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Chicago area. Music, the arts and science inspire and employ me. I will not be a cat's paw for this autocracy; there will be no blind, repetitive acquiescence.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1942*, mistakes are contagious today
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casa-sj.bsky.social @casa-sj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ukraine takes aim at the Propaganda Industrial Complex.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This hero doesn't need a cape she has a Primus T-shirt & good morals! ✨I love her!
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casa-sj.bsky.social @casa-sj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Henry Miller - I mean Mark Jacob - immerses us in the muddy waters of our current timeline.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 30/09/2026
A shooting Wednesday at Oakbrook Center mall in Oak Brook left a man dead and a woman injured, authorities say.
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Police: 1 dead, 1 hurt in shooting at Oakbrook Center
The shooting happened around noon in a parking lot near the L.L. Bean store, Oak Brook Police Chief Brian Strockis said.
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casa-sj.bsky.social @casa-sj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you've alienated the Kansas Livestock Association, it makes sense that KS could flip a senate seat. Which is incredible. www.newsweek.com/adam-hamilto...
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Adam Hamilton’s chances of beating Roger Marshall in Kansas senate race
A new poll shows Democrat Adam Hamilton narrowly ahead of Senator Roger Marshall as the battle for a GOP stronghold tightens.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's some ranchers against ICE (I know, it's about economics, and about the beef industry, but I'll take it), defending the real cowboys out there, who are immigrants.
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Media Statement from the Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and Texas Cattle Feeders Association Regarding the Ongoing ICE Operations in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas
(TOPEKA) — The Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and Texas Cattle Feeders Association are closely monitoring reported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activi...
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casa-sj.bsky.social @casa-sj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Peace for, and by, Peter Max
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
While I was in the Navy, I served for almost 2 years in Bahrain. Back then, between Gulf War I and II, the USA was investing a lot of money to build up presence in the area to contain Saddam Hussein. That investment grew exponentially after 9/11. That part of the world became a top priority and
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Everything is corruption. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Interesting read and very plausible explanation for the visit: Why did CIA Director Ratcliffe travel to Moscow malcontentnews.substack.com/p/why-did-ci...
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Why did CIA Director Ratcliffe travel to Moscow
The last time a CIA Director traveled to Russia, the Russia-Ukraine War expanded 3 months later.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 25/08/2026
A motorcade bearing license plates used by US diplomats was spotted by local residents traveling through Moscow. Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Peskov said no meetings with US officials were planned. #Russia
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Rachel Benavidez was brought to Epstein's ranch as a young massage therapist. She's spent decades watching the feds investigate Epstein everywhere except New Mexico. Wednesday her state finally sued to get the files. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/hes-huntin...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
61 years ago LBJ signed Voting Rights Act. He called it "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield." But now the Supreme Court has effectively killed it after John Roberts spent 40 years working to destroy the country’s most important civil rights law
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026
UN Human Rights Commission: "So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity."
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Flawed ‘Epstein Files’ disclosures undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls: UN experts
GENEVA – The so-called ‘Epstein Files’ contain disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls, UN experts* said today.Acco...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Southwest was complicit. They helped ICE every step of the way. Boycott Southwest Air
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Freedom Fuel stations were put together by a pair of serial grifters who stole $667,000 worth of gas from a distributor five years ago, a private credit sponsor, and an energy trader tied up in multiple Trump schemes and profiting heavily off the war in Iran. prospect.org/2026/07/20/k...
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The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations - The American Prospect
How can Freedom Fuel afford to sell gas for $3.47 a gallon? That’s the wrong question to ask.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Commentators on the German Broadcast of the FIFA World Cup Final didn’t hold back 💀 #FIFA
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14/07/2026
Political cartoon. A clown car labeled the "Trump Admin." is driving through a maze of concrete walls labeled with fundamental political concepts like "Law", "Democracy," "Ethics," "Diplomacy," "Separation of powers," and more.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
it’s barely 8 am on a saturday and ice has already been spotted in chicago’s humboldt park, logan square, and wicker park neighborhoods, with at least one person detained, per local rapid response groups. www.facebook.com/Organizacion...
