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Claire Battle

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 14h
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Claire Battle @clairebattle.bsky.social · 16h
This is deeply disturbing and the exact opposite of what should be happening, especially for women of color. [gift link] www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/...
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Claire Battle @clairebattle.bsky.social · 16h
The high-pitched scream I just let out could have ruined my dog's ears if I was at home. Can the powers that be please stop pretending this man has any political credibility in 2026???!
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview: A few hundred people are out protesting right-wing provocateur Jake Lang and his attempted "crusader march" on the local Palestine Fest going on nearby. Police in riot gear just formed a line, with Lang's group behind them.
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🍾 "Gas prices got you down? Too bad, suckers!" Dan Scavino Jr is Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. The tweet is real.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
positive city government experience! chicago's expedited real id center works! well-staffed, spacious, light; in and out under 30 minutes. public provisioning is possible!
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Brian Wilcox @brianwilcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More fucking up from the FAA and its reality TV star leader. These fascists can’t get the planes to fly on time.
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Technical Problems Ground Flights at Major East Coast Airports
The incident revived concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration’s aging air traffic control infrastructure.
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Brian Straw @brianstraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think one of the most important discussions here relates to the Court's authority to appoint a special prosecutor (pages 27-41 of the Reply). This inherent authority is fundamental to the balance of power between branches of government.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CHIRP DJs program live, original shows every day. CHIRP brings people together through music, with what we play, shows we put together, record fairs, and more. Please consider a donation to support our efforts.
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Claire Battle @clairebattle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🎯🎯🎯
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So a big part of Iran Contra and one of the (many) reasons it was illegal was that third party fund weren’t deposited into the U.S. Treasury
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
new all-time diesel price records today set in: Michigan ($6.27), Indiana ($6.22), Wisconsin ($6.11) and Illinois ($6.22), knocking out records set this spring.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
9/13/26 Chicagoland ICE activity update: rapid responders report an abduction in the South Loop this morning and another (photo-corroborated) in the far southwest community of Country Club Hills. Further activity reported today in the suburbs of Bensenville and Addison.
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Joe Preston @joepreston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Look at this paltry sum of money, that they hold over these kids' heads. Phony debt accrued at made up rates. It's extraordinarily generous and it should shame the rest of us.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
Yusra, the super genius who is working with fellow PhD students to turn this into real research, and I are very excited to talk to other places, foundations, and governments, about how funding rent in a time of crisis is one of the most impactful investments you can make
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Someone should tell the Attorney General. Which is easy to do, because he’s there, speaking at the convention.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
‘Springfield is under siege right now.’ ICE agents in Ohio have detained 2 Haitian pastors. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/31/s...
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'Springfield is under siege right now.' ICE agents in Ohio have detained 2 Haitian pastors. • Ohio Capital Journal
More than 40 Haitians in Springfield have been detained by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement after President Donald Trump revoked their legal status earlier this summer.
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Wailin Wong @wailinwong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
brb writing a screenplay for a heist movie where a crime syndicate installs a chaotic U.S. president to stoke geopolitical instability, prompting foreign countries to pull their gold reserves from the NY Fed, and then steals the gold en route www.ft.com/content/1749...
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Dutch central bank moves gold bars out of New York over ‘geopolitical unrest’
DNB prefers London over the US city, pointing to better ‘tradeability’ of bullion
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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
So this all happened yesterday
Olivia Rodrigo wearing a red and black  bikini kill Revolution girl style now shirt
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
So Christina Hendricks living her best goth/shoegaze life by going to Glasgow to see the Cure/Mogwai/Slowdive and hang out with Rachel Goswell is a perfect boost to my spirits, really. www.instagram.com/p/DcqYzCzDigx/
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
amazing stuff
"This government hates us and wants us dead," Kathleen Hanna remarked during Bikini
Kill's set. "They don't give a shit about anybody's healthcare. They don't care if we're dying in parking lots of curable illnesses.
They don't give a shit. They don't care if our rights are taken away. They're ripping people off the streets. I'm not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time. 'Cause it's hard to turn it off. And I was thinking that on the way here. I was like,
'What a gift.' What a gift we have to be able to play for you. What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival.
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Claire Battle @clairebattle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Very lovely. And poignant and thought-provoking.
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Brian Straw @brianstraw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oak Park removed all of our Flock cameras a year ago. This might be the first time Greg Abbott and I have ever agreed on something.
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Gov. Abbott blocks funding in Texas for Flock cameras as bipartisan fury brews
The automated license plate readers aren’t popular with the public. Politicians are catching on.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
and on the saturday after we go back to school, we spend a mere two hours doing a task that topped the summer's to do list and never was touched
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
KNOXVILLE… #RIPDolly ♥️ From WBIR: www.instagram.com/reel/Dceq2t-...
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Claire Battle @clairebattle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
First in her family to graduate high school. Artist, performer, businesswoman and philanthropist, all resolutely on her own terms and in the face of sexism. Writer of numerous legitimately great songs. RIP. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Dolly Parton on style, stardom and sexists: ‘I know how to push men off and get the hell away’
With an album featuring two dozen rock icons, Dolly Parton is hitting new highs. She discusses politics, business – and why she has always worn and done exactly what she wants
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
ICE is once again busy in Chicagoland this morning; rapid responders report two detainments in Aurora and a Chicago Public Schools staffer stopped but not taken on Chicago's SW side (it's the 2nd day of school for CPS). Video shared online shows another arrest on Garfield & Hermitage in Chicago.
