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Andy Tulin (Subscribe to The Post Presence version) @andytulin.net · 1h

Many of us knew this from the start, yet you motherfuckers in the corporate media insisted on treating it as an existential crisis for the league bc it was doing numbers on the Nazi site that you still treat as the town square

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15h

I take the potential for internecine violence in this country very seriously. And I've tried to be careful with my rhetoric around this. But how long are we supposed to sit by and respond politely when the other side talks EXCLUSIVELY about killing or imprisoning our loved ones?

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sending the old Lake Street Bridge down the river

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nothing could’ve prepared me for the ad read of the century from the Brewers radio broadcast after that Christian Yelich go-ahead single:

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 11/10/2026

The last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i've identified the Dockers store where Michael Tracy bought and then subsequently returned these pants after wearing them. i will be pursuing criminal prosecution.

Michael Tracey in a light blue sport coat and tan chinos.

A close up of the chinos show the sizing sticker is still on the pants.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/10/2026

“cops should arrest ICE” is a liberal fantasy. “abolish ICE” is not.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's so funny when drivers view traffic calming measures as a fundamental attack on their right to use a car. You can still drive! You're just being forced to drive more slowly and safely.

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🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am not a political strategist and maybe it is the winning move to focus on gas and grocery prices, but it is wild to me that I am not seeing general election commercials that mention the president's fascist paramilitary force that invaded US cities and kidnapped and killed people.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"That last night, for some reason, he left his hat and his Red Bull at the restaurant. He always drank Red Bull at work. The last thing he told me was, 'I’m gonna leave my Red Bull. I’ll drink it tomorrow.' I still have it at the restaurant. That’s what kills me."

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A year without Silverio - Chicago Reader

A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

anyway remember that tim carney is one of the “reasonable” conservatives

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.

Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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jmontgo3 @jmontgo3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UNEQUIPPED FOR THIS MOMENT

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This week Chicago City Council unanimously passed a resolution honoring Chicago's rapid response networks and other Chicagoans who stepped up to respond to Operation Midway Blitz

WHEREAS, on September 8, 2025, the Trump Administration launched “Operation
Midway Blitz,” unleashing a militarized immigration enforcement campaign across Chicago and
the surrounding region that brought masked and heavily armed federal agents into our
neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, commercial corridors and public spaces; and
WHEREAS, during Operation Midway Blitz, federal agents conducted warrantless
arrests and discriminatory stops, deployed chemical agents in residential neighborhoods,
engaged in dangerous vehicle pursuits, used extreme physical force, and carried out
enforcement operations that spread fear and chaos throughout Chicago; and
WHEREAS, federal agents operated in masks and military-style gear, traveled in
unmarked vehicles, and used tactics that made parents afraid to take their children to school,
seniors afraid to seek medical care, workers afraid to report to their jobs, families afraid to shop
for groceries, and residents afraid to simply walk the streets of the neighborhoods they call
home; and
WHEREAS, in the face of this campaign of fear, Chicagoans refused to surrender their
communities or their values; and
WHEREAS, across communities throughout Chicago, residents built rapid-response
networks to bear witness to the actions of federal agents; and
WHEREAS, Rapid Responders woke before dawn and stayed out late into the night,
lawfully patrolling neighborhood streets, monitoring federal activity, staffing hotlines and
communications networks, verifying reports of immigration agents, documenting enforcement
actions, and recording badge numbers and license plates; and
WHEREAS, in communities across Chicago, residents transformed the simple act of
blowing an orange whistle into a declaration that no Chicagoan would be taken from our streets
without their neighbors bearing witness; and
WHEREAS, Rapid Responders and community members continued this work even as
observers, protesters, journalists and res…

WHEREAS, Chicago's resistance did not end at the boundaries of our City, as the
whistles, rapid-response networks, school escorts, neighborhood patrols and other strategies
developed and strengthened here became a model for communities confronting unlawful
immigration enforcement across the country; and
WHEREAS, Chicago is a city built by immigrants and working people, and our immigrant
neighbors are not outsiders to be feared or political pawns to be exploited, but our coworkers,
classmates, congregants, business owners, caregivers, friends and family members who make
Chicago the city that it is; and
WHEREAS, at a moment when cruelty was intended to produce fear and fear was
intended to produce silence, Chicago's Rapid Responders chose courage, solidarity and action;
and
WHEREAS, Rapid Responders represent the best of Chicago— a city that protects its
communities, stands up to injustice, refuses to be divided by race, birthplace or immigration
status, and understands that our collective safety depends upon our willingness to fight for one
another; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, that we, the Mayor and Members of the City Council of the City of
Chicago, assembled this 23rd day of September, 2026, honor and express our profound
gratitude to Chicago’s Rapid Responders and the thousands of residents, community
organizations, faith institutions, legal advocates, neighborhood businesses and mutual-aid
networks that lawfully protected and supported immigrant communities during Operation
Midway Blitz; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Chicago recognizes the extraordinary
courage of those who put their own safety at risk to bear witness, sound the alarm, document
abuses, accompany their neighbors and ensure that immigrant families knew they were not
alone; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we commit to remembering not only what was done
to Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz, but what Chicagoans did for one another i…

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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jmontgo3 @jmontgo3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Duckworth (and Durbin) woefully ill equipped for this moment.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 23/09/2026

You voted for your daughter’s death and it should torment you until you meet your own

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 22/09/2026

the guys who run into target at 6 am and steal pokemon cards from children are all mad because pokemon is just printing more now

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The jury found the sex workers were more credible than the CBP agent.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Absolutely deranged people are writing words in the paper of record regularly.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s Cassidy’s legacy and I hope it haunts him for the rest of his days

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026

Extraordinary reporting: "Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family."

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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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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Johnson, on Trump: “Here’s the truth: he couldn't break us.”

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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 13/09/2026

The 48th Ward has submitted an ordinance to reduce the default speed limit on many of its residential streets. They cited the high cut-through rate on these streets.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wreckers and infighters are over-represented on this website. Elsewhere, the vast majority are meeting the moment by doing Popular Front. A good example is Stevens endorsing El Sayed in MI and Hong endorsing Crowley in WI.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

attacking trans people hurts dem politicians and that take is missing from this whole news cycle. dems attacking trans people makes it more likely you will lose, defending trans people makes it more likely they win I want democrats to win so they need to defend trans people

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not taking advice from a former Fetterman staffer thanks

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Count Zoloft @wizardrodeo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This heel turn strikes me as big divorced guy ener- Ah, I see.

An excerpt from the article detailing Jentleson's separation from his children's parent following their transition. This Jentleson guy seems like a real piece of shit!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This article is what's called a "beat sweetener," where access journalists write a story that's extremely flattering to one of their sources in order to keep the line open www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...

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Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War

Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cottle and her ilk’s utter disinterest in historical context is pretty much how we ended up this anti-intellectual shit creek

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jmontgo3 @jmontgo3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I hate these fucking fascists so much.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

there we go now make this a condition of your endorsement so every last presidential candidate commits to it before the south carolina primary

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s wild to me that 6 years ago people were absolutely apoplectic about schools using Zoom. They INSISTED that schools needed to be open, despite the health risks, because it was so important for kids to be in traditional classes. Now they are promoting this.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Damn, dude. You're telling me that when you join a fascist movement you run the risk of having the state apparatus turned against you in a factional dispute? This is the first I'm hearing of this.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are.

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jmontgo3 @jmontgo3.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“And this is why we’re adding AI to all Microsoft products”

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