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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A digitally drawn montage of scene's from Hayao Miyazaki's animated movie Porco Rosso. In the foreground wwe see Porco flying his Savoia S.21 seaplane. It's a bright red monoplane with a fuselage shaped like a porpoise and the wing mounted above and in front of the cockpit, and the single large, bulbous, shiny red prop engine mounted on top of that. Outrigger floats hang down from the underside of each wing and the vertical stabilizer is painted in the colors of the Italian flag.  Porco is looking down toward the Adriatic sea below. From a string of clouds behind the plane rises a closeup portrait of Porco in the plane's cockpit. He's a human with a cartoon pig's head, he's got a little black curled mustache, and he's wearing round sunglasses, leather headgear with goggles pushed up on top of his head, a white silk scarf and a tan jumpsuit. He is smiling past the one side of his mustache and giving a thumbs up to the viewer. Under the plane in the bottom right of the rough-edged frame in yellow handwriting is written 'Maybe it will happen today'.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
another day of ice slamming the chicagoland area. organización hijos de migrantes reports up to seven vehicles driven by feds have been circling austin/humboldt park/belmont cragin all morning. also confirmed sightings in suburban palatine. www.facebook.com/share/p/19CA...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Today I wrote about a proposed solution to a cult(ure) of abuse, which is to create a culture of healing, and about what conversations are (and are not) necessary in order to do so. www.the-reframe.com/culture-of-h...
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Culture of Healing
Reparation, rehabilitation, redemption, reconciliation, restoration. A necessary taxonomy of healing in an age of unnecessary conversations.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 15/02/2026
not sure I can think of a more profound case of “may her memory be a revolution.”
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A second MAGA assumption is that the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling. White liberals might put a sign in their front yard saying IMMIGRANTS WELCOME, but they will abandon those immigrants at the first sensation of sustained pressure.

And in Trump’s defense, this has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders. But it is not true of millions of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the administration, and, in Minnesota, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/10/2025
For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again. Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
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Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I would love to see political commentary stop drawing a false distinction between "economic" and "social" political priorities, as though discrimination designed to drive people out of public life doesnt have devastating economic consequences
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Wild to see the same (bad, cowardly) ideas that have been continuously regurgitated by poll analyzers who keep losing elections be marketed as the "common sense" way to win
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
because i'm a dumb little baby who has no grip on reality
Bret Stephens

Why Mamdani Frightens Jews Like Me
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 19/10/2025
Hey @edmarkey.bsky.social, my senator. Can you please teach out to Fenway Health and see if you can get them to restore the trans youth care they just ended? Your words are great and we need your action too.
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michael penix jr jr @yeahbuddysureok.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
please consider throwing some bucks their way, chicago’s street vendors have been targeted by 🧊 these are some of the hardest working people in the city! we gotta protect our neighbors
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Everyone say good job to my friend Ryan
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Nothing like realizing your undergrad political review deleted their archived articles so you have to find your original submission email from 2014
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Walter @walterkatz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The full text of Gov Prtizker’s remarks yesterday are a must-read. Not enough has been said until now on the glaring hypocrisy behind the false claims that the military is needed www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Excerpt from speech by Illinois Gov JB Pritzker on 8/25/25: 

