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Caren with a C

@caren.bsky.social
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Stanford grad, former banker, Chicagoan, liberal, Dem, sci-fi, gamer mom. I tend to reply more than post. Working on reposting to help how Bsky works. Misspelling my name is an instablock.

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Chicago 21222 @chicago21222.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I fucking hate this guy. Nowhere in this article does it mention his covering up Laquan McDonald's murder until after his election. Nowhere does it mention lengthening the school day/year with no intention of paying teachers for the additional hours leading to a massive strike. He's unqualified.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The ghost of Adam Smith: Ok so what's the supply? Me: Oh it's fucking garbage lol The ghost of Adam Smith: And the demand? Me: Buddy you're never gonna believe this but
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/08/2026
the dawn of the internet: this will lead to a vast expansion of knowledge and ideas the reality: the dumbest people alive have found each other and are all going “exactlyyyy”
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s already over. We spent hundreds of billions. Killed hundreds of kids. Fucked up oil transport forever.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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Midnight Ross💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Art by Skizo
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we reject any evidence of the bamboozle. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” -Carl Sagan. (📷: Michael Okoniewski)
Carl Sagan wears a charcoal suit and earth tone tie.  He is smiling with his whole face, eyes crinkled at the edges.  His hair is iron-grey and he stands or sits in front of a greenery hedge.
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is just to say That I have hidden the President in a catering truck which you were probably saving for dinner service forgive me he is such a coward so small and so dumb
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than 6 times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, LOTR, Ghibli, Marvel, or Disney.
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Blues Brothers: Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi in Car
Alt: Blues Brothers: Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi in Car Jake's saying "I hate Illinois Nazis"
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In a normal democracy this chart would be the entire presentation of evidence for an impeachment conviction
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Peg Kerr @pegkerr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Copy of Tumblr post: “#i mean Bingley genuinely LIKES Darcy#they're a classic combo of golden retriever and aloof dignified cat#so of course golden retriever
Bingley is going to meet Elizabeth and go YES GOOD A NEW CAT FRIEND#DARCY COME MEET MY NEW CAT FRIEND#Darcy:
HISSS#Elizabeth: HISSS#Bingley: SEE WE'RE
FRIENDS
via @pagerunner”
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 09/07/2026
I went into a fugue state and cartooned my feelings at reading this passage. I have floppy dark hair and round glasses. My head is tilted back, my mouth wide open, steam billowing out of it looking like a smoke stack. Mr Darcy’s words hang prominently around me. 

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Fascinating thread explaining what went wrong with the reflecting pool & how to fix it. Science is cool
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What the hell, Chicago?? Not acceptable in the slightest.
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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
REMINDER: ICE is still out there, causing havoc and kidnapping people. Be on the lookout and carry your whistle. #abolishice
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride month you buncha queers
Inside you are two bricks:
Throw me at a Fascist
Use me to build community
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves
a screencap of a 2023 Instagram post from Jamila Jameel with over 1500 likes (including Billy Porter!!) it has a progress Pride flag striped background behind a screencap of my old tweet which reads 

Claire Willett
@clairewillett
for pride month this year can straight people focus less on "love is love" and more on "queer and trans people are in danger"
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Hamgravy @mlapinski.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Great write-up! This video breakdown of her contributions to STAR WARS was a revelation. youtu.be/lgfwi1gO8mQ?...
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The Marcia Lucas Effect | Star Wars documentary | The Jedi Beat
YouTube video by ForceCenter
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Here's the full clip youtu.be/GOoZIrjptxo?...
youtu.be
News 4 investigates dark money groups
YouTube video by KFOR Oklahoma's News 4
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A list of Ken Paxton scandals over the past 20 years. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/k...
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Ken Paxton Is No Stranger to Controversy. Here’s a Timeline of Nearly 20 Years of Scandals & Headlines.
We’ve compiled every serious scandal the Texas Attorney General has faced during his political ascendancy.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Happily, a Black church that has a judgement against the Proud Boys and Tarrio has filed to intervene in his lawsuit against the DOJ, reminding the court that they are entitled to whatever he might get from the lawsuit.
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Spancialosaphus Lacrimosae @seaewenext2sday.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Eileen @eileenmont.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I can’t help but think about how Q had MAGA people believing the Clintons led a Dem pedo ring and now that Trump’s name is everywhere, MAGA could not care less.
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OKNova @okaynova.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The GOP's outright support of pedophilia is not something which I had any inkling of a year or two ago. It is outright enraging and helps you understand how fucked up and hypocritical the Christian Right is.
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Insanity.
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If you see this, post a Star Trek
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Spock: I Would Like The Ship To Go Now
Alt: Spock: I Would Like The Ship To Go. Now!
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Guide to Midwestern Marsupials
Greeting card with possums in 16 different poses.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
(second try) the phone friendly version tinyview.com/this-modern-...
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Further tributes
TMW cartoon for May 12, 2026
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
has been clear for years
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/05/2026
"Looking back now, it’s clear that the desire to undo the Civil Rights Era — and even restore the Confederacy to a place of honor — never disappeared. It was sometimes set to the side and reshaped, but they kept the fire burning with unwavering attention."
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The Confederacy rises again
Undoing the 1960s isn't enough. They're even taking aim at the 1860s.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A big middle finger and the umpteenth told-you-so to the many parts of the media that have spent the last month repeatedly told everyone the war is over. “What are we supposed to do, not uncritically put whatever the serial lying White House says in headlines regardless of veracity?” Yes, exactly.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
the baby on board in me acknowledges the baby on board in you #CovetedBumperStickers
The baby on board in me acknowledges the baby on board in you
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
and in the format which is friendly to the phone tinyview.com/this-modern-...
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The best and the brightest
TMW cartoon for April 28, 2026.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/03/2026
It's been a month since NYU Langone ended care. Letitia James deadline came and went, NYU still has not restarted care. Mamdani refuses to answer questions from trans journos over the real steps he can take, like directing H+H to absorb patients or enforcing human rights law. Important thread.
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I love my Governor
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
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Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Restoring my faith in American youth
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover
Kiki on a box on the table in front of a bust of the Charioteer wearing a trumpet ball cap and my kiddo's self portrait.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/02/2026
Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I don't even know how to find Chat GPT. Do you download it?
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
North branch of the Chicago River
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Poorly Drawn Arsenal @poorlydrawnarsenal.com · 11/01/2026
If I were the coach of the bears I would simply just tell Caleb Williams that every quarter is the fourth quarter.
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Why does ICE have guns? Being undocumented is not a capital offense. Why do they have guns?
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The vote to legally compel the Epstein files got much much more coverage than the DoJ’s flouting of that law. Why?
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