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Politico @politico.com · 09/07/2026
Brussels wants action over Trump-Infantino red card controversy
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Brussels wants action over Trump-Infantino red card controversy
The fight over Folarin Balogun’s suspended one-match ban has sparked new calls for an investigation by a multiparty faction of European lawmakers.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A US official told CNN the ceasefire with Iran "has at least temporarily ceased." 🙄
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026
Racists online saw this photo, doxxed her, and found out she had a previous arrest (the charge later being dismissed). Meanwhile she is a mentally disabled working mom minding her business. If someone can put me in contact, I’m happy to offer her a housing relief stipend thurmanperryfoundation.org
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The Thurman Perry Foundation | Creating An Equitable World For Women & Girls Impacted By Incarceration
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A Peasant Man, by Agostino Carracci, late 16th century, 📸 by Alex Grimm
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Insult, meet injury.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Cause and effect Knicks have a historic 13 game postseason winning streak going Trump shows up. Falls asleep. Knicks lose USMNT in the round of 16 Trump sticks his nose in the Balogun red card controversy The team has a nightmare game and Pulisic gets injured Everything Trump Touches Dies
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🇳🇴 Norway manager Stale Solbakken: “Bad bad bad bad bad decision by FIFA that will hurt the World Cup. Not good for the sport. If they beat Belgium it will always have that extra thing about it. What happens with the next Red Card?” (From @bbcsport)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/07/2026
Trump gets involved with the world cup and corruptly gets a suspended player reinstated. Now, the US team is being humiliated by Belgium. Everything Trump touches turns to shit.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/06/2026
Happening now in Broadview, outside Chicago, about four dozen protesters have taken the southbound lanes of 25th Ave. This is between the two streets to access the ICE detention facility. Police here: Broadview, Maywood, Bellwood, Hillside, and Cook County Sheriff. @domguan.bsky.social with more:
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ok, so quick observations of the Iran deal. Background: I used to write international agreements and de-crapify science MOUs for a living. A) This appears to be a full-fledged treaty. There is language that EXPLICITLY STATES that the parties are going to be bound under a UNSC resolution.
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READ: Full U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding
The full deal was read to reporters by a senior administration official.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
NEW: The United States and Iran signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on June 17. Iran is claiming that the final MoU text satisfies some of its key war aims related to Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz. (1/4) Read the full update: isw.pub/IranUpdate06...
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casa-sj.bsky.social @casa-sj.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
www.youtube.com/live/HggWKlZ...
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[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
OMG, I really love Ann Telnaes. She is a great political cartoonist and walked away from Bezos Post and she is now independent. I think she hit another one out of the park.. What do ya all think? I really love this one.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"US Refunds $22 Billion in Tariffs, Canceling Out Customs Revenue" www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "Net revenue from customs duties were slightly negative — by about $42 million — the first time that has happened in Treasury data compiled by Bloomberg going back to 2015." 😯
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6 Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Trump unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power THIS is what an insurrection looks like
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Albania rabbit hole goes way deeper than we realize. The company that is destroying the Albanian wetlands is registered in the Netherlands… By: girlinalbania
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 27/05/2026
NEW: We just filed an amicus brief, alongside @campaignlegal.org, highlighting how donations to Trump's White House ballroom create a vehicle for pay-to-play access with little regard for the law or the American people. The court must halt construction of Trump's ballroom.
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Campaign Legal Center, CREW file brief opposing ballroom  - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
CLC and CREW filed an amicus brief highlighting the dangers around special interest groups' donations to Trump's East Wing ballroom.
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21/05/2026
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 10/05/2026
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
Rotating view from the top of the Shedd Aquarium where Chicago meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-05-10 03:36:04 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: fox32chicago.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 53 F | 12 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: SE at 6 mph | 9 kph // Humidity: 63%
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Shoshie Rules @shoshierules.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Noel knows... "The MAGA faithful enjoy the fact that he is an awful person... the presidential equivalent of an insult comic doing crowd work. Trump offers them something irresistible; the promise of power without sacrifice, phantom riches without work and the intoxicating aromatic of entitlement."
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Worth reading what oil & gas professionals are saying about Trump's Iran policy to the Dallas Fed. These aren't politicians - they're just people trying to plan when morons are in charge of US energy & foreign policy. www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
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Dallas Fed Energy Survey Q1 2026 update
In response to recent developments in the global oil market, we conducted a follow-up to the first quarter survey that published March 25.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/05/2026
The Voting Rights Act “was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent. “Only [the American people] have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the members of this Court.” trib.al/rJRFYHS
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The Supreme Court Lands Its Fatal Blow on the Voting Rights Act
The conservative bloc has dismantled the law that ensures that Black Americans can fully participate in American electoral politics.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In which Isaac Saul attempts a comprehensive catalogue of all the corruption stories surrounding Trump and his family. Impressive. And still missing quite a lot. www.readtangle.com/the-everythi...
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The everything, everywhere, all at once corruption story.
I'm pleading with you to look at the president's self-dealing.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.
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The shooting happened on the level above the ballroom where the White House Correspondents Association dinner was. 
I don't think people hearing about this -- or even those of us in the room -- realized how far from the president, VP and other guests this incident was. It was on another floor, up some stairs and several sets of security away. 
Because the Washington Hilton's hotel and other public spaces were open for other functions, the entire building wasn't secured by the Secret Service, just the specific areas where the WHCA dinner was held, law enforcement officials told @CBSNews
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