If Donald Trump was actually serious about fighting crime in cities like Chicago, he, along with his congressional Republicans, would not be cutting over $800 million in public safety and crime prevention grants nationally, including cutting $158 million in funding to Illinois for violence prevention programs that deploy trained outreach workers to deescalate conflict on our streets. Cutting $71 million in law enforcement grants to Illinois, direct money for police departments through programs like Project Safe Neighborhoods, the state and local Antiterrorism Training Program, and the Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative, cutting $137 million in child protection measures in Illinois that protect our kids against abuse and neglect.
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Getting bad vibes from the local Wendy's
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2025
Happy complaining about the Air and Water Show weekend to all who celebrate. Fuck these fucking jets
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
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Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Guessing it’s most likely that the Big Beautiful Bill passes and ushers in a gruesome era of national despair and stagnation, what I would like to see is that the opposition is up to the task of winning power back and holding it long enough to start repairing damage
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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Me this weekend:
Porco Rosso watching a movie, and being a pig rather than a fascist.
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Piper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴‍☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
These 3 linked stories will change you: 1. Ursala K. LeGuin's transformative short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," 2. N.K. Jemisin' needed modern response, "The Ones Who Stay & Fight," 3. & 2024's absolute barn-burner, "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole?" by Isabel J Kim
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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
why are people emailing me, don't they know I'm sleepy
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Lincoln Square Road Closure and Accompanying Comments From The Local Facebook Page (April 2025)
Picture of kids and adults gathering on Lincoln Square, playing jump rope. Text overlay saying "I will never understand the appeal of playing in a street"Picture of Chicagoans of all ages lounging on Lincoln square, enjoying a beautiful spring day. The sun is out and there is chalk art covering the ground. In the foreground a man in sunglasses sits on a yellow bench. Text from a local facebook group reads "It's really unfortunate that they feel the need to create this kind of chaos for the community, our square, and the small businesses trying to thrive here, this feels like a targeted effort."
a man blows bubbles for a group of children playing in Lincoln Square, the kids are jumping and pointing at the bubbles. many adults are circled around watching. A quote from the Lincoln Square facebook page reads "FORGET ABOUT IT. Ban kids from playing in the street."A wide shot of Lincoln Square. People are congregating in the road, lined up to patronize local businesses, or sitting on the curb watching neighbors stroll by. A truncated facebook comment states "how dare you... People like you in this community absolutely disgust me."
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Football is good actually??
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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I said it back in 2020 and I’ll say it again: Transphobia is a desecration of everything that holy.
A blue, pink, and white Phoenix with the words “chadesh yameinu kekedem” fit into the wings and body. Next to the Phoenix are the words “renew the days of old” written out in handwritten script.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Getting Along With People Who Are On Your Side But Kind Of Annoying 101
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Maybe you just learned an org you thought was a reliable educator about antisemitism is actually more interested in cozying up to fascists, and you're wondering where you CAN go to learn about antisemitism? We got you. Download & read #UnderstandingAntisemitism: www.jfrej.org/news/2017/11...
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Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering To Our Movement
JFREJ is the home of the New York Jewish Left, organizing NYC Jews alongside our neighbors against racist violence, and for a more caring and equitable…
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20/01/2025
Can’t believe I’m going to use shanda par di goyim for the second time today but here we are. Jonathan Greenblatt took what was once an organization that played a critical role in the civil rights ecosystem and absolutely destroyed it
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My mom is celebrating her birthday for the 19th year in a row by running the hot chocolate run in Northampton, MA and raising money for Safe Passage, a local domestic violence shelter. Please donate and help me suprise her with unexpected donations! p2p.onecause.com/hcr2024/rand...
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Hot Chocolate Run 2024 - Randi Klein
I do it every year as my birthday celebration to give back to my community.
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@realmaxhandler.bsky.social and @r-condon.bsky.social double spotting
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Mark Primiano @doctor1hundred.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Dugouts are easily the coolest team bench situation in sports. Hanging out with your pals in a weird little fenced in hole in the ground full of weapons. Pretty much the dream.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is just the beginning. Cis people, contact your reps. Do not fucking reply to my trans ass right now to tell me why you can't or won't do this one goddamned thing for trans people, just contact your Representative.
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Totally Finebaum @butpawwwlll.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Learned League is one of the few things I enjoy that I actively refuse to try to get better at. Not in the sense that I don't keep learning, but I have no interest in making flashcards about facts & figures to move up. I'll stay cozy here in Rundle E. Give me a shout from the top smarter folks!
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Creating things is an extremely good antidote to existential dread
Handmade wood serving tray with handles in cherry and walnut
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JKB @jkbsaysthings.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Pre-ordered and planning to incorporate into guest lecturing on how religion and queer studies/politics intersect the week after delivery
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 01/10/2024
If you read the Washington Post story i shared in here yesterday about the trans teen volleyball player who had her life ruined by bigots and the police. This is a verified fundraiser (I have personal verification) to help them raise moving expenses to flee Florida.
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