ALERTA COMUNITARIA – AURORA, IL 🚨
📅 Hoy - 08/25/2026
🕥 6:30 a.m.
📍 Church RD y Indian Trail
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ICE en el área. 1 persona detenida
🚗 Vehículos Observados:
Ford Explorer Negra
Nissan Pathfinder Negra
Dodge Durango Rojo
Ford Explorer Gris
Chevy Tahoe NegraALERTA COMUNITARIA–AURORA, IL🚨
🗓️08/25/2026
🕥Aproximadamente 7:15 a.m.
📍Hill Ave, por Phillips Park Golf Course
🧊 CONFIRMADO: Presencia de ICE en el área. 
Una persona detenida. 
Fueron los mismos vehículos relacionados con una detención ocurrida más temprano esta mañana.
🚗 VEHÍCULOS OBSERVADOS:
Ford Explorer negra
Nissan Pathfinder negra
Dodge Durango roja
Ford Explorer gris
Chevy Tahoe negra8/25/26 rapid response alert of a CPS staffer being stopped but not detained on Chicago's southwest sideVideo shared online of an 8/25/26 ICE detainment off Garfield and Hermitage on Chicago's southwest side.
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Claire Battle @clairebattle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Really....interesting...remarks from Rahm in the comprehensive and informative @newrepublic.com piece on bipartisan opposition to school voucher programs and support for public schools as an underappreciated factor in recent state/local red-to-blue flips. newrepublic.com/article/2137...
For Emanuel, Exhibit A of the Biden Democrats’ capitulation to teachers’ unions was pandemic school closures, what he refers to as the “original sin” of allowing politics to triumph over science. “Voters trust Democrats less than they did six years ago,” said Emanuel. Another leading centrist voice, Massachusetts Representative Jake Auchincloss, insists that Democrats need to apologize to the American people for their role in shuttering schools during Covid. “Any conversation about education needs to start with the catastrophe of the school closures,” Auchincloss told me. “We were wrong, and we won’t do it again.”
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
so whoever leaked this to the Times wants us to know Kushner sees Jeffries as a mark…
The meeting came as nearly all polls revealed Republicans to be at a disadvantage in the midterms, and showed how members of Mr. Trump's inner circle were digesting what a Democratic majority next year could look like.
Should that happen, Mr. Jeffries would be under intense pressure from progressives to use his power as a check on Mr. Trump, including through aggressive oversight.
Mr. Kushner is frequently consulted by a number of Mr. Trump's advisers, and he has told people that if anything bipartisan is to get done with Congress, Mr. Jeffries is the most serious person among Democratic leaders. Ms. Wiles, he has said, is the most serious mside the West Wing.
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Zoë Takaki @zoetakaki.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Earlier in the day, a vehicle parked amongst ICE vehicle with a person wearing a mask and tactical belt sat watching protesters. Broadview police pulled up to the car and started talking with the individual inside.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Another way to look at this is that there's no extra profit to be made by being openly bigoted.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/08/2026
There is a broad and durable political coalition in Canada to stand up to Trump. The political coalition for hammering Canada with tariffs in the US is basically confined to a few Twitter posters.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Untitled by Carla Accardi, 1965 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Gift, Isabella del Frate Eich, 2001

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay In the ballroom case—which effectively allows Trump to keep doing what he’s doing while the full Court decides whether to let him keep working indefinitely while the case moves forward (which it probably will, given this intervention).
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Claire Battle @clairebattle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Mega "bless your heart" energy here (pun acknowledged)
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Claire Battle @clairebattle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Walking the dog and saw tons of kids walking/biking towards our middle school. Brierly feared we missed 1st day before remembering that there is a 6th grade orientaiton. There was a pack of girls on bikes blasting Le Tigre's "Deceptacon". The future is bright! 😮😍
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Besides wasting obscene amounts of money, the cost of the Iran war is borne by people like Tahereh Sarbaz, who lost eight members of her family, including two of her children and five grandchildren, one of whom was a newborn. theintercept.com/2026/08/18/i...
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The Short Life of a Newborn During the Iran War
“What crime had my 20-day-old grandchild committed?”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@hugolowell.bsky.social Can you include the two rulings of lawlessness (GA, for absentee ballots, WI referral for bribery) and the lawsuits against America PAC in boilerplate on Musk, please? A judge just ruled one of the fraud cases (for $1M offers) can move forward, attempt class certification.
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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This column from @juliapoe.bsky.social is the best thing I've read about this topic. I invite you to read it. Gift link: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/13/t...
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Column: When I think about transgender people in sports, I think about my friends
Despite the rabid fixation upon the concept of trans women in sports, those who beat the drum the loudest for exclusive policies rarely seem to care about trans people themselves.
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Matt Calcara @mattcalcara.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Turns out, there isn't really a "male loneliness epidemic." What there actually is is a "poor people's loneliness epidemic" that affects men & women equally badly. Very illuminating article. slate.com/life/2026/08...
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There Is No Male Loneliness Crisis. What’s Actually Happening Is So Much Darker.
The data tells a different story.
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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thread.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hey remember when the media and gop freaked out when bill clinton spoke to the attorney general for five seconds?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
As the grandson of Kansas wheat farmers, let me offer my careful opinion -- this is not good.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Should the Mayor of New York City attend the 9/11 remembrance because he's the Mayor and he was in fact in NYC on 9/11? Or should a handful of bigots get a veto they are raising in bad faith so they can also criticize the Mayor for not going? Good of you to raise these questions, CNN. Tough call.
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