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Chicagoan, freelance writer, social justice advocate & wisdom sharer. Let's chat about climate change, women's sports, cycling, cats, Star Trek, wine, or the importance of reliable public transportation. Ally🏳️‍🌈

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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 9h
The collab I didn't know I needed youtu.be/gsZauX8gwxo
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Olivia Rodrigo - expectations (feat. Chappell Roan) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by OliviaRodrigoVEVO
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 18h
Happy Halloween - I will continue to support anything Doug Jones is in! Watch this spooky short! youtu.be/3ETZmhzURfQ
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REMAIN CALM - A Horror Short starring Pauly Shore, Nick Swardson and Doug Jones
YouTube video by The Lewis Brothers
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 20h
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 18h
Look I'm starting to believe these lizard people/robot claims a little more everyday...
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 18h
Excellent work!!! 👏
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 18h
Like most things in life, you can love something & also be critical of it, because you know it could do better.
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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 12/10/2026
Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 12/10/2026
they’re going to keep doing this shit as long as there are no consequences
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hmmm….something something Russian data centers….
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey look, the fascists are looting the homes of their dissenters, now?? apnews.com/live/trump-g...
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Live updates: Rep. Ilhan Omar says she will ‘not be silenced’ after Homeland Security searches her home
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's home, Trump, Rubio weigh firing Kimberly Guilfoyle, six senators call for Trump to reverse course on Russian diesel plan.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Are we really calling the new electric trains....FLIRT? 😂 www.masstransitmag.com/rail/vehicle...
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Stadler, Metra to present new battery-electric FLIRT at APTA EXPO 2026
The new FLIRT aims to help modernize service by creating a way for battery-electric trains to be implemented without a complete rail upgrade.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I really want to know how he is so certain they could "extinguish it quickly and completely" and what exactly that means. - This message sent while sipping coffee on a Chicago "violent" street
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I want Alanis to play her harmonica at my funeral
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The weirdest part of middle age, yet, is that some people my age are having anxiety babies and I have friends from grade school that are grandparents. 😑
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of my favorite stretches of Lake Shore courtesy of Chicago's #BikeTheDrive last weekend!
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just when I thought it could not get dumber.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I love the NW side of Chicago for many reasons, and recognize the gentrification concerns. There MUST be a middle ground where we see areas become prosperous for businesses and families while we aren't displacing current residents. blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/10/r...
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Rising Housing Costs In Avondale, Irving Park Continue To Push Out Longtime Residents, Study Shows
Parts of Avondale, Irving Park, Lincoln Square, the Near North Side and parts of the South Lakefront are becoming more unaffordable to live in as apartments and homes are getting more expensive at fas...
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ken Paxton sucks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.kxan.com/news/texas/t... I dont know any New Mexico residents, but after the orange man threatened to rename them to New America and now have their neighbor try to steal their land…I would be beyond furious.
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Texas House panel to study possibility of adding New Mexico counties
A Texas House committee will hold a hearing Sept. 30 to examine the legal, economic and constitutional implications of adding one or more New Mexico counties to Texas.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We have passed the 1.5°C threshold and the planet is literally cooked. It is now time to pivot towards adaption for heat and extreme weather events, because that is our unavoidable future. www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
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U.N. climate report shows global temperatures rising too fast - UPI.com
Global temperature rise is set to push past 1.5 degrees Celcius, or 34.7 degrees Fahrenheit, within the next few years.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Media talking to media isn't news! minocquabrewingcompanytimes.substack.com/p/media-talk...
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Media Talking To Media Isn't News
Ben Cominos on what cable news is doing with two months left before an election, and what it isn't.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NITA takes over as of Sept 1. Public transportation for everyone! abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...
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Our Chicago: The New Northern Illinois Transit Authority and Changes For Public Transit
Starting Tuesday, Sept. 1, a big change is coming to public transit in the Chicago area.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just to clarify, YES a bunch of drunk Chicagoans just took Malort shots with our governor JB Pritzker but it was to benefit our food pantry so… win-win?
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I will be honest, with everything else going on, I had forgotten about this and assumed it was resolved. What a GIANT MANBABY. www.rawstory.com/trump-threat...
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Trump board threatens to destroy 'unsafe' Kennedy Center in apocalyptic court filing
The Trump-installed board that runs the Kennedy Center told a federal judge the building will have to be torn down unless President Donald Trump's name goes on it.Justice Department lawyers made the a...
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Really glad our government is on top of the important things... like renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. We are so stupid. wgntv.com/business/ap-...
