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Paul

@basspaulplayer.bsky.social
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Musician. Teacher. Bicycles. Books. Chicago. Solidarity. He/him.

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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ummm, what’s with everyone going to the Kanye concert??? People don’t care he’s a not see?
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The only thing Darren Bailey has going for him is he wants to ban flock cameras. I think he’s lying, but he’s tapped into real energy there.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you’re in Chicago you can just go to forest Park and visit this legend.
Lucy Parsons’ gravestone. 1859-1942
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
He’s down there now. Screaming up at us. And I’m sure he’s in severe pain.
Quote from The Militant. 

C&H Sugar is owned by the American Sugar Refining Group, a $4 billion company and the world’s largest refiner of cane sugar. It was founded by Alfonso and José Fanjul, brothers who fled Cuba in 1959 after the revolution.

The richest 1.5% of landowners in Cuba had owned 46% of the land under the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. The Fanjul brothers — children of a marriage that united two of Cuba’s wealthiest sugar families in the early 1900s — had 10 sugar mills, three alcohol distilleries and real estate interests across the country.

Peasants working on sugarcane plantations there lived in abysmal poverty. Sugar production was seasonal and cane cutters only got four months of work a year. They made up an army of the unemployed, continually in debt with their families fighting to get by. Illiteracy was widespread.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A confirmed ICE vehicle that has been seen at at least 3 abductions was left parked on the street in Williamsburg for a few days. It received an NYC makeover: its side windows and windshield smashed, two tires flattened, and the message “ICE OUT” scrawled on the side. Pic sent in anon:
photo of a white SUV NY plate MBL6213 parked on a street, backlit in the night by a nearby shop, its window visibly smashed. the words “ICE OUT” are sprayed on the drivers side doors in red.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
💯
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I like Pritzker and all but it’s not lost on me that the state owes CPS billions and pritzker himself IS a billionaire.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Please enjoy this photograph of Emma Goldman’s grave in Forest Park, IL taken during today’s storm. Note the bottle of Malört.
photograph of Emma Goldman’s grave in Forest Park, IL 
taken during today’s storm. 

Note the bottle of Malört.
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United Northwest Side @unitednwside.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
United Northwest Side is proud to endorse Ed Bannon for Chicago School School Board in District 1A. As a member of the board this past term, Ed has worked to advance a vision in which every student has the fully resourced public schools that they deserve… (1/ )
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We mean the white working class, correct? Working class people of color have hated him since way back (but they do not count).
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A regret I have is not buying a drawing from Wesley Willis when I met him.
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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NO NEW COPS
“I am proud to have worked closely with the Mayor and public safety advocates to ensure there was no increase to the NYPD’s headcount in this budget. Every dollar we spend on policing and incarceration means money we can’t spend on housing, mental health care, substance use treatment, and economic stability: the proven policies that actually keep our communities healthy and safe. This budget is an important check on the failed policy of broken windows policing and will allow us to build a public safety infrastructure rooted in care, not punishment and incarceration. And we will keep building on it.”
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My wife and I are teachers. This is literally us on summer break while our friends are at work.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth!
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17/06/2026
#OtD 17 Jun 1932 24-year-old Italian anarchist coalminer Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto was executed by a fascist firing squad in Italy, having admitted his plan to assassinate Mussolini. His final words were "Viva l'anarchia!" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8897...
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
LAPD kills dogs. Defund their pension and give it to the dog owner.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Tear down soldier field and give the park back to the people.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
45th ward alderperson Jim Gardiner is mocking LGBTQIA+ people during pride month.
Facebook post from Jim Gardiner.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Teacher tired. Summer break starts today! I took the blue line downtown with my bass on my back. Played a gig at Chicago blues fest. Taking the train home. I love Chicago.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is how police use handicap spaces in Jefferson Park.
Police car parked diagonally across a handicap space when there’s clearly street parking on Milwaukee.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Portage Park / Gladstone Park / Edison Park
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
Mike Nellis
@MikeNellis
"I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity
ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I remember after October 7, a lot of people insisted Netanyahu was on his way out. Multiple people called him a "dead man walking." I stressed that fascistic leaders can sometimes insulate themselves with the permanent urgency of war, and that we should expect that from him.
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This Easter, we think of the Palestinian Christians in Gaza that mark Easter without their loved ones. As the Israeli occupation suffocates Gaza, celebrations are limited by severe shortages in essentials like food, water, and electricity.
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"Death before detransition" Seen on a Salvation Army Corps Center in Ithaca, New York
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Timothée Chalamet lighting his career on fire.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
the fuckers got what they deserved
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Youth pastor voice: “You know who’s not in the Epstein files?”
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/02/2026
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️
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Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It's that time of year again. Happy Black History Month!
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ok not participating in this is one thing, but having someone show up to do this is *chef’s kiss*
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
From a friend in Minneapolis.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Too cold for recess. PE is cancelled this week. The gymnasium is being used for standardized testing. At what point do we change what we’re doing and make school engaging?
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Chicago should cancel school on Monday. 1. It’s cold 2. Icy 3. Kids will be sick or get sick from being outside. 4. They will get the staff sick. (This is my #1 reason to cancel) 5. Would be nice to let the coldest day pass 6. Why should the whole city have to suffer? 7. Some streets won’t be plowed
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Watching Force Awakens. So good.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Local police could earn community trust by arresting ice agents, but they won’t. They support what ice is doing. They’re probably taking notes.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Mayor Brandon Johnson said “Abolish ICE”
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Have any FOPs or police unions condemned these public executions by ICE? Has an officer ever apologized for performing a public execution? No. Because this is how they want America to be.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I’ve never been threatened by an immigrant, but MAGA police officers have incited de*th threats on me. MAGA police officers waged a national smear campaign on my character.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The way the whole school just screamed.
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Paul @basspaulplayer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
They should definitely cancel school on Friday.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/01/2026
Seen in Minneapolis this morning
Sticker on crosswalk sign with image of masked ICE agent and text WIFE LEFT KIDS HATE ME PLEASE HELP
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 17/01/2026
If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
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