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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
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Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

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Elon Musk
XAI

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm so excited that WBEZ/The Sun-Times/Block Club/Chalkbeat Chalkbeat collaborated to publish district by district Chicago School Board election overviews including candidate profiles with full questionnaires. Check it out here:

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m hosting a panel on 10.24 in Chicago (Hermosa neighborhood), where we discuss ways everyday citizens can support their neighbors to safely vote in person. Anyone have any recommendations for who I should contact to find people for the panel (besides alder and congress people)?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s supposed to be cold November rain, not September rain!

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers.

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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago @mwrdgc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Historical Photo of the Day: Excavation for preliminary settling tanks at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, on May 31, 1927. Request an in-person tour for your community or school group ⬇️ mwrd.org/education/tours 🏗💧💩🧪🧫🔬🌊🌞

A photo showing excavation for preliminary settling tanks at the West Side Sewage Treatment Works, now part of the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, on May 31, 1927. The scene includes workers, horse-drawn carts, and early construction equipment digging a large trench. The Stickney WRP is now one of the world’s largest wastewater treatment plants, serving over 2 million people and cleaning an average of 700 million gallons of wastewater per day, with a capacity of 1.4 billion gallons per day.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Why ‘We Need To Tax Billionaires’" Top economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social is Zeteo's newest contributor and has been busy making the intellectual, political, and financial case for a wealth tax. Read this exclusive excerpt from his latest book:

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Why ‘We Need To Tax Billionaires’

Meet the top economist - and newest Zeteo contributor! - who is making the intellectual, political, and financial case for a wealth tax. Read this exclusive excerpt from his latest book.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A cicada flew straight at my face while finishing my run this morning. In an attempt to swat it away, I fell on my ass and scraped my hand and knee. Major startle and disappointing ending. Sharing a warning to my fellow Chicago peeps: they aren’t just loud, they’re aggressive. This was a first.

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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 21/08/2026

A Chicago chef and his wife were on his way to the World Cup. Then ICE detained them at the airport. Read @shokdiesel.bsky.social's reporting on how this respected industry pro is reimagining his future from inside the walls of a Louisiana detention center. www.weareravenous.com/ice-raid-la-...

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ICE Is Detaining a Chicago Chef Who Traveled to the World Cup Final

The Argentine national has been transferred to three detention centers across the country as he awaits his fate.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 07/08/2026

I saw someone refer to homeschooling as “trickle down stupidity.” Immediate addition to my lexicon.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

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JT Cestkowski @jtcestkowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We also talked about preserving art, even when times are terrible. “If you lose culture in your society, the society dies. If you lose your art museums and your galleries, all you have is thugs and fighting and people being mean. In times of trouble, art gives us the backbone to keep fighting.”

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

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josh terry @joshterry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Can all 40,000 of you guys sign up for the @wttw.bsky.social newsletter, Daily Chicagoan? It's great, I love running it and it's an easy and free way to support public media. www.wttw.com/newsletter?w...

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Newsletter Signup

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/06/2026

Starting Thursday, there is — for the first time — an official YouTube channel dedicated to the work of Fred Rogers, the beloved children’s TV host. Eventually it will be a repository for full episodes, behind-the-scenes footage and compilations.

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Mister Rogers: Now on YouTube

On Thursday, Fred Rogers Productions started a channel dedicated to the beloved children’s host. Eventually it will be a repository for full episodes, behind-the-scenes footage and compilations.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We lend our voices to the 150 detainees, including hunger strikers at the Adelanto processing center and read their letter in the “Petition of Writ” that we received from @chu.house.gov. Here are their words. (2 parts) PART 1

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/05/2026

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Social media is not a replacement for life. My first FB posts were basically a bulletin board of where to find me. I don’t come here to discourse. I do that in person. Also, if a user of this site says “the users are definitely the problem here,” that means they’re admitting they’re the problem…

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/05/2026

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

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Missing in Action: Women Service Members “Delisted” from Arlington National Cemetery Website

When visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won’t find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it’s website despite being interred there and…

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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 23/05/2026

first episode of Zoning Sunset just dropped

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Andrew @amac0668.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Happy birthday Honoré de Balzac.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 13/05/2026

Who could have seen every little detail of this coming?

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Almost 16 yrs ago, I was super hopeful for tech to empower. Started @wholesomezine.bsky.social w/friends. We planted a seed, nurtured it, now it’s becoming a scene that we’re watching bloom🌸. Stopped caring about social crap about 5 yrs ago but we keep growing. Creators + people > platforms + bots.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I’m more convinced than ever before that there is a group of people who truly wants us to enter a new dark ages - a time where technology, science, and comfort are reserved for kings, queens, and their loyalty and the rest of us are told to pray and wait for a savior. We are the savior we need.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I just heard one of the weirdest thunders of my life in Chicago just now. It was a literal rolling thunder that just seemed to keep going.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

New album that I’ve been waiting for, so have to share! #newmusic #fridaytunes jesuschristtaxidriver1.bandcamp.com/album/taxi-t...

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Taxi the Rich, by Jesus Christ Taxi Driver

11 track album

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 18/04/2026

This was a fun one for me to write. It's the Angine de Poitrine argument for universal basic income. We could have more weird, awesome, truly human stuff like this if we all had UBI. We could have more Einsteins too. And because those things are true, the cost of NOT doing UBI isn't worth it.

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The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

💥 1989 Helicopter Crash: Three Trump executives killed in helicopter crash while his casino was being investigated for money laundering. Trump blamed them web.archive.org/web/20210102...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Brutal.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
@michaelfdubois
Mukad A QuBoy
@michacifdubois

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Busy Beaver Buttons & Merch @busybeaverbuttonco.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

These hard enamel Chicago Flag Pins from Neighborly come with backer cards that are totally gift shop ready and look amazing on jackets, hats, and bags! 🍕🌭🎡

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I love seeing a mathematician doing important work.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Have been doing Wholesome newsletters for yrs, but never share links to them on socials. Trying something new 🤓. Sign up so the next one goes to your inbox. PS. Undead Poems, poetry/donuts/coffee event is Sat April 18th 5:30-10:30pm at our Chicago HQ. #zine #chicago wholso.me/campaigns/vi...

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we’re still making things 📷💥🎶

We’re remembering Simon, a longtime member of this community.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

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Her husband is a double amputee in ICE prison. She confronted Kristi Noem over its cruel conditions: ‘I have a fire inside’

Mildred Danis-Taylor dropped everything to advocate for the release of her husband, Rodney Taylor. A brutal year of legal and health challenges led her to Capitol Hill

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 01/04/2026

The seas have boiled and almost all life is gone. Three data centers remain, solar-powered, in continuous relay with one another. They continuously transfer electronic funds back and forth with one another, silently. At long last, the economy is perfect.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

“‘Move fast and break things’ now extends to the reputations and identities of respected professionals and creative people.” This piece made me feel like I went back in time to the Industrial Revolution. Machines hurt humans + progress was more important than childhood. Yep- we’re back in time.

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 10/03/2026

A new study of 1,600 math lessons found that classrooms using more precise math language saw stronger student gains. 📈 Here are simple ways teachers can build that vocabulary into daily instruction. #MathSky #ITeachMath

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In High-Performing Math Classrooms, Words Matter

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

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Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone

Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

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