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AmyRey

@amyrey3.bsky.social
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Crossword editor, feminist, liberal. She/her

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 12h
Billionaire’s wife is throwing nuts around Lincoln Park and whaddaya know, there is now a thriving rat colony in the park, tunnels and all
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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 13h
Gavin Newsom is no good. Y’all know that, right? You’d never vote for him in presidential primaries?
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 14h
Took a (very) rainy walk through the Loop tonight. I was absolutely soaked, but my camera stayed dry enough.
The pavement in Chicago is wet from a day-long rain. Street and traffic lights reflect on the stored in vivid colors. In the foreground, a person with an umbrella is an out-of-focus silhouetteCalder's Flaming - an orange, abstract metal sculpture in Chicago stands in a wet, reflective plaza. The sculpture is reflected in the rain coating the plaza's stone pavers in the evening with buildings in the background
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 01/10/2026
The group donned blue mariachi suits and bows with the Bears colors and logo to perform a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," marking the first time a mariachi band played the national anthem in Chicago Bears history.
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Move over, Case Keenum: Mariachi Herencia de Mexico is having a moment
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/09/2026
we’re entering our Bannon Era
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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When kids aren't taught sex ed they learn from porn. "If we learn about sex through porn, we’re learning about the worst of humanity," said Kristen Gilbert, a sex ed teacher. Many students ask her about choking: if they should like it, if their partners expect it, because they see it in porn.
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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An incisive and tough essay by @lyz.bsky.social Lenz, about raising a son in our rape-culture country. www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post...
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Raising a boy in Trump's America | Men Yell at Me
On Monday, I was reading about the alleged 2024 rape of a Cornell student. Several fraternity brothers allegedly drugged and raped her when
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Next week Trump will call it Gulf of Lake America Intelligence.
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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it's time for playoff basebal
jack white looking upset at a cubs game
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026
I wrote about the end of the MAGA makeover, the aesthetic normalization of bigotry, and the mall store selling fascist sweatshirts to teenage girls. New for @theflytrapmedia.com!!
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The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying
Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now
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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Talking about why Rahm Emanuel is a bad candidate on the merits and actually going into his record is giving way too much credit to Rahm Emanuel. When your 5 year old says he's going to drive a car to Saturn you don't explain why cars can't achieve space travel. You say "cool, sounds fun!"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I noticed last year that sweetgreen pivoted to MAHA when it started advertising seed oil-free french fries. Going MAHA is what a failing restaurant chain does now to get free advertising.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_... There is an English dessert called summer pudding, that is literally just white bread you soaked in fruit juice overnight in your fridge
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Summer pudding - Wikipedia
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
For my newsletter this morning, I found a small glimmer of political hope for trans people in the US and wrote about it: www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...
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We May Have Just Seen the Tides Turn on Trans Rights
Some conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people?
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Frodo says good morning and don't forget to eat your lembas bread
The cutest rat terrier in the world
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exactly. Duh. Fucking assholes.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I will do it tomorrow,” said Toad. “Today I will take life easy.”
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seen in Birmingham
And flyer posted on a bathroom bulletin board at Saturn music venue in Birmingham, Alabama featuring the pencil drawing version of the front man from A-Ha as seen in the video for “Take on Me”, labeled “Take” with pull away tags labeled “On Me”
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 28/09/2026
new eve ewing dropped. also the photography book looks amazing
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/09/2026
You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse.
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
(NewsNation) — An Illinois-based food manufacturer has recalled more than 2,300 pounds of frozen pork sausage over potential contamination with hard plastic. www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/reca...
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2,300 pounds of frozen pork sausage recalled over possible contamination
No injuries or adverse reactions have been reported in relation to the product.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you are really wondering why the media loves Rahm it might be worth considering that his brother Ari was/is one of the biggest agents in popular media ever.
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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A must-read from @rbreich.bsky.social about Rahm Emanuel's utter terribleness. His wrongness hits on so many levels! The media keeps featuring him in puff pieces but his home state hates him so what chance does he have in the 2028 presidential race? None. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-b...
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The Rahm Bomb
He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates we warned: stay away from him.
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Sysfin @sysfin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta ban the whole damn industry.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This entire interview is wonderfully awkward, from start to finish The questions from the audience … something. Winkler’s answer about premarital sex is unexpectedly lovely: “What is a physical relationship? It is the logical extension, when you have no more words, you must kiss somebody”
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Police didn't care that Lindsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data www.jezebel.com/flock-camera...
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One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
Police didn't care that Linsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data.
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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Eleven thousand?! I think that’s 2-3 times the number of people snatched by ICE in Chicago’s Midway Blitz last fall.
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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Know your sperm whale science!
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kelsey @whoaakelseyy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is so embarrassing Tucker Wetmore is actually my drag name
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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 25/09/2026
Fat Bear Week has a surprising winner.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
found a new type of guy
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u/IntrusiveGas • 6h
AITA for correcting my girlfriend's family every time they mispronounce my turtle's name?
I have a turtle named Geoff. Yes I know Geoff is normally pronounced Jeff. His isnt. My girlfriend's family knows this and still calls him Jeff basically every time his name comes up.
His name starts with /dz/ instead of the normal American English J sound /d3/. So regular Geoff/Jeff is roughly /dzef/ and his is /dzef/. They are similar but they are NOT the same consonant. /d3/ is a voiced postalveolar affricate and /dz/ is a voiced retroflex affricate. Basically you make the beginning of "Jeff" with the tongue farther back/retracted, which gives it a harder, deeper "dzh" sound.
I'm really into etymology and historical linguistics so the spelling was intentional too. Geoff is already a weird spelling from a modern English perspective because gives you basically no reason to predict /dzef/ unless you already know the name. Obviously I am NOT claiming medieval Geoffrey was pronounced / dzef/. I
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
had my thesaurus stolen today. made me not only sad, but very sad.
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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an ODYSSEY
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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today I learned that the unincorporated town of Afolkey, Illinois, is the Aerosol Cheese Capital of the World.
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Spraying Easy Cheese on Crackers
ALT: Spraying Easy Cheese on Crackers
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
104-year-old woman imparts some wisdom about the orange shit stain disgracing our White House today. #ProudBlue #FDT
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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Get your vaccines everyone the Urgent Cares and EDs are already getting the cases Just got 2 shots -Flu -Newest Covid 19
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What is happening right now? Is this happening? How did everything get so weird? Did I unwittingly ingest a hallucinogen? What's going on here?
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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There used to be a Starbucks in Uptown at Lawrence and Broadway. It’s now Queen Yemini Coffee, which I assume is a Yemeni coffee joint. Not that I drink coffee but neat!
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