open ones, and we've seen safer roads in Manhattan due to "fares" being charged there (& insured/licensed vs not). So we kinda do, but that's very apples to oranges. Would should have better security but good fare gates can improve safety (look at BART, DC)
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 11h
The generational conflict we are enduring remains one of the most unexamined trends of our country. Asymmetric conflict of a wealthy aging population (who vote!) with plenty of free time on their hands to micromanage their built environment vs everyone else www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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Northbrook residents fight against proposed mixed-use development downtown
Hundreds showed up at a special zoning meeting for the proposal on Tuesday night, concerned that the mixed-use development will ruin the charm and character of downtown.
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Reiko Murakami @reikomurakami.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
QRP with your skull art!
Variant cover for Briar #8. A skull on the ground drawing and sucking blood as it goes through a resurrection ritual
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Jean Baptiste Point du Gay @akimbon.bsky.social · 11h
people are doing this with *richard hanania*?
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🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A story in two parts
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you understand that political antisemitism was not just the hatred of the Jew qua Jew, but an entire worldview in which the Jew stands in for border-crossing cosmopolitan ideologies that threaten the nation-state, then you understand why the Israeli right had to reinvent it from first principles.
"The anti-Israel documentary NAZA won a prize at Venice and made international headlines.

But behind the film is a network of newsrooms, nonprofits and activists that received millions from the Soros family's Open Society Foundations"
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 22h
My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"
Chris Pratt: Knives OutBetsy Palmer: Friday the 13thMatthew Lillard: ScreamMasato Hagiwara: Cure
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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 21h
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12/10/2026
When they say you can’t have platform screen doors because the trains have varying door locations
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Getting mad at my neighbors again. Why has someone like this been on our Planning and Zoning Commission for 20 years? www.forestparkreview.com/2026/10/02/1...
Kevin Hibbits was the only one of seven board members on the zoning commission to vote against the proposed townhomes.
"I've been fighting density for the last 20 years," Hibbits said of why he voted no.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11/10/2026
Cars turn people into sociopaths, example ∞
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The American Dream—buying a house in the suburbs and watching it increase in value to the point where subsequent generations need to move farther and farther out to obtain the same thing at a comparable price, but with an even more soul-crushing commute—was always a Ponzi scheme.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"
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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If Illinois state law ever changed to allow speed cameras on #northDLSD there would be more than 100,000 citations issued on the very first day (by IDOT’s own statistics)
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 11/10/2026
Sunset was a burner thanks to clouds from the remnants of Hurricane Isaias
A cotton-candy colored sunset (blues, magentas, and pink) over the Chicago skyline thanks to remnant clouds from Hurricane Isaias
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 10/10/2026
Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
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India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I understand this view but I think we should consider the implications of preemptively giving up charging a criminal with crimes because the jury may not convict
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here’s why I think Jesus would’ve supported live streaming executions.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New Fed estimates of wealth by age are out. Under-35 wealth dropped 23% over these three years www.wsj.com/economy/affl...
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Affluent and Older Americans Got Much Richer in Postpandemic Years
A Federal Reserve study found overall median net worth rose 2% between 2022 and 2025.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Taylor swift Stan account imprisoned for refusing to join the IDF
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/10/2026
I simply do not believe it should take six times the time it took to build the Empire State Building to put in some curbs, plastic flex posts, and restriping at a college campus and next to two subway stations.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How it feels once accept that many labor unions are just protectionist guilds and you owe them no solidarity (as they don’t extend it to anyone else anyway)
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Evergreen public comment
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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 08/10/2026
The new bus lane has already attracted a Tesla, much like shit attracts flies.
Photo looking down a street with a red painted bus lane. There is a black Tesla ahead in the lane and other cars and tall buildings to the left.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We pay out the nose for CPD to do security on the trains, they don't bother because TikTok is really compelling, but rest assured when someone is killed they'll send 50 officers out and start lobbying for even more TikTok time funding www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
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Chicago Transit Authority worker killed in stabbing at Damen/Lake station
A Chicago Transit Authority worker was killed in a stabbing attack on Thursday afternoon at a Green Line station in West Town.
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Jean Baptiste Point du Gay @akimbon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reactionary libs when there's a chance to attack non-whites under the guise of having the correct politics: 😀
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
future senate majority leader
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Ncs_artist @artistncs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Met Mamdani today
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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/10/2026
free palestine
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can anybody else see that sleep paralysis demon in the background?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
look at Priyanka Gandhi holding the constitution of India while she's being taken away by the cops
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra holds up a copy of the Constitution while being removed from the protest site in New Delhi.(Express Photo by Anil Sharma)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A 73% cut in fare evasion that doesn't require more cops at a station is a success story that Chicago should learn from
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Tom Schalk - Voice Actor Guy @tomschalk.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Skull Boy loves to share jokes with friends! (Bluesky Edition 💀)
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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/10/2026
oh thats fine i don't think anyone needed that money anyways
Trump does not plan to reimburse taxpayers for promotional ads
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
Pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 06/10/2026
Religious liberty will always be framed as religious people’s right to freely oppress and exclude others
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The whole time you own the property you wanna build on, you're paying taxes on that property, you have loans accruing interest, you have to pay staff whose entire job is to jump through bureaucratic hoops, AND WE WONDER WHY HOUSING IS SO EXPENSIVE. BUILD THE FUCKING HOUSING!
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