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Canada strikes back at US with retaliatory tariffs as trade war escalates
TORONTO (AP) — Canada struck back at the United States on Tuesday with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipme…
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ah yes, no specific drug name mentioned and it was manufactured over a year ago? Who would have thought defunding federal agencies would have these kind of repercussions?? wgntv.com/news/recalls...
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Thyroid medication recalled nationwide due to possible ‘superpotency’ issue
A pharmaceutical company is recalling 3,655 thyroid tablets sold nationwide because they could be more potent than usual and may bring about health issues for people who use them.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
To hell with data centers blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/11/m...
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Mayor Orders New Regulations, Reviews For Chicago Data Centers
Mayor Brandon Johnson's executive order also creates a task force on regulating the resource-guzzling industry. He's calling on City Council to put a pause on new data centers until updated regulation...
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Kkkaroline leaving: is this rats fleeing the ship, or is it because she recently spawned?
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So this criminal is, well, doing crimes. In public. And yet still he sits in office. www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...
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Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Should I be offended when I get in an uber and they switch the music to Taylor Swift
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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Stephen Colbert for South Carolina Senate 2026
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
you know, Colbert is free
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When they skip your turn, you just have to stand there watching.
This image features Senator Lindsey Graham and former Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
lindsey graham won't see your jokes and memes because he got diarrhea and is in hell now, but someone writing an op-ed titled "the left's problem with manners" might. So make them really funny.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Before you make all your little jokes about Lindsay Graham, take a minute and remember that he probably doesn't have anyone who cared about him.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ALERT: Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) asks Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to provide a health update to him and to all Kentuckians
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I wonder if those in rural areas will ever understand the symbiosis that goes into tax revenue and payouts when you want to basically annex away from your biggest income producing city. Real head scratcher. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
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At least 7 Illinois counties will vote this November on exploring separation from Cook County
Nearly one-third of Illinois’ counties have voted to explore creating a new state separate from Cook County, and more counties could join them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026
Trump: "I even had a conversation with Theodore Roosevelt. I said, 'What do you think about the Panama Canal? Do you consider that your greatest achievement and how do you feel about the fact that the Democrats gave the Panama Canal away to Panama for $1?'"
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Go for it. Full sun. Dark suit. No AC. Show everyone how real men handle the heat.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Indiana has the opportunity to grow their high speed and standard rail service, but has no meaningful actions planned to do so! Review their plan & submit feedback below. You do not need to be an Indiana resident to do so. This affects all of the midwest! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0cc1...
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2026 Indiana State Rail Plan
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is seeking public feedback on its 2026 State Rail Plan.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Could we just all get affordable healthcare and education without this?!? It is giving Hunger Games. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
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Trump’s Patriot Games: What We Know About Nationally Televised Event
The competition will be streamed on the ESPN app and broadcast on ABC as a primetime event.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
it's cool that we get to re-live the 1936 olympics
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Building community and preventing landfill waste? Great idea! apnews.com/article/repa...
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Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it
Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism. The cafes and other efforts try to offer an alternative to mass-produced, disposable goods that have dominated the economy for the last half-ce...
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Read more about the NITA act for Chicagoland and beyond! activetransportation.org/blog/illinoi...
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We did it! NITA Act marks a historic win for public transit | Active Transportation Alliance
Today marks a huge step forward for our communities and the future of transit in Illinois. Early this morning, the […]
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
#Chicago vote to rename Wabash Ave to Obama Ave! www.change.org/p/rename-wab...
change.org
Sign the Petition
Rename Wabash Ave, to Barack Hussein Obama Ave
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A Chicago tragedy: I just saw a girl pass out on the L and spill her Garrett’s :(
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Would prefer more standard residential, BUT, would just like to point out that we DO know what to do with empty commercial real estate! www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/...
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Former John Hancock Center slated for luxury Marriott hotel
The project would kick off a new chapter for one of the city’s most famous buildings and bolster the Magnificent Mile’s post-pandemic recovery.
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
#Chicago do you want to support the awesome animal rescue @onetailatatime.bsky.social ?? Donate and vote for my cat Bonnie! 🐈 gogo.photo/648574
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Vote for Bonnie in OTAT x Solemn Oath: Brews for Rescues Label Contest.
Show your support for One Tail at a Time by voting for Bonnie in OTAT x Solemn Oath: Brews for Rescues Label Contest
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ℛℯ𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓃 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @kallesto.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/p...
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Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has classified left-wing networks like Antifa among “three major types of terror groups” the US faces, according to a counter-terrorism plan released Thursday.
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